Mar1
visit us at Professional Beauty ExCel, London 7th - 8th March
This weekend nail, skin and beauty professionals from around the UK will gather in London for the annual Professional Beauty ExCel trade show.
Our team of skin experts will be on hand to provide free Face Mapping® skin analysis and answer your skin related questions.
As well as offering free advice, for every Face Mapping® skin analysis completed during the show, we will make a donation on your behalf to one of the following charities:
The Aurora Centre, Doncaster
Offering free of charge beauty and skin care services to cancer patients
The Aurora Centre’s aim is to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. The Centre has been created to help patients diagnosed with cancer to feel better about themselves, as it has been recognised that improving a person’s sense of well-being will dramatically improve their chances of overcoming their illness.
To help boost the self esteem and self confidence whilst undergoing and recovering from related treatments of cancer, the centre offers a wide range of professional beauty therapy treatments including advice on skin care, hair loss etc. free of charge. It relies on donations and support to continue to offer these unique services. At present, the Aurora Centre is truly one of a kind, as nothing like it exists in the UK.
DebRA
Supporting sufferers of the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
DebRA is the national charity working on behalf of people in the UK with the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a very rare genetic condition in which the skin and internal body linings blister at the slightest knock or rub, causing painful, open wounds.
EB is likely to affect 1 in 17,000 live births and it is estimated that there are currently 5,000 people with the condition in the UK. It is an inherited condition (it cannot be caught), which is passed on genetically from parents to children First time parents often do not know that they are carriers and will have no prior warning that the child will be affected, until birth.
Whilst considerable progress has been made in recent years in understanding EB and identifying the genes that cause the condition, there is as yet no effective treatment or a cure.
come and visit us at stand number B10/A11 for your Face Mapping® skin analysis, prescribed sample pack and lend your support to one of these well deserving charities.
For free tickets go to: http://london.professionalbeauty.co.uk/
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Jan21
skin health meets physical health for 2010
Dermalogica Kensington has teamed up with leading fitness masters Power Plate®for the second year running. Power Plate®machines are back at our flagship store for the whole of January. Offering free Power Plate®sessions with their master trainers on weekends and through work lunchtimes.
Why not join us on the 28th January for our Power Plate® showcase evening at the Dermalogica Store, Kensington. The fun filled evening will be led by Power Plate®master trainers and Dermalogica experts, to teach you how to get a leaner, more toned body, and your healthiest skin ever!
Face Mapping skin analysis for everyone, along with prescribed samples for you to try at home.
Places are limited so call us now to book 0800 345 SKIN (7546)
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Dec31
iPhone, therefore iMap
I keep hearing that irony is dead—but it doesn’t seem that way to me, really. This modern life seems full of irony, starting with our relationship to technology.
I’m in the most primitive, kinesthetic groove in human history. My business as a professional Skin Therapist consists of asking strangers to get naked and lie down in a darkened room. Then I come up behind them, run my bare hands all over their face, applying powerful herbs and other compounds. Kinda cave-dweller-ish, in the best sense.
Yet, I could not be more thrilled with my iPhone—because now, thanks to Simon Winsall, our IT guru in the UK, we can all use this handy device to keep our skin in killer form. Simon says, “Our new Dermalogica iPhone app is a quick, convenient way to get a personalized product prescription. Tell it your skin concerns and watch as a regimen is prepared, so you know which Dermalogica products are best for you. We have more features coming soon with a store locator, and a handy directory of our entire product range.”
I like the combination of the high-touch with the high-tech. It may be ironic, but it’s a powerful fusion for the brave new world.
Get the Dermalogica iPhone app here
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Nov1
remember, remember the 1st of Movember
Movember is here and we kicked off the month in style at the newly named Mo’s Shave Emporium at our Dermalogica store in Kensington.
Mo Bro’s and Mo Sista’s came together to celebrate the launch of Movember 2009. Wilkinson Sword barbers had razors and Dermalogica Shave products at the ready to make sure Mo Bro’s were ready to start the month clean shaven.
Dermalogica are proud to support Movember to help raise funds for The Prostate Cancer charity to help change the face of men’s health.
Watch this space for more MO updates…
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Oct5
skin care is not kool-aid
Posted in under my skin with jane wurwand
By this headline I mean that skin care—the idea that taking care of your skin will make it healthier, and impact the way in which it ages—is not a bizarre subculture which requires belief, the ingestion of mind-altering substances, secret handshakes, the recitation of oaths or the droning of mantras. We don’t even award merit badges for not flinching during extractions.
So my professionally-arched brows went sky-high recently during the HBO debut of the documentary, “Youth Knows No Pain.” Created by the daughter of a cosmetic surgeon, this program was compelling and disturbing on a couple of levels. But I was most struck by the comment from a prominent magazine editor on the subject. Allure Editor-in-chief Linda Wells says it’s okay that women waste their money on anti-aging skin care products that don’t really work, since just slathering that stuff on makes them feel better about getting older. Not to mention that those products buy the ads that keeps Allure in business. And you wonder why Dermalogica doesn’t buy ads in magazines?
As for your money. Spend it however you want. Just remember that some products do work—no belief-system required– and you don’t have to drink the Kool-Aid.
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Sep28
pucker up and kiss it all goodbye
Posted in under my skin with jane wurwand
Have you heard of the so-called Lipstick Index? It’s a pseudo-scientific barometer for measuring economic misery. The common wisdom goes that even in hard times, women still buy lipstick.
