- I'm gonna put the wig on first.
Let's see.
(Kaylin laughs)
- Hi.
(upbeat music plays)
- Hey guys, I'm Alexandria
and today we are going to be getting
celebrity hair makeovers.
Rod Ortega is gonna be doing YB's hair and my hair.
He is the hair stylist for Blake Lively,
Amal Clooney, a bunch of other celebrities.
Kaylin's personal hairstylist Kamara,
is coming in to do her hair.
She's also a celebrity hairstylist
whose working on music videos.
We'll be getting a full hair makeover,
and then we're gonna do a photoshoot
to recreate the celebrity photo at the end.
- So the look I'm doing to the is JLO.
I mean, look at her hair.
This is exactly the length I want for my wedding,
so that's actually perfect.
It's long, it's voluminous.
- I'm so excited to be doing Ciara's 2019 Met Gala style.
I mean look at how big, bold and beautiful this hair is.
It's just like, absolutely stunning.
- So today I'm gonna be doing Ariana Grande's hairstyle
and look from the "Positions" photoshoot.
And she has so much hair here.
It's very obvious she has a bunch of clipping pieces.
I haven't colored my hair
or done anything to it in about four years.
And since the pandemic,
I've kind of stopped getting haircuts.
So right now is the most natural
my hair has been in a long time.
It's my natural color.
- I've had a lot of hairstyles
during my time at "Try Guys."
If you watch all our food babies videos
from the beginning to now,
I had a different hairstyle each time.
I have about a year until my wedding,
so I'm hoping that I can grow it out as long as possible.
- So I obviously have very naturally curly hair
that I love and adore.
Every year, every summer,
I give myself a big birthday hairstyle,
so birthday braids.
Every year I kind of try to outdo
what I did the last year.
So it's a challenge to find new styles,
but yeah, naturally curly gang.
(soft music plays)
- Hi, I'm Rod Ortega
and I'm here to give Alex and YB a celebrity makeover.
Actually, I got inspired when I was probably around seven.
The inspiration of beauty and fashion
and travel was huge for me
because coming from a low income family
there wasn't much to dream about,
or there wasn't much to explore.
There was a place called Thrifty's
and it was kind of like a Rite Aid or a Walgreens.
Back then it was a place
where they had tons of magazines.
I'm getting chills as we speak.
It was just something that was so personal
and coming from a low-income Latin family
and coming from a really small town.
Especially being a queer boy,
certain things like fashion and beauty
was not accepted in the community that I was raised in
and my escape would be my bicycle
and being able to go to Thrifty's
and look at all the magazines and just dream.
I would just grab my friends
and I had no idea what I was doing
and I would just start cutting.
Practicing on dolls heads,
I started coloring and using Kool-Aid.
My dad would drop me off at school
and I would turn around and take the bus to LA.
I would see Madonna, I would see Boy George.
I mean, I saw Duran Duran.
My counselor was an angel.
So she said, "What I want you to do
is go down to this hair school and check it out
and see if you like it."
The minute I opened that door,
the perm just like radiated out in the hairspray.
I was like, "This is home, I'm home."
That was my life,
my life changed and here I am today.
So for today's look
we're gonna be adding length to YB's hair.
We're gonna be doing the look of Jennifer Lopez.
So we're gonna take the bob away,
and we're gonna add length.
22 inch extensions with clips.
Our Alexandria, she requested an Ariana Grande,
"Positions" photoshoot which is very '60s.
So what we decided to do is, do a half fall.
A fall is a half of a wig.
We're gonna be adding
then we're gonna lift some color into it.
She'll be kind of sisters to YB.
JLO, Ariana, friends to me.
My background is more than just red carpet, it's film.
I did commercials, I did videos,
I did so many magazines, doing Vogue
and then doing the Met Ball.
I never thought I would be able to do the Met Ball.
It's just been so amazing in my life
and I just owe it all to the place
that I didn't want to be as a kid
to how it ended up where I am now.
- Hi, my name is Kamara Brown
and I am a protective hairstylist in Los Angeles.
I specialize in curly texture, cuts and braids
and all sorts of protective styles.
I got started in the hair industry about 10 years ago.
I was a freelance photographer during that time
and along with that came a demand for texture
and the natural hair movement.
So I stopped doing photography during that time
and really dived in to that
because that's something that I really enjoyed and loved
and ever since I've been doing texture hair.
So protective style is really important
because it's important to give your hair a break.
As women, we often are trying to create
a new look for ourselves, figuring out our identity
and I feel like hair is definitely a part of that,
so it's very important.
Wear protective styles to give your hair
a break from straightening it
or relaxing or adding color
and be able to actually enjoy many styles and have fun.
So today we are doing Ciara's 2019 Met Gala look
and I will be creating
a Afro texture wig ponytail for Kaylin.
