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SEARCHAfter narrowing countless entries to the Slay Belles contest down to 10 semifinalists, we asked the 10 talented stylists to create holiday-party-prepped hair. Our panel of judges and editors picked their five favorites!
Ospina says this look required clean sections and straight half. There was a lot of hair to work with, so she decided to cut half the work by creating a bun under the waves. After, she then created the volume and some texture on the top. Finally it was time for waves.
Vanessa Ospina @_vanessaospina_
After narrowing countless entries to the Slay Belles contest down to 10 semifinalists, we asked the 10 talented stylists to create holiday-party-prepped hair. Our panel of judges and editors picked their five favorites!
The five finalists not only earn major bragging rights, but they also receive our sponsor challenge box packed with top-notch products and tools from some of our favorites—Hot Tools, HairUWear Professional, and Scruples. These pro beauty brands pulled out all the stops to gift this group with the goodies to help up their styling business and create polished, picture-perfect finishes.
Congrats to our five finalists:
Vanessa Ospina@_vanessaospina_
Casey Powell@updoguru
Sara Ortega@hairspray_studio
Anna Marelli@annaeleine
Breann Garcia@hairbybreanngarcia
The finalists have ONE MORE challenge before one of them is named the grand-prize winner—and they have to use at least TWO products from the Challenge Box we're sending their way, and major bonus points will be rewarded for using at least one product from each brand included in the box.
See the finalists' entries from the second challenge, and stay tuned as our they submit their next challenge for a chance at the grand prize. On October 30, public voting opens for the final five contestants! Vote for your favorite looks by 11:59 p.m. CST on November 5. Our grand-prize winner will be announced November 7!
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! You can still hang with these guys AND get the chance to win some of the amazing prizes they’re snagging by entering our Slay Belles Giveaway—the winners go home with jaw-dropping loot.
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Enter to win the same professional products from our partners CHI, GOLDWELL, Denman, and Viviscal PRO when you enter the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway.
The ABS Global Image Awards honor creativity, artistry, and dedication in the beauty industry, recognizing both emerging and seasoned professionals for their talent and innovative work.
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Global Image Awards!
Enter to win the same professional products from our partners CHI, GOLDWELL, KERASILK, Innersense Beauty, milk_shake, Ouidad, Pure Brazillian, Salonory, and Viviscal PRO when you enter the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway.
GlossGenius's HallowGenius competition invites beauty professionals to enter their best Halloween look for the chance to win a $1,000 beauty gift card.
This year, our annual design competition names a Grand-Prize Winner, a Barbershop of the Year, a School of the Year, a New Talent Salon of the Year and a Specialty Salon of the Year, as well as 19 other gorgeous honorees. Tour each of their spaces, as the owners detail their design choices. Brought to you by Minerva Beauty.
We give you a sneak peek into the diversity of styles among our interior design contest honorees.
El Paso Stylist Valerie Rivera is the winner of Sport Clips Haircuts' "The Look" creative competition, with this year's theme focusing on curls.
Cosmo Prof is launching a new social media contest to go along with their annual Iconic Blonde education event -- see how to enter and be featured during Iconic Blonde!
NAHA 2024 moves to Orlando, FL for its 35th annual event, in conjunction with Premiere Orlando on June 2nd for an evening of “Beauty and Brilliance.”
Cécred x BeyGOOD has announced its first round of scholarship and grant winners, just before National Hairstylist Day on April 30th.
America’s Beauty Show announced the winners of the 2024 ABS Global Image Awards, during America’s Beauty Show, on Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Now that all of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200 have been revealed, we put the entire list together in one spot for you. Here, the team from Frangipani Salon in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, celebrate with confetti.
In our final day of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200 Alerts, we meet 50 more honorees in Growth. These owners, including Stacey Holmes and Brandie Lohmann, owners of Steel Blade Men's Salon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have learned to tap into new products, services and trends to build sales, while maximizing the time and talents of their team members.
In our 8th Day of the 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we meet the honorees who excelled in Salon Leadership, including Luisa G. Garcia of Soleil Salon and Spa in Windham, New Hampshire. These owners know it's a leader's responsibility to develop a vision for the people they guide, then they have to inspire their team to follow that vision.
We're on a roll! On the 7th Day of our 2024 SALON TODAY 200, we introduce you to the honorees in two categories--technology and environmental sustainability. These tech-savvy honorees leverage the latest tools to automate and streamline their processes and communications, while green-minded honorees, including April Wetzel of Sunbeam Studio in Louisville, Colorado, make strategic decisions that better the world around them.
