And The Winner of the Makeup Oscar for 2011 is...

The Wolfman film has just received the Makeup Oscar award at this year's 83rd Academy Awards. To see a 'featurette' showing how Rick Baker transformed Benico del Toro into The Wolfman click here.

2011 BASES Annual Student Conference
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) will be holding their Annual Student Conference 12 - 13th April at the University of Chester.
The theme of this year's conference is 'Integrations and Innovations: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sport and Exercise Science'.
Key features of the conference include: emphasis of the essential transfer of academic study into the 'real world' and a careers fair where you can discuss vocational opportunities with employers. See the event website for more info.

London Fashion Week 2011
London Fashion Week starts on 18th February this year, so why not have a look at the event website to see all the latest news. There is also live streaming of fashion shows, catwalk reports and you can sign up for the London Fashion Week newsletter

Kryolan Professional Make-Up
Here is a link to the Kryolan Professional Make-Up website where you can find info on products, events and other related areas in the UK and worldwide.

Connect@UCB
This semester all UCB students have access to a new service from the Library. Connect@UCB is an online help desk which you can visit to get support in finding useful information. Simply log on during the advertised hours and a member of staff will be available to help you with your enquiry - perfect if you're unable to make it into College!
The desk will initially be open each weekday from 10am - 12 noon and 2pm - 4pm

To access Connect@UCB you will first need a Wimba Pronto account - information about this software and getting a free account is available from UCB Online.

A user guide for UCBConnect is available from this link

New Make-Up Book
Copies of Makeup is Art are now available at Richmond House Library.

European Spa Convention

The European Spa Convention will be taking place 27th - 28th February 2011 at Excel, London. See the event website for more info.

International Make-Up Artist Show (IMATS)
You can see a photo gallery that includes winning designs of this year's IMATS London show at the IMATS website. Also available from the site are photo galleries featuring the Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Sydney and Los Angeles IMATS shows.

Save Our Libraries Day
If you use public libraries to borrow books to support your studying (or just to read for pleasure) you might be aware that there are proposals to close many of these around the UK. Tomorrow (Saturday 5th February) is Save Our Libraries Day, so if you are interested see info at the Voices For The Library website.

National Make-Awards

The first UK National Make-Up Awards will be taking place live on Monday 28th February 2011 at the Professional Beauty Show, which is being held in London. The judging panel is made up of top professionals from the beauty industry, and includes Daniel Sandler, Hayley Tammadon and Jackie Tyson.

World Book Day
Today is World Book Day, so why not have a look at the website to see what it's all about?

In- Store Beauty Salons
John Lewis are going to be launching in-store salon and spa services and Tesco are launching 70 in-store beauty salons by the end of the year. To read more about these developments and to see the latest beauty industry news, go to the Professional Beauty website.

The Salon Magazine Online
The e-magazine of the February 2011 issue of The Salon Magazine is now available.