You'll be wearing one of these
and I'll be sewing on six to eight of them around it.
So, but there will be weight on it.
So, yes. (kaylin laughs)
- One time I got my braids done and I was like,
they were so heavy that I didn't know what to do.
I was moving my neck around like this.
(laughs)
- We like dipped her hair and she was just slowly like.
(both laugh)
(upbeat music plays)
- All right, we're here with our full style team.
It's about to be a big day of glam.
All right, we got our makeup artist,
Devin here with us. - Hi.
- [Kaylin] She's gonna be recreating
all of our celebrity makeup styles
since they are all a little different
and we've got Kamara here. - Hey.
- [Kaylin] Who's gonna be doing the big fro look
and Rod, who's gonna be taking care
of Alex and YB's glam look.
- So Alexandria, mostly parts her hair down the middle.
So with the look we're going for it's on the side.
What I'm doing is starting with some just basic water
and I'm gonna train it.
- My hair as a kid was, similar to what it is now.
My mom would never really let me cut my hair short
and I wanted short hair.
But I have a pretty bad cowlick right here,
so I had very crooked bangs my whole life.
I did balayage for a few years,
and that was really fun and I loved it,
but it also really damaged my hair.
- So since Alexandria has no color
and the way to cheat it
would be taking the track that's colored,
take off the clips,
and I'm gonna do a temporary glue with eyelash glue.
We use it a lot in New York Fashion Week
and different runway shows
so it's very easy to be able to take a Q-tip in there
and just release it.
(laughs in background)
- Why are you guys laughing?
- [YB] You look so-.
- [Kaylin] You're looking very emo girl.
(laughs in background) - [YB] Very emo.
- About this look,
is that there's a lot of texture, fullness.
I'm layering it with hairspray which I'm just using Elnett.
We use it during fashion week, we use it on-.
I use it on every red carpet.
So what I'm gonna do is keep adding the spray, more texture
and more texture and more texture and shine.
- I always had like brown highlights.
I liked to color it a lot.
So in high school I had red hair, so I dyed it bright red.
I don't know why.
I think it was kind of in at the time
but most of the time I had brown long hair.
So when I first went blonde was when I worked at Buzzfeed.
We did a video of, "Asians Get Blonde Hair."
So I got my blonde hair for the first time
and I really liked it, but it was hard to upkeep
because bleaching your hair
every three weeks is so expensive.
So I tried to bleach it myself.
I bought all the tools, I bought the bleach.
I put it on for so long so when it was done,
my hair was falling out,
but luckily, not all of it fell out.
So after that, I was like,
"Okay, I have to go to the salon."
So that was my probably biggest mistake.
- So just like we did to Alexandria
what I'm gonna add is, since YB's bangs are shorter
and she likes to put a little curler in it.
(both laugh)
Which I had to take.
Where did it go?
The direction that she normally wears is forward
and with the picture that we're recreating
it's off to the side, it's more winged out middle.
Since she does have a little bit of a shorter bang,
I think I'm gonna add just a couple of pieces
just to give her a little bit of weight.
- So a little bit earlier, I was molding the front
of Kaylin's hair.
So I used a Got2b spray to mold down the hair
and a little bit of gel.
The thing about the Ciara look is, it's very sleek.
She actually started the look with two big puffs
and then she transitioned into the wig.
So right now I created some two pigtail, braided pigtails.
I'm gonna wrap them in a bun.
This will be my anchor for the wig
that I will be sewing on so-.
- So, growing up I actually had really long
naturally curly hair.
It was much longer than this.
Just growing up in kind of a suburban area,
I always was wanting it straight.
So I made my mom straighten my hair all the time.
My poor mother was really trying
to get me to stop doing that.
Any black girls in the audience watching
may have a similar story
but this is kind of where my big hair trauma comes from.
It was trendy to get these relaxers.
It was really unhealthy for your hair.
At the end of middle school,
I basically ended up having to do a big chop
after like it was extremely damaged
because of all the relaxer.
And then by the time I got to college,
I finally decided it was time to return to the curl.
In one of the classes we had to learn
how to do broadcast news reporting.
One of the kind of performance coaches in that class
said something to me that I'll never forget.
She basically was like, "I love your look.
I love your hair
but I wouldn't let it get any bigger than that."
And I was like, "You're joking."
(chuckles)
So making the swap back to curly definitely was not easy
and going natural is like a huge decision
and hard for a lot of people to get to that point,
but ever since I've done it, I haven't looked back
and since college I've been natural for I guess
however many years it's been, I don't know.(chuckles)
- So this is an example of one of the wig.
What I did was, I used zip ties to put them together.
I'm gonna be tying it down
with a strip to kinda just protect it.
- Oh boy, this is gonna be heavy.
