HJ Reports: L’Oréal Colour Trophy UK &Ireland Grand Finals

We joined #LCT24 in Ireland and the UK to witness 100s of grand finalists compete for the coveted trophy and four fab live shows

fRAmEwoRk by Arkive by Adam Reed

Clara Amfo, Lisa Snowden, Twiggy Jalloh and Hannah Martin

Mashup by Jason Hall and Abigail Butler

L'Oréal Colour Trophy Award overall winner Gee-Kent Ho

Luminaire, from Russell Eaton

On Monday 8 July, L’Oréal Professionnel Paris celebrated the L'Oréal Colour Trophy UK 2024 Grand Final at Old Billingsgate, London.

Hosted by Clara Amfo, supported by Lisa Snowden, Twiggy Jalloh and Hannah Martin, the evening saw 155 competition models walk and #LCT24 category winners crowned. The audience was treated to two spectacular shows. Firstly, the Trevor Sorbie Creative Team presented Metaball. Led by Creative Director Giuseppe Stelitano, he exclusively told HJ: "This is the biggest show of my career to date. It's fun, it's joyful, we wanted to celebrate the return of the Trevor Sorbie show. We've got dancers, models, colour and lots of wigs.”

Metaball, from Trevor Sorbie

The Russell Eaton Artistic Team, led by art director Robert Eaton, showcased Luminaire, a colourful spectacle that used cutting edge technology to bring a multidimensional experience to hair. Robert told us: "It's a light show that's going to bring to life different colours and textures. Expect strong, bold shapes and contrasting colours.” In addition, Neville Hair & Beauty's Creative Director Jack MerrickThirlway re-created hair looks from the On/Off presents Jack Irving show from.

Edd Moss

Francesco Merico & Viktoriia Vradii

Marlon Hawkins

THE L'ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY 2024 UK WINNERS

L'ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY AWARD OVERALL WINNER

• Gee-Kent Ho, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gee-Kent Ho

SECOND PLACE WINNER

• Brooks & Brooks, London Marlon Hawkins

THIRD PLACE WINNER

• Trevor Sorbie, Francesco Merico & Viktoriia Vradii

L'ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY STAR AWARD WINNER

• Peter Mark, Belfast, Tyler Knox

L'ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY MOVING IMAGE AWARD WINNER

• Lauren McNeela, Stripe Colour Studio

L'ORÉAL COLOUR SPECIALIST AWARD WINNER

• Frances Marshall, Sunderland, Amelia Hall

L'ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY AFRO AWARD WINNER

• Headmasters, Soho, Edd Moss

FUTURE TALENT AWARD WINNERS

• Elsie MacDonald

• Francesca Bay

• Brandon Marchant

• Isla McKelvie

• Alex Doherty

REGIONAL L’ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY AWARD WINNERS

SCOTLAND WINNER

• Jason Hall Hairdressing, Edinburgh, Daniella Bulpit & Jak Hall

NORTHERN IRELAND WINNER

• Peter Mark, Lisburn, Joseph Comer & Stephen Hanna

NORTH WESTERN WINNER

• Saks Hair Newark, Emma Goodlass & Lucy Sprigg

NORTH EASTERN WINNER

• Gee-Kent Ho, Newcastle, Gee-Kent Ho

WESTERN WINNER

• Zoe Hodgkiss – Hair Artistry, Holsworthy, Zoe Hodgkiss

EASTERN WINNER

• Strictly Xtended, Bishops Stortford, Perry Davis

SOUTHERN WINNER

• Trevor Sorbie, Brighton Giuseppe Di Rosa & Daniel Courtnage

LONDON WINNER

• Brooks & Brooks, Marlon Hawkins

L'Oréal Colour Trophy Ireland overall winner New Hair Order

L’ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY IRELAND GRAND FINAL

HJ joined L'Oréal Professionnel Paris in Dublin, Ireland for the L'Oréal Colour Trophy Grand Final on Monday 17 June at Dublin Royal.

The evening kicked off with an introduction from L'Oréal Professionnel Paris, general manager UK and Ireland, Ann Marie Humphreys. She said: "L'Oréal Colour Trophy has been championing professional excellence and hair artistry for over five decades. It is the longest running live hair competition in the world."

This was followed by a catwalk of the Grand Finalists who had been competing all day in the RDS, Dublin, before this year's judges Alan Edwards, Andrew Mulvenna, Darren Ambrose, Marcello Moccia and Nathan Walker, took to the stage.

We were treated to two shows by Jason Hall and Abigail Butler, and the Arkive by Adam Reed team respectively. Firstly, Mashup was supported by a team of L'Oréal Professionnel backstage artists. It was a cornucopia of throwback styles, all brought together by a soundtrack that moved seamlessly from 80s nostalgia to 00s hits.This was followed by fRAmEwoRk from L’Oréal Professionnel Editorial UK Ambassador Adam Reed and the ARKIVE by Adam Reed team Andrew Plester, Janet Barone, John Spanton, Luke Logan, Pia Wyatt and Samantha Bickle.

Then it came to the L'Oréal Colour Trophy Awards themselves…

OVERALL WINNER

• New Hair Order, Mark Byrne and Lisa May

SECOND PLACE WINNER

• Zeba Hairdressing, Mark Sherwood and Augosto Miranda

THIRD PLACE WINNER

• Brown Sugar, Graham Santeliz Molloy and James Coleman

L’ORÉAL COLOUR TROPHY STAR AWARD WINNER:

• Jake Murphy from Zebra Hairdressing, Dublin.