Go VIP at ICES Ft. Lauderdale 2026 | Esthetician Edit LIVE

You can come to ICES Ft. Lauderdale for the education, the brands, the demonstrations, and everything happening on the show floor.

Or you can experience the weekend VIP.

This year, ICES Ft. Lauderdale is taking the conference experience beyond the classroom with Esthetician Edit LIVE, an exclusive after-hours event created for the estheticians who want to get closer to the conversations, people, and opportunities shaping the professional esthetics industry.

On Saturday, October 17 at 7:00 PM, after the show floor closes, VIP attendees will head to Shooters Waterfront for an evening of live conversation with industry icons, audience Q&A, cocktails, networking, and connection with the professional esthetics community.

The idea behind the evening is simple:

Learn from the best. Connect with the industry. Be part of the conversation.

And your VIP ticket doesn’t just get you into the evening event. It includes two-day admission to ICES Ft. Lauderdale, access to Esthetician Edit LIVE, cocktails and networking, and $200+ in skincare products.

If you’re already planning to attend ICES Ft. Lauderdale 2026, here’s why you may want to make it a VIP weekend.

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Your ICES Experience Doesn’t Have to End When the Show Floor Closes

Think about what a typical conference day looks like. You spend hours attending classes, discovering brands, watching demonstrations, meeting educators, and walking the show floor. Then the doors close, everyone heads in different directions, and many of the conversations you wanted to have never happen.

Esthetician Edit LIVE was created to change that.

Instead of ending the experience when ICES closes for the day, we’re bringing the community together again in a completely different environment.

The classrooms are over. The booths are closed. Now there is time to talk.

Esthetician Edit LIVE is designed to create space for the conversations that don’t always fit into a traditional conference session. You’ll hear from influential voices in professional esthetics about the experiences behind their careers, the lessons they’ve learned, the decisions that changed their direction, and their perspectives on where the industry is going next.

This isn’t another class.

It’s a chance to get closer to the people, stories, and conversations behind the industry.

Sit in the Room With Industry Icons

Social media has given us unprecedented access to the people we admire in our industry. We can follow their work, listen to their podcasts, watch their treatments, and learn from their content.

But there is still something completely different about being in the room.

Esthetician Edit LIVE brings together respected voices from across professional esthetics for a live panel and conversation.

The VIP experience features industry professionals including Renée Rouleau, Jadé Marie Chapman, Aya Abramov, Morgan Cameron, Genesis Quiñones, Niva Leones, Erin Blaser, Andrea García, and other voices from the professional esthetics community.

These are professionals who have built careers across treatment, education, entrepreneurship, content creation, branding, and business.

Instead of only hearing about what they’ve accomplished, we want to talk about how they got there.

What worked? What didn’t? What would they do differently? What lessons did they have to learn along the way? How has the industry changed? And what do they believe estheticians should be thinking about now?

Those are the conversations we’re bringing to Esthetician Edit LIVE.

This Time, You Get to Ask the Questions

One of the most important parts of Esthetician Edit LIVE is that the audience isn’t there simply to listen.

You’re part of the conversation.

Maybe you’ve always wanted to ask an industry leader how they built their clientele.

Maybe you’re wondering how they transitioned from the treatment room into education or entrepreneurship.

Maybe you want to know how they built a recognizable brand, handled setbacks, chose business opportunities, navigated social media, or knew when it was time to take a risk.

Or maybe you want their perspective on where professional esthetics is heading next.

This is your opportunity to ask.

That kind of access can be difficult to find at a busy trade show, where educators and industry leaders are often moving from classrooms to booths to demonstrations throughout the day.

Saturday night gives us more room for the conversation.

Network With the Professional Esthetics Community

The panel is only part of the VIP experience.

Esthetician Edit LIVE is also about who you meet in the room.

You’ll have the opportunity to connect over cocktails with fellow estheticians, educators, brands, and industry professionals. And you don’t need to arrive with a networking pitch or a stack of business cards to make the evening valuable.

Start with a conversation.

Ask someone where they’re from. Find out what kind of esthetics business they have. Talk about the class you attended that day. Introduce yourself to someone whose work you admire.

Some of the most valuable relationships in this industry start that simply.

For solo estheticians in particular, this kind of connection can be powerful. So much of your career is spent alone in the treatment room, making decisions about your business without a large team around you.

For one weekend, you get to be surrounded by people who understand what you do.

And Saturday night, you have even more time to meet them.

Come for ICES. Stay for Esthetician Edit LIVE.

The beauty of the VIP experience is that you aren’t choosing between the conference and the evening event.

You get both.

Your VIP admission includes two-day entry to ICES Ft. Lauderdale, giving you access to a weekend filled with professional esthetics education, brands, devices, demonstrations, and opportunities to discover what’s next for your treatment room and career.

During the day, you can learn about everything from acne and chemical peels to facial massage, exosomes, PDRN, nano-infusion, pigmentation, business growth, branding, and client retention.

You can meet professional skincare companies, explore devices, ask questions, watch demonstrations, and connect with other professionals.

Then Saturday evening, you change the setting.

You head to Shooters Waterfront.

You grab a cocktail.

You sit down for a completely different kind of education.

And instead of learning only about what successful professionals do, you get to hear more about the stories behind how they built it.

What’s Included in the ICES Ft. Lauderdale VIP Ticket?

The VIP ticket is designed to give you the complete ICES Ft. Lauderdale experience.

Your VIP admission includes two-day admission to ICES Ft. Lauderdale, access to the exclusive Esthetician Edit LIVE evening event at Shooters Waterfront, a live panel featuring industry icons, audience Q&A, cocktails, networking with the professional esthetics community, and $200+ in skincare products.

It is education during the day and connection after hours.

It is discovering the industry on the show floor and then sitting down with some of the people helping shape it.

It is an opportunity to leave ICES with more than notes and product samples. You can leave with new relationships, new ideas, and potentially an entirely new perspective on where you want your career to go next.

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Why Networking Matters More Than You Think

It is easy to look at a conference schedule and prioritize only the classes that teach a tangible skill.

Learning a new technique feels productive. Learning a protocol feels productive. Finding a new product line feels productive.

Networking can feel less measurable, but sometimes it creates the opportunities that have the greatest impact on your career.

The person you meet at Esthetician Edit LIVE could become a professional friend. A brand connection could turn into an opportunity later. A conversation with another esthetician could give you an idea for your business. Something an educator says could change the way you think about your career.

You cannot always predict which conversation will matter.

You simply have to put yourself in the rooms where those conversations can happen.

That’s what this evening is about.

Go VIP If You’re Ready to Think Bigger About Your Career

Esthetician Edit LIVE isn’t only for estheticians who already have large businesses, big social media followings, or years of industry experience.

It is for the esthetician who is curious about what’s possible.

Maybe you’re a student trying to understand where this career can take you.

Maybe you’re a solo esthetician ready to grow.

Maybe you’re booked and busy but wondering what comes next.

Maybe you want to become an educator.

Maybe you want to work with brands.

Maybe you want to open a spa, build a team, create products, speak, write, or develop a career that doesn’t fit neatly into the traditional treatment-room path.

Being around people who have created different kinds of careers can expand your idea of what your own could look like.

Sometimes you need more than another certification.

Sometimes you need a conversation that makes you see your career differently.