No entry to the JOICO Color Talent awards is free.
The JOICO Color Talent Award is open to any professional hairdresser working in a commercial environment – salon based or freelance hairdresser throughout the UK or EMEA countries.
A minimum of three years’ experience working in a commercial environment is necessary.
Entries must be submitted via Instagram and entries delivered by other means – email or by post as an example, will not be accepted.
Entrants may enter the same images for two different categories should it fit the brief for that category.
Entries to the competition may not be posted on social media or in any trade media prior to the submission to the Color Talent Awards. (Entries can be submitted from June 1st-November 1st).
You do not need to use JOICO products or work in a JOICO-affiliated salon to participate—stylists who use any professional hair color brand are welcome!
If you would like to use JOICO products, you can find the Technical Manuals for all JOICO Color lines in the Briefing Kit, available for download.
No. Wigs, hairpieces, extensions or wefts cannot be used in any of the images.
Images can be shot on your phone or by a professional photographer – it’s up to you, for us it’s all about the hair color.
Re-touching minor skin or hair imperfections is allowed. Excessive retouching that significantly alters the hair color, texture, or overall look will be considered by the judges and may impact your score. Please have a close look to our Retouching Guidelines for further details.
No, only entries featuring real models will be considered valid. To ensure fairness and authenticity in the competition, all submissions must showcase a completed look on a live model. Entries created on mannequin heads, training heads, or headblocks will not be accepted.
Yes, Entrants must guarantee the work submitted, is their own and they have the right to submit it to this competition, and that JOICO Europe has the right to publish this work in print or digitally.
Specifically:
Entrants grant JOICO Europe with a transferrable, exclusive, worldwide, royalty free and perpetual license in all copyright, moral or other rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988 to use the photos and any materials and images generated during the Color Talent Awards competition (whether they proceed to the final or not) for any purpose whatsoever (including without limitation, use on JOICO Europe websites, social networking pages and blogs, promotion of the Color Talent Award, PR content in print and online, editorial, advertising and advertorial content, trade press and future competition promotion in print and online and educational or internal purposes.).
Prizes are not transferable and cannot be exchanged for an alternative prize.
If an entrant enters the Color Talent Award in the name of a salon business, the hair colorist must get the consent of the salon owner prior to enter into this competition. Make sure to include your name in the caption of the post—for example, Hair by [Your Name] - to distinguish your entry from others submitted under the same account.
If you don’t have an Instagram account, click HERE to see how to create one.
Alternatively, you can submit your entry using your salon’s or training academy’s Instagram account, but please ensure you have their permission to do so.
Make sure to include your name in the caption of the post—for example, Hair by [Your Name] - to distinguish your entry from others submitted under the same account.
JOICO Europe reserves the right in its absolute discretion to add to or waive any of these terms and conditions, or to cancel the awards at any stage, in the event of circumstances arising beyond its reasonable control. In the event of cancellation, JOICO will not use any submitted work for any purpose.