The Global Creative Awards are held every year and are organized by KAO SALON DIVISION,
during the spectacular event “GLOBAL EXPERIENCE” that attracts the interest of the
of professional hairdressers worldwide.
The Greek participants in the competition are professional hairdressers who love, apply and actively use
in their salon, GOLDWELL products and services.
Over the past 5 years, the Color Zoom competition, renamed the Global Creative Awards, has inspired thousands of hairdressers
to compete in the field of their art, showcasing their creativity but also defining the trends of tomorrow
in the hairdressing industry.
In the video, the head technician of the GOLDWELL – Greece Academy, Giota Alexandri, presents the basic categories and the conditions under which Greek hairdressers will be able to register their participation in the Global Creative Awards in 2023.
Each participation should therefore be declared in May 2023.
So hurry up, to be able to experience this unique, spectacular celebration of colour application techniques
but also the complete hair styling in Chicago!
To register you must do so exclusively here!
Chicago September 24-25, 2023
Chicago is known for its impressive architecture, its iconic museums and the miles of
of the beautiful coastal zone, all to the rhythms of the best jazz and blues music in the world.
So this is the magical setting for the Kao Salon Global Experience 2023, so save the date!
Activate your creativity
Meet the scientists who develop the next generation of products, the experts who predict consumer trends,
but also his entire family
Kao Salon
.
We will be here for you, together with our artists, to share our culture of innovation,
imagination and success in the salon business.
This is where the next trends are born and where the future of fashion is revealed.
So get familiar with the latest colour techniques, the most modern street styles and the trends that will define tomorrow.
This is the place to rekindle your imagination and your love for your art.
Celebrate with your colleagues!
At the Kao Salon Global Experience , lifelong friendships and creative collaborations are born.
Where else will you meet so many different artists and like-minded hairdressers from all over the world!
Enjoy an unforgettable show
On Sunday evening, we get dressed up and meet at the exciting Global Creative Awards ceremony,
where all the imaginative proposals of the new trends will premiere.
After the show, the lights go down, the music volume goes up and the most magical party in the industry begins!
So, this is your chance to be on the dance floor with your colleagues from all over the world.
Inspiration and innovation
Top creative art teams take to the stage to share their favourite trends and techniques.
In the community area, you can try innovative products and services and see all the new trends, live,
on stage, in the finals of the competition.
Every year, one of the most important events of the Kao Salon Global Experience is
the Global Creative Awards on stage.
The most talented finalists will compete in 3 technical and 4 editorial categories from which they will emerge
the freshest ideas and the most talented artists in the industry.
Terms and Conditions for participation in the GlobalCreativeAwards – Technical Categories
The following competitions will be held:
World Creative Awards – Technical Categories:
New Talent Colorist of the Year.
Creative Colourist of the Year.
Creative Barber of the Year.
Each of these competitions will be divided into two parts:
First, the competitions will be held as national, online competitions.
The Gold winners of the national competitions will then move on to the global live competition
at the Kao Salon Global Experience 2023 in September.
Sponsor and organiser
The sponsor of the World Creativity Awards is Kao Germany GmbH, Pfungstädter Straße 98-100, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany.
The organiser of the national competitions is the local GOLDWELL trade representative organisation of each country.
The organiser of the global competition is Kao Germany GmbH, Pfungstädter Straße 98-100, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany
Participation in the competition
Only persons permanently residing in Greece, who are at least 18 years old, are eligible to participate.
on the date of entry and who meet the eligibility requirements for one of the following categories (respectively “Category”):
New Talent Colorist of the Year
Graduates* Junior Hairdressers with less than 5 years experience (excluding schooling) by the date of application,
working in a salon cooperating with Goldwell, KMS, Oribe.**
Creative Colorist of the Year
Hairdressers who are active customers of Goldwell, KMS, Oribe or work in a salon that sells Goldwell, KMS, Oribe products.**
Creative Haircutter of the Year
Hairdressers who are active customers of Goldwell, KMS, Oribe or who work in a salon cooperating with Goldwell, KMS, Oribe. **
*You must have completed a course of study or have a local professional license or accreditation,
which certifies you as a fully qualified professional hairdresser.
** Active purchase and retailing of Goldwell, KMS, Oribe products and provision of services with these products.
Start/ End date
The deadline for registration and submission of entries for the Greek competition (technical categories)
begins on 15 May 2023 and ends at 00.00 GMT on 31 May 2023.
The global competition will be held during the Kao Salon Global Experience in September 2023.
Participation procedure
The following guidelines, requirements and ways to participate apply:
How to Register:
Entries must be submitted in the local country via the online form at www.globalcreativeawards.com.
Completed and legible entry form (full name of the colorist, colorist’s email address, date of birth (with age) and GOLDWELL customer account number, name/address/email address,
telephone number and URL of the salon’s website).
The Greek Gold winners of the technical category qualify for the international competition
Regardless of the entry method or category, each entrant may only submit one (1) entry in the technical category, but is free to enter any additional editorial category.
