Schwarzkopf Professional, a global leader in professional hair care for over 100 years in over a 120 countries honored the men and women recently at the Schwarzkopf Professional Estetica Hair Couture Awards 2011 held at the Hilton, Delhi. The Oscars of the Indian hair industry cheered for both established hair stylist and upcoming talents. The spa sector too was given a boost with awards being given in that category.

With the Indian salon industry mushrooming 20 per cent per year, faster than the growth rate of our hair, as was seen in the looks inspired by Essential Looks 2011. The evening saw avant garde hair fashion, starting with hottie Yana Gupta sporting a balled head over her shoulders and the modern day Rapunzel by fashion designer Nida Mehmood. 

The esteemed awards were handed over by various pinnacled personas of our Indian society. Mukesh Panikar presented Best Hair Academy of the year to BKCCAD; Vesna Jacob & Anupama Dayal presented Best Salon Design of the year to Mad or What, Mr. Harsukh Pathar with Mrs. Gayatree Sali presented Best Thalgo Popular spa of the year to Devigarh, Udaipur, Tripat Kalra with Vijay Lakshmi Dogra & Dimple Fauzdar presented Best Salon chain of the year to Natural’s, Harjinder Kaur presented Best Most Creative Male of the year to OJAS, Mr. Sunil Sethi with Leena Singh presented upcoming hairdresser of the year to Virender Verma from Natural, Nayan Raheja with Gautam Bhimani presented Color Techniain of the year regional to Sam Ali from VLCC, Mr. K.A. Murali Sundar GM of Schwarzkopf India presented Ask academy of the year to Indina Ahluwalia grace Academy, Ludhiana, Shahnaz Husain presented Hall of Fame to Javed Habib while Silvie with Nida Mahmood presented Best Hair Dresser of the Year to Renu from Bangalore.