LOCAL BARBER WINS A BRONNER BROS. HAIR SHOW COMPETITION
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Huntsville barber Mike Sales, owner of Mike & Bill’s Presidential Barbershop, won first place in the Andis Contemporary Total Look Barbering Competition on February 19th the 65th Annual Bronner Bros. International Hair Show

ATLANTA, GA. - - The 65th annual Bronner Bros. International Hair Show delivered its usual array of dramatic hairstyles and fierce competitive displays. Held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta from February 18-21, the Bronner Bros. hair show is arguably the most popular African-American hair convention in the world. "Over 60,000 hairstylists, exhibitors, distributors and cosmetology students" attend these yearly festivities, according to the company’s web site. Over nine thousand people watched the fierce barber competition alone, which is the heart of the four-day event.


Local barber and business owner, Mike Sales of Mike & Bill's Presidential Barbershop located on Meridian Street in Huntsville, AL. won first place at the Andis Contemporary Total Look Barbering Competition at the 65th Annual Bronner Bros. International Hair Show.


This competition was to allow professional barbers the opportunity to display their fresh and new talents among their peers. Professional barbers were to create styles that reflect their own distinctive idea. There were a total of 30 competitors from across the nation, Sales said, including himself, that aggressively competed for the cash prize. Each contestant was judged on fashion and hair.
Mr. Sales is a native of Huntsville, Alabama where he established Mike & Bill's Presidential Barbershop in 1995. He is proud to be on the cutting edge with some of the best and leading barbers in the nation.


“I am grateful to have been taught by some of the best instructors and mentors in the hair industry, right here in Huntsville, such as the late Norma Jean Powers, Anderson Carroll, Dorothy Nobles, and Ben Battle who still instructs J. F. Drake State College,” Sales said. “These are the individuals who help set the path way for the majority of the barber and salon owners in the Black community in Madison county.”


When asked how does Mr. Sales, who is a loving husband, father, and God-fearing man, stay ‘on top of the game’ with today’s ever-so changing hair industry, he replied, “the thing that helps drives me to the next level in the hair industry is to always stay hungry and never get too relaxed. If you don't know you can't grow.”