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ONSTAGE: 2025
ONSTAGE: 2025
Hair Festival will be back with its most dynamic event yet over June 29 and 30, 2025, at ICC, Sydney, building on 2024’s record-breaking event and fostering an essential sense of industry community over one bold weekend. Here’s what we can reveal – for now.
Start your countdown because next year’s iteration of Hair Festival, which is brought to you by INSTYLE and Styleicons, is officially in the calendar, marked for June 29 and 30, 2025, at ICC, Sydney. You can access unparalleled innovations, insights and opportunities all under one roof over two huge days – amassing months’ worth of career progression, retail prospects, educational discoveries and, most importantly, connection, in just 48 hours and all conveniently under one roof.
The 2024 event saw over 6,000 attendees stream through the doors, marking a 30 per cent increase from 2023, and showcasing accelerated growth for this pinnacle hairdressing event. Get ready to shop, learn, compete and connect over two massive days once again.
“We can’t wait to invite the hairdressing community back to Hair Festival for 2025,” said Hair Festival Director Renita Collins. “2024 exceeded our expectations with the enthusiasm, eagerness to learn, sense of connection and attendance records, and we know next year will continue that massive growth. We’re so excited to unveil what we’ve been working on.”
2024 exceeded our expectations with the enthusiasm, eagerness to learn, sense of connection and attendance records, and we know next year will continue that massive growth.
-RENITA COLLINS
Hair Festival will be in its fourth year and is fast becoming an unmissable mainstay of the hair salon event calendar. At its centre is the Festival Hub of stands, which grew to a record 90-plus stands in 2024 and is only getting bigger. The Festival Hub is entirely free for attendees, and showcases on-stand demonstrations, offers specialised Hair Festival deals for new products and tools across a variety of salon categories and inspires at THE STAGE. for free education throughout the event.
Having launched in 2024, THE STAGE. was a bona fide hit, giving attendees the chance to take a seat and learn about some of the versatile and leading exhibitors, with sustainability, product and service information delivered all weekend for free.
You can find the Business and Barber Hubs through the stands, offering essential and targeted business know-how and men’s hair demonstrations, tools and inspiration, respectively. New in 2025, you can also discover the Business Connect stage, for additional business insights and education, as well as a new version of the Barber Hub, with seating to really stick around and learn.
The Festival Hub also hosts fun installations, food and drinks around the halls, making it a networking epicentre – it’s also where you’ll find INSTYLE, so remember to come say hi!
Beyond these free activities and learnings, you can choose your educational necessities in the Education Sessions, also held at the ICC. This year, 20 sessions across colour, cut, style, men’s hair, business, hair extensions, hair straightening, trichology, wellness and more motivated the masses. In 2025, returning educating brands will include De Lorenzo, Caitlyn Muir, Hair Candy, BKT and the international Danger Jones team, to name just a few.
For salon owners, managers and leaders specifically, the REALtalk Business Forum is the first essential education you can’t miss. You can expect authentic and game-changing conversations around always essential topics. This will be the fifth iteration of REALtalk, and the event has previously covered pivotal talking points of social media, salon management, sustainability, mental health and beyond. Don’t miss these pertinent discussions kicking off 2025.
Outside of the ICC, it’s time for the party of the year. Hair Festival further connects the industry with Wonderland, hosted on the Sunday night of Hair Festival, on June 29 in 2025. This event has garnered a reputation for the food, drinks, entertainment and frivolities that capture the very essence of the hair community’s sense of fun. Next year, Wonderland will be hosted at an all-new venue at Campbell's Stores, at the Rocks, Sydney, in an iconic locale. Be ready to truly celebrate, in front of an incomparable view.
Lastly, live Hair Festival Competitions reignite the industry’s competitive streak, this year held on THE STAGE. in front of a vast audience, who watched as hairdressers created and paraded live looks before being awarded in categories ranging from men’s hair, to bridal, colour and women’s style, in the hope of becoming the Hair Festival Champion. The competitions cater to various experience levels and continue to grow year-on-year.
Tickets are already available so you can obtain early bird prices to gain tailored access to Hair Festival. Choose Education Sessions at your leisure, book your entry to Wonderland, secure your seat at REALtalk or bundle it all into the All Access pass, for your most economical, extensive entry into Hair Festival, where you’ll have total rein over the entire event. The Festival Hub remains free to register for, with so much value available when you show up.
Uniting the hair industry family under one packed roof, Hair Festival 2025 is your admission to fun, insights, innovations and an unparalleled sense of community. Don’t miss out!
For more information visit www.hairfestival.com.au
To be involved as an educator, sponsor or exhibitor contact jcowan@intermedia.com.au or sewart@intermedia.com.au
