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Happy New Year and One Love
Dear Reader, Thank you for your loyalty to Ethnic Skin Aficionado. Since Spring of 2012 over 230,000 people from around the world have visited this site in search of information pertaining to...
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The Ball is in Your Court Now
At the beginning of 2014 Spa Inc magazine listed Multicultural Beauty and Global Skin as trending. This is huge, Finally the attention is on the needs of ethnic women. Here is what you can personally...
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Are Spas Ignoring the Needs of Ethnic Women?
My article reprinted from Huffington Post 1/8/2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-hardingbond/the-needs-of-ethnic-women_b_4560805.html 2014 may mark the end of the grace period for day and...
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Can You Hear Us Now? Ethnic Spa Goers Are Speaking
My article reprinted from Huffington Post 1/15/14 My mother never had a facial until I began working in the spa industry 19 years ago. She would reluctantly submit to having a service once a year for...
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10 Things I Learned Last Year to Make 2014 Awesome
Patrice Yursik said it better than I ever could so this week I’m borrowing her blog post from Afrobella. Enjoy. 1 2013 was a year of new experiences and opportunities I couldn’t have anticipated...
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The Big Chill
For the past few weeks in Philadelphia we’ve been experiencing record low temperatures. They’re calling it a “Polar Vortex” which I think is science talk for crazy cold depressing weather. What‘s also...
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The Big Chill-Hair It Is
I woke up this morning and it was sleeting. The weather in Philly has been unrelenting cold, depressing, dark and crazy. I’m not a cold weather chick-never have been since the age of 10. Sledding,...
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Exclusion is Not “Best Practice”
This week I’m getting a bit more political because I’m tired of the snow and lousy weather and my patience is short for everything with the exception of my clients, whom I absolutely adore. Anyway I...
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Why is Spa Training in Dubai a Dilemma?
I’ve been closely following the conversations at the Dubai Spa and Wellness Summit and it’s frustrating the heck out of me. Why you ask? Because they’re still talking about the same thing as last year;...
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How Confident is Your Spa Staff? Quiz
Spa Directors, a quick easy quiz that may reveal more than you want to know. Ask each one of your beauty professionals to list each step they would take if this client was assigned to them for a basic...
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Spa Wars; Five Star Hotel vs. Short Term Rental
Five-Star rated grand hotels. They tend to spoil you for the moderate properties, don’t they? In the past when I went on vacation, I would always choose elaborate hotels that had Instagram worthy spas....
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6 DIY Facial Masks for Every Skin Type
Get glowing with these easy at-home recipes By DaMonica Boone We caught up with international spa consultant, author and esthetician specializing in multi-ethnic skin, Linda Harding-Bond, to see how...
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Are You Shortchanging Your Spa Brand in 2014?
Last week, I had an appointment with an East Indian client. She lamented that she had gone to another well known spa in the city to have her eyebrows waxed. Her brows, previously very lush and full...
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Did You Win an Award Last Year?
Right now all over the world many spas are still basking in the glow from winning major awards in the fourth quarter of 2013 for excellence and service. From the Asia Spa Awards to the highly...
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How to Find a Perfect Facialist for Ethnic Skin
My Twitter buddy Mark McKenney aka @MarktheSpaMan asked “How do you recognize an ‘experienced’ facialist? What should an educated consumer do/ask for?” What a great question. Here’s my response; For...
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The Strongest Link
There is an expression that says “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link”. When was the last time that you as a spa owner, director or manager had a service by your weakest performer? I would...
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Innovation; the Payoff of Accountability
Innovation is a hot buzzword. Most companies are still trying to find ways to be innovative in their approach to business as a way to garner more clients/ publicity/household name recognition. I am...
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Ten Springtime Switch Ups on Beauty
Spring has sprung. Here’s a brief reminder of what you need to change up on to stay gorgeous; It’s no longer cold outside (water cools the body down) so drink sufficient water and hydrate to the max....
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A Kodak Moment
My sister Janice is one of the smartest people I know. So when she mentioned that she had heard a fascinating interview last week on NPR about Kodak film not being calibrated for people of color which...
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Connecting with Allan Share; President of Day Spa Assn.
Ethnic Skin Aficionado (ESA) had the pleasure of speaking with the vibrant, personable Allan Share, President of the Day Spa Association (DSA) and the International Medical Spa Association (IMSA) about...
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