- Hi, I'm Liz Gillies
and this is how I do my daily glamorous wavy hair look.
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Before we begin, I just have to tell you
that my hair dries really really quickly,
and I have the curliest hair ever,
so it's really kind of a time sensitive thing
how soon I can get to a blow dryer
before it becomes a whole different style.
So just now in the shower, I used this purple shampoo.
Purple shampoos are really useful for people
who are not natural blondes.
Right now I am a blonde,
so I'm using a lot of purple shampoos and purple masks
to make sure my hair doesn't turn red or brassy.
And my hair has a ton of red undertones,
not that I even remember what my natural hair color is.
But if I look back at pictures of myself young,
it looks kind of reddish, so I'm going off of that.
So this is Matrix Total Results So Silver Color Rescue
and I really like it.
It kind of keeps everything cool,
it keeps everything from heading into the warm territory.
Then I typically do a mask.
I leave it on for as long as I possibly can,
but usually it's only five minutes,
and this one is Kerastase.
This is the one I just used.
It's another purple one, so it's really hydrating.
It's for artificial blondes like myself,
who are lying to everybody, pretending to be real blondes,
and I really really like it.
Kerastase is an excellent brand,
and I really feel it's maybe solely responsible
for the health of my hair,
because I've been using Kerastase almost exclusively,
along with Oribe. Okay, I've been using both of them.
But I use a lot of Kerastase
and I've been using it for four years,
since I started "Dynasty".
Since I started "Dynasty", weirdly,
even though my hair is treated every day
and it's curled and straightened and whatever,
it's grown and grown and grown,
so I gotta give props.
Another great mask,
this is the Signature Moisture Masque from Oribe.
I really like this one too.
Okay, so the first thing I do, I really love this.
I've used this for years now.
This is a leave-in conditioner by Ouai,
I think that's how I say it.
Ouai, I think it's Ouai.
So I just spray this liberally,
but not too much on the roots.
Another thing I really like, this is new.
I just started using this one,
because I'm so obsessed with the smell.
I also really love their dry shampoo.
This is R + Co On A Cloud.
I just use a little
'cause I actually don't know what it does,
I just like the smell.
A little bit, okay.
Do you see my hair already starting to curl up here?
I'm telling you, if I go and I'm like,
"Oh, I'll have something to eat"
or I'll make a little snack for myself,
I'll come back and my hair will be out to here.
And then, for my ends, because nobody wants damaged ends,
I use this Olaplex No. 6 Bond Smoother.
So I just use a little bit,
I don't use a crazy amount,
and I just put it in my ends.
I'll get on my tiptoes 'cause my hair's so long.
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Now I guess I'm gonna blow dry my hair.
Before I blow dry my hair, because there's so much of it,
I like to section it off in three or four parts.
So we'll start here.
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What's more annoying than when you're ready
to blow dry your hair and you turn it on
but it doesn't turn on because you have to press
that red button to reset it on the outlet?
No, just me?
(blow dryer whirring)
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Okay, so that one piece is done.
You might have noticed when I was blow drying my hair,
I did this a couple times, which is really bad.
You're not supposed to ever put the heat
directly onto the brush, onto your hair,
because it damages your hair.
But even though I know that, I'm impatient
and in my mind, if I do that, it'll go faster.
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Okay, so we got two pieces done.
The first layer is complete.
So now I move these to the back.
My curls are just ready.
They're like, "Let's party, let's be curly today."
So now I'm gonna take out the next section of my hair,
and look what's underneath, even more curls.
Okay so I'm gonna section that off
and moving on to the next.
I try not to incorporate the dry pieces,
but it's impossible so whatever.
Here we go.
(blow dryer whirring)
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And we're gonna move on to the last part, the front pieces,
which are probably really frizzy by now.
Yeah, oh.
Oh oh okay okay.
Let's move quickly.
Let's get 'er done.
(blow dryer whirring)
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I've noticed that blow drying it kind of from either side
gives it a lot of volume,
so I like to do that before I style it.
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Okay, the hair is huge, it's dry.
