By Dearbhla Parry
An Ennis skincare studio has won two awards in London, including a never-before-won online presence award.
The Skin and Makeup Studio in Ennis received two awards at the end of June: “Best Independent Retailer in Ireland” and “Community Champion Winner for Best Online Presence”.
The first award was to do with “product scale”, explained Maureen Considine (pictured), owner of the salon. She said, “I teach people about what they need to use, what they don’t need to use”. The second award was new, and all about “educating people about the products through social media and stories”.
Considine’s studio was the first to ever win the Community Champion Award. She told the Clare Echo that the judges “felt they needed to acknowledge the work that I was doing online and the work that I was doing with teenagers, because no other business was doing it.”
The Internationl Institute of Anti Ageing Salon of the Year Awards were held at the Nobu Hotel in London.
Considine described the champagne reception, cocktails, and “beautiful” three-course meal. When her small business was announced for awards by a panel of judges, she got “such a shock”.
The Skin and Makeup Studio supplies three brands: Advanced Nutrition Supplements, Environ, and Et Al Makeup. Maureen is holding a Teen Skin and Makeup Camp next week and will teach that “using less is more”.
In the future, she hopes to obtain some skin analysis machinery to do a 3D face scan and assess any damage for treatment.
For Considine, these awards are “a mark of how hard I have worked over the last nine years to keep that business going” and has been advised by clients to show them off in her studio with a “big light”. She commented, “It’s a lovely recognition… Anything is possible now.”
“I just want to say thank you to everyone for supporting me and that I’m very grateful, because I wouldn’t be there without them.”
