Presenters
Michelle Rath
Founded Sinful Lashes after a successful career as a Hollywood stylist in the entertainment industry. She is a international judge and presenter, a senior editor for Lash Inc Magazine and was included in Lash Masters Volume 3. Michelle opened her first studio in 2011 and has expanded into a international brand. This entrepreneur owns her salon in Los Angeles, CA and has 10 talented team members and a group of dedicated brand ambassadors. She owns her Lash Academy where she has trained over a 1000 students in the art of lashes and she manufactures a luxury lash extension product line that ships globally. Michelle has a passion for our industry and the camaraderie it creates for women and is proud producer of the Hollywood Lash Conference, the largest Eyelash Extension conference in the USA.
Hanna Putjato
Founder and director: London Lash Professional
Hanna is a trailblazer within the lash community. Not only has she curated one of the industry’s most innovative and critically acclaimed eyelash extension training programmes, she has also built a globally recognised multi-million pound e-commerce business dedicated to developing revolutionary products for eyelash application.
Mydygma Nimbueva - Mistress of Ceremonies
Owner Beautyful Lashes Salon and Lash Academy
Celebrity Lash Artist
NALA Certified Lash Educator
Mydygma is an international speaker and judge. Her award achievements include Winner in Lash Design and Customization 2018 - NALA (National Association of Lash Artists), Best of Beverly Hills 2 time award winner in category "Lash Extensions", Business Hall of Fame Award for 3 consecutive years, Small Business Excellence Award Recipient, Beverly Hills Best Salon Award of 2015, 2016 and 2017, Two time winner Best of Beverly Hills in category "Makeup Artists" 2015 and 2016. She is currently nominated for Best Lash Studio in 2019.
Leanne Harber
Leanne Harber is the owner of Ultimate and has been in the industry for 22 years. Renowned for her bridging technique in lashing, she has helped many who have little to no lashes or have lost their lashes due to various forms of Cancer treatments in achieving confidence and beauty with full sets of lashes where virtually none have existed before. Leanne has been an educator for 12 of her 22 years in the industry and travels the world speaking, teaching and judging. Her passion lies in the ability to teach others to fulfill their dreams.
Teaching: How to Become a Great Trainer
Leanne and Martina will be speaking about what it takes to become a great trainer in the eyelash extension industry. A good understanding of how to create an engaging and interesting class will help you and your potential students
Agne Cepulyte
Owner Agi.Lash
Agne Cepulyte has been in the lash industry for a short time compared to other known masters of the industry and yet a hard work, intensive studying of everything there is to know about lash industry and more brought her to the success she already has and is still going up. She enjoys attending conferences and is passionate about continuing her education (she has taken over 20 trainings so far). Agne participates in competitions, winning championships and has been awarded by the biggest stars of the industry. Her qualifications as an educator include certification as a professional international trainer traveling all over the world to bring the knowlege that she has built to others. She has given trainings in the USA, Norway, England, Ireland and more to come. She has been invited to numerous conferences around the world as a speaker and has been a judge for both online and live lash competitions. She has been a featured artist on Lash Inc media's radio speaking about her carreer. Nominated by NALA as Best Lash Artist of the Year (2018) and has her work published in numerous lash magazines. Agne is an active lash artist always working toward perfecting her technique and because of this she is always improving, learning and striving to be the best and to be able to give her best to her students by providing the most updated information and training!
Teaching: Creating Makeup Effects with Lashes
Agne will be showing you how to create three different make up effects with the help of lash extensions. Explained will be how to achieve: Eyeliner effect, shadow effect and big wing effect. In addition, she will speak on the importance of achiecing a perfect fan every time, and how to make it. Covered will be the struggles of inner and outer corner attachment and will be showing videos.
Mandy Fox
With over 2 decades of experience specialising in brows, lashes and skin, Mandy has developed products with her own brand of secret science behind the ingredients used, which have successfully raised the standard in brow products, protecting salons and consumers. Delivering a safe and completely gorgeous brow look both semi-permanent or temporary 24-hour wear.
This journey of creating the perfect Brow Henna took Mandy to the old-growth fields of henna in the heart of India, where she studied and learnt ancient methods of the art and developed Fox Cosmetics Henna Range for beauty salons around the globe.
Otto Mitter
After two decades of studying the art of lashes, brows, beauty and cosmetic formulation, Otto and his team at Ex-Import currently produce and supply lash & brow enhancement ranges for professionals and develop educational programs to over 60 countries across the globe and have a combined team of over 300 trainers worldwide.
Otto’s dedication to education has seen him as a guest speaker and educator at the world’s most prestigious beauty and lash events, learn from the world’s best lash masters and judge at leading global lash competitions.
Teaching: Next Generation Lash Lift
Next Generation Lash Lift with Otto Mitter - Otto talks us through the science, the how and why of next generation formulas and techniques with lash lift and what we can do to achieve better results and keep your clients coming back for more. At the end of the day, Otto will be doing a live demo for a more in depth review of how this technique is done
Paul and Tussanee Leubbers
Soundcloud
Instagram lashcastpodcast
Instagram thelashconference
For 13 years Tussanee, along with her husband Paul, grew Integrity Lash into a 7-figure salon that was recognized as the premiere lash salon in Southern California. Over the years, Integrity Lash was recognized as one of the best lash salons in Southern California by Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Pasadena Magazine, Pasadena Weekly, Brides.com as well as by others. For four years, Salon Today chose Integrity Lash as one of the Top 200 salons in North America.
Now Tussanee and Paul host the award nominated podcast LashCast. Along with their co-host, Erika, the crew aims to educate and uplift lash stylists. Tussanee continues to work full time taking clients, while Paul produces events for lash bosses (LashCruise and LashCon). The two love to teach and host classes at their location in Pasadena as well as speak at shows like ISSE, The Beauty Experience, The LashConference, as well as many other lash conferences.
Teaching: Confessions of a Lash Salon Owner: What We Wish We Knew Before We Opened Our Salon
Running a lash salon has never been easier…there is more technology, more information from podcast and books, more mentors available, and if you look on Instagram it appears every salon is killing it! Truth is while there is more help than ever, running a salon hasn’t gotten any easier. In fact, because of social media and old broken salon systems, in many ways it’s gotten more difficult. In this session, we will break down many of the struggles we faced in running our salon and how you can avoid these issues so you can build a vibrant and stronger business.
