Up & Coming

Hi everyone,

We hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend. We’ve been working hard as usual, and have some exciting prospects coming up in the Lovingbeauty diary over the next few months.

We have several new courses booked up for our girls, including Bare Minerals Advanced, Express Blink and Go Lashes, and celebrity favourite, HD Brows.

Nicole will be attending the Express Lash course, run by Nouveau Lashes; a trusted and well respected brand which is used in our favourite Salon, Indulgence Beauty.  This course is specialised to create a full and thick set of individual lashes, in just 30 minutes.  Once the lashes have naturally fallen out, it’s time for a new set. These lashes are the perfect choice for a holiday, or special occasion, that will last for a long time with no maintenance. So Nicole will be a bit of an expert when it comes to false lashes!

HD Brows have fast become a celebrity favourite, and a now iconic brand to give clients the perfect shaped eye brow. The treatment is a thorough way of defining your brows, using waxing, threading, plucking and a special formula tint, which all work in unison to create the perfect eyebrow shape for your face. With celebrity fans such as the TOWIE girls, we can’t wait to learn how to do it!

Two more of our staff will be learning the Bare Minerals basics, to get them up to scratch on the Bare Minerals kit and the way the make-up works with your skin, rather than against it. Others in the salon will be attending the Advanced course, which builds upon the make-up knowledge of the last course to teach how to create new looks. This includes eye make-up, lips, cheeks, and other tips and tricks taught by a beauty industry professional. So if anyone does have any queries on bareMinerals or wants to start using it but would like a bit of advice please don't hesitate to email us on info@lovingbeauty.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing all about the course when the girls return, and will give you an update on how they got on! With such exciting ventures and brands coming up soon, make sure you keep checking our website http://www.lovingbeauty.co.uk/ to keep up to date with our new products!!

Stay Beautiful,

Lovingbeauty Team xx

Professional Beauty Show

This weekend, Kelly and Gemma went along to the EXCEL arena in London for the Professional Beauty show. This year, the trade show was set to be the biggest yet, with even more brands and companies showing than in previous years. The show is always a brilliant way to network with different people in the industry, and catch up with contacts established since being in the beauty business.

Some of the brands we use in the salon, such as Lycon Waxing, Nouveau Lashes and Fake Bake, were featured at the show with their own stalls and set up, so it was a great chance to speak to some of the reps we have built up connections with over the years.

Attending the beauty show gives us a chance to research new products and innovations in beauty, so we can keep ahead of the trends and let you all know what’s going to be the next best thing and the upcoming trends for the next season. We’ve seen a few bits we think are going to be big over the next year, so we’ll keep you posted with what’s next!

This year, Nell McAndrew opened the show, with former TOWIE star turned salon owner, Amy Childs, also making an appearance. Attendees at the arena ranged from celebrities, industry insiders, salon owners, magazine journalists, beauty bloggers, and students.

With lots of tweets over the weekend about how great the show has been, we’re already looking forward to next year.

Did any of you get to the Professional Beauty Show over the weekend? What did you think about the whole event?

Stay Beautiful,

Lovingbeauty x

All Wrapped Up!

Two of our girls, Gemma and Nicole, attended the Universal Contour Wrap training session last week to become qualified teachers and trainers for the brand. This wrap is known for helping clients lose inches all over their body, with a guarantee of at least 6 inches being lost in just one wrap treatment.

The week was quite eventful to say the least for the girls, who as well as attending the course, also found themselves getting locked out of car parks and stuck on the M25 with a flat tyre! Aside from a few hiccups, the course on the whole was very successful for the girls, who are both now fully qualified to teach the Universal Contour Wrap to aspiring therapists and students.

Whilst on the course, the girls learnt various teaching methods, how to structure a lesson, practical methods and appropriate theory explanations. Taking into consideration the different ways in which every individual learns, they had to set up a lesson plan that would suit all types of learners and be easy to understand and informative. Due to the wrap being a very practical (and quite messy!) treatment, it is important to know how to perform the treatment in the correct way to ensure maximum effectiveness and inch loss, and so the client feels comfortable. Having fully completed the course and becoming qualified teachers, Gemma and Nicole are looking forward to training new therapists, and improving their own teaching skills along the way.

As well as completing the above, Gemma has also recently qualified to become a teaching assessor in beauty therapy, which means she can now assess the skills of those learning different aspects of beauty therapy, and assess whether or not they are ready to continue further in their chosen career path.

Well done to both Lovingbeauty girls, and we look forward to the next up-and-coming venture for us!

Stay Beautiful,

Lovingbeauty team x

The Working Week!

