Olay to launch pop-up professional clinic in Mayfair

Olay is opening a professional clinic later this month (28 June) in Mayfair, London. The temporary space, created to celebrate Olay Professional’s UK launch, will give a preview of Olay’s latest wrinkle fighting system which has been designed in collaboration with an international alliance of dermatologists.

The design of the clinic, which has drawn inspiration from the interiors of American dermatology clinics, will have a notable NYC look and feel. Clients can pre-book for a one-to-one consultation with a skin expert and a ‘No-tox’ anti-ageing facial designed by celebrity facialist Anastasia Achilleos. There will also be product demonstrations by a beauty consultant, and opportunity to relax in the lounge with an anti-ageing mocktail.

The Olay Professional Clinic will be open to the public for three days only (see DIARYdates).

www.olay.co.uk

Jamie Stevens appointed to Matrix Global Design Team

Celebrity hairdresser of the year and UK Matrix Artistic Director, Jamie Stevens, has been appointed to the Matrix Global Design Team.

The Matrix Global Design Team, who provide education to stylists and salon owners worldwide, now contains 15 individuals, including seven from the UK. Jamie joins the likes of Errol Douglas MBE in the team, who contribute with product development and collaborate on shoots which become Matrix collection images used in salons and advertising.

www.jamiestevenshair.com

NuBo introduces Beauty by Appointment

Boutique skincare brand NuBo has announced the launch of Beauty by Appointment. A new service offering a menu of facials, available exclusively at Harrods.

Each of the five facials has been created by renowned facialist Caroline Hitchcock and is tailored to each specific skin-type. The facials on offer include:
NuBo Oxygen Surge (Ideal for sensitive skin) - A reparative treatment for devitalised, distressed or damaged skin that delivers a plumping sensation. A two part facial to plump and heal the skin, followed by a treatment to repair and restore damaged or tired skin.
NuBo Cryolift Facial (Ideal for anti-ageing) - The proven technique of cooling shock therapy causes the skin to reduce lines, lift and plump. The heating, then cooling creates a tightening and lifting sensation effect.
NuBo White Diamond Radiance (Ideal for brightening) - Using innovative methods, White Diamond Radiance penetrates deep into the layers of the skin to create luminosity.
NuBo Jet Facial (Ideal for deep cleansing) - This is for young or oily skin types. The combination of exfoliation and NuBo’s detox mask leaves skin feeling smooth and cleansed.
NuBo Black Tie Men’s Treatment - All the facials described above are suitable for men, however, this treatment specifically addresses the characteristics of men’s skin: razor irritation and dry or patchy skin. This treatment imparts a calming and soothing sensation on the skin.

Each NuBo facial is £50.00 and redeemable against a NuBo product purchase.

Tesco launches health and beauty salons

Tesco has launched a new health and beauty service which includes hairdressing, nail and threading bars. Nail bars and threading are currently being trialled at stores in Wembley, Cambridge Bar Hill, Milton Keynes Kingston and Manchester (Walkden) and standalone beauty salons (which will also offer hairdressing services) will be opened in Leicester and Chesterfield on 31 January. One of the benefits of the service is that no appointments will be necessary. The services on offer at Leicester and Chesterfield will be hair styling and colouring, waxing, manicures and threading. Customers will also be able to purchase products including Redken and TIGI Bedhead professional haircare ranges. Prices will be competitive: £20.00 for a cut and blow dry, £15.00 for a shampoo and £12.50 for a hair cut. A half leg wax will be priced at £10.00 and full leg is £15.00.

Winners announced at the 26th British Hairdressing Awards

Last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane, the winners of HJ’s 26th British Hairdressing Awards were announced. Angelo Seminara was honoured with the top prize of 2010 British Hairdresser of the Year. Angelo is pictured here with his award, presented by Jayne Lewis Orr (editor of Hairdresser's Journal) and Colin Sillery (MD of Schwarzkopf). Previous winners of this accolade include Trevor Sorbie, Anthony Mascolo, Irvine and Rita Rusk, John Frieda and Andrew Collinge.

