This year’s Miss California USA® and Miss California Teen USA® pageant season kicked off with an over-the-top glam-athon when beauty industry leaders China Glaze® Nail Lacquer and Ardell® Lashes proudly announced official sponsorship of the competition. More than 300 enthusiastic young women from all over the Golden State gathered in Long Beach to meet and mingle with sponsors and pageant officials.

myoscience is pleased to announce that the iovera degrees® system has won in the medical category of the GOOD DESIGN™ competition. GOOD DESIGN recognizes the world’s most important consumer design products and is one of the most prestigious and oldest design awards. The awards are organized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art,…

Éminence Organic Skin Care of Hungary was recently named Favorite Skin Care Line and Favorite Company for Product Education for the fifth consecutive year. Voted by spa industry experts and the readers of American Spa Magazine, Éminence comes out on top in the American Spa’s Professional’s Choice Awards 2013. Also named Favorite Bodycare Line, Favorite All Natural Line and finalist for Favorite Sensitive Skin Line,…

NovaLash recently announced the winners of their annual LashOff Competition. Karlene Smith, owner of Lifestyles Massage and Skin Care in Bellingham, Washington, has been named Lash Artist of the Year. As the winner of the 2014 competition, Smith will receive some $10,000 in premium prizes, including a full page advertorial in one of the industry’s biggest magazines and a featured spot on NovaLash’s much-clicked Find…

The Aesthetic VideoSource Reiki Healing Techniques online training video and DVD recently won a 2013 Bronze Telly Award. The Telly Awards honor the best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs. In the 34th Annual Telly Awards competition, the video competed with over 12,000 entries from across the world.

Brenda Linday, director of sales and education for Vitality Institute Medical Products was recently nominated and awarded VIP status with the Cambridge Who’s Who for her expertise in mentoring, relationship development, analytical thinking, and complex problem solving in aesthetics. VIP members are considered leaders in their profession because of the high level of their accomplishments in and contributions to their field.

Fran Brown, executive director of school development and industry relations for Marinello Schools of Beauty, has been named a lifetime honorary member of the National Interstate Council of State Boards (NIC), a unique honor as only 80 members out of all the state boards combined have re-ceived this recognition in the history of the organization.

Scott Ashworth recently joined Cutera as executive vice president of global sales. He brings 25 years of experience in building and leading global sales and marketing teams focused on commercialization of products, establishing distribution partnerships, and other leadership roles in medical technology companies. Prior to joining Cutera, Ashworth was senior vice president of global sales at Avinger.