I feel like I can cradle it like my child.
(laughs in background)
- Sometimes you can see through the hair.
So it's important that you mute it out and blend it.
So a good trick of the trade is,
to get a little bit of a little sharpie.
Just adding it to the root, just for blending.
Clipping in from the nip, tearing all the way up
doing probably two one and a half to two inches separate
and headed going up, all the way up to the crown.
The back piece would be something like this from ear to ear.
- Okay, so right now I'm gonna be using two wig combs
to sew on the wigs that I constructed.
That way I'm not putting too much tension on her actual hair
and it holds it in place.
- So next step would be just sectioning the hair.
This is where I'm gonna place the fall.
The fall normally always goes
probably right before the crown, right before the top.
By pre-waving it you can build up the hair,
which what I like doing
because it looks so much more natural
and the fall is so much better.
And then at afterwards you can just spot curl
just to give variations of tighter wave
and then a looser wave
and it could be abstract wave definition
then just a solid wall of wave.
- All right, so are we ready to put this thing on?
- Yes. - It's a little bit heavy so-.
- We tried it earlier and my neck was like, oops.
(giggles) - We gonna work it out.
I'm gonna put the wig on first.
Let's see. (Kaylin laughs)
Do you feel the weight?
- Not yet. (laughs in background)
How did Ciara walk down a carpet with this on?
- I don't know.
- Doing interviews.
- I'm going to be sewing the wig
to the anchors of her little buns right here
so that will give it more security
so she has the combs on the front and the back inside.
- I'm most excited for everything honestly.
I've never had my hair professionally done.
I've never had any hair extensions put in.
So I'm really really excited to get this look.
I think it's way different from anything I've ever done
but something I've always really, really wanted.
- I'm just excited to have long hair again.
It's been forever since I had long hair.
I think it's been probably about three years now
and again, when I did have long hair
it was never voluminous like this.
So I think that's the most thing I'm excited for
to see my hair full and long and healthy looking, I hope.
Not falling off from the bleach.
- I think I spent a lot of time growing up,
really hating my hair
and having to kind of figure out what to do with it.
And now I've grown into this space
where I can really appreciate it
and call it my crown.
I'm excited to be able to hopefully live up to this queen.
(chuckles)
(calm music plays)
- Okay guys, are you guys ready to see each other?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Okay. - What's the final look?
- In three, two, one.
- Oh my God.
- Oh.
- Guys, we look like a girl group.
- You guys look like pop stars.
- No, you too. - You too.
- You're Ariana.
(bright music plays)
- [Alex] Okay, so we first go over Kaylin's hair.
- [Kaylin] It's heavy.
- How does it feel?
Is it hurting your neck?
- My neck is gonna be like stiff after this
and I have like zero peripheral vision.
So like, if I wasn't standing like this,
I wouldn't have seen you guys.
(laughs in background)
It's bigger than Ciara's hair.
- [Alex] Yeah. - I like killed it.
- [Alex] Yeah. - We outdid the look in a way.
- [Alex] It's so long, you look like a mermaid.
- Oh my I felt like a mermaid.
I've never had my hair this long.
- [Kaylin] The middle part looks so good on you too.
- Really?
- [Kaylin] I feel like you never do a middle part.
It looks amazing.
- [Alex] The color matches perfectly too.
- [YB] I know.
- [Alex] We were worried about your highlights
but it looks like your hair.
- [YB] It does.
Okay Alex's hair, the bump is perfect.
It looks exactly like the photo.
- I feel tall.
(all laugh)
- [YB] And then the side coat with the bangs,
it looks really good.
- [Alex] I haven't had a side coat in a couple years.
- You said it correctly earlier.
When you were like from emo to prom.
- Oh yeah. - [Alex] From emo
to prom to Jersey house wife to Ariana Grande.
- [YB] Yes, yes, yes. - To Ariana Grande.
There was many phases in the transition.
- Are you guys excited to do the photoshoot?
- Yes.
- We'll get through these photos
then this thing's coming off.
(all laugh)
(bright music plays)
Welcome back everybody.
It's been a week since our big photoshoot day
and we are back in the office to look at the final photos.
Who's ready to see them?
- I'm so excited.
- I saw the footage, we look good.
- YB's got us, we're good to go.
- Okay, for the first reveal.
Alex, are you ready to see your photo?
- I'm ready.
- Okay, close your eyes
we'll have it on the screen in three, two, one.
(Kaylin gasps)
- [YB] Okay, that's my favorite photo.
- I think I like this one more.
- [YB] Yeah. - [Kaylin] I love it.
- It's cause my eyes are open. I look alive.
Just imagine you telling me,
"Relax your hand, I don't know what to do with it."
(all laugh)
- [YB] On full body.
- [Kaylin] Yes, look at that.
- I think I like this one too.
