Every 2 years, the New Zealand beauty industry gets together for the New Zealand Beauty Expo and the New Zealand Beauty Industry Awards. This year’s awards were hosted by former New Zealand Idol and current X-Factor New Zealand host Dominic Bowden.
This year, the New Zealand Beauty Industry Awards were held on Saturday, 6 July 2013 at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland. We are very proud to report that some NaSA graduates and their clinics were finalists in various categories in the awards, including Nicola Quinn and the team at Nicola Quinn Beauty and Day Spa (Christchurch) and Jess Telfer and the team at Cocoon Beauty and Day Spa (Rangiora) being finalists for the best clinic award. Nicola and her team won the Clinic Marketing Excellence 2013 award. Congratulations to them and to all the winners and runners-up on the evening.
The final award for the evening was the Contribution to the Beauty Therapy Industry award. This award is given to a person or people who have made a significant contribution to the beauty therapy industry in New Zealand over many years. It’s basically like the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oscars.
2011’s winner was Anne Marie de Spa, owner of one of Christchurch’s most prestigious clinics, the Jouvence Beauty Institute. (As a side note, Anne Marie will celebrate Jouvence’s 50th birthday in 2014: an awesome accomplishment!)
Association President Judy West spoke briefly about NaSA opening in 1985, producing strong graduates for the beauty industry, and, despite the setbacks the earthquakes caused, including losing nearly everything in the 13 June 2011 quake, Don and Noel soldiered on, and rebuilt bigger and better. 28 years after opening, the two were still operating the school and available for staff members and students on a daily basis.
NaSA now, she said, is a world-class training facility led by two men she admired and loved, and the Beauty Therapy Association Board felt NaSA owners Noel Turner and Don Kendall, both qualified beauty therapists, deserved to win the Contribution to the Beauty Therapy Industry award for, “the significant contribution to the development of the beauty therapy industry in New Zealand”.
Noel and Don accepted the award to applause and cheers (especially from NaSA graduates, our suppliers and our friends in the industry!) and, once on stage, they thanked the entire industry for standing behind Christchurch and Canterbury in our time of need. They thanked their students, their graduates, their staff members, and the industry for their support over the years.
Don and Noel continue to thank everyone for their support, praise, love and kind words. Without our students, graduates, suppliers, clients, and industries, we are nothing, so thank you all!
Well done Don and Noel, it was a pleasure to be there and see you receive your award! I am passionate about our industry and it is because of people like yourselves that we will have a great future.