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The one-day event is packed with influential beauty industry leaders, artists, and brands, joining together to support beauty professionals at all levels of their career.
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Salon pros wanting to deep dive into business, motivation, and next-level mindset, are invited to Beauty With a Purpose, Sunday, September 17, 2023, in Oak Brook, Illinois. Panelists from across the beauty industry will be giving back and sharing their blueprint to success.
Beauty With a Purpose is presented by Daisie Foundation and Pink Pewter Foundation. Proceeds from this event are awarded to incoming beauty professionals by way of scholarships and grants.
This one-day industry event includes beauty industry leaders, artists, and brands, joining together to support beauty professionals at all levels of their career through development, networking, and connecting. The event offers tools, guidance, inspiration, knowledge, and motivation needed to succeed at every step of the journey.
Julie Hightower, founding board member of the Daisie Foundation, and Mireya Villarreal, founder of the Pink Pewter Foundation, created Beauty With a Purpose by coming together after partnering for many years with their nonprofit organizations.
“We know that it’s not always glitz and glam, when it comes to success. So, we have created this day of exposure and are pulling back the curtain so that everyone who comes to the event goes home with a blueprint to success that empowers them and gives them tangible information to grow their lives and livelihoods.”
— Julie Hightower, Founding Board Member of the Daisie Foundation
“All of our speakers that have come together for Beauty With a Purpose are bringing their heart, their spirit of give-back, and their proven track record for success that has earned the right to share their stories of success,” added Villarreal. “We want to give the knowledge you need to stay in the beauty industry and to elevate yourself by attending and being a part of this movement.”
Beauty With a Purpose is a full day of motivation, collaboration, and partnerships with award-winning speakers with vision, heart, and spirit.
The all-star lineup includes presentations by:
Ben Mollin, The Ben Mollin Project
Denise Soler Cox, Project Eñye
Kim Roxie, Lamik Beauty
Dana Fountain, Beauty Platform Creator
Mireya Villarreal, Pink Pewter Foundation
John Mosley, Popular Nobody Brand & Salon Centric, #ItTakesaPro
Christopher Aaron, Salon Centric #ItTakesaPro
Jesse (Kirby) Perez Gil, Artisan Hair Sodality
Danielle Keasling, Ulta Beauty Pro Team, Ulta Beauty
Michelle O’Connor, Ulta Beauty Pro Team, Ulta Beauty
Anna Manukyan, Ulta Beauty Pro Team, Ulta Beauty
Adina Pignatare, Digital Content Creator
Taylor Leven, Barber, Owner of Headspace
Julie Hightower, Daisie Foundation
Corey Gray and Tony Stuart,Your Day Off Podcast, Hairdustry,
Larry Roberts,Larry’s Barber College
Elizabeth A. Kiracofe, MD, FAAD, Aria Comprehensive Dermatology
Mr. Johnny Wright, Celebrity Stylist
Lynzie Smith, Common Wealth Collective
Jenny Strebe, Aiir Professional
Kelly Ehlers, The Tease
Unlock insights from the beauty industry’s top leaders during the Executive Q&A Panel, including:
Frank Fulco, CEO, America’s Beauty Show by Cosmetologists Chicago
Kareema Wilson, Vice President Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Salon Centric
Deneen Pappalardo, SVP of Sales and Education, Benefit Cosmetics
Nick Stenson, SVP of Stores and Service Operations, Ulta Beauty,
Denise Provenzano, co-owner of Pivot Point Academy in Bloomingdale, IL, and of the Wahl Barber Academy, Chicago, IL, is generously sponsoring a Cosmetology full-tuition scholarship and a Barber full-tuition scholarship to two individuals.
Proceeds from the inaugural Beauty With a Purpose event will benefit: students of Larry’s Barber College, including struggling stylists, students, and barbers. In addition, grants will be awarded to applicants that demonstrate financial hardship that is preventing them from getting to the next level Beauty With a Purpose is sponsored by: Pivot Point Academy, Wahl Barber Academy, Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Salon Centric, Ulta Beauty, L’Anza, Urban Decay, Benefit Cosmetics, America’s Beauty Show by Cosmetologists Chicago, Aquage, Rusk, Popular Nobody, Hairdustry, Marlo Beauty Supply, The Tease, Artist on the Go, ICUT, Shiraleah Chicago, Mane Space, Illinois Beauty CEU Partners, Stylists Supporting Stylists, Daisie Project, Peer Beauty, Pin Me Up Chicago, Pink Pewter Foundation, Daisie Foundation, Malibu C, AIIR, Joe Flano, The Original Midwest Tradeshow Chicago, The Original Barber Brand, Mizani, and more.
Attendees will earn 6 CE Hours + 1 Sexual Harassment CE Credit Hour that is required in Illinois. Please be sure to tag #BeautyWithaPurposeFoundation and @Beautywithapurposefoundation.
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