After successful events held in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bengaluru; the East Zone Semi Finals of Streax Professional Times India Hair Style Icon 2022 were held at Hotel Hindusthan International, Kolkata on September 10. From thousands of entries that came in from the states of Chattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal; top 50 hairstylists were selected for this leg.
Contestants were bifurcated into three different time slots and asked to select a category from creative colour (female), commercial cut & colour (male / female), red carpet up-style. Accordingly, each semi-finalist was asked to perform within the respective time and process parameters.
Each hairstylist was accompanied by a muse, who was judged by an eclectic panel of jury comprising celebrity hair stylist Savio John Perreira, ace fashion designer Abhishek Dutta, celebrity stylist Bridgette Jones and actor Sauraseni Maitra; alongside technical judges from Streax Professional.
The winners used a mix of the Hold & Play Funky Colors and the Argan Secrets hair color from the Streax Professional range. After 12 hours of performances and a gruelling post event evaluation; the winners were announced.
Rachel White (female creative color, Rachel White Salon) made it to the first runner’s up position while there was a tie between MD. Farukh (men’s creative cut & color, Faster Looks Salon) and Suparna Debnath (female red carpet up-style, Sananda Beauty Parlour) for the 2nd runner’s up. Each runner up has won a cash prize of Rs. 25,000. The winners used a mix of the Hold & Play Funky Colors and the Argan Secrets hair color from the Streax Professional range.
Bikash Sharma (category: female creative color) of Sharma Salon & Academy and Danish Jamal (category: men’s creative cut & color) of Silver Look Salon have made it to the finals that will be held at Bombay Times Fashion Week in Mumbai on October 2. They have moved closer to winning. Rs.5 lakh cash and a trip to attend Paris Fashion Week.
The hair competition now moves to Guwahati for the East leg of semi-finals on September 20.