Rules

The AIPP AWARDS 2025-2026 competition is on its way: there's time until May 15th, 2026 to submit your photographic hair fashion collections/videos!!! More and more of the greatest hairdressers from all over the world are participating in the event each year.

If you are a hairdresser, it is easy to participate in the competition: first, read the requirements, and then submit your hair fashion collection(s) to be received no later than May 15th, 2026 here:

All collections must be submitted online. No collections sent by other means will be accepted!

The deadline to participate is now May 15th, 2026

Participation Fee: 100 EUR

• Your participation fee of 100 EUR allows you to submit up to 3 collections (under the same salon name). If you want to submit more than 3 collections, you need to submit another payment (every time you pay, you can submit 3 collections). There isn’t a discount for submitting just one or two collections. You are not allowed to submit different collections with different salon names.

* IMPORTANT: All collections/videos submitted have to represent an individual hairdresser and/or a salon brand. No collections/videos representing a cosmetic/product company and/or a manufacturer will be accepted.

Meet the requirements:

• Submit ONLY 3 pictures per collection (3 photographs of 3 different styles) – High Resolution JPGs are accepted.
• Remember, the images must be in JPG format with a resolution of 300 dpi, suitable for print size. Additionally, each image must not exceed 10 MB in file size. If you have any doubts, please ask your photographer for assistance.
• The collection(s)/video(s) have to be produced/launched in the last year (between January 1st, 2025 and May 15th, 2026). You may submit as many collections as you wish, even if they have already been featured on social media, online platforms, printed magazines, or entered into other competitions. However, images that have already been submitted to previous editions of the AIPP Awards are NOT accepted.
• Specify the category you want to enter: Best Commercial / Best Avant-garde / Best Color / Best Men / Best Digital / Best Young Talent / Best Video.
• The AIPP Awards organizing committee reserves the right to reclassify any submitted entry if, in its sole discretion, it determines that the entry has been placed in an incorrect category based on its content and characteristics.
• All models featured in the collections must be human/real models (although Photoshop retouching is accepted), with the exception of the Best Digital and Best Video categories, where there are no restrictions, and you can use mannequins and/or CGI/AI generated images.
• The AIPP Awards organizing committee reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to request any supporting documentation or proof necessary to confirm that the models featured are real human models should any doubt arise.
• In case you want to compete in the Best Video category, upload your video to a social media platform such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo, or other, and just send us the link! Also be aware we are looking for the most original & inspirational videos produced by a hairdresser/hair salon. Important: videos featuring a cosmetic/product company collection will not be accepted.
• Please write down full credits of the collection.
• Please include full contact information (name of the salon, address, e-mail, telephone including country code...)
• Entries will be judged by AIPP member magazines.
• The AIPP Awards are organized by the AIPP, a private professional association. By submitting an entry, participants fully accept these rules and conditions. The organizing committee has exclusive authority to interpret and apply the regulations, and its decisions are final and not subject to appeal. No correspondence regarding entries or judging decisions will be entertained.

Organized once a year, the AIPP AWARDS were established in 1997 with the purpose of awarding annual prizes to the best hair fashion collections chosen by a jury of publishers associated to the AIPP. Today the awards include 7 categories:

• Best Avant-garde: Recognizing work which has researched new, original, futuristic ideas.
• Best Commercial: Celebrating the most outstanding commercial hairdressing collections of the year, this award honors hairstyles that are both fashionable and accessible to clients in salons.
• Best Color: The best hairstyles' collection in terms of haircolor fashion, originality & overall quality.
• Best Men's: This category honors the best hair fashion collection showcasing creativity and skill in men’s hairdressing.
• Best Digital: A category created to recognize hair fashion collections featuring computer-generated images, virtual models/hair, and/or AI-generated images without any restrictions. Important note: collections must be submitted under the name of an individual hairdresser or hairdressing salon.
• Best Young Talent: Recognizing the best hair fashion collection created by hairdressers born in 1995 or later (only those aged 30 or younger in 2025 are eligible). Please include your date of birth in the credits of your collection submission.
• Best Video: For the best hairdressing video of the year, created by a hairdresser or hair salon (not by product companies). The theme and length of the video are open. The video must be uploaded to a social media platform such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo, or others.

By accepting these conditions you are giving your permission to the AIPP and its magazine members to use the images of the participating collections ONLY FOR EDITORIAL USE (print and online), and certify that you have the signed authorization of the photographer, models and other persons responsible for the collection to publish the images.