In this context, more than one employee from the same salon can participate in the Competition.
provided that only one colour technique is allowed and only one entry per person.
The Sponsor and the Promoter will not confirm Entries.
The material from the Entries’ applications will also not be returned after the end of the Contest or
in case of disqualification of the Participation.
Neither the Sponsor nor the Promoter will be responsible for any loss or damage to the material.
to be submitted with each application form.
In addition, the Sponsor and the Organiser are not responsible for any problems caused by mechanical problems,
human or electronic faults or errors.
Applications will be accepted for participation only after submission of all required documents, duly and fully completed.
The Sponsor and the Promoter reserve the right to terminate or change the Competition,
e.g. if not enough Entries are submitted that comply with the rules and restrictions of the Tender.
Restrictions on the content of entries (Contest Restrictions):
By submitting the application form and the participation documents, each participant confirms that its participation complies with
subject to the restrictions on the content of the entry set out below (together referred to as “Entry Content”)
but also that you accept the terms and conditions of participation.
The Sponsor or the Promoter may disqualify any Entry and any entrant from the Competition,
if in its reasonable discretion it finds that the Participant’s Participation does not comply with
with the following Restrictions of the Contest:
All images submitted for the competition must be original and must not have been submitted previously.
in other competitions, have not been published or shown publicly, on the internet or on social media
before the final judging and announcement of the winner in July.
The Registration in its entire content must not contain material that infringes the rights of third parties,
in particular intellectual property rights and rights of use, trademarks, data protection rights
but also personal rights or other intellectual property rights.
The Entry in its entirety cannot damage the reputation of the Sponsor, the Promoter or any person associated with the advertising or administration of this Contest, or the reputation of the Sponsor’s or Promoter’s competitors.
The Registration in its entire content may not contain trademarks, product names or company names,
except for the Sponsor’s trademarks and labels set forth below, for which Entrant receives a limited license for the sole purpose of creating and submitting the Entry to this Contest.
The Registration in its entire content may not contain inappropriate, obscene or indecent material or any other material,
which is inconsistent with standards of public decency.
The Registration in its entirety must not contain materials that violate any applicable laws or regulations.
Entrants who violate these Official Rules or attempt to interfere with the Contest will be disqualified.
In the context of the Contest, the decisions of the Sponsor or the Promoter, in particular with regard to the interpretation and application of
of these official rules are final, but also binding.
Recourse to the courts is excluded.
Guarantee of legal rights
Each participant guarantees through its application that:
As a participant, you are the sole beneficiary of the Entry,
The Registration in its entire content does not violate the rights of third parties, in particular intellectual or industrial property rights,
complies with the provisions of the Tender and the Restrictions of the Tender,
has not already been used in the context of promotional activities of any kind,
nor has it won any awards of any kind, nor has it in any way been exposed or presented in public or
made available to third parties.
The entrant also warrants that he/she has the consent of the Model depicted in the Entry for the use of his/her name,
of the Photograph and its image etc. and the photographer’s consent to use the image for an unlimited period of time
for the purposes of the performance and the nomination in this Competition.
At the request of the Sponsor or the Promoter, the entrant must provide these consents in an acceptable form.
by the Sponsor and/or the Promoter.
The Sponsor and the Promoter finally advise the participants to obtain these consents in writing.
before the submission of the entry.
Rights of Use and Ownership
All documents relating to the participation, including the Creative Material,
become the exclusive property of the Sponsor.
By submitting the Entry, the participant grants to the Sponsor all transferable rights
(e.g. ideas, concepts, designs, text/visual material, advertising films, slogans, names, brands).
The transfer of the rights to the Sponsor is on an exclusive basis and is also unlimited in time.
and content and in terms of scope of use.
This transfer includes the power of the Sponsor to transfer the rights to affiliated companies
with a view to exploiting them, as well as the power to pursue any violations of rights himself.
The Sponsor hereby accepts this transfer.
The transfer of rights includes in particular the rights of publication, reproduction and/or distribution, public performance,
rental and lending, broadcasting and presentation, exhibition, archiving, providing public access to them, including making them available for recovery, filming, exploitation in the form of marketing,
as well as the rights of redesign and adaptation.
The transfer of rights further includes the use of all performances provided in all technically known media
and forms of use, in each case online and off-line, as well as in any other analogue or digital way
(e.g. on the Internet and other online spaces, television, cinema, radio, mobile communications,
in print media and also in outdoor advertising, including use on CD-ROM, DVD, Blu-Ray and other video/audio and data carriers).
This also includes in particular the right to make performances available by means of fixed and mobile networks and media
in such a way that the public or closed user circles have access to the performances in places
and times of their choice and use them.
There is no obligation to exploit the rights transferred under this Agreement,
in particular for the public use of an entry.
The parties further agree that the Sponsor is entitled but not obliged to provide the names of the participants
and/or authors, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.
