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HAIR EXPO AWARDS 2017 AWARDS PERIOD FEBRUARY 2016 MARCH 2017 2017 CREATIVE CATEGORIES Apprentice/Student of the Year Australian Hairdresser of the Year Best Salon Design Colour Technician of the Year Men s Hairdresser/Barber of the Year New Creative Force NSW-ACT Hairdresser of the Year QLD Hairdresser of the Year Salon Team of the Year SA-TAS Hairdresser of the Year Session Stylist of the Year VIC Hairdresser of the Year WA-NT Hairdresser of the Year 2017 BUSINESS CATEGORIES Education Business of the Year Educator of the Year Industry Business Performance of the Year Salon Business of the Year 2 of 5

GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE COMMENCING YOUR SUBMISSION 1 Entrants must have worked predominantly in the Australian or New Zealand hairdressing and related industries from the awards period of February 2016 to March 2017. They must also have documentation of their qualification and where applicable, have that available on request. See each category for specific requirements at www.hairexpoaustralia.com. 2 With the exception of Australian Hairdresser of the Year, New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year and the state categories, all other award categories are open to both Australia and New Zealand salons, businesses or individuals (please refer to the relevant category rules to ensure you meet the specific requirements) who actively work in each respective country and are predominantly based there. 3 Submissions will only qualify when completed via the Hair Expo Awards online platform following all rules and regulations as indicated. All of the work submitted must be solely the work of the entrant, except where specified, with a statutory declaration to be signed by all entrants regarding this. Entrants will also need to sign a statutory declaration stating they will not approach Hair Expo Awards judges in relation to their entry in any capacity, prior to the completion of judging. 4 You can enter as many categories as you like (dependent on qualifications), with one entry per person/team/ business per category - however you may only enter one of the following: Australian Hairdresser of the Year or or a state title. 5 All answers in your written submission (both creative and business categories) must describe performance and activities that have occurred only during the Awards period: February 2016 to March 2017. 6 First round submissions are due by 5pm Friday 7 April 2017. The deadline for entries is final. Entries will not be accepted after this date and time, and disqualification will apply, except in extreme circumstances. This is at the final discretion of Hair Expo/Reed Exhibitions Australia. 7 There is an entry fee per category of $50, with the exception of the Apprentice/Student of the Year category which has no entry fee. 8 All work is accepted in good faith and any entrants found not meeting the stipulated criteria will be disqualified. Any entrant who is disqualified will be notified. 9 Judges and Hair Expo s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 10 No employees of Reed Exhibitions, Hair Expo Australia or families can enter or judge the Hair Expo Awards. 11 Finalists will be announced at the Finalist Announcement Cocktail Party in Sydney, with the date to be advised for late April 2017. All winners will be published online at www.hairexpoaustralia.com. 12 Hair Expo and Reed Exhibitions Australia reserves the right to publish images and photography for publicity purposes, altered or in original form. 13 Entry to the Awards Gala Dinner in Sydney on Monday June 12 is strictly by ticket only, which can be purchased on the Hair Expo website: www.hairexpoaustralia.com. 14 All category finalists will receive one complimentary ticket to the Awards Evening Gala. BUSINESS CATEGORIES 15 Business categories must submit all of their entry requirements by 5pm Friday 7 April 2017. 16 Entrants must register and enter online at the Hair Expo Awards online platform and must complete the written answers via the platform as specified. No printed written submissions will be accepted. The written submission must be completed in full to qualify, including adhering to the maximum attachment numbers and file sizes/types and maximum words per question where specified. You can view a summary of the questions and category information at www.hairexpoaustralia.com, but all the size parameters for your questions are detailed at the awards platform. 17 The relevant declaration forms must be completed and signed by all parties and uploaded with your online entry. 18 When illustrating your work with supporting documents, do not include any work that is not your own, unless requested. 19 Up to ten finalists will be selected in all business categories, based on the number of entrants in that category. CREATIVE CATEGORIES (Creative categories are those that include photographic collections) 20 The photographic collection is due 5pm Friday 7 April 2017. You are not required to submit your written submission at this time. 21 Entrants must register online at the Hair Expo Awards online platform following all the photographic uploading instructions as well as the instructions for physically posting the mounted photographic collection. You must adhere to photo file sizes permitted for print and online (see below for all details and postal address for posting your collection). 22 You will only need to submit your written submission if you become a finalist. Once finalists are announced, you will be given approximately one month to complete the written component. It is mandatory for creative category finalists to submit this to retain their finalist placing. 