I could easily stop now and kind of brush it out
and fix little things with my straightener,
but that wouldn't be very interesting.
So let's just go the whole nine yards.
Let's curl her up, let's make her look gorgeous.
I don't even know if this is a good curling iron.
I think it is, I've used it my whole life.
So while my curling iron is heating up,
I'll tell you a little bit about my hair journey.
My hair journey has been pretty insane.
I had very long, kind of to my butt or past my butt
beautiful sort of chestnut, if not mousy, hair
my whole childhood.
And then when I was 15 or 16 and I did "Victorious",
after the first season, I decided that my character Jade
should really have black hair.
I felt that it would help kind of solidify her
as an iconic character
if she had sort of a more pronounced hair color,
and I knew she already had the streaks in her hair
and I thought they would pop so much more
against blue black.
So I went, after having never gotten my hair dyed,
I went and I got my hair dyed blue black
at this salon in Hollywood, and I was like, "Oh my God."
And it was amazing and I loved it for years.
And then, one year, I don't remember when it was,
I decided I wanted to have blonde hair
or light brown hair.
And so I went to this place and I was like,
"Do it in one day, I want it to be done in one day."
And anybody who knows anything about hair
knows that you really can't take it
from a blue black to a blonde in one day.
So I walked out of there and my hair was orange.
I was there for five, six hours.
They got my hair to an orange, which is actually good.
I should've been happy because you lift from there,
you go back, in time, when it's healthy, but whatever.
So then my hair was up to here, super short.
And then I dyed my hair dark again,
and then I dyed my hair orange when I did the pilot
of "Sex and Drugs and Rock N' Roll",
an FX show I was on in 2014.
So needless to say, my hair is traumatized
and I'm so thankful that it's stuck around this long,
because if I were the hair, I would've been like,
"Bye bitch, you're crazy."
Okay, we're gonna section it off again,
this time with a clip 'cause why not?
So I know this is kinda bad for your hair, again.
I guess I'm not very healthy when it comes to my hair.
I spray a little, just one quickie,
one more maybe, of hairspray before I curl
and that helps it keep its shape.
So we're just gonna take little sections,
we're just gonna wrap it around like so.
I don't like to hold it for too long,
that I don't like to do. I'm good about that.
That's enough for me,
because I just want it to have a little curl.
You see though, because I did the hairspray,
do you see how good it looks?
Sometimes the things that are bad for us
are just so good for other things.
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So now I'm gonna spray it again. That section's done.
I love this hairspray.
I've used this hairspray since I was a little girl,
which sounds crazy but I have.
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Okay, they're all happy.
You see how I'm constantly brushing through it.
I'm not trying to keep it this child beauty pageant shape.
I want it to look sort of effortless and soft.
I don't like hair when it's crunchy, it freaks me out.
Okay, moving on.
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For some of them, I like to do this too,
curl them a different way than I've been curling them
so it looks more kind of random and natural.
So you'll see, this one will look a little different.
This is sort of a spaghetti curl instead of a barrel curl.
See?
She looks like pasta.
What I'll do, see, I only have this little piece
and he's too small to go on the ride by himself.
So I'll take a couple others
that look like they lost their luster,
so now we have a group.
Work.
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Okay, so now for this front piece, I go back.
So I do this.
I think it looks prettiest this way.
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So now, (hair spray spraying)
we're gonna spray it all.
Moment of truth.
Work.
Okay so now what I do at the very end
is I love this Oribe Split End Seal
and put just a tiny little bit,
the teeniest little bit, in my hand,
and then I just put it in the ends like that
to keep them looking super fresh
'cause they've been styled now so I want them to look good.
Then I put a little anti-humidity if I'm going outside.
Because my hair's so curly, it gets really humid outside
and then my hair kinda blows up, so.
(hair spray spraying)
That is my everyday glamorous wavy look.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I'll turn around so you can get the full vibe.
Although I haven't seen it from the back,
it might be horrible.
Is it good?
Touch my butt still?
It does.
Thank you Harper's Bazaar, bye.
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