♪ Welcome to the show, to the history mix ♪
♪ Switching up the flow as we add the prefix ♪
♪ Everybody knows that we used to be six wives ♪
♪ But now we're ex-wives ♪
- [Rachel] Abby really has to
stop letting me steal the camera,
because I'm just gonna do stuff like this.
But, in all seriousness, this queen
wants to bring the camera around
to all the other queens, to talk about their makeup
and hair process.
Let's do it.
- Hey gang.
It's me, Sam Pauly.
♪ Samantha Pauly ♪
But also.
- Absolutely not. (laughing)
- We heard that some of you were interested in
hearing about how we get ready for the show.
This is it.
First of all, I've got a small bowl of Puppy Chow.
Makeup.
I'm just gonna take ya through it.
And you can just watch me put my makeup on.
- [Brittney] Love that.
- This is my primer, whoops. (laughing)
It's from elf, because I am cheap, and I don't really care--
- Oh my God, but wait, what do I use?
(gasping) - It's the same thing?
- Ze same one. - Wow.
Blemish control, slap it on, that's the first step.
- Slap it on.
- Foundation, NARS.
So this is it, you're just gonna watch me do it,
because I... - [Brittney] Because, yeah.
What tunes are we gonna put on?
- This is my all-time favorite concealer, oops,
(laughing)
It's called 'Shape Tape'.
Andrea introduced me to it. (laid-back hip hop music)
Also, this is the MAC highlighter that
we were given in Chicago. (whistling)
It's called, it's 'Soft Frost'.
I've had this since we were in Chicago, it's the best.
Pigment Primer.
For eyeshadow.
'Cause I wear a lot of eyeshadow.
(laid-back hip hop music)
And then, because ya gotta make that brow bone pop,
when you're standin' out there,
- [Brittney] Come on, highlight it.
- Under all those lights. - [Brittney] Highlight it.
- We use 'Pearl Affection'. - [Brittney] Pearl Affection!
- To get it goin'.
And then I bring back this MAC highlighter.
Because, when I first started using it,
there was a day that Britt was outta the show,
but she watched, and she sat at the back of the house,
and she said that she could see my highlighter
all the way from the back and, ever since then,
- It was popping. - Ever since then,
I use it.
Okay, so, Andrea is gonna take you guys
down to the wig room with her,
for her to get her hair done
and, probably, by the time she comes back up,
my makeup will be finished, so you can see
ze finished look.
Go with Andrea. (reggae music)
- Yay!
Hello, Broadway.
This is Jamie.
- Hi. (laughing)
- She's gonna put my hair on.
I have a piece, now.
It is because I was experiencing some breakage over
the last few months of doing the show,
so I was breaking at the top of my head,
so I'd have little hairs just (rolling tongue)
(giggling)
- So, now, - It's not a cute look.
- It's really, - No.
- It's really not.
So now I get a piece that saves my hair.
(giggling) Woo-hoo!
(laid-back hip hop music)
Yes. - Yeah.
We have to.
- That one felt good. - Good.
How's she feel?
- Great. - Great!
- And now, we're done.
Ta-da! - Did it, yay!
(laughing)
- Jamie, how long does it take you to get everybody prepped,
and ready for the show?
- It takes me
almost an hour.
- An hour. - Yeah.
- And then, what's the cleanup time,
for the hairs and stuff, how long does it take you to--
- At the end of the night? - Wash the hair,
and all that stuff?
- Oh, well hair-washing happens once a week,
but, at the end of the night, everything gets cleaned,
all the lace gets cleaned, everything gets brushed through,
and then it usually takes about 40 minutes
to get through everybody.
(laughing)
- [Samantha] We're done.
- [Andrea] Great. - [Brittney] She's beat.
- She's beat! (laughing)
And cut!
- And cut.
You can just hit 'stop', I think.
- Stop.
- Hi guys.
I'm Brittney Mack, here, I play Anne of Cleves,
like y'all know.
What I'm gonna show you guys,
for the last day of Black History Month, yas,
is, I just wanna talk to you guys about
the hair in the show, specifically for myself.
One of the things that I love about this show,
and being able to do it and participate in this movement,
and one of the things that I thought was
really important, and just, not 'groundbreaking', per se,
but, cool, (phone ringing)
♪ Oh, my phone is ringin', it's my mama ♪
So, I was talkin' about hair,
and how important it is to be authentic,
'specially right now, a lot of people are talkin' about,
it's like a fad, to be unapologetically you,
and all of these things,
and I think the most important part of that movement,
specifically, is embracing yourself, your culture,
your heritage, your ancestry.
And one of the big things, 'specially in Black culture,
is our hair.
We've been taught to
not appreciate all the aspects of being a Black woman
and what that is, unfortunately.
So, one of the things I love about bein' a part of this show
is that I get to wear my hair.
Meaning my own hair out, exposed, on the stage.
So, I have sisterlocks.
Sisterlocks is not the same as 'dreadlocks',
or 'traditional locks'.
Sisterlocks is a micro-locking technique,
that was created by Dr. JoAnne Cornwell,
and she is an incredible Black woman.
She's based out of California.
Yeah, she's just wonderful,
she came up with this technique years ago,
my mom went and got certified
and then got her hair locked and I was like,
'Yo, I will watch your hair for a year,
'and then see if I wanna do that.'
I was the young Black girl who never wanted to
sit and get her hair done.
I love getting braids, but I hated the process,
and then you hate gettin' it taken down,
and things like that.
What I loved about sisterlocks,
after watchin' my mom's hair for a year,
was how beautiful and feminine it was, and dainty.
You can curl your hair, you can roll your hair,
so, basically, what it is, is,
all it is is it keeps me from having to comb my hair.
So, if I wanna wear my hair down, I'm not like,
'Okay, let me try to get my hair down.'
I take it down, like I just did,
and it's down.
Ready to go, date night, (clapping and snapping)
Let's go.
I don't have a date, yet, but that's fine,
the point is.
So, usually, you see my eyes are done,
as far as makeup goes.
Then I will, slappin' foundation on and all of that
is pretty easy, after that, so I'm gonna prime my eyes,
so that I can put the red on, that pops through,
and then I'm gonna do my hair,
because I do my own hair for the show.
When Lucy said, 'I really want you to wear your hair,
'how do you feel about a wig?'
And I was like, 'I disagree, I disagree.'
(laughing) One of the things
is that there is an addition to my hair,
so you will see some red highlights in my hair.
So this is Marley hair.
This Marley hair is really cool,
it's very popular right now,
and adding, for people who want to lock look, perhaps.
(laid-back hip hop music)
Y'all, my sister, Courtney Mack is here.
(laughing)
She's here.
Guys, gang's all here, it's happening.
So here's what we're doing.
I'm gonna come back,
and then show you the finished product.
I'm all done, the crown is on.
And by crown I mean my actual hair,
not like these crowns, but,
worship your crowns, love your hair,
love your hair queendom, love your hair, brown girls,
love your hair, because,
that's all you got, you know?
And you wanna appreciate it, some people don't,
and, yeah, so we gonna go do the show,
and I'll see y'all later!
Happy Black History Month.
Bye!
♪ Welcome to the show, to the history mix ♪
♪ Switching up the flow as we add the prefix ♪
♪ Everybody knows that we used to be six wives ♪