(upbeat music)
My name's Nicole
and my family and I live in Boone, North Carolina
and my mountain man, husband Lance,
desperately needs a makeover.
Lance and I met in 1998 in Central Oregon
while we were working for an outdoor adventure program.
And we fell in love and we've been together ever since.
And we have two beautiful children.
(soft guitar music)
Lance has always been a T-shirt and jeans kinda guy.
He's always out doing outdoor adventure type stuff.
So he's usually wearing something that's pretty filthy
'cause he's getting into dirt
and since Covid's happened, he hasn't really left the house.
He's been able to work from home
so that look has turned into his 24/7 look.
I've never seen his beard in quite like this.
In fact, when we met,
I told him that I loved the bearded man
and I'd been pushing him to grow a beard.
And he's grown little beards and goatees
and then finally, when the pandemic hit,
he's like I'm just gonna let it grip.
And I was like, whoa, I got a lot more than I bargained for.
I love him no matter how he looks
but at this point the situation is out of control.
Our kids say he looks like a mountain goat,
he's even started to be mistaken as their grandfather.
He gets jokes about being called Santa Claus.
The long beard makes Lance look 20 years older than he is.
And he's not an old man.
He's 52 years old.
He has never had a professional haircut
in the 24 years that I've known him.
The last time he had a haircut was about two years ago
when he let my kids shave a Mohawk on his head
and then after that, he hasn't touched it since.
(upbeat music)
Dressing up for Lance is always a huge chore.
I have to go through his closet and try to pick out
something that's newer than 20 years old.
It's usually ends up being
some pants that probably fit poorly
because he got them at the thrift store
and they weren't quite working for his body type
and a button down shirt
that may or may not have pit stains on it.
I have a pair of jeans that are his nice jeans.
The one pair that I keep in a special spot
because I don't want him to mess them up
and we pull them out only for special occasions.
Lance is an awesome dad.
He loves to take our kids on adventures climbing
and mountain biking and even surfing.
He's constantly helping other people.
Every weekend, I'm like, where are you going?
And he's going over to someone's house
to help him with something.
He always puts himself last.
Like it's the last thing he's ever gonna think about.
When I showed some of Rachael's makeovers to Lance
he just jumped on board.
He's like, all right, let's go for it, let's do it,
it's time.
And I trust Rachael
We got the whole team here.
We've Tommy Didario, hairstylist Erica Fleischman
with an insanely full leather jacket.
The gorgeous Nicole who asked us
not to help out her husband.
She's wildly in love with her husband Lance.
He's her lance a lot.
But she just wanted to see a little more of him,
like literally she sees him physically
but she'd like to see a little bit more of his face.
He had a really kind outta control beard.
Anyway, he does not look like that anymore.
Right you guys?
He does not. All right, get him out here.
Come on.
(audience clapping and cheering)
Oh my God, I can't believe this.
(audience clapping)
He looks so good Tommy.
He look like your cousin now.
Aah, I said, you here, come out here.
He's too handsome now
He's so gorgeous.
See, this is what I said.
I could see this.
It was in there.
We just need a couple ice cocktails.
Wow.
(audience clapping)
Look how (indistinct) you are.
You're so cute.
I should shut up.
What do you think?
He's you're husband.
Tommy and Erica, I cannot believe this.
I've been with this man for almost 25 years
and I've never seen this man.
Like I'm feeling a little like...
He's good.
I'm gonna be cheating on my husband with this guy.
(audience laughing)
And I'm like, completely different.
I am flabbergasted and so thankful.
You did so amazing.
(audience clapping)
Tommy did a really good job here.
I mean, look at that.
Head to toe, we've got men's warehouse going on.
I wanted this beautiful blue to bring out those eyes.
There we go.
And let me break this down.
Now I'm wearing a full suit.
I went into the store and I pulled suit separate.
So that's where you pull a blazer from one suit.
You pull pants from another suit
you mix and matched a form a really cool look,
and you can wear a T-shirt with it
to make it even more casual dress pants.
And here's the thing.
And you know, this is a stickler for me.
Yeah.
You've got to get your suiting pieces tailored.
Off the rack doesn't exist.
Bring up the pants, bring back the jacket.
Show off the bar.
Like I said, he looks great.
(audience clapping and cheering)