00:00Hi, I'm Corinne Corbett, Essence Beauty Director, and I'm here at Textures on the Runway for a special beauty all-access.
00:21So I'm here with Anthony Dickey and Cara Young, founders and creators of Hair Rules.
00:26Best friends? Isn't it great when friends can work together?
00:29Let's talk about Hair Rules.
00:31How did you start this movement? Because I feel like Hair Rules is a movement.
00:34It is a movement. You're right about that.
00:37It's funny, the two of us have been in fashion and beauty for a number of years,
00:41and collectively we had kind of looked at the industry, both fashion and retail,
00:45and like where it was missing a beat, where it was missing kind of those areas where women were having difficulties.
00:52So I wrote a book in 2003 called Hair Rules,
00:55and Cara suggested that we do a product line and a salon to really do the full package and have a platform.
01:03And in addition to that product line and the salon, it really gave us an opportunity to be able to talk to the consumer,
01:09and to really be able to kind of change perceptions and influence the industry to change practice,
01:17to deal with people by texture, not ethnicity.
01:21Dickey and I, over time, we were just friendly, and then we started talking about doing a hair product line,
01:26and then I made it even more difficult and said, you know what, we have to do a salon,
01:29because how are we representing ourselves and we don't have a salon?
01:32So we created Hair Rules, a natural, clean way, you know, we want you to treat your hair like your face.
01:37Cleanse your hair like you cleanse your face.
01:39Tell us a little bit about what you did with Tawny tonight.
01:42Tawny, we really wanted to expose her kink in a really big, beautiful way.
01:47Our inspiration was, like, our line, representative of our line, is an all-inclusive, a texture-specific line.
01:54And for me, the 70s were a time where women were really kind of proud of the texture that they had,
02:01and it was kind of like that mahogany, eyes of Lorimar, Studio 54, opulent, sophistication,
02:08and women were, at that time, I felt like, really embracing their individual selves.
02:16What did you think of the show?
02:18I thought it was absolutely fabulous, and I love that this is, I hope that it's the beginning of a trend,
02:23and I hope that we see more texture on the runway, I hope that they have this particular show again,
02:27and I also hope that it kind of starts to seep into Lincoln Center,
02:30and we start seeing more of this kind of thing go down the runway, you know, there as well.
02:35So, let's talk about your hair.
02:36Yes.
02:37What do you love most about your texture?
02:38I just love that it is what it is.
02:40I let it do what it wants to do.
02:42I let it be free, and I used to subjugate it with chemicals, and now I try my best not to.
02:49I try to show it the love, I try to listen to what it's trying to tell me, and just appreciate it, you know.
02:54What makes healthy hair?
02:55Wow, what makes healthy hair?
02:57How you take care of it, how you love it, and how you feel about yourself.
03:01Right.
03:02It's all about confidence when you're wearing natural hair, or any hair.
03:06Here we have something that's called the American Wave System.
03:18What it's really about is like creating texture in a new way, giving it the look, the haircuts, the color, everything, like the whole system all together.
03:29So, it's something that's new that we're presenting, and I think it's really, really great.
03:35Everybody has this fear about perming, that it has to be this overdone hair, this processed hair, whatnot, and now we're creating something that has a more natural effect to it.
03:47So, how do you feel with all this texture in your hair?
03:49I love it.
03:50It's soft, and it was really quick, too.
03:52It's a really new look for me, so I like it a lot, yeah.
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