Calling all barbering and cosmetology schools—give your students the opportunity to compete, gain real-world experience, and represent your program in a live male grooming competition celebrating fatherhood, leadership, and professional excellence. Schools receive student recognition, brand visibility, community exposure, and the chance for their students’ work to be featured in Times Square.

School Benefits: ✔ School recognition & community exposure ✔ Student portfolio and competition experience ✔ Networking with industry professionals ✔ Support male grooming & fatherhood awareness ✔ Opportunity for prizes and media features

Crystal Hughes visits schools to share her real business story, teach the do’s and don’ts of the beauty and business world, and introduce students to real opportunities — including the Crystal Hughes Micro-Grant Program.

Her talks are honest, practical, and focused on how to turn skills into real businesses, avoid costly mistakes, and think beyond just working.

What Students Will Learn • The do’s and don’ts of the industry • How to build a real business and brand • Common mistakes and how to avoid them • How to access opportunities and funding • How to apply for the Crystal Hughes Micro-Grant

What’s Included • Motivational and real-world talk • Q&A with students • Introduction to the grant and opportunities • Info about the CROWN Summit & Annual Awards

Schools & Organizations Crystal Hughes Has Spoken At

Crystal Hughes has delivered talks, workshops, and presentations at schools and institutions including: • Empire Beauty School • Aveda Institute • Paul Mitchell The School • Hair Academy II • Calvin Coolidge High School • Crossland High School • Bladensburg High School • Laurel High School • Suitland High School

Where Beauty, Business, and Lifestyle Become Legacy

Crystal City Resort is a multi-destination resort created by Crystal Hughes, a licensed cosmetologist and barbering graduate (hours completed) who transformed her cosmetology career and land inheritance into a real estate, business, and lifestyle brand.

Students don’t come to Crystal City just to see a salon.

They come to meet a woman who took her cosmetology license and turned it into ownership, assets, businesses, and generational wealth — all on her own land.

Inside Crystal City Resort, guests experience a spa, salon, business spaces, events, and lifestyle environments that show how beauty is more than hair:

Beauty is a lifestyle. It starts with your hair — and extends into how you live, build, own, and create.

Crystal City Resort offers educational visits, tours, and immersive experiences for: • Cosmetology schools • Barber schools • Beauty academies • Business & entrepreneurship programs

Students come to: • Meet Crystal Hughes and hear her real story • See how a beauty license can become ownership and real assets • Tour a resort built from a cosmetologist’s vision • Learn about business, branding, and lifestyle building • Learn about the Crystal Hughes Micro-Grant Program • See what’s possible beyond the chair

Schools can book: • Day trips • 2-day / 1-night experiences • Multi-day immersive visits

Each visit can include: • Resort & development tour • Business & lifestyle talks • Q&A sessions • Workshops • Grant & opportunity education

Schools must call to book 205-336-2312