Call for Entries! BEAUTY BADNESS: The Fiercest Hair on Instagram

It's time to enter your baddest hair looks for the 2025 version of American Salon's March Madness-style elimination competition, BEAUTY BADNESS 2025: The Fiercest Hair on Instagram.

With 65 competitors, 32 head-to-head voting challenges, 6 voting rounds, and 1 ultimate champion, these are the hottest brackets happening in March!

Entries are top-tier hair looks of all types: cut, natural color, creative color, texture, avant-garde, braids, hairstyles, extensions — as long as it's fierce, it's eligible.

Beauty Badness 2024 Winner
Last year's winning look by Sara Bierman & Jessi Koehler of Appleton, WI. (American Salon)

To enter: Tag your entry with @american_salon and #beautybadness2025 on Instagram! We will notify you if your entry has been chosen. The first round of voting goes live on March 13.

Winner receives bragging rights, 2 free passes to the International Beauty Show-New York or Las Vegas, and more.

Have fun, good luck, and may the baddest hair slay!