Vol. III

NATURAL HAIR BEAUTY EXPO

Fall 2012

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W O R K S H O P S * W O R K S H O P S * W O R K S H O P S

Experts in the areas of hair care, skin care and nutrition share their knowledge to help you be a better you.

Questions, Questions, Questions – here you will be able to ask the experts questions and receive answers.

WORKSHOPS PRESENTERS

DR. PHOENYX AUSTIN

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Workshop Overview: Ways to go natural (transition vs big chop- pros And cons of each) Address 5 biggest myths about afro-textured hair/hair care Growth and maintenance in-depth

The holistic approach to healthy hair growth (nutrition, general health, scalp health, products)

Nutrition tips and tricks- nutrition 101, hair vitamins 101

Health scalp = healthy hair growth

Workshop Presenter:Dr. Phoenyx Austin is a physician, media personality and author of "If You Love It, It Will Grow: A Guide To Growing Long Afro-Textured Hair." She earned her Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Florida and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from Meharry Medical College. She regularly provides commentary and advice on women's topics and is widely known for engaging audiences with a witty, conversational tone and the intellect to back it up. Dr. Phoenyx has been featured in countless publications, beauty blogs and online magazines such as EBONY and Essence. She has also been featured on popular syndicated television and radio shows on networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and Radio One. Dr. Phoenyx currently lives in the Washington DC area and is working on her second book.

Website: www.drphoenyx.com

Juliette Samuels Nyraju Skin Care - Atlanta

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Workshop Overview: Do you suffer from dark spots, uneven skin tone and dull ashy

gray skin? Join me in this class as we talk about Caring For

The Skin You’re In. You will learn:

The Basic Skin Care Regimen and how it’s important to the

health of your skin.

Why skin care goes deeper than rubbing a cream on your face.

The role that nutrition plays in the beauty and health of

your skin.

What natural ingredients are being used in skin care products?

How to care for African American Skin.

Workshop Presenter: ,Juliette Samuel has had a very eclectic career working in and around

the beauty industry. She has worked as an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has also been a Professional Image Consultant.

Currently Juliette works as a Skin Therapist, President and Chief Nose for NYRAJU Skin Care. As such she is in charge of product formulation and development of all scents and products produced for the line.

Juliette is also a member of NAHA-The National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy, The Society of Cosmetic Chemist, Founder of Beauty Business Blueprint and is the Fragrance Editor for BellaOnline.

Website: www.nyrajuskincare.com

SIMONE HYLTON NATURAL TREND SETTERS – South Florida

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Workshop Overview: Simone Hylton, Celebrity Stylist and Owner of Natural Trend Setters will guide the "lock curious" individual through Understanding the Truths, Myths, and Misconceptions of Locks today. Attendees will get help choosing the hair locking technique which will best embrace your individual hair texture, learn the importance of daily maintenance, and see lock style options that take natural hair style to the next level. Simone will address issues such as which questions to ask when selecting a local locks stylist, being wise when combining locks and color, and keeping your locks healthy and looking great regardless of the technique that you choose. If you are considering putting locks in your hair or have recently gotten locks and need advice on maintaining/styling your hair, then this workshop is for you!!!

Workshop Presenter: Simone Hylton is the creative genius and co-owner of Natural Trend Setters, the first natural hair salon in South Florida. Using techniques rooted in Caribbean and African traditions. She cares for and styles natural hair with a healthy holistic approach in an atmosphere that embraces culture and natural beauty. Simone is a licensed cosmetologist that specializes in natural hair, color, cuts, hair integration, and artistic cultural hair design, helping clients to connect to their own expression of the divine beauty through the inner and outer beauty they possess.

"Let me pamper your tresses with my Healing hands." I will give Glory to your Crown because im living in purpose and I love what I do!”

Website: www.naturaltrendsetters.com

ANITA HILL MOSES BRAIDS AND DREDS SALON - VIRGINIA

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Workshop Overview: This class will explore the basics of understanding natural hair, its types, scalp conditions, and the proper ingredients to achieve the look conducive to your hair type. We will cover the following:

Hair Shaft Structure

Variations In The Hair (Hair Types)

Hair Growth Cycles

Hair Quality

Hair and Scalp Diseases and Disorders That Affect Your Natural Hair

Good Ingredients vs Bad Ingredients. The key to maintaining healthy natural hair and locs, and achieving the look and feel you want.

Note taking material will be required for this class. Handouts will also be available.

Workshop Presenter:Anita Hill Moses Owner/Stylist at B.A.D – Braids and Dreds has Been involved in the Natural Hair Care Industry approximately 20 years and is a Master Braider and Loctician. Her talents, holistic approach, and down To earth tactics when it comes to training and Customer relations, make her one of the most sought after Natural Hair Care Specialists in the country.

Website: www.info@braid-designer.com

ARLENE WEBBER SALON CISEAUX - Orlando

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Workshop Overview:

Coloring natural hair Hair care maintenance Certified Ouidad curly specialist Q&A You’ve got questions?

Workshop Presenter: Arlene

Webber, Born in London and raised in Jamaica, Webber has studied hair trends around the world in countries such as Prague, Italy and Russia in a quest to immerse herself in the diversity of global beauty trends. Webber and her Salon Ciseaux team were handpicked by celebrated fashion designer Juan Carlos Obando to style hair for the models in his ready-to-wear debut at New York Fashion Week this February.

Website: www.salonciseaux.com

MYRIAM MUHAMMAD ALL DOLLED UP SALON – Ft. Lauderdale

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Workshop Overview: This class will motivate and inspire you to Confidently wear your natural hair. Are you wondering what is the best product to use for your hair? How can I style my hair to look

professional? How do I grow healthy curls? All of these questions and more will be answered.