23 Written submission questions are available for viewing on the Hair Expo website (www.hairexpoaustralia.com) as soon as the Awards open so that you may familiarise yourself with the questions you may be required to answer. We strongly suggest you look at these prior to commencing any of your entry. 24 No printed written submissions will be accepted. The written submission must be completed in full to qualify, including adhering to the maximum attachment numbers and file sizes /types and maximum words per question where specified. This will be detailed at the awards platform. 25 Creative categories submit six photos for the photographic collection, with the exception of Apprentice/Student of the Year entrants who submit four Photographs to make up their collection. The photographs must be produced within the Awards period: February 2016 to March 2017. 3 of 5

26 The images submitted as part of your Awards submission and/or images of you working on your collection (except for Session Stylist and Best Salon Design) must not** have been published anywhere^ prior to first round judging, with the following provision in rule 27. 27 Your photographic collection can originate from a photo shoot that has been, or is being used, for another purpose, for example, entering other Awards. However, your Hair Expo Awards collection must have a different treatment to anywhere else it is being used, meeting a minimum of the following criteria: If elsewhere the collection is colour, then it must be changed to black and white or vice versa for the Hair Expo Awards entry. You must use a different background. The photo must be taken from a different angle to how it is being used elsewhere. You cannot publish this fresh version of your collection anywhere (online or otherwise) prior to the Hair Awards Finalist Announcement.** The hair, model and clothing can be the same as long as the above conditions are met this gives you the benefit of completing two collections from one photo shoot. Please note: The above does not apply to the categories of Australian Hairdresser of the Year and New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year who have to shoot exclusively with a stand alone collection for the Hair Expo Awards. 28 You may enter a creative category (other than Colour Technician of the Year) where you have completed the cutting and styling, and another hairdresser has completed the colour work (in this case the entry is attributed to the stylist) please include the colourist s name in the photography credits. In the reverse, you can enter a collection as the colourist from the above mentioned entry, or a fresh entry, in the category of Colour Technician of the Year where a different hairdresser has completed the cutting and styling (with this entry being attributed to the colourist) please include the stylist in photography credits. See the following rule for the exception to this. 29 Australian Hairdresser of the Year and New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year must shoot their photographic collection exclusively for these respective titles and cannot include photos from any other category in their entry and vice versa. The only exception to this is the Salon Team of the Year Category where Australian/ entrants may include two photos from their entry collection in their Salon Team of the Year entry collection. 30 In the category of Colour Technician of the Year, wigs, hairpieces, wefts and extensions are not permitted in this category. You must be applying colour to, and photographing only the natural hair of your model. In this category you will sign an additional statutory declaration to confirm no wigs, hairpieces, wefts or extensions have been used. Violating this rule will result in disqualification. 31 You are required to submit one set of six A4 photographic prints (except for Apprentice/Student of the Year who are required to only submit four photos). The size of these photos must be A4 size (with the exception of Session Stylist of the Year category where the photo must be A4 height, however there is no restriction on the width of the photos). 32 All photographs must be mounted on mount cardboard exactly to the print trim with no cardboard border. 33 3mm is the required maximum thickness for the mount cardboard no foam core, wood, core flute or MDF is to be used. Mount cardboard is the preferred choice for the professional finish it gives, and it does not damage as easily as other materials such as foam core. 34 Full photography credits are to be provided on a label on the back of the mount cardboard i.e. the category entered and the hairstylist, colourist, makeup artist and photographer used. Please also number each photograph in the preferred order of display for the live photographic gallery. Please place these labels in the middle back of each photo. 35 It is your responsibility to package your photographic collection properly so that it is not damaged in the courier or postage system. Hair Expo Australia accepts no responsibility for submissions which may become lost in the mail and will not be liable for ** Including behind the scenes photos taken of the models or photo shoot. ^ Including social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter etc. any loss or damage to submissions. Photographic collections will not be returned and will be commercially and responsibly destroyed. 