Awards & Contests
2021 SALON TODAY 200: Salon Honorees Alphabetically Arranged T-Z
The 2021 SALON TODAY 200 celebrates honorees for their business successes in 2019 and their tales of heroism in 2020. Here are this year’s honorees, arranged alphabetically, from Salons T-Z.
Celebrity Hairstylist Announces Inaugural 'Texture Style Awards'
The Texture Style Awards is designed to help increase diversity and inclusion within the beauty industry by placing equal emphasis on all four hair texture categories: straight, wavy, curly and coily/kinky.
The Salons of the Year Competition is LIVE!
In its 37th year, the SALONS OF THE YEAR competition issues its latest application in an effort to recognize and celebrate excellent salon design.
by Stacey Soble
PBA Announces Beacon Class of 2021 & New Digital Format
Meet the Beacon Class of 2021, A.K.A. the best and brightest students in the beauty industry.
Open a Box Full of Beauty! Enter the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway
Here’s something to celebrate in 2020! Enter the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway for your chance to win TONS of product from your favorite pro beauty brands.
5 Tips To Winning NAHA's Nail Category
Get the five tips to winning NAHA's nail category from Reiko Omae. She entered just once and won.
Modern Salon Top Articles of 2019
2019 was full of new trends and reimagining the classics, and our top articles of the year prove it! From curtain bangs to the mullet (yes, that’s a thing in 2019), the trends and techniques this year were big! Missed some? Now’s your chance to catch up.
Sponsored by Modern Salon
Winning Hair Color and Transformation Photos
Suite Management Franchising announces the three winners for its 2019 Redken Flair Photo Contest which includes Best Overall Transformation, Best Color and Red Carpet Ready
by Anne Moratto
Meet The Winner Of Great Lengths' Tape-InSpired Contest!
After receiving countless entries to the Tape-InSpired contest, it was extremely difficult for the judges at Great Lengths to decide which look was worthy of the ultimate grand prize! Check out the winner!
Enter the 2020 ABS Global Image Awards and Ignite Your Artistry
“To all salon professionals, I will say that the ABS Global Image Awards will unleash your inner creativity. Find like-minded people and have fun collaborating! Everything you try will either work out great or turn out to be an amazing learning experience!”
by Anne Moratto
Keeping it 100: Enter the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway
This is your chance to win the same professional products the 2019 MODERN SALON 100. By entering the #modernsalon100 Box Giveaway you'll receive the same products the Modern Salon 100 received.
Color Zoom National Gold Finalists In Training
The three Color Zoom National Gold Finalists have been in training, honing their skills to hopefully "bring home the gold" during Global Zoom to be held in Vienna in late September. Meet them here.
10 Tips to Win Just About Any Beauty Competition
Maggie Mulhern has judged hundreds (perhaps thousands!) of competitions during her career as MODERN's Beauty and Fashion Director. Here she shares her top ten tips on how to win.
5 Tips to Win NAHA
Charlie Price is on top of his competition game, most notably NAHA. Price has been nominated 27 times and has won four of the coveted trophies which he displays, with great pride, on a dedicated multi-level award shelf. Here are his five tips to win.
And the Winners Are…The 2019 Supercuts Gold Comb Winners Have Been Announced
You can’t win if you don’t compete, and the competitors in the 2019 Super Cuts/Paul Mitchell Gold Comb Awards took that to heart. Meet the ten first place spots!
Sponsored by Supercuts
Goldwell Reveals 2019 Color Zoom Challenge U.S. Finalists
The three national gold finalists will compete live in the Color Zoom 2019 International Competition at Global Zoom in Vienna, Austria, in September.
Beach, Please! Announcing the Making Waves Semifinalists
From beachy waves to sun-kissed color, we received countless looks for our Making Waves contest. With all of the amazing work, it was extremely hard to narrow it down, but here are the 10 semifinalists!