Each year hairdressers from all over the UK prepare entries for one of the sixteen categories. There are nine regional categories covering all areas of the UK, six specialist categories, which include Afro, Men’s, Newcomer, Artistic Team and Avant Garde Hairdresser of the Year, along with the Schwarzkopf Professional British Colour Technician of the Year, and British Hairdresser of the Year. The evening was compered by Jonathan Ross. The Winners of the 2010 British Hairdressing Awards:

HJ’s British Hairdresser of the Year 2010 – Angelo Seminara

Avant Garde Hairdresser of the Year – Efi Davies, Toni & Guy, Covent Garden

Men’s Hairdresser of the Year – Jody Taylor, Toni & Guy, London

Afro Hairdresser of the Year – Kim Johnson and Michelle Sultan, Hype Coiffure, London

Artistic Team of the Year – RUSH Hair

Newcomer of the Year – Dan Spiller, Marc Antoni, Fleet

Schwarzkopf Professional British Colour Technician of the Year – Christel Lundqvist HOB, London

London Hairdresser of the Year - Skyler McDonald, seanhanna, Putney

Southern Hairdresser of the Year - Seung-ki-Baek, RUSH Epsom

Eastern Hairdresser of the Year – Christopher Appleton, George’s Hairdressing, Leicester

Midlands Hairdresser of the Year – Lewis Moore and Jacky Crosby, Francesco Group, Streetly

North Eastern Hairdresser of the Year – Alexander Turnball, Alexander Hair and Beauty, Hull

North Western Hairdresser of the Year – Sharon Peake, Ethos Hairdressing, Manchester

Wales & South West Hairdresser of the Year – Scott Smurthwaite and Will Eagles, Cream, Gloucester

Scottish Hairdresser of the Year - Kay McIntyre, McIntyre’s, Dundee

Northern Ireland Hairdresser of the Year – Keith Kane, Keith Kane Hair International, Belfast

Janet Ginnings new Time Return Facial

Janet Ginnings has recently launched the anti-ageing, hydrating and youth-restoring Time Return Facial from Dibi. Developed to reduce wrinkles and leave the skin looking fresher, younger and more youthful, Time Return is Janet Ginnings first joint venture with Dibi Skincare and complements her range of anti-ageing facials and body toning treatments. Time Return features Ageless 10, an advanced, technological, active anti-ageing ingredient packed with vitamins, minerals and amino acids that kick start the regeneration process, protects the extra-cellular matrix and increases collagen production. Ageless 10 is an advanced, technological, active anti-ageing ingredient extracted from Medicago Sativa, a plant packed with vitamins, minerals and amino acids (calcium, magnesium and potassium). Ageless 10 helps to boost the skin’s self regeneration process, protects extra-cellular matrix and helps to increase the skin’s own natural collagen production. Time Return is priced at £110.00 for one facial or £556.00 for a course of five facials that includes the serum. The Janet Ginnings Hair & Beauty Salon is located at 45 Curzon Street, London W1.

New Lancôme Beauty Suite launching in Peter Jones

Opening in August, Lancôme is introducing a new luxurious and exclusive Beauty Suite in Peter Jones, London. Offering newly designed advanced facial techniques by a celebrity facialist, combined with scientific skincare products, Lancôme now offers a menu of facials to re-define facial muscles and smooth away all wrinkles. Trained by facialist Nichola Joss, Lancôme Skin Experts will be offering massage techniques to compliment Lancôme's highly performing formulae. Five facials have been designed: Youth Activating Facial; Volumetry Lifting Facial; The Ultimate Anti-Ageing Facial; Firming Facial; and Hydrating Facial. An advanced in-depth skin analysis (Skin Specialist Service) will take place before each facial with a scientific snapshot of the skin taken using Diagnos Expert technology, until now only available in dermatological laboratories. This will allow the Lancôme Skin Expert to analyse the skin's precisie condition including hydration, sun damage, wrinkles and age spots. A personalised anti-age skincare programme will be suggested.

Atelier-Mayer.com opens new private salon and website section

Atelier-Mayer.com is opening up a private salon next Tuesday (1 June) in the area of Connaught Village in London W2. To coincide with the salon Atelier-Mayer.com is launching a new Objects d’Art section online on the same day. All pieces are individually curated and can be viewed at the showroom in London or by appointment in Paris. Atelier-Mayer.com is a site dedicated to 20th century vintage. Inspired by the late Klaudia Mayer, an Austrian haute couture tailor whose atelier was originally founded in 1927, the company has updated Madame Mayer's heritage to the 21st century in the form of a luxury e-boutique and a salon by appointment for vintage fashion lovers, collectors, students, designers and artists.