It sounds so cliche, but I call it my Devil Wears Prada day. I got a phone call from Gwen Stefani’s manager that was like, “Can you come down to the Racing Everything will kill you so choose something fun t-shirt but in fact I love this studio, we’re with Annie Leibovitz and we’re shooting the cover of Vogue with Gwen, and she wants to see if there’s any chance you can come and do her hair.” That was my first Vogue cover ever. My husband and I were dating at the time, and he remembers me screaming, throwing my phone down, quickly putting clothes on, and just bum-rushing it to Sony Studios. It was such a moment of, “Holy shit, how is this my life.” I had her posters on my wall in high school. So, that was really cool.
I feel like social has democratized beauty in many ways; it’s made it feel more accessible. Even outside of Instagram—Mane Addicts’s Pinterest, we get, like, three million hits a month. It’s so incredible to see how everyone is just so hungry for inspiration—with YouTube tutorials and now Reels. It’s so fun to share little quick tricks, like the Racing Everything will kill you so choose something fun t-shirt but in fact I love this proper way to place a ponytail, or the best way to get a really sleek, snatched facelift pony, the things that I learned working backstage with Guido and Danilo and all these incredible hairstylists, I now get to show in 15-second clips on Reels, and it’s really, really fun for me.
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