Grant of rights by the sponsor
The Sponsor grants to the participants a limited, revocable and non-sublicensable right to use the name,
the Sponsor’s trademarks, labels and logos (collectively referred to as the “Trademarks”)
for the sole purpose of creating and submitting the Entry for evaluation and assessment
under this Tender.
Entrants are therefore not entitled to use the Sponsor’s Trademarks for any other purpose.
Independently developed materials
Entrants therefore acknowledge that, due to the nature of the Competition, other entrants or the Sponsor,
the Promoter or its affiliates may use ideas or concepts in their Entries;
or other material that has similarities with the ideas or concepts of their own Participation.
It is assumed that any such similarities are based on independent developments and that the participants
cannot derive from them either injunctions or claims for damages.
Jury – Determination of the national winner
All photos will be judged anonymously and independently – the judges are not able to see the names or the names of the participants. All photos are shown by category to be judged before and the pre-production shots are made available to the judges.
Any judge who is associated with a competitor in any of the entry categories or who has given advice to any competitor about his/her entry in any category is not allowed to evaluate and judge that category.
Once final scores are submitted to the Sponsor, they cannot be changed.
The judges sign a non-disclosure agreement and are not allowed to discuss the entries.
The decision of the judges is final.
There will therefore be no correspondence.
Awards
The Central Jury will select one (1) national gold, national silver and national bronze winner, who will each receive a gold, silver or bronze trophy and the gold winner will receive worldwide press and editorial coverage in ESTETICA magazine.
Each national gold winner in the technical category will win a trip to the Kao Salon Global Experience in 2023,
if the current situation regarding COVID-19 allows for a global event (first national award).
The organiser may, on a voluntary basis, decide to grant national winners further prizes, e.g. non-monetary prizes.
In the event that a national winner does not participate in the Kao Salon Global Experience 2023, the first national prize will be forfeited.
The first national award and the trip to the event, includes the payment of travel expenses by
to and from the event by means of transport chosen by the sponsor, overnight stay in a hotel with breakfast
near the venue of the event, as well as an invitation for the first national winner and a model to participate
in all the individual events of the Global Event.
The choice of the means of transport to and from the event and the category of hotel accommodation
are matters for which the Sponsor reserves the right.
Travel and accommodation is subject to availability – certain restrictions and unavailable dates may apply.
The national winner and his/her model may also, upon request, travel separately
or with different routes to the World Event.
Neither the Sponsor nor the Promoter will be responsible for any delays, cancellations or unforeseen events.
in relation to travel operators (e.g. airlines, railway companies, etc.).
The National Winner and his/her Model are themselves responsible for obtaining the necessary passports in a timely manner,
visas, vaccines, etc.
The organiser will not replace tickets, travel vouchers or certificates that have been lost, invalidated or stolen.
The National Winner has no claim to the cash value of the prizes or any substitute prizes.
The prizes are non-transferable.
If a prize is not available, the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute it with a prize of equal or greater value.
All expenses not mentioned above are expressly borne by the national winners.
These include: any extra fees, meals, tips, travel supplements
and other costs not expressly mentioned herein.
Global Critical Assessment
During the Kao Salon Global Experience 2023, all participating national winners of the technical category will
compete against each other in an international competition (respectively called “National Winners”).
As part of this global competition, each national winner has to make the
application of colour, styling or haircut, live on the Model accompanying him/her to the competition but also to try to
to reproduce the look depicted in their own Photo or Entry.
Each national winner will therefore have a maximum of three (3) hours to reproduce his/her look on stage.
In the creative haircut of the year category, only 90 minutes will be given for the live competition.
This work includes (haircut – for the creative hairdresser), colour application and styling.
The international jury (“International Jury”) will judge the photography of the individual national winners already submitted, as well as the effect of their colour application and styling on stage in the following categories
according to a point system corresponding to the Jury Criteria set out in paragraph 10 of this document.
The International Jury will consist of eight to twelve (8-12) qualified judges to be determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion and will include independent hairdressers, trade press journalists and fashion experts.
Each judge may therefore award up to a maximum of 200 points in his/her assessment of the candidates.
The national winner in each category who receives the highest number of points from the international jury will be the world winner (“World Winner”) and will be awarded the title according to the category.
Notice
The national winners will be notified by the organiser in July 2023.
A prerequisite of course for the final award of the national prize is for the participant to provide evidence of
for the necessary written consents of all third parties in accordance with clause 6.
In the event that a potential National Winner cannot be contacted within five (5) calendar days of the first attempt to notify the National Winner, or in the event that prizes or notifications for a prize are returned as undeliverable,
or in the event that a potential national winner declines his/her prize, or in the event of any violation of these Official Rules and the requirements contained herein, the prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to the entrant
which received the next highest number of points.
If an award is cancelled, there is no claim for compensation.
In GOLDWELL – Greece, we have created a team of specialized technical consultants to inform you about
but also to help you to prepare everything you need to participate in the competition.
So contact us to explain exactly how you can claim your victory in this global competition,
Global Creative Awards 2023.
