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Everyone joined in holiday spirit again this year as Gary Manuel Salon hosts a day of beauty at the Heritage House, an assisted living center for elderly citizens in downtown Seattle.

This year Gary Manuel Salon was joined by GMAI future professionals who performed stress relieving hand rituals, did nails, cut hair and brought overall warmness and holiday cheer to folks at the center. It was truly a day of caring and joy and a great way to connect future and salon professionals. Gary Manuel Salon brought residents gifts to go under the tree and a spread of goodies for the party. Ana Montez and her dance company Flamanco Danzarte provided entertainment once again this year and as usual it was a huge delight.   “it was very rewarding and got me in the holiday spirit. I felt like we were actually the ones treated to a special day.” Katie Kurzawa, Future Professional.   “I really felt a real connection to one another, just helping people look good and spending time with them. It feels so good to just spend a day making people’s day. There’s nothing like it.” Emily Whitcomb, Future Professional.

An explosion of exaggerated styles indicative of the modernist pulp fiction era, brought together with the explicative “VA VA VOOM,” was the theme for this fair’s fall fashion show held on October 24th. . The day was certainly full of creative “voom” from all aspects of GMAI as FP’s mixed it up with hard work and extreme enthusiasm.

Whereas the fashion show portion was created by teams from four learning phases in cosmetology (some esthetics FP’s as makeup artists) the whole four hour event presented a mix of inspirations from both the cosmetology AND esthetic teams.  Spa future professionals in the “infinity phase” had their portion of the fair set up in the esthetics clinic area. Each Infinity esthetics FP decorated her spa room with visuals that represented her style and inspiration from the crafts in today’s skin care.

The event consisted of a warm welcome greeting from earth phase FPs in esthetics and cosmetology (AKA “Angels”) a spa rotation, lunch provided by “Organics Togo,” and a fashion show, which was followed by the fair itself. The two hour finale allowed salons and spas an opportunity to represent their businesses at individual booths. Twenty five salons and spas showed up for the event.