Hair Style Contests and Competitions for Beauty Professionals

Here you find a list of hair contests, hair competitions and work of beauty professionals sharing their talents.

Style Stars Global Hair Contest

The Style Stars Global Hairstyle Contest offering amazing prize packages that includes media exposure in leading beauty magazines, cash prizes, trips, and professional training in hair techniques and salon management.

The grand prize package for Style Stars 2006 valued at over $150,000!

Style by Bruppacher Natascha
Style Stars Winner 2006

Contest founder Jesse Briggs of the Yellow Strawberry Salon group has extended his personal invitation to every hairstylist to enter the hair competition, regardless of where you live or how much experience you have.

He told Short-Hair-Style.com that one of the most unique features of the Style Stars hair style contest is that it's the very first hair show competition of its caliber to use the power and the reach of the Internet to give stylists in remote parts of the world an equal opportunity to compete and win. Every aspect of the contest registration and photo submission process can be done online.

To enter Style Stars Hair Contest, you must first be a qualified stylist (a Style Artist). After you register, you will be asked to submit images of yourself, your salon, and your hair model.

The deadline to enter is normally set to August or September 1st, but Jesse Briggs is encouraging contestants to register as soon as possible and send in your photos later... that way, you benefit from being among those listed in the Style Star's global directory of salons

Salon owners, be sure to tell your staff about the Style Stars hairstyle contest and encourage them to enter; the experience will be great for their professional development. And the publicity associated with such an important hair competition can't help but benefit your salon, too.

Style Stars Results

Since the contest launched on January 1st, 2006, hair stylists from around the globe have been submitting their entries.

Each year judging panel narrowing down the list of global search for the best hairstylists in the world to ten stylists and we will show case them here on this website.

See the best hair styles from some of the participants in Style Stars Global Hair Style Contest.

Junior Style Stars Hair Contest for Students

Style Stars Producer and president Jesse Briggs together with Paul Barry president of Barristar Student Services and and Mez Verol President of the Florida Beauty Federation now having another contest for students in United States. This is the first time that students can compete on a completely level playing field from any place in the United States without having to go through the tremendous expense of travel, hotel, etc.

With more than 200 beauty schools participating from across the United States, Each year the winner of this competition will receive more than $50,000.00 in cash, prizes, trips, etc and will become a superstar in their own right. Visit National Hair Competition by Junior Style Stars

The purpose of Junior Style Stars is to enhance careers of students enterin the field of cosmotology, by providing a platform for future stylists to develop and showcase their artistic skills.

Unlike other competitions, Junior Style Stars allows all students, regardless of location, to compete on a completely level playing field, void of all the usual politics. Each competitor competes on the identical mannequin and receives the same photography. All work must be done at the competitor's beauty school under strict instructor supervision. Judging is done via the Internet. There are safeguards in place to insure total honesty.

The purpose of Junior Style Stars is to enhance careers of students enterin the field of cosmotology, by providing a platform for future stylists to develop and showcase their artistic skills.

Unlike other competitions, Junior Style Stars allows all students, regardless of location, to compete on a completely level playing field, void of all the usual politics. Each competitor competes on the identical mannequin and receives the same photography. All work must be done at the competitor's beauty school under strict instructor supervision. Judging is done via the Internet. There are safeguards in place to insure total honesty.

Junior Style Stars is already the leading student competition in the hair industry and with a prize package worth over $50,000 it is bound to get even larger.

The American Makeover Competition

The American Makeover Competition is another exciting NEW national online makeover competition for cosmetology students.

Students can compete for a monthly prize package valued at $1,000 that includes cash, hair products, hair tools, makeup and more. The competition is fully web-based: students can enter, submit their makeover photos, vote for other makeovers, and view the winners all online.

This competition is open to all U.S. cosmetology students. There is no cost to students or schools who participate. Students can also compete in other contests on the website for makeup and nails.

Once registered, each student can submit one makeover entry per month. The entry includes a "Before" photo of their client prior to the makeover, and an "After" photo of their new look. All before and after photos will be posted on the website for public viewing. Students, instructors, friends, and family can cast their vote for their favorite makeover. Makeovers will be judged based on the style, creativity, and attractiveness of both hair and makeup.

"We want to give every student in cosmetology an opportunity to showcase their work on the website. I feel this competition produces a more qualified and confident future professional who is ready to succeed in their profession." states Falina Marihart, creator of www.TheAmericanMakeover.com.

NAHA Hair Contest

North American Hairstyling Awards is a venue where hairstylists and salon owners can demonstrate their creative skills in the art of hair styling, makeup and overall fashion concepts in various categories.

See some of the hair styles captured by Babak, the fashion photographer. See also the hair styles from Contessa Hair Awards 2005.

In this collection, you can see photos from 2005 Canadian Hairstylist, The Salon Team, Multicultural Hair Stylist, Atlantic Hairstylist, Newcomer Hairstylist and 2005 Elite Master of the Year.