BEAUTY INNOVATOR AWARD 2023-24

We are announcing

GRAND PRIX winners

of all countries/regions after the photo judging

of the BEAUTY INNOVATOR AWARD 2023-24

ART CREATION Category

AWAKEN

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: GAVIN STYLE
Stylist: Xiaonan Peng
Title: AWAKEN

Foam

Country/region: HONG KONG
Salon: Leighton HAIRONE
Stylist: Sean Chiu
Title: Foam

BLACK&WHITE

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: Braniff salon coast
Stylist: HIROKI WATANABE
Title: BLACK & WHITE

Perfume

Country/region: KOREA
Salon: YANGLEE HAIR
Stylist: Yanglee
Title: Perfume

The Land

Country/region: TAIWAN
Salon: Flux Hair Breeze
Stylist: Tang Wei
Title: The Land

EVE

Country/region: THAILAND
Salon: Champ hair center
Stylist: Phuwadet Suwannapong
Title: EVE

REAL CREATION Category

Taboo

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: ONTIME
Stylist: Ping Zhao
Title: Taboo

Agender

Country/region: HONG KONG
Salon: Wiiborn Hair & Spa Salon
Stylist: Hin Hsu
Title: Agender

straight line

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: Oluga hair&make
Stylist: Michimasa Kouno
Title: Straight line

Neo-Grunge

Country/region: KOREA
Salon: YANGLEE HAIR
Stylist: Goyou
Title: Neo-Grunge

Symphony of Colors

Country/region: TAIWAN
Salon: samurai salon
Stylist: Schumi Chen
Title: Symphony of Colors

Warm light shiny appear as sunset

Country/region: THAILAND
Salon: Chatchari The Hair Care
Stylist: Thanyapat Nuttapontiratana
Title: Warm light shiny appear as sunset

Step 1
Photograph Evaluation
✓ Regional GRAND PRIX announcement (in website/SNS)
Step 2
Model Evaluation
Sep 10th
✓ ASIA CHAMPION final competition (closed event)
Step 3
Award Ceremony
Sep 10th
✓ ASIA CHAMPION announcement (open event)
Award ceremony will be held at
Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium
on Sep 10th !!

Global Jury's Award

- As an extra awards for BIA 2023-24 -

8 global juries have selected one work per category through their individual aesthetic viewpoints (except for GRAND PRIX works)

Takashi Kojo

Takashi Kojo
DADA CuBiC

Freedom

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: RILI RILI
Stylist: Zi Ling Hao
Title: Freedom

Neo Feminine

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: STAKK
Stylist: Masaki Yoshida
Title: Neo Feminine

Takahisa Okamura

Takahisa Okamura
MINX

Freedom

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: RILI RILI
Stylist: Zi Ling Hao
Title: Freedom

Sporty Casual Realitive

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: COCO. Hair
Stylist: Sato Ryota
Title: Sporty Casual Realitive

Tsubasa Kamitani

Tsubasa Kamitani
SCREEN

Metamorphosis

Country/region: HONG KONG
Salon: Multihair (Macau)
Stylist: Jamen Lui
Title: Metamorphosis

Mystery

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: M.SLASH
Stylist: Kohei Shinmura
Title: Mystery

Tadashi Harada

Tadashi Harada
SHISEIDO

Charming Hair, a pair of Nihon to eternity

Country/region: THAILAND
Salon: SONGKUE
Stylist: Sithichai Boonchongrak
Title: Charming Hair, a pair of Nihon to eternity

Power of Darkness - after Covid-19

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: MIYAMOTO TAKASHI SALON
Stylist: Takashi Miyamoto
Title: Power of Darkness - after Covid-19

Yoshiko Jinguji

Yoshiko Jinguji
SHISEIDO

Origami

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: Landscape hair&design
Stylist: Tomoaki Kojima
Title: Origami

Ohanasaku (Bloom)

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: uvrir
Stylist: Michiko Osada
Title: Ohanasaku (Bloom)

Hirofumi Kera

Hirofumi Kera
SHISEIDO

Phantom Mushroom Elf

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: MOOMING
Stylist: Wen Feng Zhang
Title: Phantom Mushroom Elf

Perfect Imperfection

Country/region: HONG KONG
Salon: wiiborn hair & spa salon
Stylist: Jeff Fung
Title: Perfect Imperfection

Ikuko Shindo

Ikuko Shindo
SHISEIDO

Phantom Mushroom Elf

Country/region: CHINA
Salon: MOOMING
Stylist: Wen Feng Zhang
Title: Phantom Mushroom Elf

