- I recently got an email from a mom and dad
who wanted me to know just how extraordinary
their eight year old daughter Riley is.
They said she constantly shows quiet kindness,
I love that, quiet kindness,
whether it's befriending a new classmate
or defending and comforting a kid who's being bullied.
I knew I wanted to meet Riley, so I brought her here
along with her parents Selena and Matthew.
Will y'all stand up for us?
(applause)
Riley, how did you get to be so kind?
- The reason why I got to be so kind
is because my mom and dad learned me how
to be so kind and every day when I go to school,
I see somebody on the buddy bench
and I always go there and I say "you wanna play?"
And then they say yeah and kindness is important to me
and kindness should be important to everybody else.
- It should.
- [Riley] Yeah.
- What's the buddy bench?
- The buddy bench is when you have no one to play with.
(audience aws)
- Oh, that is kind of cool though 'cause then you see, like,
people are like "hey I'd like to play, who's in?"
I could have used a buddy bench.
(audience laughs)
So Matthew and Selena, you have to be
pretty proud of your little one, right?
- Yes, we are.
Definitely, yeah. - Yeah, I mean what-
It's an amazing thing, I always say like
I've had success in life, but the biggest successes,
it sounds so cheesy, are when you get a call
from like a parent or a teacher and they're like
"your kid was so kind today" and I'm like thank you!
(audience laughs)
I'm like, 'cause they're so mean at home.
(audience laughs)
Glad they're saving it for you.
But you asked me to help do something
special for Riley, right?
- Yes.
- Okay, so what is it?
What are y'all wantin' to do that's special?
- Because I'm working on my doctorate degree,
- [Kelly] Get it!
- [Selena] Yeah.
- That ain't no small thing.
- Yeah, the money sometimes is a little bit of a struggle.
- [Kelly] Yeah.
- So we try to do our best with birthdays
but Riley's never really had like that
wow factor birthday, so
she has a birthday coming up so we really wanted to
celebrate it in a bigger way.
- And make it special, heck yeah!
It's a birthday! (audience laughs)
Well, I love birthday parties
almost as much as I love Christmas, which is a lot.
So I put a little something together,
check this out.
(upbeat music)
(audience cheering)
Okay, so we have a bunch of Riley's friends here,
brought them here and they're ready to celebrate with her.
Y'all ready to have a good time?
(audience applause)
Okay!
Well Riley, what do you think?
Are you ready to party?
- Yeah!
- Yeah.
(laughs)
That's my girl.
That's not all though, we're throwing a Frozen party.
I hear you like Frozen, right?
Who doesn't?
(audience cheering)
And your Frozen party, it starts right now
with makeovers fit for royalty.
I brought in a power duo to help Riley
and her friends get ready.
Nick Verreos from Project Runway
and the founder of Drybar, Alli Webb,
are backstage ready for Riley and her crew.
We'll see the kids new looks later this hour.
(audience cheering)
Y'all can go ahead and exit!
So earlier, we surprised eight year old Riley
with a pop up Frozen themed surprise birthday party.
Yes! (audience laughs)
It's the kind of shindig she's always wanted,
I love that I said shindig, that's right,
I'm just gonna roll with it,
complete with makeovers and all!
And Nick and Alli have been waving their magic wands
and working their magic all hour so
have the kids been getting into their makeovers?
They been having a good time?
- Oh my gosh, yes.
They're so cute back there.
I feel like they're like little princesses
and it's like this magical dress up.
It's really, really been sweet.
- Yeah, I'm jealous.
I wanted to be one of them.
I'm like why am I so old!
(laughs)
- I just, you're never too old.
Halloween always comes every year
and I still participate, I don't care what you say.
Well let's get to the party looks
and see was Nick and Alli did.
First, we have Riley's cousin, Izzy,
and Riley's best friend from school, Amarah.
(audience applause)
Oh my gosh!
Y'all look adorable, you look so cute!
What do y'all think?
Do you like it?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- So Nick and Alli, talk us through what you did.
- It's Riley's birthday and she loves Frozen 2,
so we were inspired by the characters
in Frozen 2, of course,
so Olaf, you see the white dress,
the beautiful, eyelet lace, the little ruffle,
the black ribbon and of course the orange choker,
what's that for guys?
- [Audience] The nose. - [Kelly] The carrot nose.
- Thank you, exactly, and then...
- And then the hair is kind of a,
an uptini, as we call it at Drybar,
which is a style you can get all the time
and I think we have a little fun braid
in the back of your hair.
Can you turn around?
- [Kelly] Can you turn around?
Is there a braid? - [Alli] Can you show us
the back?
Look at the
braid at the back. - [Kelly] What?
- [Nick] Very cute.
- [Alli] A little top knot action.
- And then now Amarah, who, guess who she is?
- [Kelly] She's Anna.
- Anna, yes, she's playing Anna of course.
And I love the burgundy dress, now that's-
- [Alli] And the little bag!
- The little bag, the little quilted bag,
and the purple scarf, because you know
Anna, in Frozen 2 the colors, you have
that purple, you have some of the green, the red,
the burgundy, yep, you're like yep!
