Friday 29 January 2016

New Beauty Books in Stock

View full imageWe now have copies of the following books in stock:


View full imageMiles of MAC, (make-up) Gager



Nail Art Projects, Biggs

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Human Eye Diseases and Disorders for Eyelash Technicians, Prunty

Thursday 28 January 2016

New Self-service Kiosks

New shiny self-service kiosks have been installed at both sites. They are very similar to the old kiosks, but if you need any help the first time you use them just ask one of our friendly library staff.

Wednesday 27 January 2016

February Digital Issue of Guild News

The new February digital issue of Guild News is now available. Included in this issue: Dermalogica's Sally Penford discusses new industry trends and topics everyone will be talking about in 2016, a feature on the importance of in-depth facial diagnosis, how to give teens advice for maintaining good skin and Valentine's Day nail art. Plus all the latest beauty and spa industry news.

Thursday 21 January 2016

2016 Health Club Management Handbook

The digital edition of the 2016 Health Club Management Handbook is now available. This includes details of key conferences and events for the industry, consumer trends, sector statistics in the area of health and fitness, info on some of the latest research in health, fitness and wellbeing and spa trends for 2016 so it's definitely worth a read.

Thursday 14 January 2016

Make-up Artists Share Stories on Tranforming David Bowie

Can't let the passing of such a great talent as David Bowie go unmentioned this week, and as he created so many iconic looks the comments by some make-up artists who worked with him  (as shared by Make-Up Artist magazine) are sure to be of interest and relevance to our students.

Tuesday 12 January 2016

TV Programme - Secret Shopper Visits Hair Salon

Watch Channel 4 at 8-9pm tomorrow (Wednesday 13th January), to see Episode 2 of the current series of Mary Portas: Secret Shopper to see Mary Portas visit a struggling hair salon in Kent. It appears that the quality of the customer service is not what you might expect, so worth watching to see if Ms Portas succeeds in her mission to save the failing hair salon.

Thursday 7 January 2016

Routledge Handbook of Sports Therapy

View full imageJust a reminder that copies of The Routledge Handbook of Sports Therapy, Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation,
by our own lecturer in Sports Therapy at UCB, Keith Ward, are now available at both Richmond House Library and Summer Row Library. This is certainly going to be a popular book, so if you'd like to be among the first to take a copy out on loan it's probably a good idea to visit the Library as soon as you can.

Wednesday 6 January 2016

Health Club Management

Happy New Year, everyone! Welcome back after the Christmas break. Useful info can be found in the first 2016 issue of Health Club Management. In this issue, you can read about Consumer Trends for 2016 (p36), how health clubs can deal with the increased costs as a result of the National Living Wage (p32) and many more interesting  articles.