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At the AIBHA Awards, participants dressed up nails, hair and faces in sober and wacky styles
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IF ONE goes by judges' decisions at the AIBHA Awards 2003 held on Tuesday, the season's trends for women's hair are styles that are fairly short, layered and simple to maintain. Brown, burgundy and red are in with the dominant shades on the upper layers.
At the second annual All-India Beauty Specialists and Hairdressers Association (AIBHA) Awards, excellence in hair and make-up was judged in six categories — Ladies cut and style, Gents cut and style, Ladies Evening Hair style, Nail Art, Bridal Make-up and Wild and Wacky Hair style. The 150-odd participants snipped, styled, brushed and sprayed to a stopwatch, turning hair and faces into puffed-up coiffures and glamorous looks.
The contest's judges were Benaifer Pardiwala, technical expert L'Oreal India, Jaqueline Lau, principal of Pivot Point International, Singapore, master hairdresser Sanlim also from Singapore, and Dorris and Bharath Godambe from Mumbai.
In the nail art round, contestants painted three-inch long nails with bright colours and in stripes. All three winning faces for the bridal round had sober make-up that played up the models' features. The winning men's hairstyles were not shaved, striped or even Mohawk-ed, but were smart styles with unusual colours.
The category that got the most interest — and comment — from the audience of Chennai's beauticians was the Wild and Wacky category. Contestants let their imaginations go berserk as they turned their models' manes into bare autumn trees, tempests, rope queens, picture galleries, butterflies, peacocks, and snake pits.
Enthusiastic participants choked the audience with clouds of hairspray as they made their larger-than-head creations stand up. Scores of hairpins, cans of spray and rolls of thread later, the judges handed out cash prizes, trophies and certificates to the three winners in each category.
Three overall winners were picked to head to Singapore for the Hair Asia Pacific 2003 contest to be held from November 3 to 5.
Lucy Letcher, who scooped up awards in the gents hair, evening style, nail art and bridal make-up categories was the second runner-up, Kajol Thapa who picked up awards for her expertise in men's and women's hair-dos and nail art was the first runner-up, while Minal G. Momaya, who made her mark with nail art and bridal make-up was the grand champion.
Judges Bharath and Dorris Godambe, who run a hair and make-up school in Mumbai, gave away a Rs. 50,000 scholarship to Lucy Letcher to "get a chance to become an even better beautician," as Dorris said. The Godambes said that the judging was done on the basis of creativity, artistry and expertise.
SHALINI UMACHANDRAN
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