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A Contessa award is highest accolade a beauty professional can achieve in Canada. However, Contessa winners are not the only entrants to benefit from the competition. Finalists, semi-finalists and media and marketing savvy participants all gain from the experience.

The last date to submit your entries is August 17, 2010. So you have just 5 days to get your entries in! To download the official entry form, click here

Judging for the Contessa Awards is performed by independent professional beauty industry experts and beauty editors. The spirit and intent of this competition is to showcase the work of hairstylists, artists and technicians. So it is important to ensure individual compliance with the rules and regulations of the competition.

Entries for Contessa 22 can be submitted in 18 different categories. Here are the abbreviations for each category:

CH – Canadian Hairstylist of the Year

SI – Salon Interior

CS – Canadian Salon Team

MA – Makeup Artist

EM – Elite Master of the Year

NE – Nail Enhancement Artist

MAC – Master Colourist

NT – Nail Art Technician

SH – Session Hairstylist of the Year

BC – British Columbia

MH – Men’s Hairstylist of the Year

AB – Alberta

AH – Avant Garde

SM – Saskatchewan/Manitoba

MU – Multicultural

ON – Ontario

TX – Texture

QC – Quebec

MC – Makeover Colourist

AT – Atlantic

NC – Newcomer of the Year

SA – Student Apprentice

Deadline to submit your entries is August 17, 2010.

For more information about Contessa 22 submissions, visit: salon52.ca/contessa

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ScissorBoy is currently on a European tour where he will be scouting for hairstylists to feature on the Cutting Edge Hair Show.

ScissorBoy’s Euro tour has started with Italy. Apart from scouting for cutting edge hairstylists, he will also be attending Cosmoprof Bologna 2010. This beauty trade event will begin from tomorrow and continue till April 19, 2010.

Italy is well known for its love with the beauty & fashion industry. Cosmoprof 2010 will bring the worldwide professional beauty industry together all at one place at one time. If you spot ScissorBoy at the event, do come and say a Hi!

The Euro tour will also cover France which have some amazing hairstylists. ScissorBoy went international last year by featuring hairstylists from Canada.

Now, ScissorBoy plans to bring the best European hairstylists demonstrate their methods and techniques to you. If you have any suggestions or know of some stylists in Italy or France, do let us know at: @TheScissorBoy

Stay tuned for some interesting episodes through our online cosmetology education program. You can subscribe to it here.

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Cosmoprof Bologna 2010 – the largest and most prestigious international beauty trade event in Italy will be held during April 16 – 19, 2010. Cosmoprof 2010 will bring the worldwide professional beauty industry together all at one place at one time.

Cosmoprof Bologna 2010 is one of the most important international events for more than 40 years now. This year Bologna will be filled with 2248 exhibitors from 60 countries who will be exhibiting their beauty and cosmetic products.

Download the PROGRAM of all 2010 Cosmoprof events

Important events to attend at Cosmoprof Bologna 2010:

Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2010 will feature an incredible calendar of high-impact events, conferences, workshops, ateliers both in terms of emotions and their content. Here are some important events to look forward to:

COSMOPACK: THE ATELIER – 15/18 APRIL 2010 – HALL 19-20

The prestigious opening conference during which the Visionary Man Joël Desgrippes will lead five major professionals from the industry to examine the challenge the cosmetics industry is to face to revamp its processes.

PERFUMERY & COSMETICS – 16/18 APRIL 2010 – HALL 36

A diversified calendar of conferences, workshops, events and ateliers will lead the public into a scented wonderland, where flavours and fragrances flatter music, spirituality, and tasting.

GREEN –VOLUTION – 16/19 APRIL 2010– HALL 25N

This event will offer a specific overview of all industry-related issues, from certification aspects to case histories of enterprises that will explain their peculiarities.

SPA&BEAUTY SYMPOSIUM – 16/18 APRIL 2010 – HALL 15

A highly qualified forum, three days of debate with the shared goal of interacting, developing competences and improving awareness of the SPA market.

ONHAIR – 18/19 APRIL 2010

The most famous international hair designers will perform spectacular shows to propose the latest Spring/Summer 2011 trends during some in-depth workshops.

Cosmoprof Bologna 2010 is a not to be missed beauty trade event. For more information and to book tickets, visit: www.cosmoprof.com

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Cosmoprof Bologna 2010 brings the worldwide professional beauty industry together all at one place at one time. It is the largest and most prestigious international beauty trade event in Italy and possibly the world.

Cosmoprof 2010 will take place for the 43rd time in Bologna during Friday, April 16, 2010 to Monday, April 19, 2010. ScissorBoy will be present at the event that will run all day from 9:30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

For over 40 years, Cosmoprof has been the world’s top international event in the beauty, cosmetics and spa industry. Over 2,000 exhibitors from all around the world will be attending Cosmoprof Bologna 2010.

The slogan for Cosmoprof 2010 is, “Where are you going, Beauty?” to symoblize the ever-changing world-market of cosmetics. Cosmopack 2010 will be held in conjunction with the exhibition attracting a great deal of interest.

To buy your tickets for attending Cosmoprof Bologna 2010 and all its events and seminars, click here.

Cosmoprof 2009 was highly successful and was attended by representatives of 60 countries. Last year the event featured 139,523 visitors in the course of 5 days of exhibition, out of which 33,338 (24%) foreign visitors. The total number of exhibitors was 2,248, out of which 1,323 (60%) were foreign exhibitors.

Cosmoprof has a successful presence in the world and has sealed joint-venture agreements with international organizations to generate new top-level trade fair events in every part of the globe.

If you are in the hair & beauty industry, you must attend this largest and prestigious international beauty trade event. For more information about Cosmoprof Bologna 2010, visit: www.cosmoprof.com

ScissorBoy will be present at Cosmoprof Bologna 2010, so do come in and say a Hi! if you spot him. Follow our Twitter account for all the latest updates from the event at: @TheScissorBoy

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