A big congratulations to...

Charlotte and her Team at Charisma in Norwich for being nominated for the Best Beauty Salon in Norwich - if anyone out there is a customer of Charisma and want to vote for them please visit www.thebestof.co.uk/norwich/awards.

and Claire Weston and her Team at The Retreat in Buckhurst Hill for being voted as one of the top 10 beauty salons in the Essex Area by mystery shoppers! The mystery shoppers rated the salons on a whole host of things including customer service and products and treatments offered.

Keep up the good work!

Many of our stockists have expressed a desire for a new uniform.

Whilst we have resisted this over the past 9 months, perhaps it is now time for a change?

Our thoughts are...To be in keeping with the new Collin branding, how about a chocolate brown coloured Collin uniform?

The style is yet to be decided but we would take it into account that it must be suitable and flattering for all shapes and sizes in the same way that the existing Navy uniform currently is.

We look forward to your feedback.

The Collin UK Team

Recently, I was told that a few people had tried Morpho-Skin Minute Lifting Mask as a serum (just left on the skin) rather than washing it off.

I tried it, IT'S GOOD, also Judy at The Cameo Clinic tried it and loved it, as did Carol at Body Zone who also loved it!

Chase Aston Celebrity Make Up Artist says this about it: After a hard day at the desk, lighten, tighten and revitalise a dull complexion, apply to the face, wait a few moments then apply your party make up, the Collin Paris Minute Lifting mask will ensure you radiate all through the night, whilst ensuring your make up looks fabulous.

Go on - give it a try and let us all know how you get on!

Kirsti

MD Collin UK

I am delighted to let all of our stockists know that we have 72 free tickets for Professional Beauty at ExCel 2009.

If you would like to take advantage of these tickets please call me on 01767 682288 or email leila@collin.ltd.uk to register your interest.

I will need to know your account number, how many tickets you would like and the names of the people attending.

Tickets will be issued on a first come first serve basis and I will email you to confirm that I can fulfill your requirements.

Please let me know by the 28th November.

Best regards

Leila

Hello ladies and gents,

I would like to share some information I have recently gathered with you all:

Some clients and I were discussing which treatments they did and didn’t do on a regular basis. When I asked about The 3D Youth Treatment, I was told that they do use it and regularly on their clients who have had botox.

The reason behind this is that these clients should not have non-surgical face lift treatments because the botox works to relax the muscle and the non-surgical works in the completely opposite way by stimulating the muscle and educating it to sit in a different position.

It is obvious that our 3D Youth Treatment is therefore ideal for these clients but it was not something that I had considered until now!

This theory is backed up by the salon botox practioner who says non-surgical face-lifts will shorten the life of the botox treatment.

I followed this theory up at the next salon I visited and she too will not do a non-surgical face-lift treatment on anyone who has botox, or in fact, fillers either. She has actually created a 3D Youth/non surgical face lift "fusion" type treatment for her ladies, which is non surgical face lift around the jaw and our 3D Youth Treatment on the upper part of the face and eyes.

For all you salons out there who do offer botox and fillers and/or the non surgical face lift, are you offering your clients the best possible opportunities for results? Or are you slowly undoing their botox treatment?

Next bit of information is how Chromo-Science helped a lady on our training recently with her pigmentation.

At the start of the week she had a large pigmentation mark on her lower cheek area, which she obviously was not happy with. This lessened throughout the week after receiving our treatments. Her final treatment of the week was the Chromo-Science® Source of Life Treatment. She took home The Fountains of Life Homecare. By the next month her pigmentation mark had all but gone and she is thanking Chromo-Science® and the The Fountains of Life for the biggest part of this.

Whilst Chromo-Science® and The Fountains of Life are not designed to specifically be anti pigmentation, I do have the following theory...

A damaged cell will only produce damaged goods, so, if you re-programme the cell to work in a different and more youthful way as Chromo-Science® does, then it is possible that it re-programmes them to produce cells/goods of a quality that does not manufacture pigmentation.

I have passed this information on to a salon I was recently visiting and they are going to try out this theory on one of their clients who has already had good anti pigmentation results with the Instant Radiance and Collageny C Treatments. I look forward to her feedback and will, of course, share it with you all.

Kirsti Shuba
Managing Director Collin UK

With thanks to Sandra at Health on the Park, Sara at Belissima Exclusive and Tracey at the Retreat in Nottinghamshire