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The Wolfman film has just received the Makeup Oscar award at this year's 83rd Academy Awards. To see a 'featurette' showing how Rick Baker transformed Benico del Toro into The Wolfman click here.

Stone Therapy DVD
Copies of the UCB Stone Therapy DVD are now available at Richmond House Library counter to take out on a one week loan.

London Fashion Week 2011
London Fashion Week starts on 18th February this year, so why not have a look at the event website to see all the latest news. There is also live streaming of fashion shows, catwalk reports and you can sign up for the London Fashion Week newsletter

Kryolan Professional Make-Up
Here is a link to the Kryolan Professional Make-Up website where you can find info on products, events and other related areas in the UK and worldwide.

Connect@UCB
This semester all UCB students have access to a new service from the Library. Connect@UCB is an online help desk which you can visit to get support in finding useful information. Simply log on during the advertised hours and a member of staff will be available to help with your enquiry - perfect if you're unable to make it into College!
The desk will initially be open each weekday from 10am - 12 noon and 2pm -4pm.
To access Connect@UCB, you will first need a Wimba Pronto account - information about this software and getting a free account is available from UCB Online.
A user guide for UCBConnect is available from this link

New Make-Up Book

Copies of Makeup is Art are now available at Richmond House Library.

European Spa Convention
The European Spa Convention will be taking place 27th - 28th February 2011 at ExCel, London. See the event website for more info.

International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (IMATS)

You can see a photo gallery that includes winning designs of this year's IMATS London show at the IMATS website. Also available from the site are photo galleries featuring the Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Sydney and Los Angeles IMATS shows.

Save Our Libraries Day
If you use public libraries to borrow books to support your studying (or just to read for pleasure), you might be aware that there are proposals to close many of these around the UK. Tomorrow (Saturday 5th February) is Save Our Libraries Day, so if you are interested see info at the Voices for The Library website.

National Make-Up Awards

The First UK National Make-Up Awards, will be taking place live on Monday 28th February 2011 at the Professional Beauty Show, which is being held in London. The judging panel is made up of top professionals from the beauty industry, and includes Daniel Sandler, Hayley Tammadon, and Jackie Tyson.

In-Store Salons
John Lewis will be launching in-store salon and spa services and Tesco are going to launch 70 in-store beauty salons by the end of the year. To read more about these new beauty services and other beauty industry news, see the Professional Beauty website.

The Salon Magazine Online
The e-magazine of the February 2011 issue of The Salon Magazine is now available