36 You are also required to upload your photographic collection to the Hair Expo Awards online platform. It must be high resolution RGB JPEG format. The images may be used for promotion of Hair Expo Australia/Reed Exhibitions Australia, altered or in original form. The Awards online platform will accept uploading of photos no more than 5MB in size. You may be asked to provide different formats if you are a finalist. Please note that we cannot take responsibility for a variance in image colours depending on the medium used e.g print vs online. 37 All creative categories (other than Best Salon Design and Session Stylist), must include the following in first round judging: Unedited/raw images for each of the final images in your collection that are the same as your final images. These must come directly from your photographer, but with no photo retouching, editing, or manipulations. You will be asked to upload your raw/unedited images alongside your final images in the online entry portal and these do not need to be printed. Your entry can be disqualified if the raw/unedited photos have not been uploaded, or if they have been manipulated in any way. Unedited images are used for judging purposes only and will not be released in any way. They provide context for the judges if they feel there has been overmanipulation of the photograph, and specifically the hair, during post production. Judges accept some use of Photoshop and all other similar programs on the model s skin or wardrobe and the background or the odd flyaway hair however it is not to be used to alter the hair in any way including creating volume, filling in texture and changing the length or the style. For Colour Technician of the Year entries, no colour manipulation is permitted. 38 All photographs must be portrait in format, except for Best Salon Design which must be all landscape or all portrait. 4 of 5

39 With the exception of Apprentice/ Student of the Year, the photographs should include a minimum of four different models with a variation in styling represented throughout the six shots to form a collection (except for Best Salon Design and Session Stylist). For Apprentice/Student of the Year, a minimum of three models is required. 40 Professional photographers, makeup artists and stylists may be used. 41 Images do not have to be head and shoulders but they do need to focus onthe hair (other than Best Salon Design). 42 All images should be shot as one collection (other than Best Salon Design, Session Stylist and where applicable, Salon Team of the Year).You must thoroughly read the relevant category brief specific to your chosen category these briefs do vary per category and provide the key creative direction for your collection and the criteria judges will follow in order to mark each photographic collection. 43 Photographs may be black and white or colour, except for Colour Technician of the Year where only colour images are accepted. 44 As the photography is judged anonymously, no branding is permitted in the photograph, except for Best Salon Design and Session Stylist of the Year. JUdging process 45 First round judging: Photographic collections are blind judged in the first round of judging i.e the name of the entrant will not be known to the judges. Photos are not judged again in the second round of judging, and scores will be carried over and added to second round written submission scores. This maintains the anonymity of the photo judging to the very end. All international and local judges participate. Business submissions are judged once. A selection of international and local judges will participate. 46 Second round judging: For the categories of Australian and, only international judges will participate in second round written submission judging. All other categories will be judged by the first round panel of Australia and New Zealand industry leaders. 47 In both rounds of judging, local judges who are brand employees or are entering a personal creative category are excluded from judging. 48 Points weighting for creative category finalists is as follows: 50% - Photographic collection (the photographic collection mark from first round judging will be carried over to final judging) 50% - Written submission questions ( judged once in second round) 49 With both the state based creative categories and New Creative Force, you cannot enter any of those categories once you have won that category three times (does not have to be consecutive). There is a natural progression to other categories at that time. 50 All entrants photographic work in each category will be displayed at the Finalist Announcement Cocktail Party which will be in Sydney, with a late April date and location to be advised. 51 Finalist s photographic work in each category will also be displayed at Hair Expo Australia, 10-12 June 2017 in Sydney at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour. 52 In your written submission when illustrating the work you have published, do not include any photos that are not your own work (e.g. magazine covers), unless requested. All photos used must be accompanied by correct credits and date of publication. 53 The model release form and relevant declaration forms must be completed and signed by all parties and be included as a printed copy, posted with your final mounted photographic collection. 54 Up to ten finalists will be selected within each of the creative categories, based on the number of entrants in that category. Please post your photographic collection to: Hair Expo Awards 2017 Post: Locked Bag 7777, Chatswood DC NSW 2067, Australia Courier: Tower 2, Level 1, 475 Victoria Ave Chatswood, NSW 2067, Australia. For enquiries please contact our Awards Producer: Elli Julia (+612) 9422 2603 elli.julia@reedexhibitions.com.au 5 of 5