- [Stylist] Starts to burn just a little bit
but that'll go away. - Oh no.
Hey, I'm Niki, and this is my fiancee Kelsie.
We're getting married this year,
and we can't wait to make this perfect day our own.
It's Wedding Season, and this week,
we're talking hair and brows.
Hair!
There's a lot of pressure around
having really great hair for your wedding
because it's something that's
gonna be in your photos forever.
- Just as you wanna care for your skin,
you also wanna care for your hair,
so whether it's using leave in treatment products
or just going to the salon to get some treatments done.
- For the wedding, I would ideally love
to have really voluminous, silky, shiny hair
like a well-groomed dog, so I'm gonna
get help from a professional hair stylist
and hopefully he can help me achieve
those voluminous, silky, shiny
hair vibes that I'm going after.
- [David] Welcome to Ra, how are you feeling?
- We are in the countdown, we're in
the sprint mode now, but I'm excited.
- What's your timeframe as far as
from here today to your wedding?
- A little over three months.
- That's short but that's good,
because the length of your hair
and what you wanna achieve is doable.
What's your hair routine?
- I wash it about every three days.
I use dry shampoo on the days that I don't wash it,
but for the most part my hair's pretty boring.
I've got that flat Asian hair that
just kind of sits. - The brown straight hair.
- I don't know how we can really change any of that.
- [David] The first thing I wanna do today
is kinda get your scalp back on track,
so what I'm gonna do is a tea tree mask,
it's gonna be a little cold. - Smells so good.
- The tea tree's gonna help us to
kind of clear the base, and also heal and seal.
I usually recommend conditioner only once a week.
Bun it up, Sunday bunday, that's your mask.
- I can do that. - And then,
we're gonna take the vitamin pills,
to fortify your hair, skin, and nails
so that you're glowing on your wedding day
and that your hair grows at least
maybe an inch to two inches longer.
And then I'm gonna hairscribe you a couple products to use.
Shampoo and conditioner with a red
Korean seaweed to help strengthen the hair.
Mask once a week, Sunday bunday.
Leave in conditioner for every time
that you don't use conditioner.
Volumizer at the root, and then
we're gonna use a shine before and after blow dry.
I'll see you in 30 days for a light trim,
and then we'll see where the health
of your hair is at that point.
- Sounds good. - Journey!
- Smell this. (laughs)
It's supposed to help your hair grow.
(playful music) They're huge, oh God.
In addition to working on the hair on my head,
I'm also gonna look into my brows.
So brows are like a thing I'm not good at.
- They honestly frame your face.
Even just a little bit of care and grooming
to your brows can change the overall look
of your face, but in a very subtle way.
A lot of brides do microblading
to make their lives a little bit easier
on the day to day, but also just to have
that perfect look for their wedding day as well.
- Hi, Fred. - Hi!
- You got your brows microbladed.
- I did. - What did you think?
- I can't imagine myself never having microbladed eyebrows.
I've gotten so used to not having to worry about them.
I will say, it's a little scary at first.
- [Stylist] It's a needle that I dip in ink
and I make incisions into your brow area to mimic hair.
- [Niki] Why should people do this over other brow things?
- Compared to the old method of tattooing,
like permanent makeup, it fades
to this really nice, natural color.
There's no undertones or other
pigments that are gonna come through.
- So it's worth it. - It's so worth it.
I literally roll out of bed and just
come to work and I still feel on fleek.
- I just wanna feel like you, Fred.
- So first we're gonna clean up your eyebrows.
Do you have any pictures of things that you like?
- I like to look like me.
How long do these last? - [Angelina] Somewhere between
a year, sometimes a year and two years.
We'll put a little numbing cream on there.
- So I won't feel anything? - [Angelina] No.
You will hear more than you actually feel.
And that'll sit on for about 20 minutes.
Feel kinda numb, a little bit heavy?
- Uh-huh, I'm a little nervous.
- [Angelina] It's not that bad at all.
This is the needle I use, it's super, super small.
I will do an outline to make sure
you're okay with the shape that we decide to do,
so I'm basically gonna fill in this area,
just kinda get it feathered through there,
bridge all that, maybe extend it just a little bit.
- Pretty much looks like my eyebrows now.
- [Angelina] You ready?
Let's see if you're numb.
- Let's hope so. (quiet buzzing)
Oh yeah, it does sound bad.
