Hairdressers at Heart Name Scholarship Winner

Wella’s Hairdressers at Heart and the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation announced the winners of the Vidal Sassoon Professional Beauty Education Scholarship Program “Basic” and “Advanced” competitions on May 28. The 10 “Basic” and 10 “Advanced” winners were selected from hundreds of applicants who competed in the national competition funded by Wella’s Hairdressers at Heart and administered by the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation.

Ten “Basic” winners will each receive a scholarship covering 50% of cosmetology school tuition (up to $10,000) at an American Association of Cosmetology Schools member school. Ten “Advanced” scholarship winners will each receive a five-day course at a Sassoon Academy in North America, including travel and course fees (up to $5,000).

Winners of the “Basic” Vidal Sassoon Professional Beauty Education Program are as follows: Candace Aussat, Paul Mitchell The School, San Antonio, TX; Haley Condor, Cosmetology Career Institute, Greenville, TX; Monesha Cooper, Regency Beauty Institute, Pasadena, TX; Debora Fuentes, Aveda Institute, Dallas, TX; Christine Gebbia, Paul Mitchell the School, Lakewood, CO; Megan Goldberg, Paul Mitchell the School, Las Vegas, NV; Demetra Kottis, Aveda Institute, New York, NY; Sarah Stuffelbeam, Cinta Aveda Institute, San Francisco, CA: Abrea Tillman, Cinta Aveda Institute, San Francisco, CA; and Lisa Torres, Arrojo Cosmetology, New York, NY.

Winners of the “Advanced” Vidal Sassoon Professional Beauty Education Program and their salons are as follows: Kellie Crossley, Color by Kellie, Niagara Falls, ON; Layla Dudley, London Hair Studios, Eugene, OR; Kelsey Higginbotham, RUSH by Dino Palmieri, Cuyahoga, OH: Zinta Kalnins, Avalon Hair Design, North York, ON; Caitlin Lambert, Caitlin HairArtistry StL, St. Louis, MO; Vanessa Li, Salon La Sirena, Haleiwa, HI; Kay Matthews, Madison Avenue Salon, Seattle, WA; Amy Schaming, Metropolis Salon & Dry Bar, Columbia, SC: Leigh Schultz, Salon Decorum, Tottenham, ON; and Dorothy Wrightsman, Bellus Academy, Poway, CA.

The scholarship program honors beauty visionary and entrepreneur Vidal Sassoon’s lifelong passion for education. Since the competition was introduced in 2013, the Vidal Sassoon Professional Beauty Education Scholarship Program has awarded 100 scholarships and fulfilled half of a $1.5M scholarship commitment Wella is funding through 2017.