Recognition Categories
Find the Right Award Category
Every Stylist Award recipient is recognized within a specific professional category and city. Explore each category to discover nominees, cast votes, or nominate someone making an impact in your community.
Hair Stylist
Recognizing individual professionals for exceptional cutting, styling, client care, and overall craft.
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Hair Salon
Recognizing salons that consistently deliver outstanding guest experiences, talented teams, professional service, and salon excellence.
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Colorist
Recognizing professionals specializing in hair color, blonding, balayage, dimensional color, corrective color, and color artistry.
Explore Colorists
Extensionist
Recognizing professionals specializing in premium hair extensions, consultations, installation, maintenance, and transformational services.
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How Categories Work
A clear structure gives every professional a fair path to recognition — organized by discipline, presented city by city.
Choose a Category
Every nomination belongs to one professional recognition category.
Recognized by City
Recognition is presented within each city.
Qualify in Multiple Categories
Professionals may qualify in more than one category when eligible.
A Distinct Recognition Path
Each category has its own recognition journey, voting, and award process.
The Path
How Recognition Grows
Professional recognition develops over time — beginning with a nomination and growing into lasting acknowledgment within a stylist's category and city.
Nomination
Someone is recognized for exceptional work.
Questions
Category Questions
Answers to the questions we hear most often about how categories, eligibility, and recognition work.
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