- [Angelina] The application itself
takes about 15, 20 minutes.
- It's like we're drawing in hairs.
- [Angelina] Exactly.
You wanna take a look at what it's looking like?
- Sure, is it scary? - [Angelina] No, not at all.
- Oh yeah it is super natural.
It does look dark, though. (laughs)
- [Angelina] That's 'cause it stains the hairs.
(quiet scraping)
- That little scraping sound is real unnerving.
- [Angelina] You still feeling numb?
- Felt that last one.
- [Angelina] Felt that one, yeah.
It takes about three days to start
to heal and then kinda peels off.
No one's really gonna notice.
You'll just look like you're brow-gelling or something.
- Wow, like a different person.
- [Angelina] So I know they're a little tender
especially this area, cause you didn't really have anything,
but when it heals, you're pretty much
gonna lose a lot of the outer edge.
- My forehead's been through a lot.
- [Angelina] They're a little bold
but don't worry, it's not gonna stay like that.
- Let's see what Kelsie has to say about it.
She didn't know I did this today.
- Oh, your eyebrows!
Wait, that's tattooed?
They're very shapely. (laughs)
Yeah, they're a little intense, but ...
- [Niki] It'll get less intense.
- It's just like very new.
- My eyebrows look like they've been
drawn on, like a cartoon.
The first three days I got them done,
all anyone could do was look at my brows.
- You turned to me and I immediately noticed your eyebrows.
They are darker, they look precise, though.
I like it. - Yeah.
- Does it hurt? - No, not anymore.
But they mellowed out.
My eyebrows are scabbing now.
They look less intense, right guys?
- Yeah, they do. - They look great.
- Yeah. - Do you like 'em?
- I like 'em a lot. - Yeah!
- I was so nervous right after,
'cause I was like, oh my God, what have I done?
It's like when you draw eyebrows on a dog.
(laughing)
- They still look really good,
but now they look like normal.
- Honestly I was a little skeptical
that I would see any difference in my hair
but it felt so much lighter and
so nice, so shiny, it's like a beautiful unicorn.
They're taking up my whole shelf.
Used to take 15 minutes to clean
my hair, now it takes like 45.
- So today what we're gonna do
is I'm gonna gloss the entire hair,
kinda like reviving your hair back up,
but it's also gonna tone down some of these
highlights that you have in your hair,
'cause your wedding's gonna be outside.
We want the sun to hit it correctly
and bounce off of your hair.
I tell people do not go cheap on the hair or the makeup
because pretty much that's the way
you're gonna look for the rest of your life.
- Oh, it's so true, there's so much pleasure there.
My ultimate goals are my hair is so healthy
that I don't have to do anything to it in the morning.
I've been working out a lot so I've been sweating a lot
but my hair's been holding up really well.
- [David] Look at you, Missy.
You're getting right with the hair drugs.
Now you're the Virgin Mary. - Until my wedding night!
- [David] We're putting purple shampoo on you.
It's gonna ash out some of the warmth in your hair.
- I definitely want some layers
and I wanna go shorter, but if I decide to do an up-do,
I wanna be able to have the length to do that.
- So we're gonna do longer layers,
and then we're gonna take it up just a bit.
Just a nice simple day.
So what's next for you in your journey
is just keep on with your routine.
I didn't think you were gonna come through but you did.
- You didn't think I'd make it?
- No, because you looked scared.
The logic behind it has definitely proven.
- Thank you so much. - Yeah no, you look beautiful.
- [Niki] Do you like my hair? - Yeah.
It looks really natural, and it
goes better with your eyebrows too.
- Here are three things that I learned
about this entire hair experience.
One: we do not need to be conditioning
our hair every time we wash it.
Leave in conditioner was just as fine.
Two: hair is a really long process.
Get help early on, as soon as you can.
It's not one of those things
you wanna leave to the last minute.
My hair right now gives me a lot of versatility,
whether I wanna leave it down and leave it
a little bit bigger and voluminous,
or if I wanna put it up.
Either way, I think it'll look really great.
I'm excited to try out a couple different looks.
Three: get your eyebrows microbladed.
It's so expensive. (laughs)
You don't realize how much brows do to how
your face looks until you get them done professionally.
I'm one of those people who cares
about what their brows look like now.
The look, they're great.
Next, on Wedding Season:
12 weeks, fitness, nutrition, bridal body bootcamp.
(peppy electronic music)