-I don't know what I'm getting,
I asked her for a complete transformation,
and I'm really excited to get started,
but, honestly, I trust her completely,
and I cannot wait.
Hi, everyone. I am Rissa, and today,
I'm getting a surprise hair transformation.
Today I'm getting my hair done by my childhood hairdresser.
I started going to Karris when I was around 17,
18 years old, and I have been loyal to a fault.
I've not lived in Atlanta for the past 10 years,
and I come here on holidays
and down to get my hair done by Karris.
She's amazing.
Over the last two years of quarantine,
I have had my friends giving me haircuts,
and it has been with my kitchen shears in my bathroom,
and, although my hair is resilient -- thank you, hair --
it needs some love.
I think that a Black woman's relationship with
their hairdresser is sacred,
and I'm so excited to see, like, what she does today.
I think I'm most excited to walk out of the salon today
looking like a different person.
I think, like, as I enter my Saturn returns,
I'm ready to make these, like, big changes,
and, you know, a girl who is going to change her hair
is about to change her life, and that's what I'm ready to do.
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-Hi, my name is Karris. I'm a colorist,
and I'm the owner of The Collective Salon Atlanta.
So, most of my clients come to me as a natural specialist.
I specialize in curly hair
and making sure that people can get the color that they want
while maintaining their curl pattern.
I'm best known for blondes,
but I also love doing reds and coppers
and definitely some fun brunettes.
So, today, I'm going to do a fall transformation on Rissa.
I'm super excited to give her some sultry hair color.
I'm definitely going to give her some face-framing layers
just to open her face up.
And then we're going to focus on keeping her really sexy for L.A.
Let's get started.
So, the first thing we're going to do with Rissa
is part her off into three sections.
We are going to start in the back quadrant.
That is where the hair is usually the darkest,
so we're going to start in the back.
We are going to mix up our lightener.
We are using a clay lightener and 20-volume developer,
we are going to mix it with a comb,
and I love this tip, because I feel like the comb
actually breaks down the powder a little bit more,
and we're also going to add in Olaplex
for some extra strength and conditioning.
We're going to begin by placing the lightener
in the middle of the hair and softly feathering it up.
It's just going to give her a really soft grow-out
and more of a natural, sun-kissed look.
Every single area that I do,
I'm going to cover them with a mesh strip.
A mesh strip is similar to foil.
It just separates each section.
But I like using mesh because mesh doesn't conduct heat.
It's a great way to keep curly hair curly,
to keep the pattern in place,
and to be able to watch it as you move throughout the head.
So total time, it takes about 45 minutes
for us to process her hair,
so now we're going to go to the shampoo bowl,
and we're going to start rinsing her hair out in sections.
We're going to start in the back section,
and then we're going to work to the front
once all the tone across the head is the same.
So once we rinse, we're going to do a light shampoo
to make sure all the lightener's out of her hair.
And then we're going to go in with our Olaplex conditioner,
and we're going to saturate her hair with that
and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
Next, we're going to rinse out our Olaplex.
I am going to apply a small amount of detangler to her hair,
and then we're going to get ready to do our final step,
which is the glaze and tone process.
First, I'm going to mix a darker color for her base area
and her mid-lengths. So even though this color
looks really red and bright in the bowl,
it's not going to develop that way.
So I am going to apply this color to her base
all the way down through her mids using a bowl and brush,
and I'm going to take a comb
and just slightly blend the color down through her ends.
Now I'm going to mix a second tone.
This town is much lighter, and this is going to go
from her mids to the very end of her hair.
This time I'm using a application bottle.
It makes it a lot quicker, and it's easier to apply.
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Next, we're going to go back to the bowl.
We're going to do a light shampoo.
We want to do a light shampoo
because we want our toner to last.
And after that, we're going to do a conditioner.
After we finish our shampoo and conditioning,
we're coming back to the chair
and we're going to get Rissa blow-dried.
Rissa has a ton of hair, which takes a ton of time to blow-dry,
but I like doing a full, fluffy blow-dry on her hair.
It keeps our hair from looking too flat,
and it's definitely going to make sure her hair
doesn't go oily quickly.
So today we're doing straight on Rissa.
Of course, her hair looks great curly,
but she wanted to have a full glam moment,
and we're going to give her some sexy tousled curls.
Rissa asked for me to take off about four inches of her hair,
and so I'm going to go in, and I'm probably going to take
more like three inches just to bring up the length,
but not to remove too much of the color that we just placed.
Now we're going to go in with our barrel curling iron.
This is an inch-and-a-half.
So now that we're doing curling,
I'm actually going to apply a serum to her hair.
The serum is very light, but it just lays down any flyaways,
and it blocks the humidity because we're in hot Georgia.
Last, we're going to do a little bit of a holding spray,
and that's just to keep her curls intact
and make sure she has some longevity.
What do you think? -Karris, this is so amazing.
I knew it'd be amazing, because it's you,
but I didn't know that it'd be this...this...
Wow. The dimension, the color.
It's so soft and so beautiful.
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-So, I chose this pretty caramel blend for Rissa
because I thought it went well with her skin tone,
her big, brown eyes,
and I thought that it would look great just for her L.A. life.
She's living a new L.A. life,
and I wanted to do something to just bring her up.
-I do feel sexy. So sexy.
-Good. You're so sexy.
-[ Chuckling ] Thanks, Karris.
You're saying even if you don't believe it, but, wow.
-So, you don't have to do a whole lot.
You can let it grow out over the next year,
or you can come back and get it retouched and moved back up.
But either way, it's going to look great.
-Karris, this is absolutely fantastic.
Thank you so much. -You are so welcome.
I'm glad you love it.
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