00:00Hey Essence! I am so excited today. I am at Divashawn Salon in Soho and guess what? I am
00:18cutting off all of my hair. I've been transitioning for the past seven months and today is the day.
00:24I was really tired of relaxing my hair and my hair being thin and lifeless and not really
00:30have any body and life to it. So I'm thinking that when I cut off all the relaxed ends it'll
00:36just be my natural curls and I'll have more versatility. I can wear it curly one day,
00:40I can wear it straight the next, I can throw in a weave or a wig or extension, whatever. I'll
00:46just have more options and I think this is the way for me. It's been five years since I've worn it
00:51short and I've never worn it short and natural. I'm cutting it off. Let's go!
00:56How are you? Hey Dennis, how are you? Good to meet you. Thanks for coming. Thank you. How are
01:10you today? I'm good. Excited to be here. So excited. It's gonna be a major change. We're gonna bring you
01:15back. Great. So talk to me about your hair. Tell me your story. Well yeah, I've just been
01:21transitioning for the past seven months. I stopped getting relaxer seven months ago
01:26and then eventually the ends just started breaking off really really bad. I just
01:31couldn't take the weight of the natural hair and just broke off. So your hair
01:37started talking to you. Yeah. And the curls were like, I want to be free. This is not working.
01:42Okay. So we're gonna start with the one process today but the most important thing
01:47is gonna be the way you treat your hair every single day. Okay. So we're gonna start
01:51with the shape that's gonna be very pretty. It's gonna be on the short side but
01:56you're gonna feel great about. Okay. And then in home you're gonna just follow all the
02:02instructions we're gonna give it to you and I guarantee you six months to a year
02:06you're gonna be completely different. You're gonna be stopping the street by
02:11everybody. Say this is the hair I dream. Okay. Oh I'm ready. All right. So there
02:18were actually three cuts that happened. The initial cut he just started really
02:23giving my hair a shape. Look at that. It's already changed. Yeah you can see the shape
02:30already. Yeah. Your face completely changed. And then we washed it. How do I look guys?
02:38And then he cut it again. See how much it changed? Yeah. See that? It's amazing. We're
02:47gonna just be the support group and make your curl start to showing up. Then we
02:57washed it and really put a lot of styling products in it. And then we dried it and
03:02then he colored it. It's coming up really nicely. And then that was it. Oh wow. This is great. Oh I love it.
03:14That's a color and curl. And then he cut it again.
03:23How are you? Can't wait to see this.
03:26Wow.
03:28Like I said before, the dimension that wasn't there, now you have it. I see you a year from today that you're gonna have
03:39this big hair just like all over. Wow. Wow. That looks really good. Thank you so much Dennis. Thank you very much. I just finished getting my haircut and I love it. Look at the curl definition. It's like so awesome. He did such a good job. I love it.
04:09We decided that the best shape for her face. What she needs to be is comfortable with her hair was the most important part of her beauty. She needs to be comfortable to be herself. So the first thing we did was talking about how her hair should be according to the face of her shape.
04:28And then the second thing was about now that you have the best haircut for your type of hair for your face. Now we need to create dimensions. So the color was done almost like a volcano was explosion on the top. This way makes the change between high skin, the natural hair and the brightness on the top create a 3D picture.
04:54And then she become very beautiful, very comfortable with that new image. Very quick.
05:00The entire process took about 3 hours. He really took his time and really washed and conditioned my hair and it took a lot of time with the color just to make sure they got it right. Which I really appreciated.
05:12Yeah, our experience for the past 20 years is that when someone accepts who they are and embraces who they are, they become more confident in life. The self-esteem goes up and they transform into a new person. And I have seen that over and over and over. And her case is exactly that case. She's so ready for this. She's so ready for change. She's so ready to be herself. And what do we do over here? We just guided them to the right direction.
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