We can’t believe we’re already in mid-February – the year is going so quickly already. Lovingbeauty has had a great start to the year, and our girls are working their hardest, as usual. With lots of exciting developments in the pipeline (we can’t wait to share the good news with you all soon!) we have a few things happening this week……


Jamie-Leigh, is off on a Dermalogica lunch today, to network with the head-honchos of the brand and talk to other salons continuing to build their businesses during this tough time in the recession. We can’t wait to hear what Jamie gets up to, and hope she has a successful business lunch. We’ll keep you all posted, and let you all know as soon as our Dermalogica product site, Lovingbeautyshop.co.uk, is up and running. We will of course have great savings on all derm products to!

Gemma and Nicole are also having a busy week, and are travelling to Sussex for a couple of days to hone their skills working with the Universal Contour Wrap, for advanced course training. This is a popular treatment with people who love being able to see instant results from this inch-loss, skin smoothing wrap; perfect as preparation for a special occasion, or helping to kick-start getting your body back into shape. At Lovingbeauty we sell all the Universal Contour Products which helps detoxify and tone to keep them inches off.

We hope the girls have a great time, and learn lots, so we can all benefit from their new skills!


What’s everyone else up to this week?


We hope to see you all soon,


Stay Beautiful,


Lovingbeauty Team x

Thank You!

On Wednesday night, our much-anticipated charity event finally arrived, with great success thanks to our staff, clients and guests. A total of £851.09 was raised for our chosen charity, Help for Heroes; a cause close to our hearts, with some of our clients’ husbands being part of the army.

The event started about 4pm, with champagne and canopes served to guests on arrival and throughout the night. All attendees were extremely generous in their donations, helping us to reach our amazing total.

The event was held at Indulgence Beauty Salon in Bexleyheath and it was 20% off all treatments booked on the day and 20% off all products in the salon! One of our Co-hosts and Owner of the Rule One store, Alison Kilsby, also attended the event, selling her dresses for 20% off of the usual price. Each of our staff bought a beautiful brand new dress, ready for their next night out, as well as many other guests in attendance. 

Some great donations to our raffle included:

Dermalogica products, Facial and Massage donated by Indulgence Beauty Salon

A child’s photo shoot by Chris deller www.chrisdellerphotography.com,

£250 worth of teeth whitening products from www.thedentalconcierge.co.uk

Personnel Training Session with www.changeshealthcluboffer.co.uk

Baby Bloom bouqet by www.lovingbeauty.co.uk

Bunch of flowers from www.floraldesigncentre.co.uk

A Cut and Blowdry by K.T.S

A signed Charlton Athletic football,

Two FREE  personal training session with Charlotte Pinder

There were lots of happy winners thanks to the generosity of those who donated their time and effort.

From everyone at Lovingbeauty, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who attended the event, donated their time, effort or services, and supported us in any way to pull off such a fantastic event, raising an exceptional amount of money to give to Help for Heroes. We look forward to our next event, hopefully sometime in the future with lots of exciting opportunities coming up this year.

Thanks again to all of you.

Lovingbeauty Team x

Happy Holidays

The snow has arrived! With all the extra cold weather we’ve been having over the past few weeks, we’ve been working hard to keep our skin from suffering. And with two of our girls just back from skiing holidays, they have some tips and tricks to keep your skin smooth and hydrated throughout the harsh winter.

Gemma & Lucy have just returned, fresh from the slopes of Austria, after a skiing holiday with friends. As a true beauty girls, they had to take all their must-have products with them for the trip (travelling light is never an option).

Essentials for skiing in the cold weather were:

Dermalogica Climate Control – An intense formula for the lips, a delicate area to treat when freezing temperatures can easily crack and chap the skin. This keeps the skin supple and smooth.

Dermalogica Barrier Repair – A silky feel serum that does exactly what it says; creating a barrier once applied over the face. This helps keep the effects of harsh weather at bay by creating a barrier against them.

Bare Minerals Foundation – Even when skiing, we like to make a little effort on the make-up front. Swirling a small amount of the foundation around the face will give skin a light glow, whilst protecting against any winter sun with SPF 15, and keeping redness to a minimum with added zinc, after bombing down the slopes with the wind hitting your face.

Why not give them a try and see what you think of the difference in your skin?

We hope you’re all keeping warm, or outside making the most of the snow for the next few days.

Stay Beautiful

Lovingbeauty x

P.s. Don’t forget our Help the Heroes event, this Wednesday 8th February at Indulgence Beauty Salon. Come along and join us from 4-9pm.

 

Congratulations!

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate one of the regular clients at Indulgence Beauty Salon and Lovingbeauty, Jacqueline Jossa, on winning the Best Newcomer award at the National Television Awards this week. We wish her all the best for her well deserved win and hope she’s still celebrating! We also loved Jacqueline’s outfit of choice for the night, which perfectly complemented her golden tan and fresh, natural make-up with a hint of eye liner. Well done Jacqueline from everyone at Lovingbeauty.