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Safety in Beauty App Launch featured in Cosmetic Business News

Published June 2015: Safety in Beauty App Launch features in Cosmetic Business News Full article here: http://www.cosmeticsbusiness.com/news/article_page/BeautyTracker_app_aims_to_cut_botched_surgery_numbers/109165 read more

Fake ‘Gel’ based nail polishes can damage your nails

The battle to clean up the beauty industry and rid the fake merchandise currently being sold on line still continues. This week we spotted a blatant attempt at ‘passing off’ of a popular nail brand called “Gelish” This brand is very well established and leads the way in quality products in read more

Beautytracker app now live! and downloadable on Apple for FREE

If you were a guest at our launch last Thursday Thank you from Irwin Mitchell and the Safety in Beauty Campaign for attending the exclusive preview of BeautyTracker – a technological advance in the cosmetic industry empowering patients to buy beauty safely If you read all about our launch read more

The BACN and PIAPA issue a statement on voluntary registers

The Safety in Beauty Campaign is publishing this statement issued today by the BACN and PIAPA on voluntary registers. The Safety in Beauty Campaign share the sentiments issued by both the BACN and PIAPA namely: “We firmly believe that no nurse, doctor or dentist should feel the need to join read more

Katie Price criticised for choosing an “under qualified” therapist says newspaper

7th June 2015: An national newspaper article today says celebrities carry the burden of responsibility in who they choose to carry out cosmetic interventions and that they should “adhere” to professional recommendations, the article was published in the wake of an “aesthetician” carrying out injectable fillers on the celebrity Katie read more

FDA Issues WARNING over Injectable Filler risks

FDA issued a warning to health care providers about the possibility of rare, but serious injuries that can occur due to unintentional injection of soft tissue filler into blood vessels in the face. Unintentional injection can block blood vessels and restrict blood supply to tissues, according to the announcement. read more

Does Katie Price know her injector is not a medical professional?

This morning our campaign tweeted and published a Facebook message urging people to check the credentials of their injectors. In the UK beauty therapists are currently allowed to inject the public with toxin fillers and aesthetic dermal fillers, sadly many beauty therapists (not being medically qualified) can not deal read more

New App jointly launched by Safety in Beauty #BeautyTracker

Press Release: 4th June 2014 Irwin Mitchell and Antonia Mariconda have jointly launched the Safety in Beauty app and campaign. The software helps to build a personal diary about beauty product and treatment usage. Irwin Mitchell and Safety in Beauty is pleased to announce the launch of a new read more

Safety in Beauty Campaign Founder on Channel 5 News

This month campaign founder Antonia Mariconda appeared on Channel 5 news discussing awareness of fake cosmetics to read more about the #wakeupdontfakeup campaign here read more

Dedicated to you…

Keep up to date with the latest developments in our Campaign and in the industry overall by following us on Twitter and Facebook. Did you know, for example, that the hair and beauty sector has a turnover of £6.2 billion a year in the UK alone? Or that it read more

Thanks To Mandy Luckman speaking at Anti Ageing Show

Huge thank you and well done to Mandy Luckman our campaign legal advisor and our consumer champion and legal angel of safety, brilliant talk delivered on shopping for beauty safely at this years London Anti Ageing Show. Read more here read more

Stay in touch with us on Twitter

Please give us a little follow on Twitter @SafetyinBeauty, we tweet daily news updates, news, awareness tweets and we also share your tweets and experiences, tweet you later! read more

Stay in touch with us on Facebook

We post daily news clippings, updates and information on our official Facebook Page called Safety In Beauty, Please do pass by to give us a “like” thank you. read more

Safety in Beauty Featured in Deep Body On-Line Magazine September 2014

SAFETY IN BEAUTY INDUSTRY PROTECTING YOURSELF BEFORE UNDERGOING COSMETIC TREATMENT The beauty industry is flourishing as every year women spend plenty of money on out-of-home cosmetic treatments. According to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), more than $12 billion was spent on surgical and non-surgical procedures in read more

Non-surgical cosmetic interventions and hair restoration surgery programme update

Report on Phase 1 of programme published in September 2014 1. We are pleased to announce the completion of our report on Phase 1 of the review of the qualifications required for delivery of non-surgical cosmetic interventions. The report outlines the key outcomes of the programme from October 2013 read more

Velaterapia – Do not try this at home,

The truth about velaterapia There has been a lot of talk recently about velaterapia following a story in The Daily Mail this week about top Victoria’s Secret model Barbara Fialho. Fialho swears by the procedure of velaterapia where she uses an open flame to burn off spit ends. However read more

Latest Campaign featured in Aesthetic Medicine Magazine June Issue

The Safety in Campaigns pledge to ban cosmetic fillers at public events featured in Aesthetic Medicine Magazine: June 2014 read more

Press Release: London Olympia Beauty Show bans cosmetic fillers at their event & pledges support to campaign

Press Release: The London Anti Ageing Show bans cosmetic injections at their show & pledges support to our campaign

The London Anti Ageing Show bans cosmetic injections at their show & pledges support to our campaign read more

We call for injectable cosmetic fillers to be banned from public exhibitions and events

Many beauty shows across the UK are guilty of offering and selling to members of the public injectable cosmetic fillers. In a bid to halt this unethical practice our campaign is pledging to spearhead a campaign to ban this practice at as many beauty shows around the UK as read more

The Safety in Beauty Campaign Updates on FACEBOOK

Please follow our daily updates on FACEBOOK, we post news, botched beauty stories and case studies as well as developments in the beauty & cosmetic interventions industry, Education + Empowerment = Safety in Beauty Please click here to read more read more

Dissapointing Government Response to Keogh Review

After much anticipation and waiting the government response to the Keogh Review was published on Thursday 13th February 2014, at 11.am. The results were quite frankly nothing short of disappointing. Hundreds of members within the cosmetic interventions industry had worked hard over the last year to make a significant read more

Better to be safe than sorry

Press Release: 11 February 2014 Better safe than sorry Two responsible new TV programmes about cosmetic surgery and anti-ageing are scheduled for broadcast from the end of February 2014. The productions are appearing against a backdrop of increasing demand for cosmetic procedures. Statistics published on 3 February 2013 by read more

Press Release: Safety in Beauty Campaign Launches in London

Press Release: Beauty expert launches campaign for safety in beauty industry A new campaign was launched at the W Hotel on the 17th October with a plethora of celebrity supporters. Beauty author and personal coach Antonia Mariconda has launched a campaign for safer practices in the beauty industry, which read more