I’m Lucie Fink and this is 5 Days of Great Hair.
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Only one in ten women claim that they consistently have good hair days.
One in ten?
That’s only ten percent!
Math.
I don’t know about you, but I think ten percent of women thinking they’re having
a good hair day is just way too low.
If you have hair on your head, you know that having a good hair day, can make you feel
so much happier, and so much more confident throughout the course of the day.
So this week I partnered up with Pantene to try five new hair styles and learn how to
make every single day this week a great hair day.
Before even beginning this week, all the way back on Sunday, I shampooed and conditioned
my hair using Pantene’s Repair and Protect collection, knowing I was about to be a little
bit rougher on my hair than normal, I wanted to minimize damage and breakage.
And now let’s jump right in.
I feel like a hair style can affect my entire personality.
Very bold and confident style can make me feel empowered to get out there and try new
things, whereas a real slicked back power look can make me feel like a boss.
Monday’s hairstyle was a power bun.
I’m used to wearing my hair down, so even pulling it back and pulling it off of my shoulders
has me feeling a little bit exposed and uncomfortable.
But there’s something very special about not having hair to hide behind.
It almost forced you to feel empowered.
I started off the bun by making a sharp side part.
I pulled my hair back into a tight low ponytail and then I began twisting the ponytail until it started swirling
around itself, creating almost a doughnut shape.
I started adding bobby pins and tweaking it to make sure there were no flyaways.
Lastly I used some hairspray to flatten out the top of my hair.
And I even put spray directly on the comb to flatten out the baby hairs around the edge of my face.
Once the bun was in I paired this hairstyle with the best power suit I could find and
then I headed upstairs to work.
It was a busy day in the office.
I started the day off by getting some busy work done at my desk.
When I’m not on set, a day in the office for me always looks different.
Sometimes I’m at my computer watching rough cuts of videos and giving notes.
Other times I’m in pre production and I’m planning for upcoming shoots.
Always so many emails to answer and so many decisions to make.
I ran out in the middle of the day to grab lunch and I realized that the combination
that the combination of this hairstyle with the power suit outfit was actually affecting
the way I was walking.
I wasn’t just walking, I was power striding down that street.
Coming back into the office I was immediately onto the next task.
My intern met me the moment I stepped out of the elevator and the two of us rushed to
our next meeting while we discussed so many upcoming things we have to do.
Let’s send this out fast.
Tell them they really need to hurry.
Sometimes when my hair is down I find myself touching it for no apparent reason, almost
like a crutch.
But on Monday I couldn’t do that.
I was forced to face whatever was in front of me.
It did feel very different from the way I typically look, but even still, it was a great hair day.
Please cancel everything we don’t have time.
When I woke up on Tuesday morning, I was still feeling powerful from Monday’s look.
But I have to say, towards the end of the day on Monday I was starting to feel a little bit stern and rigid.
So on Tuesday, I had the urge to just let loose and do something a little fun and creative.
I typically show my artistic side by making video content for YouTube, like this right here,
or through bullet journaling, water coloring, and doing craft projects.
But on Tuesday, I wanted to go big.
And if I was going to do something really creative and artistic, then I needed a hairstyle to match that.
I started out by adding some clip in extensions to my hair.
Now this is something I’ve never done before, but I love the wild and untamed look they gave me.
I teased my hair to get the extensions to stay locked in there, and once they were secured,
I just set myself free styling my hair in a whole variety of ways.
I felt compelled to curl some pieces, some pieces I crimped using a flat iron, and other pieces I braided.
There was really no rhyme or reason to this style.
I was not emulating a look that I had seen anywhere before.
I was essentially just being crafty, and doing arts and crafts on my hair.
And once I had finished styling my hair, I packed up my art supplies and headed out to
Smart Space Studios, an artistic collective in New York City.
Painting is in my blood.
My mom is a painter, she actually painted most of the artwork in this apartment, including
these three paintings right above my head.
And even though I do watercolor occasionally, one thing I haven’t really done is take
a giant canvas and paint something big.
So I brought in a couple of large canvases and a ton of acrylic paint.
I found a photo of myself on Instagram that was really calling my name.
It was honestly a little bit ambitious of me to try and paint that image on my
first try, but I just went for it anyway.
After outlining it in pencil, I started adding my first strokes of paint to the canvas.
I just got into the zone and let my hand fly, bringing this photo to life.
