- Do you think we would've done well in the 15th century?
Or is it the 16th century?
The 1500s.
- I...
- When was the Renaissance?
Can we get a scientist-
- Can we- - In here.
[smooth jazz]
- Hi, Vogue.
I'm Maddie Ziegler.
- And I'm Clayton Hawkins.
And today we're gonna do
super romantic, like Botticelli-inspired,
long, fresh outta the ocean look.
- Let's do it.
[chill music]
- I don't know why you came in here
with like, beautiful hair already.
- I was just instructed to not have washed hair,
and I did exactly that.
So you're touching grease ball.
- I know,
but we're gonna be making your hair longer today.
So because you have so much hair,
I'm gonna braid away, like, half of it.
So that's gonna be the first step is like,
we're gonna braid away all this hair.
How long have I been doing your hair?
- I wanna say since I was like, 15 years old.
- But I met you when you were even younger.
- Yeah, I think- - 'Cause-
- I had to be like 13 or 14.
- I first met you when you were 13 or 14,
and I was like-
I was a hair assistant. - Mmhm.
- We've been working together for so long,
and I feel like we've accomplished, like,
so many fun memories together.
- Totally. - And it's been so cool-
- to like, create that bond throughout the years.
- I will say again,
not to sound like a weird stepmom,
but it is like,
I feel like I have watched you definitely grow up.
- You- oh, definitely.
You definitely have.
- I remember being like, "Okay,"
like, going into your house being like,
"Okay, don't curse,"
like, "She's 15,"
like, "Clay, watch your mouth,"
like, "Just don't curse."
Like, you know-
- My mom was there.
Like, yeah, it was fun.
- I know, I miss your mom.
- Do you miss like, going to my family house
and like, my mom baking cookies
and like- - Yes!
- bringing out the whole thing?
- The Oreo tower?
- Yeah. - Yes!
- Take me to your mom's house
in the valley. - Yeah.
- That's like, my safe space. - Yeah, literally.
- That's crazy.
We've had so many...
so many different vibes. - Eras.
- Yeah, so many- - Yes.
- Yeah. - I mean-
- We've had a lot of hit-
We've had- we haven't had-
that many misses. - We've had like, really-
- only hits.
- We had one miss.
- I still don't really think it was that bad.
- No, that was a floppiana. - It was just kind of-
- That was flop-tina.
That was floppinger.
That was flop.
Okay, so basically before you dyed your hair dark,
you were like-
You had blonde hair and you were like,
"I wanna do dark hair for the shoot."
And I was like,
"Well, I don't think we need to do a wig.
I think we can do it all with pieces.
And then I can use like, root color spray
to color your real hair." - Yes. Yeah.
- I couldn't. It did not work.
First of all, you have so much hair.
- So much hair.
- It looked like, weird, like-
- It was a little bit like...ashy?
- It looked like you did survive a fire
and had ash in your hair. - It really- yeah.
- And then we get to the shoot and I'm like,
"Okay, I'm not feeling that confident about my-"
I'm like, basically gaslighting myself that it looks okay.
- But also like,
it really shows the power of like, photo shoots,
and how even if things don't always look the best in person,
like, you can make it-
you can pull it off in a photo.
- Okay, but we get to the shoot,
I'm like, "It's gonna be okay."
And they're like,
"So the vision is you're gonna be in a shower
with water pouring down."
And basically she had like, shoe-
- I had- - You had shoe polish.
- I literally- the water like, hit my scalp.
And then I just have like black water
just running down my face.
- And like not in an artistic cool way.
If it sounds cool and artistic,
we're not explaining it right.
- Yeah.
- It looked truly haunted.
You need to be a judge on Drag Race,
and we need to do like a major drag look.
That's my-
- This has been our ongoing conversation
I feel like we have every time we're doing glam together,
like, it's-
- We're like, what would you do for Drag Race,
if what was happening today? - Literally.
- Because we are both insanely big Drag Race fans.
