
ASCP, ISPA and PBA Receive 2026 Power of Associations Award for Esthetics Licensure Compact
This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.
It’s a place to hang out, get inspired, and make a difference through action in a way that’s optimized for a mobile experience so you can always stay connected even on-the-go.

PBA
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) trade organization representing the entire beauty industry recently launched a newly enhanced website to better connect, unite, and inspire at https://www.probeauty.org/
Showcasing its values -- connected by passion; united by beauty -- the new site provides an easy-to-use, vibrant user experience to foster connection. It’s a place to hang out, get inspired, and make a difference through action in a way that’s optimized for a mobile experience so you can always stay connected even on-the-go. The new probeauty.org features the following sections:
● Member Resources: The place to visit if you want to connect on a richer level. With information on PBA offerings such as the Insurance Marketplace, member discounts and savings, and a library of resources -- from learning how to book your chair solid to industry economic snapshots to help you stay in front of what’s happening beyond the salon and spa.
● Events and Programming: The new probeauty.org site offers a total resource on PBA’s famed events and programs, from the North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHA), the most prestigious photographic beauty competition and awards, to the International Salon and Spa Expo (ISSE), the largest professional beauty event on the west coast, and more. This is the place to go to learn how to enter, visit, participate, and beyond -- this is the place to help push forward making your dreams come true.
● Advocacy: Learn how to become a beauty advocate and join the movement to help inform consumers and legislators on how technically trained, professional, and passionate our industry is with the “I Am A Professional. I Am Licensed” program. Visitors can also stay informed by signing up to
receive text messages and/or emails about issues affecting the beauty industry. All you have to do is sign up -- it’s that easy!
● PBA Charities: Be a part of something bigger! PBA offers several opportunities to give back to the community we’re all a part of through Cut It Out, the Disaster Relief Fund, and Look Good Feel Better. This area of the website provides information and connections to PBA charities so you can make a difference in the lives of your colleagues, clients, and neighbors -- because we are all united by beauty.
About Professional Beauty Association
The Professional Beauty Association (PBA) is the largest and most inclusive trade organization representing the entire beauty industry. PBA exists to elevate, unite and serve the beauty industry and the professionals who improve people’s lives and is the only national organization to represent the entire beauty industry. Our members include manufacturers, distributors, salons, spas, schools, independent practitioners, students and industry suppliers. PBA is dedicated to advocating and fighting for the rights of the beauty industry, enhancing professionalism, and committed to the long-term success of the stylist and the businesses that employ and support them. For more information on membership levels and dues please visit: www.probeauty.org/join.
Originally posted on Modern Salon

This shared recognition celebrates the strength of industry collaboration in advancing professional mobility.

In Dubai, a salon visit isn’t an appointment. It’s a weekly routine, and clients can spend $800 to $1,400 a month on it, according to Gaurav Tripathi of MADI International. On October 6-8, 2026, the market behind those numbers opens its doors as Beautyworld Dubai marks its 30th edition at the Dubai World Trade Centre, bringing together distributors, brands, stylists and salon owners from all over the world.

In October, volunteers plan to walk and take the plunge during at the annual event, HairToStay Does the Bay. Find out how you can participate and support the organization that grants subsidies to cancer patients so they can receive cold cap treatments to save their hair during chemotherapy.
At Premiere Orlando 2026, SALON TODAY catches up with Easihair Pro's Angela Gilmore, who talks about why stylists lose clients who are suffering from thinning hair and hair loss, and how their new Hairlosophy line can help.

Illuminated Paths is a boxed set of 52 cards, a guidebook, and an Oracolor Wheel, a visual framework that helps readers reconnect with the qualities they want to bring into everyday life.

In this rare essay, the president of a haircare brand takes us behind-the-scenes into a world we never see when we pick up a product off the shelves--the arduous, thought-probing, second-guessing journey of rebranding a legacy product line. Not only is her reflection fascinating, but it is also incredibly useful for any salon owner or manufacturer contemplating their own brand.

Twenty lucky winners will be selected July 30th, and each will be able to choose from three different service tray models.

Motivated by loved ones who have battled cancer, Phorest's Barry Quinn and two friends will embark on a three-day trek to the summit of the highest peak in North Africa in September, raising money for HairToStay. Find out how you can help them.

The company's Back to Business Sweepstakes is a direct investment in the stylists and salon owners who are building something that lasts.

Owners start to worry when a month's sales come up short compared to the same period last year, but that may have more to do with the days in the month than with an actual decline. The KIM Report's Alain Audet points to May 2026 as a prime example.