British hairdressing awards: regional categories

Who Can Enter?

• All qualified hairdressers who work in the UK in a commercial environment and have done so for a minimum of three years excluding training may enter this category.
• Entrants must have a regular client column within the region entered. (A regular client column is working in a salon for a minimum of one day per week.) This may be checked.
• You can only enter one region in any one year.

How to Enter

• Submit four photographs created by you during the past 12 months - from 30th June 2007 - 27th June 2008.
• Entries should be supplied with a ‘Before’ picture of each model taken on the day of the shoot prior to any hair work, make up or styling.
• The organisers and judges reserve the right to question any photographs, which appear to be computer enhanced.
• The overall size of the photograph must be 10” deep x 8” wide (portrait) un-mounted. The size includes borders.
• Should you go through to the second round, you will need to supply a further four photographs, with before shots. These will create a collection of eight photographs.
• Photographs can be supplied on photographic paper purchased through a photographer or photographic outlet.

The Photographic Shoot

• The use of wigs, extensions, hairpieces or strands is permitted. Please bear in mind that should you get through to the second round you will be asked to supply a further four photographs. Please ensure that you have only used wigs, extensions, hairpieces or strands in no more than two photographs in the collection of eight. This will be checked.
• No more than two faces may appear in any one photograph.
• Photographs may be black and white or colour and the hair should be commercial, wearable and reflect current trends.
• Professional photographers, make-up artists and stylists may be used.
• Images do not have to be head and shoulders, but they do need to focus on the hair, especially in terms of lighting and pose.

Before Submission of Photographs

• Label the back of each photograph with the entrant’s name, salon name and salon address and the category entered.

If any of the above rules are not followed, your entry may be returned.

Which Region Should You Enter?

Eastern: Bedfordshire | Cambridgeshire | Essex | Hertfordshire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | Nottinghamshire | Suffolk London: Greater London | Central London | Middlesex Midlands: Cheshire | Derbyshire | Hereford & Worcester | Shropshire | Staffordshire | Warwickshire | West Midlands North Eastern: Cleveland | Durham | Humberside | Northumberland | North Yorkshire | South Yorkshire | Tyne & Wear North Western: Cumbria | Greater Manchester | Lancashire | Merseyside | West Yorkshire Northern Ireland: Co. Antrim | Co. Armagh | Co. Down | Co. Fermanagh | Co. Londonderry | Co. Tyrone Scottish: All regions above the Scottish border Southern: Berkshire | Buckinghamshire | Hampshire | Kent | Oxfordshire| Surrey | East & West Sussex | Isle of Wight Wales & South West: Avon | Clywd | Cornwall | Devon | Dorset | Dyfed | Gloucestershire | Gwent | Gwynedd | Mid Glamorgan | South Glamorgan | Powys | Somerset | Wiltshire