- Okay, ready?
- Okay.
(sheers buzzing) Oh my God, oh my God.
- Hi, my name is David Dang, I'm a celebrity hair stylist,
hair trichologist, and I transform people's lives.
(piano music)
- The first thing I think of hair is something that
I have to always keep in one place, keep it tidy,
it happens when I'm at work 'cause I'm a nurse,
so it has to be up, at home I have a baby so it
has to be up, it used to be something that I could
feel pretty about, now it's just something
that gets in the way.
- I'm just plain Jane, no bangs, long hair,
I've always been on this journey trying to find
what kind of style matches my personality.
- The first thing I think of when I think of hair is work;
lots and lots of work.
Ever since I was a kid, my hair has always
been in some kind of style.
I never just had my hair just out, because that wasn't okay.
- I went through a period of rapid weight loss.
When you lose weight really, really quickly,
your hair falls out.
Most guys pay no attention to what's really happening
with their hair, or it starts not to be there anymore,
and then you panic.
- I think it's hard for girls with curly hair to find the
right style, like a typical Latina mom, she would
give me the tightest, most slicked-back ponytail.
I look at girls and I think, I wish I could
do that to my hair, if only I had straight hair.
- My hair is pretty thin, you watch all the commercials
with the amazing hair and you do all those things
and it still looks flat.
My hair style is dictated by the fact
that I don't like spending time with it.
- Well, when I think of hair, I do think of my sister.
She passed away two years ago from Leukemia,
but her hair was always on point.
When she'd have her chemo days,
she would have me put on her make-up.
She's like, even though I have no hair honey,
she's like, you gotta do my face.
Since her passing, I would do the best that I could,
but now with being a mom it's a little bit more challenging.
Today's gonna be a great hair day,
and she's gonna be right there watching.
She's gonna be like, yes.
- There's a story behind every hair cut.
It's a hair journey.
I'm feeling that I'm gonna give your sister the honor
of something spectacular and miraculous.
I'm visioning something really simple,
yet still eleganza too.
- And that's important, yeah, you shouldn't lose yourself
just because you have a family or a job.
- You've kind of put your hair back over here,
is this kind of like the style that you like to go for?
- Yeah, it's my way of feeling a little edgy.
- I've never been able to get good bangs, so I give up.
- Oh you've been bangry.
There's like gonna be two things
I'm gonna be talking to you about:
covering your hair and then more of a styling of your hair.
With your permission, I feel like we
should go natural today.
You know your struggle is I have to be more black
than the black people are, I have to be more white
than the white people, same thing here,
like you're living two different lives, that's exhausting!
- No, for sure.
- Right? - Yeah.
- This is untouched.
- You are a virgin.
- Uh, yeah. (woman laughs) - Hair virgin!
And I think that that's so empowering as a hair stylist,
because you've given me the opportunity to just go at it.
Let's do this.
- Yeah, let's do it! - All right, let's go!
I'm gonna ask you before I start, because this is
a really huge step.
- Okay.
- Is it cool if I shave you?
- Are you serious?
(sheers buzzing) - Wanna you close your eyes?
- I'm already closing my eyes.
- Oh okay, oh shoot, you're all ready there.
Curly hair is it's own class.
All these people who are red carpet,
they have waves in their hair.
That's essentially curls.
It's curl power, you want to embrace those curls
because those are what's working for you.
A lot of moms go like, I don't want to try anything new,
the maintenance, I have no time.
But remember, if the stylist is giving you
the correct consultation, the maintenance can actually
be as easy as pie.
Moms, you rock, and we're here to show you that.
First word that comes to your mind, okay?
Shorter.
The stigma of cutting short hair on girls.
- I'm super nervous because I don't know
how short you're going.
- They go like, oh don't cut your hair,
your hair's beautiful.
I'm talking about having that open conversation of like,
why you want to cut your hair.
There's a liberating fact about it.
Your hair can grow better,
it's less likely to get split ends.
Live a little bit, don't worry, hair grows back.
We have a virgin client.
That's a stylist's dream, blank canvas.
Coloring hair is not as scary as you think,
because coloring your hair is
almost like covering your life.
Still be you, but have a little bit of, oh I'm someone else.
For men, they have something called DHT,
it's like a testosterone, and it blocks follicles
from growing, they can either be like, losing it here,
losing it back here,
losing a little here, patchiness.
For every 100,000 men that are losing hair,
50,000 women are.
It's diffused-ening, it's everywhere.
So we're speaking to women to figure out
where your areas of concern are and how
we can get you from point zero to 10.
I'm going to send you to one of my really,
really great friends.
I feel like a lot of the culture where we
sabotage each other is like,
oh you have to have straight hair.
Who said that that's the best way to do things?
There's another way to feel your hair breathe again,
and to accept that as something that's so beautiful.
- I'm so ready. - All right.
- Oh my God, I'm another human!
What, it's like wow!
- [David] It's like another you.
Like this cut is just fun. - [Jennifer] Yeah.
- Like you can even scrunch it and just let it go,
that lived in kind of hair.
And you're not bangry.
- I'm not bangry, I have bangs.
- [David] You're banging! - [Jennifer] Oh my God.
- Open.
- Oh my God!
- [David] What do you think?
- [Jazmin] It looks cool! - It's so clean,
and you have a cute scalp.
This is a natural wave, people want this.
- I have never had a hair cut where
I love how curly my hair looks.
- I look 18 again. (both laugh)
I feel lighter, I feel livelier, I feel younger.
- This is the most authentic hair cut I think I've given,
because my mom struggled and I think the last thing
she thought about was her looks.
I feel like you are empowering as a person.
- [Anna] Thank you!
- [Marc] I really like it, I'm surprised
by how you really can't see the receding hair line.
- What this looks like is effortless.
- Yeah.
- I literally woke up, jushed my hair a little bit,
and then bam!
Here we go. (gasps)
- It looks gorgeous!
It feels like there's a vibrancy to it
that I didn't have before, and it feels full.
- Exactly, I didn't tease your hair at all,
this is no tease, this is straight up a blow dry.
You're gonna get some looks girl.
- Honey, my sister approves.
- [David] Oh I love it, I'm so happy.
- Oh my God. (both laughing)
I just feel very open, I feel very free right now,
I can touch my scalp for once.
- I feel like this is another great option for you.
You're embodying everything that I think that
a woman stands for and a woman stands for in her hair.
- Whoa! (both laughing)
- Wow, that's crazy!
- It looks so much fuller, and that's just color.
- This is a sweet color, I'm into this.
- It's the easiest thing to maintain.
- [Amy] This is awesome. - [David] Yeah.
You are definitely a vock.
- My advice for girls who never do anything with their hair
is to get somebody trusted
and just let them go wild with it.
- People forget that this is forever, and whether you're
losing it or whether you have a lot of it, it's there.
That's why I made this video for people out there
who don't have a voice for hair.
- [Anna] My husband's gonna say "rawr". (laughs)
- [Jazmin] Just let your hair be free.
- [Jennifer] Keep trying new things and I think that
really helps you grow as a person.
- As my sister would say, she'd be like,
"Mm hmm honey, that's how you do your hair, girl."