I ran into a little bit of trouble with the details on my face, so after about five minutes,
I stepped back and I looked at it and I thought, “Wow, that’s really creepy.
Kinda looks like a pirate with a beard.”
But thankfully another artist that was using the studio space came over and she gave me
a little mini lesson.
So I let her actually put her brush to my canvas and she taught me shadowing.
Some shadow, that’s a nice kind of warm skin color.
Not as much brown.
Brown.
Shading different color mixing techniques.
And with her help I was able to finalize the details on the face, adding proper shadows,
reshaping my eyes and completely fixing the hair so that it no longer looked like a creepy
pirate beard.
Let there be eyes.
And if I do say so myself, I think by the end it came out looking pretty good.
And I like the texture in the pants.
As soon as I finished it, I moved on to the bigger canvas that I brought to do some splatter painting.
Splatter painting is one of my favorite painting styles because just like that hair style I
had in, it’s totally messy and completely unpredictable.
Even just one unique flick of the wrist can change the entire outcome of the painting.
And I realize that the act of creating that hairstyle wasn’t all that different from
putting paint onto a canvas.
It was completely spontaneous and in the moment.
When I woke up on Wednesday morning, my hair was, as you can imagine, a little bit knotty
from Tuesday’s look.
So I followed up my morning shampoo and conditioner with a Pantene Intense Rescue Shot, which targets
extreme damage and prevents split ends.
Something that I majorly needed after a day of extensions and paint and a ton of heat
on my hair.
For the next look, I wanted to go one step beyond the creative and wacky hairstyle on
Tuesday, and actually try something that was going to make me feel a lot younger and more playful.
As an adult in the working world, it can be really easy to lose touch with your playful
side and start thinking that everything is
So when trying to come up with the best hairstyle to embody playfulness,
I immediately thought of space buns.
I began by parting my hair down the middle and creating two high ponytails, one on each side.
I added a few clip in extensions again for some volume and length, and then I put a hair doughnut in.
I spread my hair around it to cover the doughnut, clipping in a few bobby pins along the way,
and then secured it with an elastic.
Lastly I twisted the rest of the ponytail around it to create two mini buns at the top of my head.
To make these space buns look extragalactic I put hair spray down the center of my part
and added glitter to make a glitter part.
Once the look was complete I knew the perfect place that I could showcase it.
I left work a little bit earlier than normal and went to Spin, a giant indoor ping pong
social club in the Flatiron district.
It’s basically a huge event space underground with interactive games, food and drinks.
And I met one on one with a Swedish ping pong pro.
Hi there, are you Lucie?
That’s me!
I’m not quite sure how I got in here.
She brought me over to a table and we just started rallying.
After a few hits, she showed me her pro serve, which is basically a slice.
It was seemingly impossible to return her serves, but she taught me exactly how to hold the paddle.
And I’m hitting the ball on the side, there.
And that makes the ball spin.
Like this.
Yes.
And where to aim.
Try to go a little bit more that way.
And guess what?
Nice!
I returned a serve of a 14-time Swedish Ping Pong Pro.
Just sayin’.
This hairstyle was so cute, and so playful, and the energy from this hairstyle was seeping
into the energy that I was bringing to the table.
This is not typically a hairstyle I would wear, especially the glitter part, but I have
to say the hairstyle made my experience at Spin even more fun.
Thursday’s look was all about confidence.
When I think of a bold, fierce hairstyle, the first words that come to mind are curly, big and wild.
The image that comes to mind is Olivia Newton John from that last scene of Grease with the
big, bold curls, the all black outfit, the red pumps on her feet and bright red lipstick
to match.
I looked up how to do this hairstyle online and then gave it a try.
I started with my hair straight and loose, and then sectioned it off a little bit at
a time and started making pin curls.
Basically curling each peace around the curling iron and then wrapping it around my finger
before pinning it up against my head.
So that I could give my hair the most volume here, I needed to make sure to do this very
meticulously over my entire head, not skipping over any curls, not cutting corners and missing any sections.
And this whole process alone wound up taking about an hour.
As the pin curls set I lined my lips with red liner and then filled them in with red liquid lipstick.
And in about 15 minutes it was time for the big reveal.
I started with the lower, back part of my hair which had the longest time to cool.
I pulled them out of the pins, fluffed the hair around it a little bit and then using
a couple of fingers I gave it a rough tease by pushing the hair up towards the root.