- Yeah. - And I also-
My dream is to be a judge on the show,
but I'm also too scared,
'cause I feel like I'm just gonna like, cry
or not be able to speak in front of RuPaul,
'cause it's just like, too much energy,
and I'm just like, in awe.
But if you're there with me, I feel like-
- No you're gonna be amazing. - And you've been-
- You've done the show before- - I've done the show-
- So I'm like, okay- - With other clients, yes.
- You have experience.
We'll do it.
And we have to have like a full moment.
How did you first really start getting into hair?
- I mean, I was literally doing hair
since I was a little kid.
Like I would do my sister's hair.
I did-
When I was like in ninth, 10th, 11th grade,
I did all the senior girls for prom.
- I love that.
That's so cute.
- And literally it was like charging them,
putting extensions in their head.
- You're a business woman.
- My only education for hair at that point was watching-
Jessica Simpson used to have a reality show-
- Right. - called Newlyweds.
- And this was before YouTube,
so you couldn't watch like, hair tutorials.
So I would just watch, on the reality show,
how she got her hair done.
And that was it.
- That's such a smart way to do it.
- That was my education.
- I love that.
- Jessica Simpson university
- Shout out girl.
- Yeah, JSU.
- And then did you end up going to like, a hair school?
- I did, when I was like 22.
It saved my life.
I'm so glad that I did.
I did go to beauty school next to a Cheesecake Factory.
So, I'm not trying to brag. - That's-
- pretty like, elite.
- Well, you're pretty much braided up.
So now it's time to-
- Now we're done.
- We're done.
I'm gonna put one more pin in,
and then let's put the extensions in.
I feel like the mistake that people make with extensions
is they don't wash them first.
I always wash them.
I wash them in like, dish soap.
That's how you get this like, natural-
- The texture, right? - texture.
- The second you put the extensions in,
I like- - You're a different person.
- I'm a different human.
- Well you made your whole career in a wig.
- It's crazy. - Can we talk about that?
- Like- - It's insane.
- I mean, I literally have been wearing wigs
since I was 11 years old.
And that helped me like, completely let go of any like,
I guess insecurity I had with different hairstyles.
Wigs really can transform you into a different person,
and it gives you this different persona-
- Totally.
- And it's so fun to like, play that up,
and just like, live in that fantasy world.
And I love it so much. - Totally.
- So I'm just snapping these in, Maddie.
Obviously we've done clip-ins on you a trillion times.
Everything that's braided up,
it's basically acting as like, an anchor.
- Right. - So I don't need to spray.
- I don't need to tease. - Right.
- So I can just go in.
And then now that we're getting up here
beyond the valley of the braids, as it were,
I'm just gonna go through
and I'm gonna tease it and spray it,
'cause you do need an anchor.
You don't want the hair piece to slip.
- Yeah.
- And it also-
it's not gonna like, damage your hair or hurt it
if you have an anchor.
- Right.
- Okay I do not wanna scare you,
but I am bringing out the colored root spray.
I truly am. - How dare you.
- I know. No, we're just gonna add-
It's always crucial- - I'm like-
- I know, it's- [both gasp]
- She's like- - I'm like-
- Okay, no but it's crucial to like,
when you put extensions in,
you always wanna add a little bit of a root.
Like she's got different colors in her hair.
I did darker on the bottom.
We're going lighter now.
But I'm just gonna spray a little bit of a root.
Maddie, who are your hair heroes?
Like who are your hair queens, icons?
- Okay, I feel like this is a very obvious answer from me.
- Okay.
- But like, it's my favorite show ever.
Jennifer Aniston in Friends as Rachel
is my ultimate hair hero.
Like, she had so many different iconic hair looks
that I feel like people are recreating now.
- Totally.
- And like, especially-
- We've totally done Rachel vibes before.
- We've- totally.
She's been the inspo for so many looks, and-
- Totally.
- Especially when she had her like, insanely-
- The bone straight, long hair.
