WBI Students to Compete for Hair Idol

“I’m very excited,” said Western Beauty Institute student Wendy Gonzalez about competing in the 2007 Sensationnel Hair Idol Show at the Long Beach Convention Center on Sunday, August 5th. “It’s a lot of work to prepare.”

Wendy and her fellow contestants are each required to recruit nine models, cut and style their hair, and produce a five-minute “runway show” with music, glitz and glamour worthy of “American Idol.” Competition categories include Best Makeup, Best Short Weave, Fantasy/Avant-Garde, Evening, Vocational Style and Best Barber. Winners will be awarded up to $3,000 in cash and prizes, and will advance to the Grand Finals competition to be held in Washington, D.C. in November.

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PBS to air "HairWorld" Competition

The Los Angeles PBS station KCET will air "HairWorld: The Pursuit Of Excellence" from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007.

The program follows TeamUSA as they prepare and compete in the International HairWorld Championships in Moscow’s ExpoCenter. Over 300 hair stylists from 40 countries competed in what was called the "Hair Olympics" for gold, silver and bronze medals in timed tests of styling skill. An extravagant awards ceremony was held in the Kremlin Palace. The competition was conducted by Organisation Mondiale Coiffure (OMC).

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WBI Students In Cutting Edge Competition

Western Beauty Institute San Fernando Valley campus cosmetology students recently participated in a “Cutting Edge Competition.” The event was held July 2nd at the Panorama City cosmetology school.

The competition was broken into three parts. The first step required hair coloring of highlights and lowlights in any color. The second step involved the cut: trimming, layering, face framing and symmetrical cutting. Hair styling, the final step, required students to style the cut within a thirty-minute time limit.

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WBI To Sponsor Antelope Valley “Teen Scene”

Western Beauty Institute will sponsor 'Teen Scene' at the Antelope Valley Mall on July 28th, an event spotlighting products and services for local teens.

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WBI Celebrates June Brides!

Students and staff from Western Beauty Institute celebrated June brides with an event highlighting hairstyles, makeup and skin care techniques for brides, just in time for summer.

The extravagant event was held at the Lancaster, California campus of Western Beauty Institute on Friday, June 8th and involved the participation of many of the beauty school’s day and evening cosmetology and esthetics students. Models were dressed in bridal gowns with hair styles, nails and skin treatments performed by students under the supervision of the school’s highly-qualified instructors.

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WBI Participates in Littlerock Juneteenth Celebration

Students and staff from Western Beauty Institute participated in the three-day Juneteenth celebration June 15th-17th, 2007 in Littlerock, California. Approximately seventeen students took part, according to WBI’s Event Coordinator Beatriz Alvarez, with the students providing free hair styling to festival guests under the guidance of WBI’s trained instructors.

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WBI Celebrates Appreciation Day

This third of July was a Show Your 4th of July Spirit Event at WBI, and it is to be known as WBI Appreciation Day.

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Miss Christina Receives Appreciation Award

On Tuesday, July 3rd, Miss Daisy and the Spanish class presented Miss Christina, CEO of Western Beauty Institute, with an award in appreciation of her efforts in giving everyone better opportunities at an advanced career as a Cosmetologist.

Miss Christina Diaz is recognized as having opened the school in Lancaster and for organizing the Cosmetology curriculum in Spanish. She is always attentive to the needs of the students and takes immediate action when needed, promoting events, and allowing the students to develop at their full potential.

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New WBI Billboard up!

Advertising is very important for Western Beauty Institute. It gives the staff and the students who already have a focus on Beauty an even better image. It adds enthusiasm to the environment with the students excitingly volunteering for photo shoots.

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Show Your 4th of July Spirit!

On July 3rd, 2007, Western Beauty Institute will celebrate the birth of our country with a celebration for our students and staff.

