The Kao Salon Division Global Creative Awards are approaching for 2022, open to all Kao Salon Division customers that use Goldwell, KMS and Oribe and offering seven categories to enter as well as the renowned live competition.
“The first ever Global Creative Awards in 2021 proved that stylists around the world are ready to create inspiring images, once again proving that Creativity Never Stops,” said John Moroney, VP Creative and Communication for the company.
The Technical Awards are delineated into three categories, delivering content from a photoshoot to the live technical competition. These categories are talent colorist of the year, for hairdressers with fewer than five years of experience, creative colorist of the year, for inspiring colour work at all levels, and creative haircutter of the year, which is a new category that focuses on precision cutting. Participants in these fields compete at the national level in their country, and the Gold winners then move onto the international live round.
The four editorial categories are photo-only platforms that celebrate editorial talent. These categories consist of men‘s hairstylist of the year, to show off expertise in men’s styling, barbering and grooming, salon team of the year, to highlight the skills of the whole salon team and create a shared editorial vision, avant garde stylist of the year, which pushes the boundaries and inspires with visionary work, and editorial colorist of the year, for exceptional colour creativity, precision and vision.
Prizes on offer include a trophy and global editorial coverage for each national Gold winner, before the national winners of the technical categories compete live at the Kao Salon Global Experience Event, held from October 2 to 3 2022 in Amsterdam. The event will showcase the spirit in creativity of every Kao brand, with creative Artist Sessions from some of the world’s best artistic teams, the evening show to present the awards and celebrate the winners and the premiere of the new Trend and Inspirational Collections.
The awards are open for submissions from June 1 to 15 so start planning your entry and you may win your way to Amsterdam!
For more information visit www.kao.com
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