- Hi Harper's BAZAAR.
I am Tracee Ellis Ross and I am gonna show you
how I do my full and fluffy signature style.
(upbeat music)
So let's start with what happened before this.
I used the Hydration Shampoo
and then I used the Medium Conditioner
and then with the Medium Conditioner in my hair,
I separated my hair into six sections
and I shower brushed it through.
While my hair was soaking wet after I rinsed it out
with freezing cold low pressure water,
I put the Leave-In Conditioner in my hair
while I was sopping wet, which seals in all the moisture
that I had just put in my hair
and gives me a light hold and makes that curl just pop
and then the best part was I started to diffuse.
It's very specific for me.
I do the diffusing from soaking wet hair.
I do it in sections.
I put my hair all up on the top of my head
and then I drop down a section
and I start with low even, though it's not happening now,
I start with sections, I put it on the hair,
I go all the way up on high heat
and then I do the low setting and then high
and then sometimes I cool shot at the end,
but I mostly cool shot on the front.
What did I diffuse with you say, guess what?
The Pattern Blow Dryer.
Shut up, close all the doors, open the windows.
(Tracee laughing)
Yes, Pattern Beauty now has a heat tool.
It is a blow dryer with four attachments.
That is the diffuser, the regular nozzle,
the brush which mirrors our shower brush
and, shut the front door, a wide toothed comb.
So my journey with my hair has been a long one.
I'm 50 and that journey was challenging and interesting,
like it is for most of us.
I could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance
through my journey with my hair.
One of the things that I discovered is that,
like many of us we had an experience and a relationship
to heat that was not positive.
It either brought a lot of pain or we damaged our hair
and sort of beat our hair into submission
and I had that experience during "Girlfriends"
where somebody straightened my hair with a hot iron,
with the stove iron, and my hair would not curl back up
and during those years when I was trying
to nurse my hair back to health,
but I was still on camera every week,
I discovered that there was a way to safely use heat
and use it as a tool for possibility.
So this fun and fluffy style that I'm gonna do today
which utilizes the wide toothed comb attachment
on the blow dryer is a style that
is sort of like the extension of my regular diffused hair.
This is my hair not fluffed at all, just diffused.
It's like day one hair
and usually day two hair would kind of be my favorite
'cause it starts to get big.
But this will allow you to get your day two hair
on hour one.
As you can see, I have many, many different
curl patterns in my hair.
This section is much looser
and doesn't really curl at the top.
This section all around the front of my hair is my tightest
and I always have better hair in New York.
I don't know what it is about the water here,
it's just so good.
These are all my curliest.
This hair here is the straightest,
some of these just don't curling
but they're so silky and soft.
So that's my sort of all the different natural patterns
that are in my hair.
You can see.
So step one of phase two
is that we're gonna section my hair.
So, I always do six sections.
I do the bottom section and sort of take out
a nice little chunk there and then I clip.
So I use our Pattern Clip,
a nice big clip and instead of mushing the curls,
I separate doing my best to not
sort of separate too many curls.
I take a curl down and then I take this section
and I clip it up like this so that I don't mess up the top.
So this is my sections down here
and I'm gonna start with these guys.
So I'm gonna put it on high heat
and I'm gonna start with the low blow setting.
(blow dryer humming) (relaxing electronic music)
See how we're doing?
See how it's coming down so you can compare it.
See it's starting to get fluffy and a little more stretched.
So I'm gonna turn up to high air.
(relaxing electronic music continues)
I like to leave the ends
so that the ends and the outside of my hair, the shape,
stays with the little curls and the fuzz is at the base
so we get a lot of volume.
I like to go from the root, not all the way down to the end
and you know what step I forgot?
The Heat Protectant.
So the Heat Protectant is one that I actually put this on
back at the hotel when I diffused from wet
so that it would be a part of the beginning
before I put any heat on my hair.
The Heat Protectant is a nice way to give the cuticle
of the hair some protection from the heat.
It's like a gentle light spray.
I'll just show you how it sprays so you can see.
See how light that is?
So we're gonna go in and I'm gonna keep stretching.
Okay, here we go.
(blow dryer humming)
So I'm starting on the low setting
and I'm literally just getting in there
and again, I'm pulling and stretching down
but leaving the end so that I still have that,
I'm gonna go up.
Oh, we're starting to get somewhere.
Okay, so, you see we're getting volume.
Oh, come on.
So we're gonna bring down another section.
Oh, I wish I had somewhere to go.
So I like to mix the frizz.
Don't be afraid of frizz.
Frizz is so sexy.
I like to mix the frizz with some of the curls
that exist, but also look at that shine guys,
look at that shine.
Some of that is from the Heat Protectant,
some of that is from the Leave-In Conditioner.
Here we go for another section.
(relaxing electronic music continues)
So, I'm gonna go up in heat so we get a little more stretch,
up in air flow, I mean.
(relaxing electronic music continues)
I love big hair!
Do you see what's happening?
I'm gonna come down for some more sections.
So one of the things I was saying
is that I like to mix the frizz with the curls.
So, you can see the non-pulled out, here to here.
So this is the top layer.
(blow dryer humming)
(relaxing electronic music continues)
Okay, okay, that's one side.
I'm gonna keep going with my full and fluffy, you ready?
(relaxing electronic music continues)
I like to leave my little berries in the front.
Oh, come on.
This is such a good hair day
and any day can be a good hair day.
Yes!
So my words of encouragement or suggestion
or sort of inspiration for anybody
that is afraid of frizz or afraid of volume,
afraid of volume, what?
That's where the glamour is, huh?
Try it out.
Experiment with it on a day
when you're with people you know you love
or you don't have some big event.
I don't know if there's like a holiday party,
maybe a date, like a fourth date and just try something new
or maybe just to go to the market.
Do you know what I mean?
I'm gonna go pick up some groceries,
some bread and some milk.
It's been really exciting
to have a new relationship with heat.
When I was like in my teens, I remember calling my mom
and being like, "Mom, my hair is dead."
I had a little duty pony.
I used to call it my little duty ponytail.
It was literally like this much hair and that was the back
and I would put it in this like weird little bun
and then I would take the whole front section,
that I could see all of the split ends and the dead hair,
it was like white on the ends
and I would push it up like this
and either pin it so that the dead ends were hidden
and you could just see the front
and I would put a headband on it.
It was like a in the front
and a little duty ponytail in the back.
I did not have all this hair and then this obviously
has been my dream for like two years.
Ah, bring the heat, it's a Pattern Blow Dryer.
What?
Bring the heat!
Oh, the good heat.
So this is my full and fluffy signature style.
From shower to this, 30 minutes.
Thank you so much for having me Harper's Bazaar.
This is my full and fluffy doo.
I'm Tracee Ellis Ross.
This is the Pattern Blow dryer
with the wide toothed attachment
which is what I used for this.
I am signing off.
(relaxing electronic music continues)