Beauty Therapy and Hairdressing Event Dates for your Diary

 The following beauty therapy and hairdressing events will be taking place in the next few months. Just click on the event title to read more about each event and how to get tickets.

Professional Beauty London,  Excel, London, 22-23 February 2015.

Mind, Body, Spirit Festival, Olympia, London, 1-4 May 2015

Holistic Health , NEC Birmingham, 10th & 11th May 2015. This event includes five shows under one roof - Holistic Health, BeautyUK, NailsUK HairUK & BarberUK

International Therapist

The latest issue of International Therapist is now available in the Library.
This includes features on assessing and treating low back pain, beauty, complementary and remedial therapies for clients with scars and a day in the life of David Lau, a sport massage therapist who works in central London.
  

HEE Report on Five Non-Surgical Cosmetic Treatments

A  report by HEE (Health Education England) on the review of qualifications required for delivery of non-surgical cosmetic procedures has been published, outlining the key outcomes of phase 1 of the programme carried out between October 2013 and May 2014. This includes a draft education and training framework covering five cosmetic treatment modalities:

 Botulinum toxin injections
Dermal Fillers
Chemical peels and skin rejuvenation treatments (mesotherapy and microneedling)
Laser, Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) treatments
Hair restoration surgery
You can  read an overview of the report here and to read the full report click here

2015 Health Club Management Handbook Online

The 2015 Health Club Management Handbook  is now available online. You can read the Spa Foresight and the Fitness Foresight sections to find out about about industry trends and influences in Spa and Fitness.  This includes robot therapists, 3D printing, superfoods and wellness cities. The handbook also includes a Vital Statistics section offering a snapshot of the global fitness industry and the crisis in health and wellbeing  around the world, so it's well worth a look.

New Beauty Books

Loan copies of Healing Sources: Spas and Wellbeing from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Benge 
and Retail Management for Salons and Spas, Milady, are now available.

Habia Beauty, Nails And Spa NOS Workshop

If anyone wants to find out about how changes within the NOS will change Beauty, Nails and Spa qualifications in the future, there will be a workshop taking place in Birmingham on 18th February 2015. see the Habia site link for more details and to book a place.

TV Programmes of Interest Next week

If you are looking for visual inspiration on period hairstyles, beauty or costume there are a few TV programmes coming up soon that will be of interest.  
On Sunday 18th January at 8pm on BBC 1 a new series of Call the Midwife begins. Although previous series have been set in the 1950s, the new series is set in 1960 so you will be able to see very early 1960s fashions this time.
Wednesday 21st January at 9pm on BBC1 sees the start of Wolf Hall which has been adapted from Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies that are set in Tudor times during the reign of Henry VIII.  Also on Wednesday 21st, you can watch A Knight's Tale, a film that is set in medieval14th-century Europe and is showing on E4 at 8pm.

Golden Globe Awards 2015

Here is the official site of the 2015 Golden Globe Awards, where you can see who were the winners and lots of other information.

New Books

Loan copies of the following new books are now available:
Art Deco Hair: Hairstyles From the 1920s & 1930s, Turudich
A Century of Hairstyles, Gibson
Clearing Concepts: a Guide to Acne Treatment, Lees

Library Survey

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https://portal.ucb.ac.uk/library/survey