Handmade Beauty Connection A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network Check
out what our members have to say!! If you're serious about your beauty business,
join us today and put HBN to work for you! It's easy to complete our
membership application online at
this link. The Handmade Beauty Network
January 5, 2004
Happy New Year!!
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 1
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Creating
Opportunities For Your Handmade Beauty Business!!
Donna Maria Coles Johnson, Esq., President
(301) 464-4515 (p.) | (301) 464-2719 (f.)
info@handmadebeauty.com
:
Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!!
2.
HBN Announces
Nationwide Regionalization
3.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week:
Hair Tamer Serum
4. Beauty &
The Business Trivia Question
5.
Create The Life You Love™:
Happy New Year!
1. HBN
Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!!
To Die For, Inc. |
Judy Jones | Texas
* renewing member; soapmaking
equipment and supplies 'To Die For'
Carrot
Tree Soaps & Essentials | Christine Richter | Wisconsin
* renewing member; high
quality goat milk soaps made with fresh goat milk and carrot oil
Exhilaration |
Lena Smith | Florida Vienna's Herbal
Compounds | Vienna Carroll
* handmade beauty
products to exhilarate the mind and body; herbal foot creme and more
* all natural
aromatherapy and herbal body care, with love from Harlem to You
Common Sense Farm
| Robert Racine | New York
* personal care products
designed for discerning
consumers seeking
wholesome products
Valerie
LeBlanc Massage & Aromatherapy | Valerie LeBlanc | California Learn more about our members and
their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through
HBN's Online
Member Directory, now with 4 ways to search: (1) by
state/country; (2) by member business name; (3) by keyword search;
or (4) using our new alphabetical listings.
While HBN's several websites and
activities work effectively to promote the handmade beauty products
industry in ways that are efficient and cost effective for the
organization and its members, the time has come to launch a program
that will help the national organization work even more effectively
on a local level. HBN is therefore pleased to announce
* specializing
in body oils, room and face spritzers, and perfume ointments;
customization available
2.
HBN Announces Nationwide Regionalization
Please join me in congratulating HBN's new Regional Directors! These pioneers of the handmade beauty business world will help HBN more effectively target specific geographic regions of the country with relevant programs, benefits and services, thereby making HBN even more fun and effective for members.
Read more about HBN's regionalization and our new Regional Directors at this link!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Hair Tamer Serum
Hair Tamer Serum is something easy and effective to start the New Year. Try this daily if you have especially dry hair, less often if your hair is more oily. Either way, you're bound to experience less split ends as your hair becomes accustomed to being treated to the rich oils in this serum.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on our Selected Supplier links:
Essential
Wholesale: pure essential oils, over 200 cosmetic bases, hundreds
of carrier/fixed oils such as meadowfoam, cranberry, jojoba and shea
butter plus a new Short Run Private Labeling Program!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 105 different fragrance
and essential oils (including their exclusive "Energy" and
"Relaxing"), all soap tested, soap molds and unscented soap
bases!
SunRose Aromatics: pure essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and other aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality. Check out their new Perfumer's Emporium.
The Scent Shack: fragrance oils and soap supplies. Fragrance oils are pre-tested in cold process, melt & pour soap, and candles, and test results are listed at the Web site. Scents tested by soapers for soapers!
From Nature With Love: over 1,600 ingredients and supplies, including cosmetic ingredients, spa supplies, bath accessories and packaging supplies!
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question
As mentioned late last year, HBN's newsletter will from time to time feature business trivia questions along with the beauty trivia questions we have featured for the past 4 years. I hope this will enhance your reading pleasure and give you some "food for thought" as you consider starting your own business or continue growing the one you have!
This Week's Question: I am a non-profit organization that is the subject of much criticism by businesses both large and small. I was founded in 1998. I set standards and priorities, supposedly to facilitate fair progress and change in the Internet world. I am the backbone for the assignment of Internet domain names around the world, and one of my goals is to enhance global online competition and promote consensus for users of the Internet across the globe. To win this week, state my full, complete and correct name.
