Ep 135 - Your Biggest Hair Dilemmas, Solved! With Celebrity Hairstylist and Herbal Essences Spokesperson Bridget Brager

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Frizz, dryness, flatness –  here to help with  solutions, we’re sitting down with Herbal Essences Celebrity Hairstylist Bridget Brager. Bridget is a Los Angeles-based hairstylist who works with the glistening manes belonging to stars like Priyanka Chopra, Constance Wu and Millie Bobbie Brown.  We get all the tips on how to avoid breakage, a hack for making hair look thicker, driving moisture into your strands and whether or not those silk pillow cases are greats or gimmicks!

Bridget opens up her virtual, on-set hair kit, sharing her favourite drugstore products to beat frizz, her volumizing splurge that’s *actually* worth the spend, along with her hot tool must-haves you too can use at home to get that fresh-from-your-hairstylist swag. And, stay tuned until the end to find out the haircutting tricks to boost limp hair once salon doors are ready to swing open in your area again [insert prayer hands emoji here.]

This episode was created in partnership with the cruelty-free and Peta-approved Herbal Essences Bio:Renew Potent Aloe & Hemp Sulfate-Free Collection, made with sustainably-sourced aloe extracts authenticated by leading plant science experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW. For more info click here.

Ep 123 - Miss Jessie's Haircare Co-Founder Miko Branch

Today we’re sitting down virtually with Miko Branch, co-founder of Miss Jessie’s Haircare. Hairstylist by trade, Miko launched the line in 2004 with her late sister, Titi Branch, sharing the Curly Pudding they mixed up right at home for their devoted clientele. Without any help from investors, the siblings bootstrapped the entire business, taking the homemade hair concoctions they learned to make in their grandmother’s kitchen to front and centre at major retail stores. Today, Miss Jessie’s is adored by celebrities like Alicia Keys, Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya, along with curly, kinky, coily and wavy-hair women everywhere.

Ep 68 - Legendary Hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai

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Women of a certain age know the name of this hair legend well: Frédéric Fekkai. Get ready to hear the backstory behind the dashing Frenchman and former model who was among the first to charge hundreds of dollars for a hair cut in Manhattan. In his heyday, Frédéric was called upon by Hollywood royalty like Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey and Jodie Foster. At one Academy Awards show, he worked on three nominees in one night! His eponymous haircare brand was also among the original hairstylist-backed brands, but after selling his haircare business in 2008, the brand lost its cool factor. In today’s episode, Frédéric explains why he recently bought back his own brand—and details his plans for re-inventing the House of Fekkai to compete with the Ouai’s and Brigeo’s of this world.

Ep. 63 - Meet Nancy Twine, The Founder of Briogeo, The Fastest-Growing Haircare Brand at Sephora

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Meet the fastest growing hair care brand at Sephora: Briogeo. Today we’re chatting with its brilliant founder, Nancy Twine, a University of Virginia graduate and Goldman Sachs alum. As a woman of colour, she couldn't understand why there wasn’t any natural, non-toxic haircare on the market for all ethnicities and hair textures under one brand. Having whipped up DIY beauty products using avocado oils and coconut butters with her mother and grandmother as a child, clean beauty was also top of mind. She blended the two ideas, and in 2013, Briogeo was born.

Ep 51 - Hair Colour Legend Christophe Robin

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oday we’re talking hair colour with a French master. The colourist behind Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Paradis and Catherine Deneuve’s gorgeous hair hues — it’s Christophe Robin! Christophe was the long-time magic man behind all the big L’Oréal hair ad campaigns, plus the hands responsible for 90’s supermodels’ sparkling manes. They all went to Christophe to get this signature look: natural radiance without compromising the health of hair. Listen in for his take on vegetable hair colour; dry shampoo ‘don’ts’; how to tweak your hair colour to make dark under eye circles less obvi; and a hack for taking your hair colour down a notch if you return from the salon a tad too stark. It’s a podcast episode so chic, it’s magnifique!