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WBI Students Win at Las Vegas Hair and Nail Conference

This 3rd of June, our very own WBI students Guadalupe Medina and Linda Acuña were winners in this year’s Las Vegas Hair & Nail Conference. It was bigger and better than ever before with students participating having exactly one hour to create a hairstyle that reflected their creativity for the Female and Male model competitions.

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WBI Wins California Stylist Magazine Award

Recently, California Stylist Magazine sponsored a cover contest from their thousands of subscribers. Randy Fugate, Director of Marketing, was intrigued with that possibility and decided to enter a photograph of Allyson Schott, one of his most iconic images representing Western Beauty Institute and the creativity of the student population. The photograph won Honorable Mention in the magazines’ contest.

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Beauty of the Nile

Recently, Western Beauty Institute presented an opportunity for students to be creative and have a lot of fun while testing their abilities as budding beauty professionals.

The Beauty of the Nile contest provided all who participated with a clever premise to design and create costumes, hair styles, make-up and accessories for the models.

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Latino Style: Art & Color

Entrants from Western Beauty Institute will participate in the Latino Style, Art & Color event to be held June 25th & 26th at Valencia's South Point Argentine Grill Restaurant.

The event will feature two Latin American giants of hairstyling, Marta Rina Portillo Bonilla and Ariel Arlin, and will include the latest haircutting, color, extensions, updos, and make-up techniques. The event will take place entirely in Spanish.

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SuperStyles Award Won By WBI Students

Western Beauty Institute students collectively won the competition for largest number of students at the Supercuts SuperStyles event for the third year in a row. The event was part of the SuperSunday event held at the Pechanga Casino in Temecula, California on May 6th.

Two students from Lancaster, Sylvia Suarez and Alicia Silva, competed in the Supercuts Superstyles competition, one in the Junior Mannequin competition “RetroGlam from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s”, and one in the Senior live model competition “Flashback to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s”. The hairstyles were chosen by the participants. Entries were judged on the qualities of Presentation, Technique and Form in the areas of Cutting and Styling.

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WBI’s Ms. Breda Wins “Ultimate Teacher”

Supercuts stylists were invited to nominate their most influential instructor for the Ultimate Teacher Awards, held on Sunday, May 6th, at the Pechanga Casino in Temecula, California. Amanda Anderson of Lancaster, a recent graduate of Western Beauty Institute, nominated Ms. Becky Breda, also of Lancaster, for her Ultimate Teacher nominee.

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WBI Instructors Get Instruction

Western Beauty Institute’s teachers attended a pair of instructional presentations given by Pivot Point Institute on May 6th as part of the SuperSunday event held at the popular Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California.

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Mothers Day Special Commercial Airs

Western Beauty Institute is offering a special promotion for Mothers Day. A thirty-second commercial is airing on Lancaster’s 105.5 “The Oasis” station, “The Best Mix of the 80’s, 90’s and Now!" which details the special offer. Ads also appear in the Lancaster and Panorama City PennySaver publications listing WBI’s services.

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WBI Launches YouTube Presence

At Western Beauty Institute, we teach success with style. To help clients look attractive, our faculty draws from the worlds of fashion, art and design. WBI has now brought its fashionable image and appeal to the users of YouTube with a new promotional video.

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Overwhelming Response At Poppy Festival

Western Beauty Institute's sponsorship of the local hip-hop station, 100.9 FM, “The Heat's” participation at the 2007 Poppy Festival held in Lancaster City Park Saturday, April 21st was incredibly successful. Literally hundreds of men, women, children and families dropped by the small but powerful Adelman Broadcasting booth which Western Beauty Institute was sponsoring on Saturday. Make up, makeovers, hair styling, hair braiding, hair color, face painting was all being provided by WBI students supervised by our beautiful Miss Alena of the Estheology Department. The station was overwhelmed by the response of the crowd. Jess Collins of Adelman Broadcasting was extremely impressed by all of the students and staff of Western Beauty Institute. "Wow, everybody here is GREAT!" Jess said after the crowds began swarming over the set up.

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