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Eva named finalist in two Colour World 2026 categories
Returning as a 2025 winner, Eva is shortlisted in both Colour Correction Genius and Blonding Colour Genius – two of the most contested categories in UK colour.
Final · 29 June 2026 · Poulet, Bermondsey
Eva is through to the finals of the Colour World Genius Awards 2026 in two separate categories: Colour Correction Genius and Blonding Colour Genius. The grand final takes place on 29 June at Poulet, Maltby Street, Bermondsey.
Two finalist spots in the same year is a serious result. The Colour World Genius Awards are the only independent UK awards dedicated to colourists, judged by a panel of more than 40 senior colourists from the UK and internationally. Entries are submitted as photographs and films of real work on real clients, and assessed on technical skill, finish and creativity.
Eva is not arriving at this final cold. She was a Colour World winner in 2025, and comes back into the room this year as a double finalist.
The Work
Two entries, two very different briefs
Blonding Colour Genius
A long, soft silver-blonde with cool, dimensional waves – lived-in rather than uniform. Eva used the Air Touch lightening technique, where shorter hairs are blown out of the section before lifting, so only the longer strands are lightened. The result is the very soft, naturally blended root-to-tip blonde you can see in the entry image.
In the blonding category, various lightening techniques are used. In this case I used Air Touch, and what mattered most to me was that the chosen shades suited the client – skin tone, eye colour and so on.
Eva · Hair Culture London
That is the Sassoon habit speaking – colour built for the person, not picked off a shelf.
Colour Correction Genius
A long bob taken from solid dark brown to a soft, natural grey blending – a clean ash silver-blonde with a gently shadowed root. Colour correction is widely seen as the hardest category in the awards, because the colourist is fixing or completely changing what is already on the hair before they can build the new result.
Colour correction is the most complex and difficult category, because you have to fix or completely change the existing colour. It takes real experience, good products and proper knowledge of colour. Every head of hair is individual – there is no single technique that works for everyone. For my competition entry I did a corrective colour from dark hair to a natural grey blending.
Eva · Hair Culture London
Both entries were created in the salon, on Hair Culture clients, using Sassoon Chromatology.
Good Luck
Congratulations Eva
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