Greta Lee on the "Healing" Power of Hair & Makeup That Celebrates "Exactly" Who You Are | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Greta Lee Lee and her glam squad Jenny Cho and Nina Park sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for THR's Beauty Issue and open up about their collaborative process creating Greta's hair and makeup looks and break down some of their favorite beauty looks Greta has rocked on the red carpet.

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00:00So this is classic Jennie Cho of going and finding wigs the day of, cutting, dyeing them.

00:07After she had already toned and colored this other wig, the platinum blonde, like leading up to this.

00:13Hi, I'm Jennie Cho.

00:15Hi, I'm Greta Lee.

00:16Hi, I'm Nina Park.

00:18And we are on set of our Hollywood Reporter cover shoot.

00:30I feel like maybe what people don't know, it's like, it looks like all fun and games, maybe, but it's, it's serious.

00:38I really appreciate how much you guys consider.

00:41There's so much work and thought that goes into every look, truly.

00:44I mean, different references, there's so much back and forth.

00:47It's so collaborative.

00:48I mean, for hair, I feel like we have gone through so many different stages of her different haircuts.

01:01Yeah, my hair grows fast.

01:03You had a pixie haircut at one point and then it was the growing out process of that.

01:08We did different looks on it.

01:09And now for the first time, she was showing her long hair.

01:13Yeah, so we use some pieces.

01:16These ladies are trying to get me in bangs.

01:18No.

01:19It was a hurting joke.

01:20For months.

01:21I made it without getting me in the bun bangs.

01:23She has baked.

01:24Just barely though.

01:25Even today, I thought it was coming.

01:26This year.

01:27We still have next year.

01:28In our sleep.

01:29Exactly.

01:30What Nina does with my face, she somehow is able to really celebrate.

01:36Oh my gosh.

01:37Yeah.

01:38If I cry, that'd be so weird.

01:39That would be so weird.

01:40Don't cry.

01:41I'm not gonna cry.

01:42Forget it.

01:43Yeah.

01:44I'm like you either.

01:45How much you can take someone's face and really celebrate exactly who they are and what someone

01:52naturally, what their features are.

01:54It's uncanny for myself to look in the mirror and feel like, oh my gosh.

01:58I don't know what just happened with all your little sticks and your little, I don't know.

02:03But it's really amazing what you do.

02:06Truly, truly so talented.

02:08I mean, you too.

02:09You're like a surgeon with hair.

02:11No, but her makeup really is like, she really does bring the best.

02:15Yeah.

02:16Of who you are.

02:17It's really, it's amazing.

02:19I feel like I can only do that if I have such care for the person and really believe

02:24in, I don't know.

02:25You mean care for me?

02:26Yeah.

02:27I really care for you.

02:28She's right now on camera.

02:30But I feel like it comes out and you can't help but have it show.

02:33Yeah.

02:34You inspire us all the time.

02:35Exactly.

02:36Thanks.

02:37It does start from her.

02:38Yeah.

02:39But I want to point out though, like being Korean and being Korean American, there are

02:43certain things growing up that we talk about all the time, like certain ideals and different

02:49traits that were like great things to have and not so great things to have, quote unquote,

02:54for me.

02:55Like my skin tone, like I am a tan Korean and growing up that was like not acceptable.

03:01But Nina's really able to embrace like the truth of who I've always been in this way that

03:06I never expected.

03:07It's such a healing thing to have someone do your makeup.

03:11If some of your features are lost, like freckles, she goes back and puts them back in.

03:16Yeah.

03:17And I remember the first time you did that, that was like a Dear Diary moment.

03:21Yeah.

03:22Like my freckles are okay.

03:23My freckles are beautiful.

03:24Yeah.

03:25No, but seriously, now it's a whole thing.

03:27Like they're freckle pens.

03:28I know.

03:29I know.

03:30People are getting them tattooed on their face.

03:31That's crazy.

03:32I really love the Loire look.

03:34Remember that?

03:35The blue.

03:36Yeah.

03:37In Paris.

03:38The photocall.

03:39Me too.

03:40When you go on a tour like this, it's so many.

03:42The volume of it and these women are just churning it out back to back to back.

03:46Yeah.

03:47That makeup was so good.

03:48The makeup, it's like the kind of glam, like you just don't want to wash it off.

03:52Ever.

03:53You want it to be permanent.

03:54Yeah.

03:55I don't know how you did that.

03:56I just feel like if we see the look, and Danielle is so amazing about sending us fitting photos

04:00beforehand, so we all are very much in the know of how it's going to look, what the backdrop's

04:04going to be, and I feel like it's like a feeling.

04:12Oh.

04:13Met Gala.

04:14Yeah.

04:15What can we say about that one?

04:17Okay, I'll tell you what happened.

04:19This was my first Met Gala, and I was going with Lueppe, and Jonathan Anderson designed

04:24this beautiful dress, and we had been talking about it for months, and there was a vision

04:29that came, I think initially from Danielle, of having a really long platinum blonde wig.

04:35This wig was made by an Oscar-winning hair wig maker.

04:40It cost a lot of money.

04:43Then the night before, we had an emergency fitting at around like 9pm.

04:49Everyone was summoned, and it was decided in that moment that we were going to nix the

04:55wig.

04:56Yeah.

04:57It's so high pressure.

04:58It always is, but to be told, please change the long blonde hair to Stella Tennant mullet.

05:04Yeah, and you didn't want to cut your own hair.

05:06Right.

05:07I'm committed, but not that committed.

05:09So this is classic Jenny Cho of going and finding wigs the day of.

05:15Yeah.

05:16Cutting, dyeing them.

05:17After she had already toned and colored this other wig, the platinum blonde, like leading

05:22up to this, and then you went out and you found like a bunch of toupee wigs.

05:26Yes, we did.

05:27We didn't know what to do.

05:28Nothing was open.

05:29I mean, I can't take all the credit, but you know, me and Mikey, he colored everything,

05:32and I cut it.

05:33And then Nina was also bleaching and re-bleaching my eyebrows.

05:38I bleached my eyebrows twice to get the right shade.

05:42Then obviously we had to dye them jet black again.

05:46Back again.

05:47We're in it for the highs and lows.

05:48Yeah.

05:49For sure.

05:54Phenis.

05:55Phenis.

05:56I mean, that's just such a...

05:57It was.

05:58The sunlight hitting your skin, your like tan, like the hair was just like free...

06:03I don't know.

06:04It just felt so glamorous.

06:05Yeah, and it wasn't as humid as it was the year before.

06:08It always feels like the gauntlet, like a challenge, like a okay, here are the elements.

06:15For this one, the dress was a mini, but it had a long frontal train, which I had never encountered before.

06:22A frame.

06:23Yes.

06:24A frame.

06:25Yes.

06:26So I had to learn how to do the 360 carpet and like kick the frame to the side and really work it.

06:32Thank God for the glam, because I ended up really feeling myself that day.

06:36It was really intense.

06:37The videos of you like running to, I don't know who you were running to, like fans or...

06:42Yeah.

06:43It was just like all of it in slow motion, your hair bouncing, I don't know.

06:47Oh, yeah.

06:48It was a really special moment.

06:49It really was a special moment.

06:50It really was like one of my favorite moments.

06:52Yeah.

06:53Can you see a part of ourselves actually in that honestly?

06:55Yeah.

06:56You feel so incredibly proud.

06:57It feels like it's us too, like we're all there and I don't know.

07:01It's really, really special.

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07:16You will see people in the next three.

07:18So that's the me.

07:19And I will be my friend in the next one.

07:20And I will see you in the next one.

07:21Bye.

07:22Bye.

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