Nominate for World Salon Awards 2027

Before you start

The form below takes about fifteen minutes to complete and asks for business or professional details, your chosen category, and supporting evidence. Having a few things ready beforehand makes the process faster and produces a stronger submission: the specific category name you're entering under (use Find My Award first if you're unsure), a short written summary of your strongest evidence for each of the six evaluation criteria described on the Judging & selection page, and any photography, client data or documentation you want to reference. None of this needs to be perfectly polished — the research team reviews every submission during the internal review stage and will follow up if anything needs clarifying.

The form itself is hosted and processed on goldentreeawards.com, the official Golden Tree Awards nomination system, and embedded here for convenience. If the embedded form doesn't load correctly in your browser, use the fallback link that appears below it, or open the official form directly in a new tab.

Not sure this is the right category yet?

If you haven't already settled on a category, it's worth pausing before filling in the form. The single most common reason a nomination under-performs isn't weak evidence — it's evidence that's strong but submitted under a category whose criteria don't quite match it. A nomination for an independent, owner-operated salon entered under a category built for national chains, for instance, is being scored against a comparison set it doesn't belong to, regardless of how good the underlying business actually is. Two resources exist specifically to prevent this: the Find My Award tool gives a quick recommendation in under a minute, and the full award categories page lists every published category with a description of what each one evaluates, organised by Salon Awards, Beauty & Cosmetics Awards and Professional Awards.

It's also worth deciding upfront whether more than one nomination makes sense for your situation. A salon and its owner, or a brand and its founder, are commonly nominated together as two separate, free entries — each judged independently on its own evidence rather than as a combined submission. If that applies to you, it's usually more efficient to prepare the evidence for both nominations at once (client-experience data and team credentials for the business; career highlights and portfolio for the individual) before starting either form.

What happens to the information you submit

The nomination form is hosted and processed by goldentreeawards.com, the network's official system, so information submitted through it is handled under the privacy policy and terms published there — full detail on data handling for this site itself, and how it relates to the embedded form, is on the privacy policy page. In practical terms, what you submit is used to verify eligibility, confirm category fit, and support the jury evaluation process; it is not sold, and no payment information is collected anywhere in this process because there is no charge at any stage.