Workshop Presenter: Myriam Muhammad is a beauty professional specializing in the care and styling of natural hair. With over a decade of experience, she has an extensive knowledge on what it takes to wear natural hair beautifully and confidently. She is a Senior Stylist with All Dolled Up Salon and is an educator for All Dolled Up School of Cosmetology.

Website: www.meetmyriam.com

DR NALANI VALENTINE

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Workshop Overview: This workshop shows how fact and fiction become confused with each other, the effect this has on our health, and simple solutions to obtaining beauty from the inside out. Workshop Presenter: Nalani Valentine ND, PhD, (known as Dr. Nalani) is a Naturopathic Doctor of the Hygienic Sciences. She is the founder of New York’s Heal by Touch Wellness Oasis, Co-Director of The Self-Healing Education Center in New York City, and Co-founder of The University of Kemetian SciencesOnline. She is a member of the American Nutraceutical Association, (ANA), the American Massage Therapy Association, a nationally certified New York State Licensed Massage Therapist, the International Association of Colour Therapy (IAC). In 1996, Dr. Nalani was diagnosed with breast cancer. She healed herself, using the same principles that are in her book, 7 Steps to Healing and Wellness, Using the Kybalion as a Guide, without the use of pharmaceutical medication and without herbs, and she has been cancer-free ever since.

Website: ww.wholewellnesslive.com

SABRINA DAVIS QUEEN OF ROOTS ISTUDIO- Orlando

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Workshop Overview: As a Certified Sisterlocks Consultant and Natural Hair

Care Specialist, it is our intention to provide communities, clients and others, the knowledge, skill and ability to grow, groom, and style natural hair without the use of unwanted chemicals. Our emphasis is on natural and healthy lifestyle living.

Workshop Presenter: Sabrina Davis, the current

reigning and the only Sisterlocks® Double "Master Stylist Award" Winner since 2010, Ms. Sabrina Davis, a R (Registered) Certified Sisterlocks® Consultant, CTA (Certified Training Associate) and a Florida Licensed Cosmetologist who specializes in Natural Hair Care with over 13 years of experience in the natural hair care industry. I began promoting and instructing on healthy natural hair care practices while specializing as a loctician in the natural hair world. I'm proud to have my natural hair talents, expertise, and designs showcased in local and nationally syndicated hair styles magazines, such as "Hot Atlanta Magazine Group” and “Sophisticates Black Hair Magazine." My own salon located at Istudios here in Orlando Florida in the highly coveted Doctor Phillips area. Today “Pinkey’s Natural@ iStudios” has grown and matured into the newly known and established “Queen of Roots”, a now thriving and innovative natural hair sculpting L. L. Corporation.

Website: www.QueenofRoots.com

TESSA ALEXANDER Elise Esthetics Institute and Spa - Orlando

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Workshop Overview: While loving the skin you're in, learn how to obtain healthy, glowing skin and receive practical yet Effective techniques to achieve

your desired results!

Workshop Presenter: , Tessa E. Alexander is the owner and director of Elise Esthetics Institute and Elise Esthetics Spa located in Maitland, Florida. She is passionate about skincare and educating others about the importance of maintaining healthy skin as she is a licensed skincare therapist/esthetician in Florida and Ohio.

Tessa is also a freelance makeup artist and has worked with national news anchors, models, fitness competitors, Cincinnati BenGALS, and a host of entertainers. She has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Marketing and Management from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated from the Aveda Fredric's Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio where she earned her esthetics license.

Website: www.eliseei.com

TONYA WYNNE TRU ROOTS SALON - Jacksonville

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Workshop Overview: African Hair and it's Significance Braiding's Agricultural Root Hair Locking is as Common to the African Race as Other Common Physical Traits The Affects of the African Slave Trade Timeline: Press and Curl to the New Millennium

Workshop Presenter: Tonya Wynne, TRU Roots is a salon owner, natural hair care specialist, platform artist and designer with over 14 years of professional industry experience. Recognizing the need to educate our community in the history of natural hair and its care, TRU Roots developed the natural hair course, “From Antiquity to the New Millennium” offered at Florida Community College of Jacksonville, for several years and continues to be offered independently. The pictorial work of TRU Roots has been featured in various publications along with several written articles discussing natural hair. Over the past two years TRU Roots began developing skills as a theatrical hair artist working with such touring companies as: The Color Purple, The Wiz, Hair Spray and more.

Website: www.truroots.com

Nyla Al-Mujaahid Grateful2BNatural.com

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Workshop Overview: Embracing our natural beauty is a process. This process can be divided into four phases. These phases can be used whether you are embracing your natural hair or a new way of life.

I. Phase 1- Cherish (Acceptance/Self-Esteem (Confidence))

a. Define and Set Goals

i. Dynamic Purpose (Why)

ii. Dynamic Outcome (What)

iii. Taking Action (How)

b. 7 Steps for High Self Confidence/Assignment

II. Phase 2- Change (Transition)

a. Define and Set Goals

i. Dynamic Purpose

ii. Dynamic Outcome

iii. Taking Action

b. 4 Keys to Successful Transitioning/Assignment

III. Phase 3- Challenge (Grow)

a. Define and Set Goals

i. Dynamic Purpose

ii. Dynamic Outcome

iii. Taking Action

b. 12- 30 Day Challenge/Assignment

IV. Phase 4- Celebrate (Be Grateful)

Workshop Presenter:Nyla Al-Mujaahid is a successful entrepreneur/Internet Marketer and expert in women's image relations as well as natural hair and beauty She believes in the power of ‘living on purpose’ through life-long learning by application and the principle of ‘paying it forward’.

Website: www. Grateful2BNatural.com

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Fall 2012

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