Uh-oh. Financial reporter Simon Pitman, www.cosmeticsdesign.com, reports that US prestige makeup sales in all categories has dropped between 3 and 20 percent, including lipstick which until now has seemed a sacred cow.
Interestingly, the same report notes that men’s fragrances are a bright spot—a 23% increase in new male fragrance launches.
So, what does this mean? That men smell better, but women are kissing them less? Are men splashing on the attractants and pheromones in a desperate attempt to get their women to come home?
I say this as I plan a getaway with a group of female friends. We’re heading for a quiet Mexican destination called Punta Mita. There’s not much to do there except yoga, watch the waves, and, if you’re so inclined, have a few margaritas. I had the idea of asking a few girlfriends to join me for this excursion, thinking none of them would go—they’re all married, and all but one of us has children after all.
Can I just tell you: within minutes, I had several resounding RSVPs. One asked ‘can we leave tomorrow?’ By the way, in case you didn’t surmise, this is a trip without Significant Others. My friends can’t wait to get away without their men! This is food for thought, since we’re all happily married. Maybe we just are being driven out of town by all of that male fragrance.
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Sep25
dermalogica @ olympia beauty
This past weekend, nail, skin and beauty professionals from around the UK gathered in London for the annual Olympia Beauty trade show - and we were there to ensure skin health was top of the list for savvy experts! Olympia Beauty is one of the most prestigious shows in the beauty calendar for professionals, and this year over 16,000 visitors attended the show to shop, learn and experience the latest in up-to-date technology and innovation.
Dermalogica was there leading the way, ensuring that over 850 visitors experienced Face Mapping skin analysis and Skin Bar, and left ready to start a healthy skin regimen with a set of samples tailored to their individual skin concerns. Our stand was packed over the two days, but the star of the show was our cute little electric van… who made a feature appearance as part of the stand.
Check us out at the upcoming BITE trade exhibition in Dublin on the 4-5th Oct, and at Professional Beauty Manchester at GMEX on the 11-12th Oct!
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Sep25
dermalogica swaps to shop for free!
Clothes Swapping is the new fashionable way to beat the credit crunch - as well as being eco-friendly, trend savvy fashionistas with a good eye can leave with some real fashion finds!
The Swap Shop at our Kensington store last night was a great success. Customers not only treated themselves to a new A/W 09 ”wardrobe”- but their skin got a look in too! Our swappers enjoyed a Face Mapping skin analysis with our Kensington skin therapists and were given some great tips on how to winterise their skin now the seasons are changing.
We were very pleased to see some familiar faces walk through our doors last night - thanks for the support ladies. Watch out for the next swap on the 8th October!
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Sep21
who needs prestige, anyway?
Posted in under my skin with jane wurwand
I loved reading today that Wal-Mart plans to develop a “prestige” beauty line with Hard Candy cosmetics. That’s a whopper of an oxymoron on so many levels, it’s delicious.
In the news release, a Wal-Mart spokesperson correctly described Hard Candy as a “legacy brand with lots of equity.” I remember when the brand made its stunning debut, the result of a resourceful and fashionable pre-med student hankering for a powder-blue nail polish to wear to a party. At the time, there was no such thing, so young Dineh Mohajer created her own.
That was a lifetime ago, and now a massive (and decidedly unfashionable) corporate giant is attempting to recapture that moment of genius. Not to mention profit. Not gonna happen.
Something else called the Fitch Rating report tells us that the “luxury” market is weakening worldwide. Well, it’s about time. I’m a consumer, and I’m not amused by the notions of prestige and luxury anymore, are you? Like every girl, I need my stuff. But I don’t want it swathed in a lot of marketing mumbo-jumbo.
Just give me the baby-blue nail polish and the woman who dreamed it up.
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Sep14
make friends with the double-cleanse
Posted in under my skin with jane wurwand
Everybody’s always yapping about how “crazy-busy” they are. Including me.
But here’s the really bad news: you will spend more time reading this blog than you will cleansing your skin today. And that’s not good.
You probably spent less than a minute washing your face this morning or last night at the sink. Even less time if you wash your face in the shower. That’s just not enough to get skin into a pristine, receptive state.
Consider all of the high-tech cosmetic products which crow about their ability to last 12, 18 or more hours. Long-wearing foundations, waterproof mascaras, and the new nearly indelible lip stains which outlast talking, eating, smooching and what have you. And sunblocks are also notoriously indelible, made to last during strenuous outdoor sports. So getting this tenacious stuff off your skin each night requires equally advanced technology.
I recommend that you check out Dermalogica Precleanse if you’re in such a big hurry. Use it on your face before washing. It seems like an extra step, but it actually speeds up the process—makeup and grime just melt away. Pick up a sample at least next time your passing a Dermalogica Super Star skin therapist [they all are!] Then cleanse—twice—with your favorite cleanser. The first cleanse just dislodges the surface debris. The second cleanse actually treats and preps the skin for exfoliation, moisturizing and other skin care.
Getting skin really clean is the crucial starting-point for skin which resists damage, recovers well from trauma, and serves as a vibrant canvas for all of that indestructible makeup. So, give it a minute, and then another minute—it’s the first step in a lifetime of healthy skin.
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