Tracee Ellis Ross Gets A New Hairdo While Talking Hair Care And Her Mom | Vogue

I cannot do you love it, i love it. Hi, i'm tracey, ellis ross and i'm jawara and we are gon na, create something beautiful, beautiful, updo. Some sort of modern take on a historical something. Jawarra is not only gorgeous and gentle he's, so talented, your ability to kind of call in the legacy of our hair and our texture, and all of that and the history of that, but then also bring in your creativity and make it modern and feel so exciting Is what i always love in seeing your work? Thank you. I am sort of dry, but i've got leave-in conditioner in my hair, amazing and it's wet at the roots, definitely going to use your texture today. For sure i have a lot of hair and i love wearing my hair out, but the truth is particularly as i've gotten older. I love a snatch, something snatched. I love it. I love to just snatch that hair up hair care is extremely important before you start any hair styling. So today i'm going to continue what you have been starting already. I also love a reference you sent me so many good ones. It was really hard to choose, but i loved that this idea allowed volume to be involved with the sculpture, yes, which i love yeah, and i also love glamour and drama, not in my life. In my hair i started doing hair at a young age. I had an aunt that taught me how to do hair wow, so i started working in my aunt salon and these beautiful black women that just love themselves and adorn themselves in these beautiful clothes and this beautiful hair. It'S also nothing better than someone touching your hair, and this is my little trick. I love to get in there at my root, almost like it's fingers. Do you remember that thing you used to scratch exactly that's what it's like so now, you're parting parting, a little braid moment in here, that's pizzazz when i was young before i sort of got into caring. What i looked like and all that you know when you're at that tender cute age, i just wore my hair. Naturally with my natural texture and my texture has gone through so many different phases. It was really fine and like not a lot of curls but waves when i was young and then i started wanting what everybody had which was the downfall. I started going to the salon every saturday and get my hair blown out. I beat my hair into submission and it was dry and fried and dead and tired, and so my hair started to break and i did not do a big chop. But that was when i started to go natural and i started to learn about my hair and gain a relationship to it, and i got really fiercely protective of my hair. I would wake up at like three o'clock in the morning. Do it yourself, do it myself? Um, all through high school, i had figured out like the humidity level changes how your hair is what water you use. So i learned how to braid my hair. I learned all the different things and that was when the idea for pattern came. I started to notice that, like certain products said they were for curly hair, but they didn't do anything. Certain products said they were for hydration and like deep conditioner. So i started to realize that deep conditioners were the ones that worked best for my hair. I know you probably experienced this, but my big pet peeve, like the fact that it said, use a dime size of conditioner. I was like okay sure not for not for hair, no, not for curly coily and tight textures not going to happen or, as you were about to say not for black people. You got to be kidding me for my entire childhood, the section in the store for black hair, so small, and it was the same products that my mom had access to, that i had access to that. My nieces and nephew like it was just like it just, but with all the different hair types it just always it was unfinished unthought of it was like nothing had evolved, madame cj walker and then it just it just fell off. My dream has been to sort of expand the market and really help people to understand from an industry standpoint that black hair care is not niche, that we are vast and that we are not all the same yeah. What are some of your hair heroes? Nina simone? Okay, cicely tyson, okay, my mom, oh, your mom is my hair hero for sure the fact that she wore natural texture. You know one of the questions i asked her. I was like what made you know that that was a choice. You know in the 70s and 60s when she made that leap out of the supremes sort of bouffant hairstyles. She said i don't know i just liked it. There was no real answer. I was like okay, who are your hair heroes, your mom mm-hmm? My mom is a huge haircut of mine. She'S had long natural locks since before i was born and kind of like raised us to like wear natural hair, as opposed to like what was being shown in school. I hear you on that. So, there's a quick little trick that i've been using for years i'll show you with the donut padding just to add a little bit more volume in your hair yeah. So what i do is i cut them half like this. If you want to like alter the shape a bit, you kind of just pull this apart. Oh my god, that's amazing, and then you can kind of it's actually really pretty. Isn'T it nice yeah like i would love to see a dress made out of this. So would i say we could also wrap it up. Yeah wrap it around right. The next step is to do the roll in the back and start putting them in to fill the rolls my regal roll, not that you need much of it, but i'm gon na do a little backcombing in the root just somewhere to anchor the pins okay, because Your hair has the perfect volume already for this, especially since we diffused it bigger or smaller, bigger. Okay, i'm going to secure these bad boys in i'm, leaving some pieces like this a bit looser, so we can kind of see the texture. Yes for some reason. Right now, i'm very drawn to the rockabilly like beehive kind of thing, but doing that with texture. I did an exhibition named course: the ingenuity of black hair. It basically was focusing on things that people normally deemed negative and we wanted to celebrate those things. I had all these amazing pictures of black hairstyles that reminded me of times in my youth and different styles and hair. I definitely have seen some sort of a change in the fashion industry, as opposed to when i first started, i remember, being backstage and no one being able to work on anyone with textured hair black hair. There are a lot who still don't know, but i do feel like there are people making a real effort to figure it out to figure it out yeah what about in hollywood? What do you would you say i think, there's a new appreciation for authenticity. I feel like when i was younger. It was more like a fetishization ethnic or you know those words similar to editorial and fashion industry. There'S not a lot of stylists that can do black hair and that know how to do it with variation and possibility and um sort of creativity, and there is still the remnants of respectability politics that comes in in terms of what hairstyles are appropriate. Yes, what feels like accessible to everybody, what people are going to understand in our culture and for black women? It'S such a sacred thing, particularly if you're somebody who does wear wigs or weaves or any of those things and sort of that relationship with you and your stylist. It'S so personal, it's so personal, sometimes more personal than spouses seriously, because you know there's a lot of people whose spouses have never seen their natural hair yeah. Isn'T it crazy we're going to do a little edge detail where we do the finishing touches a little bit of hairspray lock it in? I am obsessed okay, i'm starting to get um expression for what we're going to call this okay. What are you thinking? There'S like there is like a rockabilly energy, i am dying. It'S a afro billy, it's an afro billy april belly african, oh my god, jewelry! Yes, when we are done, i am going to put on a gorgeous pink dress to go with this and a lip. You need a lip when your hair looks epic, you need a lip. Well, at least i need a lip. I love a lip. Oh, my god, this is i'm dying. I'M telling you sometimes hair changes. The whole whole mood changes the whole persona. Okay, let's take a look, i cannot and the braid the braid is: what kills it it brings it to. I got ta. Go look at this. Do you love it? I love it. This is some beautiful art right here. I'M gon na have to turn so they can see the best detail. What and what and what and nothing like every angle, when you have good hair from all around right all around well, you have, you always have gray hair. No, i don't always have great hair. This is beyond great. I think this is what you call extraordinary. Ah, oh my gosh, unbelievable all right now we're gon na go put some cute on you.