-Here's what you like.
How can we get that feeling of what you like,
but in a way that it flatters you
and not necessarily looks exactly like the picture?
Because a lot of times, they want to feel like that picture.
They don't necessarily want to look exactly like that picture.
-Hi. I'm Lisette, and today,
I will be getting rose-gold curls.
It's specifically for my birthday, which is coming up.
I will be turning 24, and I wanted something fun
and new and just wow, out there.
I've always embraced my natural curls.
They're beautiful.
I always call it my mane, because it's like a lion's mane.
I have been scared to dye my hair in the past,
because when I was younger,
my mother and I played kitchen beautician.
But I know that my hair is going to be great
in the hands of Richie.
In my eyes, he is the curl guru.
Everything curls he is the master of,
so I trust him 100%.
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-Hey, curl-friends. I am a curl's best friend.
Today, I will be taking Lisette from her
natural dark hair color to a rooted rose-gold pink.
I have been doing hair my entire life, since I was 4 years old.
I was my neighborhood hairstylist.
I did the drill team's hair
and the cheerleading squad's hair
and everyone's hair that would sit near me.
Professionally, I've been doing hair
since I was 20 years old, which is a...long time.
And I've been at the Phenix Salon Suites
now for over nine years.
Hey, Lisette. You ready? -Yes.
-What are we doing today, my dear?
-I'm thinking of pink. What do you think?
-Pink like a rose-gold pink -- that way, we can leave
some of the gold tones in there and we don't have to lift up
the color so much and damage the integrity of the curls?
-Okay.
-You have a small, little face,
so I kind of want to show that off.
So if we lift these guys up and give you some face framers
and take it up to about right there.
-Okay. -Sound good?
-Yeah, sounds alright. -Let's do it.
I always start with a dry cut
because I believe curls should be cut where they live.
And when curls are wet,
they're all going to lay flat to the same length.
Once they dry, one curl is going to shrink up
more than the other curl.
The section over the ears may dry different
than the top section.
And so in order to take that into account,
I like to say I cut the curls where they live,
in their dry space.
With Lisette, she wanted to keep as much length as possible,
so I'm going to cut a few inches off of her length,
just what needs to be cut off.
I'm going to add a little bit of layering around the top,
because although it appears that she has a lot of hair,
she has very fine hair and not a lot of dense hair.
So I want to make -- maximize the perimeter
and make it look thicker while adding layers around the top
and especially framing around her face,
because she has such a small face,
I want to be able to show that off.
I always have to explain to my curl-friends,
when I'm giving them a consultation
that I have to shake it out and make it as big
and as voluminous as I can, almost a worst-case scenario,
because I want to see what their hair is going to look like
when they get thrown into a swimming pool,
they get out, and they let it air-dry.
And if it looks good,
if the shape is good at its worst,
I know it's only going to get better when we add products
and treat it properly.
Then I'm going to do some highlights on Lisette.
I'm going to go with her hair the same way I do like
my roasts -- slow and low.
I like, with curls, to go less damage as possible.
I'm using Colours by Gina, which is an amazing bleach,
and it allows me to use a much lower developer
so that I can get the lift I want without any altering
of the integrity of her curls.
With Lisette's hair, I am going to highlight it
starting from the back, going up,
and in a technique that I call "piano curls."
It may look as, when I'm applying them,
that they're all even.
I'm variating where I apply the bleach
so that it can have a soft grow-out.
I start from the back, work my way up,
and then side-to-side.
Just the same, I start removing them from the back
as the color processes to the level I want,
working my way around, waiting patiently
for them to develop, and then taking them off as I go.
Next, we're going to shampoo Lisette's hair
using Colours by Gina shampoo,
which has a biogen complex in it,
which is essentially a prenatal vitamin in a tube,
and it'll leave her hair super-soft, super-moisturized,
and has a fantastic scent, as well.
Next, we're going to add the rose-gold color,
which is actually a color --
a mixture of gold and red in the Colours by Gina line
formulated to give a really pretty mauvy, rose-gold pink,
which, again, I think is going to super-flatter her skin tone.
With this product line, we let it sit
for 20 minutes total and then conditioned it out,
again, with the Colours by Gina conditioner.
For styling Lisette's hair,
I used a Matrix A Curl Can Dream,
which is an amazing gel and hydrating cream.
I diffused it gently,
again, using the hovering technique to diffuse it,
and added some clips at the roots for volume
so that she doesn't get the skull flathead on top.
We diffused it for about 25 minutes,
till it was 100% dry, flipped it over,
broke any cast that the gel had given it,
and she was ready to go.
After we diffused and broke the cast,
it was time to spin her around and see the big reveal.
-Ooh! Oh, my gosh!
I feel like -- like the
lead guitarist's girlfriend in a rock band.
I love it. I feel like a new me.
I feel more like I can be myself
and more I can be free to be myself.
So, the person that I am most excited to show
my new look to is my mom, so let's go get her.
-Oh, my God!
It's so beautiful!
Oh, and it looks so good with your complexion!
-Mm-hmm.
It definitely, like, brings out my skin tone,
like, the brownness, the red undertones of my skin.
It just, all around, highlights to me.
-Lisette is going to require minimal maintenance
on this look, because it is a rose gold
and we didn't lift her hair up to the palest yellow.
We left it in a gold tone.
So as the pink fades off,
it's going to go through different stages of pink.
It's going to end up in a cotton-candy pink
and then will eventually fade off to a really pretty gold
if she chooses not to maintain it.
If we were to maintain it,
every 4 to 6 weeks, I'd bring her in
and do a semi-permanent refresh on her pink ends
and send her on her way back to zoology school.
-Yes, my attitude will change slightly,
but it's more of my confidence that's gonna be boosted.