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Business News . . . Business News . . . Business News New PAYE tools for employers
HMRevenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched ‘Basic PAYE Tools’ to help employers run their payroll systems.
The new online resource replaces HMRC’s popular Employer CD-ROM. It includes all the CD-ROM’s interactive features plus an automatic update facility, to ensure the tools are up-to-date with the latest information and figures.
Employers who have used the CD-ROMwill need the new tools for the remainder of the 2010-11 tax year and for future tax years. The
tools can be downloaded by visiting
www.businesslink.gov.uk/basicpayetools.
HMRC strongly recommends that employers keep up to speed with other important PAYE developments by signing-up to their free email alerts at
www.businesslink.gov.uk/hmrcemployere mailalerts. In addition, employers are being reminded that PAYE information, forms and guidance are all available online at
www.businesslink.gov.uk/payeformsand publications and that paper versions are now only available in limited circumstances from the Employer Orderline.
Tesco salon opens
Tesco’s new beauty and hair salons -Your Beauty - have opened in Leicester and Chesterfield. Nail bars and threading are being trialled at stores inWembley, Cambridge Bar Hill,Milton Keynes Kingston andManchester.
Services on offer at the Leicester and Chesterfield salons include hair styling and colouring, waxing, manicures and threading.
Andrew Carpenter, Beauty CategoryManager at Tesco, says: “We know beauty treatments are very popular with many people these days, and we feel the convenience of great value and quality services from manicures to full waxing and styling could be a success with customers.We are only at the testing stage currently and keen to understand how our customers receive the service in these stores.”
The salons are offering nail treatments using products from L’Oreal Paris, and waxing using the PHD system.
EZFlow at Harrods
EzFlow Nail Systems has joined London’s ultimate beauty destination this Winter as the nail system used at Urban Retreat in Harrods. EzFlow Nail Systems will be used when providing nail services to clientele.
A team of 20 nail techs, trained by the UK EzFlow team, have taken on the whole of the brand’s range including polymer, Gel It!, fibreglass and silk, design acrylic, design gel and new gel polish Gelez.
Six hand-selected nail techs comprise the Elite Team, a specialised team within Urban Retreat who will also provide nail services to special clientele using EzFlow Nail Systems. The Elite Team members will obtain theirMasterArtist Certificates from EzFlow upon training completion.
• Grafton International: 01827 280 080
Join the club!
Beauty Concepts International has introduced a new loyalty scheme - Club BCI, to replace LCN Club.
“We’ve come a long way and we now offer a far wider range of brands and services, not just LCN gels like in the old days!” explains BCI’s Nic Coomber.
Everything you spend with BCI is included; opening orders, start-up packages, starter kits, training fees and ongoing orders across all our brands, even handling charges. The more you spend with BCI in 2011, the bigger discount you will receive in 2012.
• BCI: 01273 837 302
Snippets It Girl lashes
Allure magazine has reported that ‘It Girl’Kim Kardashian wearsArdell individual lashes.
TheAllure Beauty Blog reported on a recent session with a make-up artist who appliedArdell lashes to her famous eyes.
Paris FW gets Minxed Tesco’sYour Beauty salon in Chesterfield.
Wear teal to help beat ovarian cancer
OPI is donating £1 for every bottle of its new Ski Teal We Drop nail polish sold during Ovarian Cancer AwarenessMonth thisMarch.
OPI have teamed up with ovarian cancer charity Ovacome to launch Teal Tips, an initiative to encourage women to wear teal coloured nail polish and prompt awareness of the fourth most common cancer affecting women in the UK.
Each bottle sold duringMarch will carry a label highlighting Ovacome’s BEAT campaign, which spells out the main symptoms of Ovarian cancer - B is for bloating that is persistent and doesn’t come and go, E is for eating less and feeling fuller,A is for abdominal pain you feel most days and T is for talk to your GP.
• OPI: 01923 240 010 OPI Ski TealWe Drop.
Minx co-founders Janice Jordan and Dawn Lynch- Goodwin, who design all theMinx nail fashions, collaborated with UK nail stylistMarian Newman for ThierryMugler and Gareth Pugh’s Paris FashionWeek shows to create some stunning designs.
All of the excitement backstage at Thierry Mugler’s show was streamed live to audiences in Paris and worldwide through the Internet. “This was the first time a major brand has revealed the secrets behind the magic of the runway,” says Janice, who was backstage assisting lead nail stylist Marian and her team of Helen Lysle-Taylor, David Barton, Lucy Galsworthy, Kimberley Casey and Mirka Poikkeus.
It took four hours to ‘Minx’ 35 models for the runway, including Lady Gaga who featured in the show.
• Sweet Squared: 0845 210 6060
Lady Gaga with Minxed nails at Thierry Mugler’s Paris show.
The brow factor
Cher Lloyd - currently touring with the X Factor finalists - has had her eyebrows styled by Nilam Patel, co-director of HD Brows.
“We gave all the finalists our seven-step celebrity brow treatment, tailoring each contestant’s brows according to the shape of their face. In Cher’s case, her brows were making her look angry and older than her years.We needed to soften her look and frame her face properly,” Nilam explains.
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