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win your choice of 50% off membership in the Handmade Beauty Network (taken advantage of within 72 hours of winner notification) or a bar of beautifully packaged and wonderful smelling Cranberry soap made by HBN member Baisley Herbals, complete with a slatted wooden soap dish!
Please read the contest rules here before submitting your entry. Put "TRIVIA CONTEST ANSWER" in the subject line or your answer will not be considered.
While time does not permit me to respond personally to all entrants,
the winner's name will be announced in the next newsletter!
We hear it year after year, holiday season after holiday season -- most people are prone to encounter bouts with depression during the holiday season than during any other season of the year. I think that's true, for while it is relatively rare for me to feel blue, I do at times feel glum, especially when the weather has been rainy for days at a time or during a celebratory time of year when I feel that I don't have anything to celebrate.
When these feelings arise during the holiday and New Year's seasons, while I don't know what the antidote to these feelings is from a medical perspective, based on my experience, I have had success making the most of this time of year by doing a few things that are sure-fire ways to cheer me up even when I am feeling blue. Perhaps some of you are feeling less than chipper as we start a new year. Maybe you are dwelling on things you were supposed to do in 2003, but which are left undone as we enter 2004. Perhaps you lost a loved one last year and are struggling to find a reason to anticipate a "happy" 2004. Whatever the case, the next new year's season will be here before we know it so I want to provide you with some helpful tips to make it more likely that the transition from 2004 into 2005 will be one of peace and joy. Like most of the tips shared in this column, these are worth trying in both your business and personal life!
1.
Celebrate This Year's Successes As They Are Experienced.
Don't let a good reason to pat yourself on the back pass you by!
I am not suggesting haughtiness or excessive pride, just
congratulations for a job well done. It's simple to reward yourself
when you have met a milestone or accomplished a goal, especially
when you have appointed your own personal cheering section to help
you achieve your goals. Your cheerleaders should be composed of a
few trusted friends and/or family members who won't stand in your
way (beware of saboteurs!) and who will be just as excited as you are
that you have reached a goal. Let them cheer you on, and when you
meet a goal, treat
yourself to something you enjoy. To celebrate a business
accomplishment, you could buy that piece of high tech computer
equipment you know would make your life easier, professionally
design that logo you've been putting off, buy a new shopping cart for
your website or whatever. A personal accomplishment could be
celebrated with dinner out with a best friend, a little shopping
spree or a several-hour long trip to the spa (my personal favorite!)
Whatever the case, celebrating accomplishments mark their
significance in our lives and will provide a reason at the end of 2004 to
feel good about a year well spent.
2.
Record Goals And When They Are Accomplished.
Recently, my husband and I reviewed a list of 12 goals we had
set for ourselves about 15 months ago and we were excited to see that we
had attained 11 of them. We could have dwelt on the one we missed,
but we chose instead to focus on the 11 we had accomplished -- and
what a positive "can do" feeling that was! Some of the
goals were big and some were quite small, but collectively, having
achieved them made us more confident that we could attain even more
challenging goals in the years to come. And we were able to
celebrate a quiet New Year's at home savoring a newfound sense of
confidence. We were only able to do this because we wrote down our
goals. For some, this is a scary way to be held accountable. After
all, if goals are missed or ignored, there they are in black and
white for the whole world to see, and it can be demoralizing to view
a list of goals after the time for their accomplishment has passed,
only to see that they are still just goals. On the other hand, what
better way to motivate yourself to stick to a goal than to write it
down so you can be reminded of it regularly and monitor your
progress toward it. If you are the type to avoid writing down your
goals for fear of having to face them again year after year, try it
with just 3 simple goals. Start small and grow from there. You'll be
glad you did!
3. Celebrate
At Year's End.
As you move through 2004 and are able to check off goals attained,
you can begin to plan a New Year's celebration which will allow you
to move into 2005 with a renewed sense of accomplishment. Plan some
sort of celebration, large or small, and be sure to include your
cheerleaders so they can know how much you appreciated their help
along the way.
Cheers! And best
wishes to each and every HBC reader for a joyous and prosperous
2004, and no shortage of reasons to celebrate when the time comes to
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