Thirsty

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: Oluga hair&make
Stylist: Michimasa Kouno
Title: Thirsty

Rie Iseki

Rie Iseki
THE REMMY

Natural Rebirth

Country/region: TAIWAN
Salon: ZIN Hair Styling
Stylist: LIU HAO YU
Title: Natural Rebirth

Sporty Casual Realitive

Country/region: JAPAN
Salon: COCO. Hair
Stylist: Sato Ryota
Title: Sporty Casual Realitive

Contest Flow

Step 1: Preliminary Evaluation

Photo Evaluation

  • Entry period: September 1 (Fri) to December 26 (Tue), 2023
  • Award: A winner of the Grand Prix will be selected from each country / area
  • Announcement of Grand Prix winners: In May 2024

Step 2: Final Evaluation

Live Model Evaluation

  • Live competition on models: On September 10 (Tue), 2024*
  • Award: One Asia Champion will be selected from among the national Grand Prix winners.
  • Announcement of Asia Champion: It will be announced at BEAUTY CREATORS CONNECT 2024**, a beauty event organized by Shiseido Professional. (It will be held on the same day as the model competition.)

*The details about the live competition will be informed to the participants separately.
**The announcement of the beauty event will be posted on the official website and social media accounts in the end of May.

Categories

ART CREATION CATEGORY

Artistic and creative hairstyles

  • Entrants should decide on their theme by themselves and create work(s) based on the theme.
  • The hairstyle can be of any genre such as a cut style or up-do.
  • The use of hair pieces, extensions, and accessories is permitted.*

*However, submissions will be disqualified if the entire head is covered by anything other than hair, such as a hat, wires, wool, or straw.

REAL CREATION CATEGORY

Real hairstyles that can be recreated through cut and color salon work

  • Entrants should decide on their theme by themselves and create work(s) based on the theme.
  • Entrants are required to develop a cut & color style using the model’s natural hair.*
  • The use of hair pieces, extensions, and accessories is not permitted.

*Up-dos are not permitted.

Global Judges

Extra Prizes*

*Please note that the extra prizes are subject to change.

Asia Champion Award

(Top 1 in Asia)

  1. Awarding of the trophy
  2. Participation in a personalized photo shoot event
  3. Participation in a personalized phot shoot event 2025
    A personalized photo shoot is a customized event that Shiseido Professional will arrange only for the Asia Champion winner (it will be held in 2025).
    Entrants can choose one of your favorite artists from among the judges as an advisor when creating works and shooting.*

*We will try to adjust the schedule however, please note that we may not be able to meet the request due to unavoidable reasons.

Grand Prix

(Top 1 in country/ region)

  1. Invitation to the live competition of the Asia Champion Award and the award ceremony at BEAUTY CREATORS CONNECT 2024, a beauty event organized by Shiseido Professional.*

*The announcement of the beauty event will be posted on the official website and social media accounts in the end of May.

Entry Requirements

  • Entry period: September 1 (Fri) to December 26 (Tue), 2023
  • Entry fee: free
  • Entry qualification: Hair stylists of all ages and levels of experience
  • Entry method: Online submissions

Please submit your application via the BEAUTY INNOVATOR AWARD 2023-24 entry page on Shiseido Professional’s official website.

Other Points To Note

  • All copyrights of submitted works are the property of Shiseido Professional Inc. An entrant shall not exercise the author’s personality rights regarding the submitted work.
  • An entrant shall be the owner of copyrights for copyrighted works or portraits contained in the submitted work, or have obtained a license for the said works or portraits from relevant copyright holders in advance.
  • An entrant shall take necessary measures to prevent any portrait rights-related problems from arising, such as obtaining the consent of a photographed object in the submitted work.
  • Submitted works (photographs) will not be returned.
  • Entrants’ names and their submitted works will be shared between Shiseido Professional and Henkel Group companies (direct or indirect subsidiaries of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA; hereinafter “Henkel Group Companies”) and may be published on the official websites and social media accounts of Henkel Group Companies.
  • When publishing a submitted work, Henkel Group Companies may, at their discretion, add to the submitted work such image effects as trimming, make a collage that uses all or part of the submitted work, or add computer graphics to produce an image or video, and may decide on any matter regarding such final products to be published, including whether or not the entrant's name will appear in the finished product, without obtaining the prior consent of the entrant.

*NOTE

1. The image size of the entry work is W2480pix x H3508pix.

2. Image data capacity is up to 8MB.

Failure to strictly adhere to this item will result in an error when uploading images with your entry.

*Please be sure to read the application information.

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