Enter Beauty Launchpad's 25 Under 50K contest.
Beauty Launchpad's annual 25 Under 50K competition, sponsored by SalonCentric is here, and we are so excited to view your beautiful work!
To enter, please fill out our linked Google form. To be eligible, entrants must be licensed hair or nail techs and have under 50,000 IG followers as of July 2025. Please note, those with followers above 50K or who have won the 25 Under 50K contest previously are ineligible for this contest. Call for submissions closes July 11, 2025 at 6pm EST.
*Winners will be notified via Instagram no later than by July 14, 2025. Winners will be announced on our website in September 2024 and will be featured in the September/October 2025 edition of Beauty Launchpad.
- Eligibility: This campaign is open only to those licensed cosmetologists who sign up through www.beautylaunchpad.com. The campaign is open to licensed hair and nail professionals and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of Allured Business Media and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the campaign. The campaign is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.
- Agreement to Rules: By participating, you agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and you represent and warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements. In addition, you agree to accept the decisions of Allured Business Media as final and binding as it relates to the content of this campaign. By entering this content, you represent and warrant that your entry as represented by your Instagram posts is your original work of authorship, and does not violate any third party’s proprietary or intellectual property rights.
- Top 25 Stylists Under 50K winners will receive a profile in the September/October 2025 issue of Beauty Launchpad, a writeup on beautylaunchpad.com, and a post dedicated to you on our Instagram page. Acceptance constitutes permission for Allured Business Media to use winner’s name, likeness and entry for purposes of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.
- Selection and Notification: The top 25 Stylists Under 50K winners will be selected by the Beauty Launchpad team and will be notified via Instagram within five (5) days following selection. Allured Business Media has no liability for your failure to receive notices due to spam, junk e-mail or other security settings or if you provided incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If you cannot be contacted or are found to be ineligible, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected.
- Rights Granted by you: By applying for this title, you understand and agree that Allured Business Media shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the world, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes without compensation, notice, review, or consent.
- If your entry infringes upon the intellectual property right of another, you shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Allured Business Media from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss, damage, costs or expense, which Allured Business Media may incur, suffer or be required to pay arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s right.
- Limitation of Liability: By entering, you agree to release and hold harmless Allured Business Media and its employees, officers and directors from any liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) your participation in the campaign and/or your acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, or software or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or Internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the campaign; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the campaign or the selection of the 25 finalists.
- Disputes: this campaign is governed by the laws of United States and DuPage County, Illinois, without respect to conflict of law doctrines. As a condition of participating in this campaign, participant agrees that under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, other than participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering this campaign). Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
- Sponsor: The sponsor of the campaign is SalonCentric. The campaign is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram.
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