Career

New NAHA Category: Newcomer Stylist of the Year

The North American Hairstyling Awards (NAHA) has added a new category for 2012: The NAHA Newcomer Stylist of the Year award. To qualify to enter, the entrant must be a licensed cosmetologist with less than three years of professional experience. The new category seeks to recognize a rising talent in the professional hairstyling industry and is meant to bridge the gap between Student Hairstylist of the Year and Hairstylist of the Year. Learn the details!

Take the "Maryanne and Friends" Pledge

Over 40 salons (including two in Australia and one in Egypt) have joined together to ease the stress and pain felt by women battling cancer and suffering from hair loss through the Maryanne and Friends program. Take the pledge to join the network today.

Eli Mancha Demos Feather Extensions

NAHA hairstylist of the year Eli Mancha chats about the importance of offering pink feather extensions during October. Breast cancer awareness month.

Get Your Swag on at the Fall Education Jam!

BaByliss Pro, RUSK, BSG, and Conair are hosting an upcoming education event that you are not going to want to miss—the Fall Education Jam! At this all-about-beauty event, there will be main stage presentations by the industry's best, including 2009 NAHA Winner, Faatemah Ampey. Read the details

Win Full Cosmetology Tuition by Entering the "Anything But Hair" Contest

Pivot Point Academy has launched its annual contest that awards one entrant with full cosmetology tuition to one of the company’s three locations. This year's contest is titled "Anything But Hair" and asks entrants to create a hair-like design without using real or synthetic hair. Read the details.

Photo Feature #3 Late Night Show with Antoinette Beenders at the Aveda Congress

Approximately 3,000 people from the Aveda network gathered together in Minneapolis for the 2011 Aveda "Pow Wow" Congress this weekend. The Late Night Show directed by Aveda's Creative Director Antoinette Beenders was mindblowing—see the photos!

Photo Feature #2 of the Aveda Congress

Approximately 3,000 people from the Aveda network gathered together in Minneapolis for the 2011 Aveda "Pow Wow" Congress this weekend. See some MORE of the photos!

Photo Feature #1 of the Aveda Congress

Approximately 3,000 people from the Aveda network gathered together this weekend in Minneapolis for the 2011 Aveda Congress. See the photos of the educators in action, the model shots, and the presentations!

100 Years of Beauty at America's Beauty Show 2012

America's Beauty Show is going to be here before you know it! Cosmetologists Chicago invites all salon professionals to celebrate its 100th anniversary at the show this year, March 3-5, 2012 at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago.

Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Style with Hair Flairs

Hair Flairs, a hair tinsel and hair feather extensions distributor just launched its Pink Breast Cancer Edition Hair Feather Extensions to support Breast Cancer Awareness in the month of October.

Video: Three Men's Clipper Styles

Join Patrick Dockry of ENJOY Professional Hair Care as he creates a current men’s clipper cut. Leaving texturized length on top, he produces three distinct finished styles that are easy to re-create on your male clientele. Watch the video.

Redken Awards 10 Scholarships to Students of The Salon Professional Academy

Redken has announced the names of its ten 2011 scholarship recipients, all of whom are either current or prospective cosmetology students of The Salon Professional Academy (TSPA).

Kathy Jager's EDUCATION ROCKS Scholarship Winner

Kathy Jager, known for her book, As the Chair Turns, announced the winner of her 3rd annual EDUCATION ROCKS Scholarship: Kyle Robert Stramiliga, a barber at Royal Image Barber Collect in Joliet, Illinois.

Magnificent Mohawks

Did you know there are more than 10 different kinds of Mohawks?

Cut by Chakecia

Formal Up-Do by Jenn

Mermaid Hair and Make-Up by Jenn