THE NATIONAL BEAUTY AWARDS with HAIR & BARBER AWARDS

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1 THE NATIONAL BEAUTY AWARDS with THE NATIONAL HAIR & BARBER AWARDS Key Dates: 1st February Nominations Open 25th February Nominations Close 11th March Voting Opens 12th April Voting Closes 19th May Winners Announced

2 How To Enter: The National Beauty Awards and the National Hair & Barber Awards are aimed at recognising and rewarding talent by finding the most highly commended businesses and / or products in the industry. We think that you should be rewarded for all of your hard work, so have created the awards to do exactly that! Having an award title will also make you stand out to customers and build their trust. You can nominate your business or product(s) for as many categories as you wish by simply completing an online nomination form. After completing this form, you will receive a confirmation to check that you have entered the correct categories. Nominations open on the 1st February 2019 and close on the 25th February All of the nominations for each category will be compiled into a voting form, which is open for beauty, hair and barbering professionals to complete from the 11th March to the 12th April. During this time, you are advised to encourage people to vote for your business, as those with the most votes will be declared the winners. Please note, we will only be accepting votes from industry professionals, not the general public. The Award winners will then be announced on the 19th May during an Awards Ceremony at the NEC, Birmingham, which will take place as part of Beauty UK. No judging will take place, it will just be down to the industry professionals to decide on whom they want the winners to be. Afterall, the people who use your products and services are those best suited to vote for you. By winning a National Beauty or National Hair & Barber Award, you will be demonstrating your customers belief in you and your service. There will be two nomination forms, so make sure that you pick the correct one you wish to enter, either; The National Beauty Awards or The National Hair & Barber Awards. Please note that we will not enter any hair or barbering products into the National Beauty Awards categories. After the nomination process, we will be providing those nominated with a marketing materials pack which can be used to let people know to vote for you. This pack will include; imagery for social media, footers and signatures, web banners and logos. Additionally, we will be sending weekly s to our database of beauty, hair and barbering professionals, as well as posting regularly on our social media pages in order to get people to cast their vote. As before, there will be two goody bags up for grabs for two lucky voters as an incentive for voters. What the Awards have to offer: Free nomination entry Free awards ceremony Logo artwork for use on all of your advertising Coverage in the July issue of Guild News Increase reach to new clients Marketing materials for those nominated Trophy for winners and certificates for the others placing in the top 5 Free entry to the Beauty UK Show for you and your colleagues Increased web presence The Awards Ceremony will be held at the NEC, Birmingham on Sunday 19th May 2019, during Beauty UK, Holistic Health, Hair UK and Barber UK. Free entry to the shows will be provided for those in the top 5 of each category. You will be informed whether you are a finalist on the 26th April.

3 Categories: The National Beauty Awards 1. Best Emerging Brand The brand must have launched in the UK in the last 2 years (January 2017 to present). Upon entering, you will be asked to confirm the exact launch date. The nominated brand cannot be a re-launch i.e. if the brand was previously under a different UK distributor etc. This category is only open to new product ranges / systems and will not include training providers, academies etc. Previous first place winners of this award cannot re-enter. 2. Best Skin Care Brand 3. Best Cosmetics Brand 4. Best Eyebrow Brand 5. Best Lash Brand 6. Best Hair Removal Brand 7. Best Uniform Brand 8. Best Nail Brand 9. Best Tanning Brand 13. Best Advanced Treatment This treatment must incorporate some form of advanced technology i.e. laser, IPL, cryotherapy, HIFU, ultrasound, microdermabrasion, radio frequency, LED, microcurrent etc. You will be asked to confirm the treatment protocol upon application. 14. Best New Beauty Innovation The product or system must have been launched in the UK over the last 12 months (January 2018 to present). Products that have previously been entered for this category cannot be re-entered. You will be asked to confirm the beauty innovation upon application and launch date. 15. Best Hands & Nails Product This must be a specific hand / nail product and not a whole nail range. You will be asked to confirm the product upon application. 16. Best Facial Skincare Product This must be a specific facial skincare product and not a whole skincare range. You will be asked to confirm the product upon application. 10. Best Spa Brand 17. Best Training Provider The brand must be included in several spa locations across the country. The training provider or academy must deliver several course options to therapists. 11. Best Natural or Organic Brand 18. Best Customer Support / Services The brand must be specifically marketed as a natural or organic brand i.e. not just single products which may include organic ingredients. The full range must feature natural or organic formulations. 12. Best Wholesaler To qualify, the company must supply more than one brand to the beauty industry. 19. Best Use of Social Media

