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The Perennial Quest for Beauty
Excerpt from Huffington Post, author Amanda Scherker. 7 Ways The Beauty Industry Convinced Women That They Weren’t Good Enough In America, the perennial quest for beauty is an expensive one. Every...
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How Diddy, Zuri, Spas & Howard U connect
This past week I attended the commencement of my niece Zuri from Howard University. My family was there and as if that was not exciting enough, Sean Combs aka P Diddy was presented with his doctorate...
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It Works!™
As a rule, I try to avoid reviewing products on this site. But when one of my favorite clients insisted that he loved a product from a company called It Works! ™ . I had to try it because health...
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Skin Diva Goes Global
In two weeks I will be moving to Thailand. It still sounds strange to say out loud. Despite the massive preparation of sending and receiving a variety of paperwork, going through my closet deciding...
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First Impressions
Wow, talk about a dream come true. Bangkok is everything I thought it would be and more. It’s so different from Philadelphia I don’t even know where to begin. Let’s start with the food. The portions...
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Moving to Bangkok-The Truth and Nothing But
My last entry for Ethnic Skin Aficionado was in July. I have literally been unable to write because I have simply not had the time to do so. I cannot even begin to describe the exhaustion of learning a...
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Moving To Bangkok cont…
When I arrived in Bangkok it was very late at night but the Six Senses organization had sent a driver to pick me up from the airport and I was made to feel very comfortable immediately upon arrival. I...
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What’s Your Plan for 2015?
Every year preferably before year’s end, my husband and I sit down together and write out our goals for the upcoming year and up to three years thereafter. This time, (blame it on Bangkok’s NYE...
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From Ethnic Skin Aficionado to Moontide Consulting
Traveling, moving across hemispheres, going to different places and spaces and can be so enlightening. Sometimes what you thought was specific to a certain place or ethnicity or economic class, you...
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Ten Ways to Please Your Global Clients
Social media and news outlets are bringing us closer together minute by minute. Air travel is faster and more frequent; few areas of the world can’t be accessed within 24 hours. Opportunities to...
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Ten Favorite 90’s Movies Every Fashion Girl Should Watch
Harper’s Bazaar just released their list of THE ’90S FILMS THAT EVERY FASHION GIRL SHOULD WATCH. Now, I’ll admit that I’m not a “fashion person” per se but as a spa and beauty professional I’ve been...
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Lasers and Black Skin-2015 Update for Spas
“I’ve come close to getting laser treatments three times. The first, when I was in college, was after a friend’s older sister announced that it was “the greatest thing ever.” She explained that...
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The Shocking Truth About the Global Spa Industry
I haven’t been on this site in a while. My focus has been on creating a training system for the spa community called “Increasing Your Retail Selling“. So why am I now back on my site? Quite honestly...
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Why Massage Therapists Don’t Want to Sell
For many therapists in the spa industry, retail selling has negative connotations. Some massage therapists consider their vocation to have roots based in spirituality. They don’t think that commerce...
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WHY GIVING YOUR CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY WANT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH
In today’s competitive spa environment just performing a good service may not be enough. All therapists must be fully informed, trained in spa retail and prepared to offer the full range of products...
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CANNABIS & WELLNESS: THE SPA CONNECTION
Cannabis aka marijuana prohibition is entering its 78th year in the United States. But attitudes toward the plant are changing. Compared to 1968 when only 12% of the population supported legalizing...
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Crazy Two Weeks in Asia
I haven’t had an opportunity to post about anything related to increasing retail selling or spa training or therapists in the past two weeks because there’s been a lot going on. First we had to go to...
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Does Your Spa Service Suck?
Last week I traveled to the Middle East to discuss spa training and increasing retail sales with a well-known company. I was impressed by the opulence and beauty of their spa, it was the type of place...
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ISPA Reports Training & Treatments Will Enhance Spa Growth
As reported by Skin Inc magazine, The International Spa Association (ISPA) released its annual 2015 U.S. Spa Industry Study yesterday, covering details about the industry’s growth statistics, a picture...
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Make Your Moonlight your Sunlight; Entrepreneurship during Holiday Season
October begins a period when some retailers make as much as 30% of their yearly sales numbers. Last year 7.4 billion dollars was spent on Halloween followed by Thanksgiving and Black Friday which...
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