WBI AV Staff Christmas Party

Western Beauty Institute’s Antelope Valley Campus instructors and staff celebrated our annual Christmas Party on Friday, December 14th at Fresco II Mediterranean Restaurant in Lancaster.

About forty instructors, staff members and their guests enjoyed Greek and Italian specialty hors d’oeurves, dinner buffet and desserts, featuring sauteed mushrooms, beef, chicken and seafood selections, and cannoli, among other selections.

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Santa's WBI Helpers!

Exclusive to WBI, Santa has sent down his best helpers to pass out holiday cheer and presents to all good cosmetology, estheology and nail technology students in the San Fernando and Antelope Valleys. Those very helpers are now being featured on the front page of WBI's web site until Christmas. There are four different versions, played at random each time the page is displayed.

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WBI Students Reach Out To Shut-Ins

Western Beauty Institute students once again demonstrated their commitment to the community with recent outings to perform hair cutting, styling and cosmetic procedures for local shut-ins.

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A WBI Thanksgiving

Western Beauty Institute celebrated Thanksgiving a day early with a mid-day break party on Wednesday, November 21st.

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WBI Celebrates AV Graduation

Western Beauty Institute honored its latest Antelope Valley Campus graduates with a ceremony and graduation party on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at the John P. Eliopolis Hellenic Center in Lancaster, just a few blocks from WBI’s AV campus.

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WBI Students And Staff Vamp It Up!

What’s a pretty ghoul to do? Strut her stuff, of course! WBI students and staff haunted the halls of our Lancaster and Panorama City campuses with ghoulish costumes and ghastly make-up.

WBI’s Lancaster day and evening held their competitions on Thursday, October 25th, while Panorama City’s was held on Tuesday, October 30th for evening classes and on Wednesday, October 31st for day classes.

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MyWBI™ Student Web Portal Is Here!

Western Beauty Institute is proud to announce the arrival of the beauty industry's very first beauty school student web portal. This portal, which we call “MyWBI™,” is the central location a student may use to communicate, interact within and explore the WBI school and environment. Not only will students be able to create their own social interaction space (ala MySpace) but the technology will open access to the Western Beauty Institute student community from any place on the planet, as well as automate and streamline many of the day to day processes within the school environment.

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WBI Students Win Beauty Forum Medals

Western Beauty Institute students took home medals from the Barristar Beauty Forum, held at the Marriott Hotel in Burbank, California on September 23rd & 24th.

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SFV WBI Graduates Celebrate Achievement

Western Beauty Institute students from the Panorama City / San Fernando Valley campus celebrated their career achievement at a graduation ceremony held at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City on Saturday, September 22nd.

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WBI Participates in LA’s AIDS Walk

Despite advancements made in the treatment and prevention of HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the overall rate of infection continues to rise. This is the reason behind the AIDS Walk Los Angeles, a 10-kilometer walkathon that benefits AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) in addition to several other local AIDS service organizations. For the past 25 years, APLA has been dedicated to providing bilingual services, prevention education, and leadership on HIV/AIDS-related policy and legislation.

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Coming Soon! MyWBI™ Student Web Portal

Western Beauty Institute is proud to announce the completion of the initial phase of implementation of the beauty industry's very first beauty school student web portal. This portal, which we call “MyWBI™,” will be the central location a student may use to communicate, interact within and explore the WBI school and environment. Not only will students be able to create their own social interaction space (ala MySpace) but the technology will open access to the Western Beauty Institute student community from any place on the planet, as well as automate and streamline many of the day to day processes within the school environment.

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WBI Sponsors MTV Music Video Awards

Western Beauty Institute will sponsor the broadcast of MTV’s live broadcast of its Video Music Awards (VMA) show on Time Warner Cable for the areas of the Antelope, Santa Clarita and San Fernando Valleys.

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New Commercials on YouTube

Western Beauty Institute has published its latest video commercials on YouTube. The two commercials were released within the past week for airing on national cable networks in the Los Angeles area market. Now, the commercials are also airing on the YouTube website, available for viewing, viral posting and voting by YouTube members.

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New WBI Commercials Released!

Two new TV commercials from Western Beauty Institute have just been released. The spots will air on national cable network shows throughout the Los Angeles media market.

The first commercial, entitled “The Cosmo Show,” is a parody of popular ’80s situation comedies, centered around the unfortunate misadventures of a beauty school student’s family. The second spot is a hilarious send-up of film noir detective stories of the ’40s, and features a line-up of criminal cosmetologists. It’s WBI to the rescue in the end, however, saving the day for beauty school students (and their families) everywhere.

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Super Secret New Commercials Produced

Now it can be revealed, Super Secret New Commercials Have Been Produced. Although it cannot be fully documented or revealed at this time, two new commercials have been produced and await distribution now.

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AV Press Covers WBI

The Antelope Valley Press featured Western Beauty Institute and its owner, Christina Diaz, in an article in the Business section of the daily paper on Thursday, August 9th. The article, written by Valley Press Business Editor Tina Forde, included photos of the school by Evelyn Kristo.

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WBI In The Headlines

On Wednesday, August 1st, the Business Editor from the Antelope Valley Press, Tina Forde, visited Western Beauty Institute’s Lancaster campus for an in-depth feature interview with school owner Christina Diaz.

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“Spa Day”

A number of Western Beauty Institute students will be taking part in the annual “Spa Day” hosted by Lancaster’s Living Way Foursquare Church on Saturday, August 4th from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The church is located at 43260 Challenger Way.

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WBI Styles AV’s “Teen Scene”

Student demonstrations of hair styling, makeup tips, karaoke singing and face painting were big hits at the “Teen Scene,” held at the Antelope Valley Mall on July 28th. “I'm very happy we were able to support Clear Channel, the Antelope Valley Mall, and all of the other businesses who took part in ‘Teen Scene’, and very happy we were able to show teens the opportunities available to them in the Beauty business,” said WBI’s Marketing Director Randy Fugate.

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WBI To Offer New Manicure Classes!

Western Beauty Institute is announcing the start of a new Manicuring course. Classes are forming immediately at our Lancaster, California campus only. A limited number of spaces are available, however, so students will need to enroll immediately for acceptance into what promises to be a very popular program.

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