4 Categories: The National Hair & Barber Awards 1. Best Emerging Barber Brand The brand must have launched in the UK in the last 2 years (January 2017 to present). Upon entering, you will be asked to confirm the exact launch date. The nominated brand cannot be a re-launch i.e. if the brand was previously under a different UK distributor etc. This category is only open to new product ranges / systems and will not include training providers, academies etc. Previous first place winners of this award cannot re-enter. 2. Best Emerging Hair Brand The brand must have launched in the UK in the last 2 years (January 2017 to present). 4. Best Hair Colouring Product This must be a specific hair colouring product and not a whole range. You will be asked to confirm the product upon application. 5. Best Male Grooming / Skincare Brand 6. Best Hair Extension Brand 7. Best Furniture, Tools or Equipment Supplier 8. Best New Barbering Innovation The barbering product must have been launched in the UK over the last 12 months (January 2018 to present). Products that have previously been entered for this category cannot be re-entered. You will be asked to confirm the barbering innovation upon application and launch date. 9. Best New Hair Innovation Upon entering, you will be asked to confirm the exact launch date. The hair product must have been launched in the UK over the last 12 months (January 2018 to present). The nominated brand cannot be a re-launch i.e. if the brand was previously under a different UK distributor etc. Products that have previously been entered for this category cannot be re-entered. This category is only open to new product ranges / systems and will not include training providers, academies etc. Previous first place winners of this award cannot re-enter. 3. Best Hair Styling Product This must be a specific hair styling product and not a whole range. You will be asked to confirm the product upon application. You will be asked to confirm the hair innovation upon application and launch date. 10. Best Use of Social Media 11. Best Customer Support / Services 12. Best Training Provider The training provider or academy must deliver several course options to hairstylists / barbers.

5 Frequently Asked Questions How long have the awards been running for? This is the second year that Guild Press have organised the National Beauty and National Hair & Barber Awards. Can I nominate more than one product for a category? For categories that require you to confirm a specific product, only one product can be nominated. Can I submit multiple nomination forms? Submitting multiple nomination forms will not mean that you are more likely to win. We will only add your category nominations in once, not multiple times. However, if you have missed a category off that you wanted to enter, then send your additional entries to olivia@beautyserve.net. Please note that you can only use an address once when submitting the nomination form, if you are nominating multiple brands then they would need to be included on the one form or you will have to use different addresses to submit each one. I entered the Awards last year, can I enter them again? You can enter the awards again this year, although you will not be able to enter Best Emerging Brand, Best Emerging Barber Brand or Best Emerging Hair Brand again if you won these categories previously. Also, if you have previously entered a product for Best New Beauty Innovation, Best New Hair Innovation or Best New Barbering Innovation, you will not be able to enter the same products again this year. Is there a limit on how many categories I can enter? You can enter as many categories as you wish. When will we find out if we have made it into the Top 5? We will be letting everyone know if they have made it into the Top 5 on 26th April If you have made it into the Top 5, this is when we will invite you to the Awards Ceremony. How can I nominate my brand or product(s)? When the nominations open, we will send you the link to the online forms. I m a salon, can I enter the awards? We have designed the National Beauty Awards and the National Hair & Barber Awards to commend the companies that supply the professional industries, rather than salons, therapists, hairstylists, barbers etc. who use the brands. This means that we won t be accepting nominations from salons. Who is allowed to vote for us? As these are awards for professional brands, we will only be accepting votes from industry professionals, any votes from outside of the industry will not be counted in the final totals. Where will we need to send people to vote for us? When the voting opens on 11th March, you will need to direct people to our website, where there will be an Awards tab for them to cast their vote. What will the voting form look like? The voting form will consist of more than one page. The first page will ask for the voter s contact details and, after pressing submit, will take them to the page where they select who they want to win. They will not have to type any brand names, it will just be a simple multiple choice page. When and where will the awards ceremony take place? The Awards Ceremony will take place on the 19th May 2019 at the NEC, Birmingham. The ceremony will begin during Beauty UK, Holistic Health, Hair UK and Barber UK. If you are exhibiting at any of these shows and have been invited to the ceremony, we understand that you may not want to step away from your stand for the whole duration. Previously, we sent a timetable to those invited with a rough guide of when each category will be called.

6 Terms and Conditions: 1. To be eligible for a National Beauty Award or National Hair & Barber Award an entrant must: Prior to the closing date for the nominations, submit their entry using the online nomination form and be entered into one or more categories. Meet the criteria set out for each category. 2. Each person submitting a nomination in the National Beauty Awards or National Hair & Barber Awards is required to agree to the following terms and conditions: The entrant has read and understood the General Rules and the Voting Process and agrees to them. Late entries may not be accepted. All information submitted as part of a nomination must be true, complete and correct at the close of entries. Entrants may only be nominated once in each category. For product based categories, this means that only one product can be entered for each Award. If more than one product is nominated in a single category, we will only accept the first entry. Guild Press Ltd. reserves the right to reject an entry without giving reasons or to terminate an entry at any time. By uploading material (including images or photographs) to the nomination form, you grant Guild Press Ltd. an irrevocable, permanent right to use this material in any way to promote the entry, the awards event or other marketing activities related to Guild Press Ltd. All shortlisted finalist entries will be made public via the BeautyServe website. 3. Any suspicious voting activity will be null and void and won t count towards any of the overall votes. 4. The close of nominations will be at midnight on 25th February 2019