Hi Linda, sorry I meant to reply to your email LONG before now! But welcome back, glad to see you here again.
The IBPA show is on at the RDS April 6th and 7th, not got the dates for the Pro Beauty show yet but if you go this year be warned that last year they were checking at the door to make sure you had some type of business ID, like a business cheque book or invoices etc - even if you had pre registered online! Good idea in theory but I thought they would have been more useful stopping people from bringing their kiddies in their prams in!
I was very disappointed with last years Pro Beauty at Dublin, no CND, no Ez Flow, at least one company giving very dodgy demos and lots of what I thought were non beauty related stands - bloomin computerised tarot readers fer goodness sake! Don't think I'll be bothering this year unless the exhibitor list improves.
Jackie