SPCP Announces Convention 2010 - SPCP 20th Anniversary Celebration!

FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS ~ MARCH 6-8, 2010
The Society of Permanent Cosmetic Professionals Celebrates
Twenty Years of Visionary Accomplishments

This convention we celebrate something grand, the SPCP’s Twentieth Anniversary! We are so proud to achieve this milestone and wish to celebrate this joyous occasion with all of you in family reunion style. There is no better time than the convention to do so. We’ll celebrate this event at the most popular hotel in Las Vegas - the one and only Flamingo Hotel & Casino! Located at the heart of the famous Las Vegas Strip, the Flamingo is just steps away from other casino hotels, an abundance of restaurants, and great shopping. We are excited to return to the beautifully renovated Flamingo after having our conventions there several times in the early 90s.

We are also excited to present an amazing line up of informative speakers and topics you simply won’t want to miss. The vendor room opens early again this year, on Friday night, giving you more opportunity to shop and pick up some great deals! Also, Friday night starts the silent auction in the vendor room, so be sure to enter your bids! As always, the convention is preceded by the two-day Train the Trainer Course and the Bloodborne Pathogens Class.

After receiving phenomenal reviews in Philadelphia and attendees craving more, we extended Hector Guisa’s lecture on PowerPoint to this year’s Saturday morning workshop. “Tools for Success - Build a Promotional PowerPoint Presentation” will provide you with basic hands-on training, to help you learn PowerPoint and what great things you can do with it to enhance your business. Each attendee will build a presentation on the spot! Space is limited, so sign up early for this special workshop. Saturday afternoon is devoted to Vendor Presentations: see and learn all about their various products and services.

Saturday evening we invite you to join together for the SPCP Family Reunion! We will introduce many who were around since “back in the day” as they say – even some retirees will be back to celebrate! This is a wonderful time to meet your fellow members and party the night away. Many great treats await you for this momentous occasion so be sure not to miss it!

Starting Sunday morning there are lectures through out the day, continuing through all of Monday. Our speaker lineup spans the globe. Coming from California is the lovely and talented Susan Preston. In her lecture “Stiletto Heels and Aging Attorneys; Sample Claims and How to Minimize Problems,” she shares some horror and humorous stories about claims, and how to protect your business from these types of claims.

We are happy to have Edward Zimmerman, MD who is presenting an update on current, in-office, cosmetic technologies covering topics that include laser liposuction, fractional laser resurfacing, and bundling technologies for optimal outcomes. He provides a bit of basic science and a review of rational use of the electromagnetic spectrum. Dr. Zimmerman discusses how permanent cosmetics may affect, or be affected by these procedures. Other topics address issues that permanent cosmetic professionals may face, such as Vitiligo.

Providing us with that good old New Orleans charm is one of our favorite returning speakers, Lana Duke. Lana provides us with her personal tips to success and speaks on “The Colors of Our Personalities.” We will learn how to determine our client’s “color.” She provides you with the tools you need to determine what personality color best fits your clients and how to work with them. Speaking of color, we are so excited to present our very first “Pigment Panel,” hosted by Debra Guastella, CPCP. After a brief presentation, our experts - Elizabeth Finch-Howell, CPCP, Mary Jane Haake, CPCP, Alexis Lawson, Pat Shibley-Gauthier, CPCP, and Darlene Story - discuss subject matters that are important to our understanding of pigments as well as answer all your important questions about them. This is an intense two hour session and the information shared will prove invaluable.

This year our hands-on procedures “SPCP style” will feature not one but TWO presentations with different types of procedures. Whether these methods are something you personally practice or not, attending these lectures are beneficial, teaching you the different techniques that are out there and giving you knowledge that you may not have! Our very own Jane Adler, CPCP, presents the Manual Method, giving you a broad look at using the manual device with different configurations to tattoo brows, eyes, lips and areolas. Our second video hands-on procedure demonstration comes to us all the way from Australia, featuring Val Glover-Hovan. She is presenting her pointillism technique for full lips using a single needle! This is a must-see.

We understand how all the new technology can become confusing to some and even scary to others, but we encourage you to embraced it and utilize it to promote your business! Kate Ciampi, CPCP will be sharing some tips and information on these new websites with her presentation, “Tweeting by Day, Wall Writing by Night – The Impact of Social Media.” There is more to this than Facebook and Twitter, and no, MySpace is not dead. And the best part of these websites is that they are free!

So as we prepare for the 2010 SPCP Twentieth Anniversary and Family Reunion, we hope you join us in the celebration. So many years of talent and experience will be represented! Those who are new as well as veterans in this wonderful industry will find much to learn and share at this great event. As we say, invest in yourself, your career, and the future. Please join us in Las Vegas on March 6-8th, 2010. Registration is now open and many have already booked rooms at the Flamingo. Please, if you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to contact me at the SPCP office. I so look forward to seeing you all!

Kate on 01.05.10 @ 06:27 AM CST [link]