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CLÉ DE PEAU BEAUTÉ ANNOUNCES 2022 ‘POWER OF RADIANCE’ AWARDEE. Clé de Peau Beauté, the luxury skincare and makeup brand, is proud to announce the recipient of the fourth ‘Power of Radiance Awards’, Amanda Simandjuntak from Jakarta, Indonesia, an exceptional woman who has dedicated herself to empowering girls within her community through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) … Read more

Luxury beauty brand receives World’s Best Spa Brand recognition four times in a row

 

The Spanish beauty brand Natura Bissé once again confirms its status as a leading skincare and wellbeing brand as it receives this important accolade for the fourth year running. Experts from the spa and wellness sector and consumers have voted Natura Bissé the ‘World’s Best Spa Brand’ at the 2021 World Spa Awards.

@Natura Bissé

This is the fourth consecutive year that the Spanish beauty product firm has been awarded with this prestigious spa & wellness award, being the only brand in the world to receive this recognition four times in a row, which affirms Natura Bissé as the leading brand for luxury within the spa industry. Natura Bissé performs over 7.5 million treatments around the world every year. Its innovative rituals, based on unprecedented results and the incomparable power of touch, are combined with exceptional client service to create the most innovative formula that is capable of offering its distinguished clients unforgettable experiences.

Receiving this award once more, especially after many months that have been so tough for the spa industry, fills us with satisfaction and motivates us to continue exploring our creative essence and our boundless curiosity for creating experiences that are able to transform our clients’ skin and their emotions. This award is shared with all our partner spas, which have become genuine retreats for not just physical but also mental and emotional peace and wellbeing.” – Verónica Fisas, CEO and Managing Director of the Natura Bissé Group.

The World Spa Awards™ were created in 2015 to raise the standards of wellbeing in the tourism sector and to serve as a mark of quality and reference point for consumers. Each year, professionals from the sector and clients vote on the worldspaawards.com website for the brand they consider to be the best spa brand in the world, along with other categories, in a voting process that lasts 16 weeks, this year stretching from May 19th until September 8th.

On this occasion, the annual World Spa Awards presentation ceremony took place online due to the current travel restrictions in place, with a virtual presence from the entire spectrum of the industry, from hotels and spa destinations to wellness retreats and leading brands in the sector.

Natura Bissé Makes History; images @Natura Bissé

“We have been overwhelmed by the exceptional quality of entrants this year. It is an encouraging indicator that the spa and wellness sector is rebounding strongly from the challenges of the past year.” – Rebecca Cohen, Managing Director of the World Spa Awards.

Natura Bissé is a globally renowned luxury skincare company. Founded in Barcelona in 1979, is now passionately managed by the second generation of the Fisas family. Natura Bissé received numerous awards including a three-peat recognition as the “World Best Spa Brand” at the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 World Spa Awards.

With subsidiaries in Spain, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom and China and presence in 40 countries, Natura Bissé continues to expand around the world throughout the most distinguished luxury retailers and best-in-class spas.

True to its values of commitment to giving back, the brand helped establish the Ricardo Fisas Natura Bissé Foundation in 2008 to contribute to the  well-being of people in vulnerable situations.

NATURA BISSÉ IN THE WORLD’S BEST SPAS

Some of the partners Natura Bissé works with around the world have also been recognized at the 2021 World Spa Awards for adhering to the highest standards of quality and excellence.

