This is going to change my whole style.
I can feel it in my fingers.
You ready?
I think so.
Hi, I'm Gaby.
I'm originally from London and I'm currently living in New York, and I work in production.
I've always kind of used my hair as a security blanket, but I'm going through a lot of change
in my life at the moment.
In the last couple of years, my dad, unfortunately, passed away and I've moved across a big ocean
away from my family.
With a new chapter comes a new haircut so I'm super excited for this transformation.
I have never cut or dyed my hair before.
When I was growing up, my mom wouldn't let me do anything to my hair.
She always just wanted it to be natural and as long as possible.
I think she kind of took ownership over my hair.
She thinks that I'm very lucky to have long and thick hair so she just never wanted me
to do anything outrageous.
Sorry Mom, I'm doing it now, so hopefully I don't get slapped when I get home.
Hi, Mom.
I'm getting a haircut.
No, don't be mad!
And I'll be seeing my mom very soon, so I hope she likes it.
This one's for you, Mom.
Hi, Gaby, I'm Karen.
I’ll be cutting your hair today.
Was there anything you had in mind?
So I definitely want to get at least eight inches cut so that I can donate it.
Okay.
And then I was also thinking of maybe getting bangs.
Do you think that will suit me?
I didn't want the bangs to kind of make me look a bit like a sheepdog, if all you could
see was my mouth.
In the middle, your bangs would be a little shorter.
Yeah.
And then, like you said, gradually get a little longer.
So your
bangs won't be covering your eyes too much.
I trust you.
So I'm going to go ahead and grab my things and start the precut.
Okay?
Perfect.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
You ready?
I think so.
There's no turning back.
Oh my god!
Ahhh, I do look like
a sheepdog!
No, I'm joking!
Okay, Gaby so Jake is going to come over and do your color.
I'll see you once that's done and we'll finish the haircut.
Hi, Gaby.
How's it going?
Hi, good, how are you?
Doing good.
I'm Jake.
Gaby, pleasure to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
What's going on?
What are we doing?
What I'm thinking for the color, and obviously I want you to give your opinion too, but I
kind of want it to remain a similar color because it goes with my eyes and my skin tone.
I'm all about very sun-kissed looking hair so I feel like if we created the sun-kissed
version of your hair with the color, that would bounce off of the haircut really nicely
since you’re gonna have these pieces that come down.
So let's get started.
I'm just gonna go grab some supplies really quick.
We'll have a bunch of foils in your hair.
These are gonna be all the lighter pieces that we want to see and then we'll gloss everything
after to refine the tone and we'll be good.
Okay.
Thank you.
We're done with this step of the process.
You'll probably sit for about 20 minutes now.
If you're good at that point, we'll go upstairs and get you glossed.
I look like the Tin Man.
Jingle Bells, jingle bells!
Now you've just got these sun-kissed highlights throughout your hair, and we kind of created
those by doing somewhat of a balayage and a foil over at the shampoo bowl when we had
the gloss on you.
We refined the tone to give it this more kind of like a lighter brown element.
Let me go grab Karen.
She'll come over and do the cut and we'll finish up your look.
So we'll clean up the length, add some texture in there, do the bangs, do some internal layering
too, that where we can kind of balance the density.
Okay.
Gonna just smooth your ends out because we like it to be really straight.
Sheepdog hair!
With a dry cut, we are able to refine the cut and really get to the spots that need
work better.
So when it's dry, it's like everything is exactly how it's gonna be.
Alrighty Gaby, are you ready?
Yes.
That is crazy!
What?!
It's such a big difference, but I really like it.
Thank you guys so much.
Sorry that was so awkward!
I look a bit like a rock star.
I'm facetiming my mom so she can see it.
Let's see what she says.
Gab,
You look amazing!
I can’t!
This is too embarrassing,
I can't. I'm sorry.
My mom seems to love it, so.
And then I hung up on her.
This is exactly what I wanted, haircut-wise.
I love the color.
I love the shaggy texture to it.
I mean the whole thing is amazing.
Now is the time in my life that's the perfect time to do this.
I love it.
I'm so happy I did it.
I would say to anyone who wants to get a big transformation, to just go for it because
life’s too short.
Hi, everyone.
Thank you for watching my transformation.
I hope you like it.
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