This one is like a little more cutesy
and that's what I'm used to.
I don't have the serious poses.
So like, I like this one.
I think it's still different for me,
but this is still me to me.
- You look my pretty little liars.
- Oh my God, you're like-.
- [Kaylin] Oh my God.
- [Alex] I think I like it.
- [Kaylin] You look so good.
- It was such a hard pose to do.
- Yeah.
- [Kaylin] You look so effortless though.
- [YB] Yeah, exactly that's the word I was looking for.
- [Alex] So much effort was being put in.
- Isn't that what's crazy though,
all these stars have these photos
that look so glam and crazy. - [YB] Yeah.
- [Kaylin] But it's like maybe they were trying
really, really, really hard.
- I think I do like how it turned out.
- Yeah.
- I think I don't look like as uncomfortable
as I was during the photo shoot.
- YB are you ready to see yours?
- Yes. - Oh my God.
- [YB] This is my favorite.
- Also wasn't this kind of like an accident
cause your feet got tired so you sat down
and they were like, "Wait, pose down there."
- [Alex] You look like a cover girl.
Like this looks like a cover girl, I shot a shoot with.
It looks professional.
Yeah, you know what?
This looks like a selling sunset agent.
- Yes, yes. - Exactly.
- Cause your pose it's like,
I sell expensive houses, but you're glammed up
like you're on a reality show.
- [YB] Yeah.
You wanna buy houses from me, come to me.
- [Alex] Houses by YB.
- Houses by YB.
(all laugh)
- Three, two, one.
(girls exclaim)
I love this photo.
- [Kaylin] You look so glam.
- [YB] I look so different.
- [Alex] But so natural. - [Kaylin] Yeah.
- You don't look like you're trying
too hard to pose that way,
you're just like, "Hi paparazzi."
(indistinct murmurs)
- This pose was really hard too
even though it doesn't look hard
cause like the leg, one leg was weirdly out.
It was like the leg was out.
- [Kaylin] Yeah, she was her really posing.
- [Alex] And her arm was down.
I love your hair.
- [YB] I love the hair too.
- [Alex] It looks natural.
- When it got off, it was so sad.
(all laugh)
- But now you know what you can do, for your wedding style.
- Yeah, now I know.
- Cause you could definitely like recreate this.
- That's true.
Okay, now it's Kaylin's turn.
(Kaylin gasps)
- You ready? - Are you ready?
- I'm ready, I'm ready to have hair
and be for the rest of my life.
- [Alex] I love this one.
This one's so good.
- [Kaylin] This one's my favorite.
- The last one's so good.
- I feel like this is more giving like Diana Ross vibes.
Like more so than Ciara vibes.
- Yeah, you look like a '70s diva
but also like in a crest whitening campaign.
(all laugh)
Look at your hands.
- [Kaylin] I really like that. - [Alex] I love that.
- [YB] That's when we were like,
"Oh my God, how does she do that?"
Cause we were just like doing this
and we were like, oh.
(YB chuckles)
- It's like, you're swimming through your hair.
- Yeah.
- [YB] This one might be runner up for my favorite.
- [Alex] I don't know why but you remind me of the girl
in the Starbucks cup in this picture.
(all laugh)
- The mermaid? - [Alex] Yeah.
You look like this Starbucks girl.
- I wasn't thinking mermaid until you said that
but now the sequence, it all brings it together.
- Three, two, one.
- Oh my God. - Oh my God.
- [YB] It looks like a magazine cover.
- [Kaylin] I'm obsessed. - Look how big the hair is.
- Look how big it is. - [YB] The pose is perfect.
Your face is so glowy.
- It's like you're getting married, but to yourself.
You're like, "I don't need anyone."
- Independent woman.
- I'm just gonna hang a portrait of myself in my house.
(indistinct mumbles)
I might do that.
- You guys wanna see our group photos?
- Yeah. - Oh yeah.
Guys close your eyes. - Okay, close your eyes.
Three, two, one.
(all cheer)
- [Kaylin] We're so cute.
- [Alex] I like this one with us.
- [Kaylin] Like such like a perfect encapsulation
of the memories from the day.
It was such a great day.
We had a lot of fun.
- [YB] It was fun.
- [Kaylin] I don't know what girl group we are
but we're doing something.
- We're Vanity Fair and thank you so much
to our glam team, Rod, Kamara and Devon.
We had so much fun
and thank you for making us into celebrities for the day.
- What should we become next time?
- Yeah, what looks should we recreate next guys?
Let us know.
- I gotta set up a whole room for my new wig.
(Alex laughs)
(bright music plays)
- Should I look forward? - Oh, wait, no.
Isn't it this way and then we put our feet up?
- Yeah, you're right.
Cheese.
(YB and Alex laugh) There, now we got it.