Look at the purple shawl, the little scarf, of course.
Now that dress, it's velvet and neoprene.
Neoprene is scuba.
- Yeah.
- It's like scuba fabric!
And then the boots, of course.
I think she looks darlin'.
- You look amazing!
You both look beautiful!
(audience applause)
All right, let's see our next two
Frozen inspired outfits.
Here's Riley's friend, Ethan,
and her cousin Elaine.
(audience applause)
I love it!
Y'all look awesome!
How do y'all feel?
- Good.
- Elaine's like "ah, I feel all right about it,
I feel all right about it."
All right, well Nick and Alli,
tell us about these looks.
- Well, Ethan of course, guess who he is?
Anybody?
- [Kelly] He's Kristoff.
- He's Kristoff, of course!
The fur trimmed jacket, so we found this
jacket and then we customized it,
put the fur sleeves kind of in the shoulders right there,
and then at the bottom of the hem.
The boots, vest, and then just to make it
young and fresh, the henley shirt underneath.
You know? - [Kelly] Yeah!
It's not like a tie, not givin' him a tie,
you don't want a tie, right?
No?
No.
There you go. (audience laughs)
- He's like no.
All right, what about with Elaine?
- And Elaine, you know who Elaine is, Mattias, right?
- [Kelly] Yes!
- [Nick] Lieutenant Mattias and the blue jacket,
the epaulettes, lookin' really fly, fresh, the boots-
- Lookin' very Janet Jackson meets Frozen, I like it.
- [Nick] Hi, yeah, hi! (audience laughter)
- You're a little young for Janet Jackson
but it's a cool move, I'm just sayin'.
(audience laughs)
It's a cool move.
- [Nick] Very cute.
- And then, we put some more braids in her hair, too,
if you wanna turn around and show everybody your braids.
And then we kind of embraced - [Kelly] My gosh, I love 'em!
her natural texture and let that stay
which is, you know, something we can do at Drybar too
if you wanna just come in for braids.
- That's cool.
I love it! (audience applause)
Lookin' sharp!
All right, well let's get to the princess of the princesses,
the birthday girl herself.
Riley, get on out here!
(audience cheering)
(upbeat music)
First of all, Riley, how you just walked out here
and went like let me take my sunglasses off.
- [Nick] Okay! (audience laughs)
- I love you right now!
Do you feel like a princess?
You look beautiful! - Yes, of course!
(audience laughs)
- All right, well Riley's parents,
Matthew and Selena are in the audience
so what do y'all think?
- Oh, she looks so beautiful!
- She looks amazing!
- [Kelly] She looks beautiful!
- [Selena] She's so beautiful.
- [Kelly] Look at that braid!
- [Alli] That's like the Elsa braid.
- [Kelly] Yes. - [Nick] Yeah.
- That is the braid, so we had to recreate that
and give her the perfect braid.
It looks amazing, doesn't it?
- [Kelly] Yes, I love it!
I love it!
- She looks gorgeous in the blue.
Now that's a jumpsuit,
and then we attached the organza skirt,
an overskirt, so we wanted to give her
a runway moment, you know?
'Cause this is like, this is a fashion show
and I have a mantra, everybody deserves
a red carpet moment.
- [Alli] That's how we feel at Drybar, too!
- Hey! - Everybody has
that red carpet moment.
- If you're a single mom
and you're going to pick up your son
or daughter at school, and there's a hot dad-
(audience laughs)
- I love you right now!
You're like some people pick up parents in playgrounds.
(audience laughs)
- And you've got your red carpet moment,
and this is their - [Kelly] You need a moment.
Moment. - [Alli] Whenever it is.
Yeah, it's a celebratory moment
because also that's what Disney
and Frozen 2 is about.
It's about dreaming, so this is
making a magical dream come true.
- Y'all look amazing!
(audience applause)
And I think you look like royalty,
so are you ready to party like royalty, y'all?
- [Kids] Yes! Of course!
- I couldn't hear y'all!
Are you ready?
- [Kids] (scream)
(audience cheering)
- Riley is totally from my womb somehow!
(audience laughs)
You have my same energy!
So get those glass slippers ready, y'all.
We have a full spread set up
on our rooftop for y'all right now.
That's the party you're about to hang at!
(audience cheering)
But, before y'all go, Chloe has some-
- Thank you!
- I love you, oh my gosh Riley,
I swear I don't know how we're not related.
Before you go though, Chloe has something
special for you I think, right?
- Yes.
- I think it's over here.
She brought it out at the beginning of the show
'cause she heard
that it was your birthday! - [Chloe] This is for you,
happy birthday!
(audience cheering)
- Thank you, Chloe!
- Aw, have a wonderful birthday!
You deserve it.
- All right kids!
Y'all go ahead, head on up there!
(audience cheering)
Frozen 2 is now available on Bluray and DVD
and to help keep everyone in the audience
in the best of spirit, you're all going home
with some fabulous party favors, including Frozen 2,
Queen Anna and Queen Elsa singing dolls by Hasbro,
a copy of Frozen 2, and a Drybar 150 Liquid Glass Shampoo
and Conditioner for your party hair!