- It was everything. - Kill me.
- Literally my like- - Put a fork in me, I'm done.
- Deceased forever. - Yeah. It's so good.
- Yeah. Who are yours though?
I know you probably have like, a lot.
- I do have a lot.
Right now, what's coming to mind for me
that like, her hair even now to this day
takes my breath away,
is Sarah Jessica Parker.
- Oh, I mean the ultimate.
- The hair in especially the Sex and the City movies.
Don't sleep on the hair and makeup in the movies.
Whoo!
I think right now, I'm good with how many pieces we have,
and now I'm just gonna wave it.
Then we're gonna play with- - The accessories?
- Yeah, play with accessories,
play with flowers,
like see what the vibe is.
- Cute.
- Obviously we're cutting with a razor.
- Is it 'cause it like, creates a more-
- It makes it look more real.
- Right.
- Again, it's like, if you are using extensions,
and you're not washing it first,
and then you're cutting it with scissors,
you can't cut it like you would normal hair.
- Right, right.
- Let me put a little oil in it.
We can take the cape off.
And now I'm gonna go through, and I'm gonna curl it.
So I'm gonna go in with like, two different size irons,
and mix it up.
- This is the one thing
that I haven't been able to like,
learn how to do on myself yet
is learn how to mimic like, the natural wave.
- You don't have to mimic anything.
The key is literally just being perfectly imperfect.
- Right.
Aw, cute.
- Right?
- Definitely a lot of my looks have to be practical as well.
Just because even if the shoot I'm doing
isn't specifically a dance shoot,
I feel like more times than not,
it has to be super practical just because
I usually am doing movement.
Always.
Just because I think it photographs super well.
If we're doing a look like this,
like you let me like, toss it and play-
- Oh yeah. - and do all the things.
- The thing that is always the most important
to like, this type of look
is when you bring your leaf blower.
I feel like that's a huge part
to a lot of our shoots,
and it's always requested on set.
- Correct.
- And luckily you always have it.
- I'm known as the leaf blower guy.
- Literally, like he's on the floor
like, getting the perfect angle
so my hair is like, flowing in the right direction.
It's so different to like, be growing up
while under the spotlight.
It's so different than just having
a normal, you know, upbringing
where you can make all the mistakes you want,
and it's not documented.
But for me it was like, you know, you have to be careful.
And there's people that look up to you.
I think it is so fun though, too,
that you've seen me in so many different-
stages of my life. - Yeah.
- Like, you've seen me with my first boyfriend.
- Mhm. - You've seen me, like-
- There's been so many fun things
that you've seen me like, go through.
I didn't know you actually have like, fresh flowers.
- Yeah, what did you think I was gonna put in here?
- I don't know, like an- - Joanne's fabrics?
- An edible arrangement?
I mean, the key is making it not look too like, Coachella.
- Right.
- He loves me.
He loves me not.
He loves me.
He loves me not.
If this ends poorly, I'm gonna cry.
- I know. - He loves me.
He loves me not.
- Okay, we're gonna- - Well there's so many.
- Oh no, I'm getting anxiety
looking at how many there are. - He loves me.
- He loves me not.
He loves me.
Of course he does.
- This is so freakin' pretty.
- You're so excited.
- When it looks good, it feels-
It's like a drug.
When the hair looks good, it feels so good to me.
- You just like, you just keep wanting more.
- It's like I go to Euphoria High.
- You never see the teachers in Euphoria.
- Honey, do they have homework?
I'm worried they're falling behind.
- Literally.
- So I think this is our final look.
Listen, we wanted that sort of like Venus-y look.
It went full Renaissance.
- I'm obsessed with it.
It's so pretty.
- This is like Ren fair, but make it fashion.
- You really could wear this in so many different ways.
Like, you could do an editorial look with this,
or you could even just wear it to like a carpet.
Like it's so pretty.
[calm music]
[leaf blower whirs]