00:00Hi, I'm Kim Kimball, celebrity hairstylist, and I am here at the Essence May-June 50th Anniversary Hair Feature Shoot.
00:13What's so cool about it is that it's going through different decades that Essence has been in business.
00:19So for me, the research was so exciting.
00:22Inspirations came from all different kind of iconic people from those different times.
00:30I enjoyed the 70s because it was that sort of Afrocentric time when, you know, we were just really becoming very black in our style.
00:52I really love the 80s because, you know, that's my favorite music era, hip-hop, pop music.
00:57I have to say that might have been the funnest because recreating that asymmetrical bob that Salt-N-Pepa wore, all of us wore that.
01:05I tried to get that too. Mine wasn't quite as nice as theirs, but I still tried it.
01:11Then we went into the 90s. You know, everybody loves a little Poetic Justice.
01:27Who didn't love a little Missy Elliott finger waves in 2000?
01:38I mean, come on. She was so trailblazing and very stylish.
01:44I was very excited to do finger waves. I love doing finger waves.
01:47I remember when I first learned how to do it, it took me all night to learn how to do it.
01:51But I'm so glad that I learned how because I got to use it today.
01:54In the 2010, we researched the natural hair movement.
02:00It was a big time for us. We've discovering how to work with our natural hair, which is an amazing time.
02:16Very iconic for me and a lot of other people. So excited to be doing that in this shoot.
02:21We're only a few months in 2020. And of course, I had to dream up what our future hair will look like.
02:30So I'm really excited to show that. Check it out.
02:36And before I go, I just have to say, working on this 50th anniversary cover with Essence,
02:41it's so amazing because almost 20 years ago, I did my first Essence cover with Beyonce.
02:48And went on to do more covers with her and Mary J. Blige.
02:52And it's just been an honor and a blessing to have worked with Essence.
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