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Barber - Professional: Ammon Carver, USA
America’s Beauty Show
The winners of the 2023 ABS Global Image Awards were announced during the 100th America’s Beauty Show, on Saturday, April 15, 2023. The ABS Global Image Awards finalists and winners were recognized in front of hundreds of salon professionals and leaders in the beauty industry.
The ABS Global Image Awards recognizes hairdressing talent on an international level. It celebrates the passion and artistry of professional and emerging stylists in an image and video competition that features professional and student categories.
This year’s competition brought in participants from across the globe entering their fiercest creative collections. This competition allows stylists and makeup artists of all levels to participate in a competition within a community of artists.
“The Global Image Awards is truly a fresh, attainable award that brings together talent from around the world. This competition is gaining more notoriety every year, elevating artists who are mastering their craft on an elite level. Thank you to all who entered — we had an extremely talented pool of competitors. And a big congratulations to this year’s winners for submitting remarkable collections and content.
— Karen Gordon, past president of Cosmetologists Chicago
Ammon Carver, USA
o IG: @ammoncarver
Greta Coston, USA
IG: @gretacoston
TikTok: @gretacoston
Enrique Serrano, Spain
IG: @salongaudi
Chrystofer Benson, USA
IG: @cbensonhair
Nohemi Capetillo, USA
IG: @nohemi.capetillo
JCPenny Salon, USA
IG: @edgybgirl
IG: @hairbyjsmith
Tyler Kelbert, USA
IG: @Tyler_Kelbert
Brayden Pelletier, USA
IG: @justbhair
Emily Wallace, USA
IG:@Essex_Styling
TikTok: essexstyling
AmmonCarver of Salt Lake City, UT, won the2023 Leo Passage Gold Trophy award, in honor of the late Pivot Point founder and Cosmetologists Chicago member, Leo Passage.
The ABS Global Image Awards were anonymously judged by an esteemed panel of industry experts, media, educators, and elite artists.
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