  • Maldives´ Best Resort Spa 2021 – Iridium Spa at The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort;
  • Indian Ocean´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Iridium Spa at The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort;
  • England´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Grantley Hall
  • Ireland´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Spa at Ashford Castle
  • Ireland´s Best Day Spa 2021 – Le Jardin Luxury Spa
  • Netherlands´ Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Akasha Holistic Wellbeing at Conservatorium Hotel
  • Colorado´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Denver (USA)
  • Florida´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Spa, South Beach (USA)
  • Mexico´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Esencia Wellness at Nobu Hotel Los Cabos (Mexico)
  • Latin America´s Best Wellness Retreat 2021 – Esencia Wellness at Nobu Hotel Los Cabos (Mexico)
  • Dominican Repubic´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Eden Roc Spa by Natura Bissé at Eden Roc Cap Cana
  • Caribbean´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Eden Roc Spa by Natura Bissé at Eden Roc Cap Cana (Dominican Republic)
  • Abu Dhabi´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Nurai Spa at Zaya Nurai Island
  • Abu Dhabi´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – Conrad Spa at Conrad Abu Dhabi Etihad Towers
  • Qatar´s Best Hotel Spa 2021 – The Spa at The Ritz-Carlton Doha
  • Qatar´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – The Spa at Sharq Village
  • Macao´s Best Resort Spa 2021 – Banyan Tree Spa Macau (China)
  • World´s Best Male Spa 2021 – The Ritz-Carlton Spa at The Ritz-Carlton Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
  • World´s Best Hotel Spa Suites 2021 – Spa Suites at Address Downtown Dubai (UAE)
  • World´s Best Hotel Spa Brand 2021 – Iridium SPAs at St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
  • World´s Best Casino Hotel Spa – Banyan Tree Spa Marina Bay Sands (Singapore).
    images @Natura Bissé / @naturabisse.com

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Spanish luxury skincare company awarded The World’s Best Spa Brand for the third consecutive year

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How luxury beauty brand wants to defeat the world’s biggest beauty troll

 

 

Beauty can be many things. But one thing it should never be, is a competition.

SK-II Studio VS Series 2020; @sk-ii.com

“Beauty is #NoCompetition” has sparked a global conversation about toxic competitions in beauty.

As the world witnesses, the beauty of competition at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, luxury skincare brand SK-II has teamed up with top Olympic athletes to declare #NOCOMPETITION, in a stand to take the competition out of beauty.

Since its launch at The 2020 MAKERS Conference, Beauty is #NOCOMPETITION has sparked a global conversation about toxic competitions in beauty, becoming a rallying cry for women to call out these toxic competitions and define what beauty means to them. Because pressure should never dictate our choices and how we look, act and feel.

SK-II Studio VS Series 2020; @sk-ii.com

SK-II Studio VS Series

“VS”—an SK-II STUDIO Animated Series is a collection of six animated films based on the real-life experiences of six Olympic athletes—Simone Biles, the world’s most decorated gymnast, LiuXiang, world-record swimmer, Ishikawa Kasumi, table tennis player and two-time Olympic medalist, Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo, badminton duo and Olympic gold medalists, Mahina Maeda, surfer and Hinotori Nippon, the Japan Volleyball team, battling toxic competitions in beauty.

Each film within the “VS” Series by SK-II STUDIO explores a different facet of toxic competition in beauty in society today that dictate how beauty should look, act and feel: Trolls. Pressure. Image Obsession. Rules. Limitations. Machine-Like Mindsets. Brought to life in the form of a “strange beast” or “kaiju” in Japanese, each “kaiju” sheds light on the inner demon each athlete must defeat to define what beauty means to them.

Teasing the launch of the “VS” Series in Times Square, Olympic gymnast Simone Biles transforms into a larger than life digital avatar from her film and takes down her “kaiju” – a two hundred foot tall “Beauty Troll King” made up of actual comments and tweets from beauty trolls about how she looked or behaved in the course of her gymnastics career. The epic battle, symbolizing Biles’ fight against competing beauty standards and beauty trolls, spanned across forty-one digital billboards in Times Square and teased scenes from Biles’ film within the series. It also featured the film’s theme song “Take A Look” from singer-songwriter John Legend.

“I am sharing my story so that young women and girls who have experienced beauty trolling know that they are not alone in their fight against the trolls and toxic beauty standards,” shared Simone Biles, Olympic Gymnast. “It really means a lot to me to share the important message that we define what beauty means to us. No one should tell us what beauty should or should not look, act or feel like.”

Biles also joined SK-II in visiting the Lower Eastside Girls Club to share her perspective on beauty standards with the young women. The conversations shed light on the toxic culture of beauty shaming and how the issue of beauty trolling starts as early as high school.

SK-II Studio VS Series 2020; @sk-ii.com

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