Hair makes me feel a little anxious, to be honest.
I’ve only gotten my hair cut by one person and it was a very bad experience.
Letting somebody else touch my hair is kind of a big deal.
My name is Erin and today I’m going to transform this
stick straight dry mess into some luscious, beautiful curls.
I’m a mom from LA and a make-up artist.
When I was younger my mom used to do my hair until I was about 12 years old.
She’d flat iron it every single weekend.
My mom used to be really strict about
me doing anything with my hair, but when I cut it up to my shoulders after it being waste length
she just saw me from a distance and her mouth dropped and she cried,
As though I had just died.
These days I will straighten it sometimes but I try not to too much because I don’t
want it to get more damaged so when I do it curly it’ll last for like a couple of days.
I’ve heard about the Olaplex treatment before.
I’ve never tried it but I definitely need to because I just tried to bleach my own hair
by mistake and I really damaged it.
It’s been five years since I had my daughter and I used to be the type of person that would
change my hair color
every month maybe.
I would have every single color and I haven’t.
It’s just been black and plain for a long time and I just lightened it and I’m kind
of, like, opening up to having a new style again.
And out of all the millions of colors I’ve had, I’ve never done blonde.
I’ve never had a curl treatment before so I think this is gonna be pretty awesome to
have my hair look how it should look back to its natural state.
I just want the world to know with this new hair style that I am a bad bitch.
I’m Justin Anderson and I’m a hair colorist here at the dpHUE house
in Los Angeles, California.
I’m also the co-founder of the dpHUE hair product line.
Hi.
Hey there, how’s it going?
Good, how are you?
I’m Justin.
So nice to meet you in person.
Good to meet you.
Welcome to DPHue house.
Thank you so much.
I never let anybody do my hair or my makeup and so it is a little bit nervewracking to
trust someone else to get their fingers all up in this but we’ll see how it goes.
All right, so I’m just gonna kind of change up your color a bit.
I’m gonna keep you nice and light but I’m gonna make it as natural as possible.
And I'm gonna do that by keeping you kind of natural at the root and making the blonde pieces be
everything that kind of frames your face.
I don’t want you to have, like, a solid line when it grows in.
So months after seeing me, I still want it to look kind of believable and natural
so that you’re not a slave to the salon.
Good thinking.
So right in here I’m just kind of evening up where the color got a little blotchy before.
It looks like there’s kind of some panels in here that I’m just kind of going through
and evening it out.
And so this is kind of the lightening process.
And then we’ll go back through and we will soften your base color.
All right, so we got all the highlights in.
Now we’re gonna go in between the foils and do the root color.
And what that’s gonna do is just soften your natural color and kind of blend the highlights
together before we go in and lighten up all those tips.
This is the last time I’m ever touching my own hair again for the rest of my life.
Okay, so we have the base color on in between the foils, kind of blending everything together
and now I’m gonna go through and lighten up those ends to get those nice bright tips.
So excited.
They look like that bitch.
All right, so all the foils are in.
We just put in these tips so we’re gonna go ahead and heat up those ends with the defuser
on the blow-dryer to get those to catch up to the top.
And then everything’ll be rinsed out and you’ll get your final gloss.
Yes, I cannot wait to see it.
Then after we’ve washed everything out, we gloss their hair all over to kind of seal
in the color, add a bunch of extra shine.
Hey.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good. I am Tippi Shorter.
Nice to meet you.
So I am gonna cut and style and I wanted to allow your hair to dry naturally so I can
see what I’m cutting.
And I can see that like on this side, it’s a little curlier.
On this side, less curly.
so I will compensate for that in the cut.
So we just established your shape, it looks amazing.
So now I’m just gonna wet you down, apply some product to defuse
and finish.
Oh my God, it’s incredible.
How beautiful.
This is so good.
Wow, this color is gorgeous.
I've never had my curls be so perfect before.
I can’t believe it’s healthier than when we started.
Working with Erin was a lot of fun today.
To be honest, her hair was a little bit close to being damaged so I wanted to make sure
to use really, really gentle products.
Using Olaplex in the color really helped keep her hair super healthy but still get it to
the light color that I wanted it to be.
Also, any time you’re going lighter with your blonde you want to make sure to keep
those brights really, really bright by using a product like the
cool blonde shampoo and conditioner.
That’ll neutralize any yellow in your hair and make sure that the blonde stays super, super bright.
My experience was unbelievable actually.
Have you ever seen someone do a magic trick and it stumped you and haunted you for weeks,
days, years?
Justin.
He’s a magician.
He’s amazing.
He’s such a sweet person and, like, do you see what he did, right?
I think this is the first time my hair has ever been amazing and it’s a complete
transformation.
My curls actually look moisturized.
They’re the same everywhere.
It’s kind of remarkable.
A new bar has been set.
I will never touch boxed dye ever again, I swore to Justin.
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