After adding one final bobby pin to achieve that pinned up look that she has in the movie,
I was ready for my photoshoot on the streets of New York.
When I thought about this bold and confident hairstyle, I wanted to make sure that I was
pushing myself to do an activity that would require confidence.
At this point I’m pretty used to doing shoots on the street, but when you’re in a costume
type outfit and you have wild hair and makeup, it’s always a little bit daunting.
My photographer Elaina an I went around the corner from the office and snapped a few shots.
One thing I have to say is that having the hairstyle from the movie really put me in character.
You better shape up!
I was basically hearing Grease songs on repeat in my head all day and I was tempted to dance
and do the handjive, and that right there is proof enough that just changing your hairstyle
can really change the way you feel.
I’ve never styled my hair like this before, but I absolutely loved it.
It was very 50’s.
On the last day of this challenge, I wanted to try something completely out of my comfort zone.
Something I’ve never done before that honestly scared me a little bit.
To match my hair to the theme of the day, I wanted to try a style that was a bit of
a risk taker style, something that I wasn’t sure would work out.
I had this vision of a french braid that went sweeping across the back of my head and then
had pieces of my hair woven in almost like little bowes cascading across my head.
I tried it out by first attempting the french braid, which I should say is something I don’t know how to do.
After a few failed attempts, I called my friend who is much better at braiding than I am.
She lives in the building next door, so she came over to help out.
She put the braid in and then she started weaving the hair in and we both looked at
it and thought, “this doesn’t look right.”
We really tried with that one, but when all was said and done, it was a major fail and that’s okay.
We took a risk, it didn’t work out, so we just moved onto a new style.
I threw my hair into a high ponytail, and then I attempted a messy fishtail braid.
Also a type of braid that I don’t know how to do, but I just followed directions for it online.
And once I was happy with this risk taker hairstyle, I left home for my risk taker activity.
Trapeze school!
This is something I’ve been a little bit scared of, but I’ve been wanting to try
for the longest time so I made an appointment at Trapeze School New York in Brooklyn, and
I basically became an acrobat for the day.
I was welcomed into the space.
You are good to go, you can just set your stuff down and then the instructors will get you started.
Have fun!
And then I met my instructor, who began by walking me through everything I was going to do.
Basic safety rules, never walk under the net.
We have it roped off.
Keep your hips thrusted forward, keep the bar up high.
Chin up.
Just like that.
If you fall off the board or off the bar or do anything crazy in the air, I’ll just tighten
up and let you gently onto the net.
So you will be okay, even if it doesn’t feel like you are.
After the lesson, I had a safety belt put on me.
I pulled down the rope, hooked myself into the clips, chalked up my hand, and then climbed
on up the latter.
At the top, another staff member transferred my clips around as I held on for dear life.
And then I grabbed the trapeze bar with my right hand, and then gently reached for it
with my left hand, while the instructor held me back by my belt.
All the while you’re pushing your hips forward over the edge of the platform and just hoping
that he’s really holding on back there.
And then on the instructors cue, you bend your knees, ready and hup!
You jump.
And just like that you’re flying!
Up on the trapeze it is a major exercise in listening.
So on every swing you’re listening carefully to his direction.
Don’t move!
Legs up now!
Hands off now!
Arch your back!
Alright, hands back up.
You make sure that you’re tucking your knees at the right moment, releasing your hands
at the right moment, and then dropping the bar at the right moment.
When I first made it down I was coursing with adrenaline.
Wow!
And once you land on the net you lay on your stomach and you flip off with a front tuck.
Personally, I felt like I was good to go after the first one, but the instructor of that
trapeze school really pushed you to get out of your comfort zone, so I wound up going
again, and again, and again and again.
By the end of the day I had flown six times.
I learned how to do a back tuck off the trapeze bar and I even practiced catching, which is
where I jumped off of the platform on the exact cue of the guy that’s sitting on the
other trapeze bar.
And as I’m flying forward, he’s flying back and we grab each other’s wrists and
I release the bar and then I’m flying with him.
And just like that, I had conquered a major fear.
Over the course of this week, I was completely shocked at how, just by changing my hairstyle,
my personality and intentions for the day would change too.
I feel like the hairstyles affected my mindset, the tone of my voice, and the energy in my body.
From something tight and sleek, to something creative and wild, to something completely
new and unfamiliar to me, these styles were each incredibly unique and interesting.
And I wound up thinking every day of this week was a great hair day.
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