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Charles Gregory. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.840 How you doing. I'm doing fantastic. I'm good, glad to 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.200 be here. Thanks for having me. Well, first of all, 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.959 let's let's consider ourselves friends. Because I developed this show 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.760 um kind of like you know, I stop managing Steve Harvey, 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.240 trying to find my voice and I almost two years 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.880 ago I launched the show and it was just celebrity driven, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:51.760 all my friends and the injury. And then one day 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.000 I told my staff, ago, what is this show? Why 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.120 am I doing this show? And now that's the show 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.200 about giving the voice to entrepreneurs that they can don't 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:01.920 know they can trust that when they come on my 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.480 show and now that it's a show about your brand 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.560 and also giving advice to people who are trying to 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.440 travel the path that you you you built. That's very 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.160 that's very good because people need that. You know, we 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.320 need mentors and um you know, I'm into mentorship because 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.040 I I'm educated as well. M I was educated for 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.240 Soft Sheen Carson for like ten years. I was an 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.080 artistic director with them as well. So I worked in 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.520 research and development with MAZONI Soft she helped develop that product. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.240 So and I went around the country teaching stylists. So 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.160 I did that early in the early part of my 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.920 career and teaching them different haircutting techniques and how to 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.000 use the product properly. For Soft Sheen AMAZONI and uh, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.480 I helped to create a lot of the ad ads 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.560 that you saw for MAZONI way Bo care Free Curls. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.160 So I, you know, I was instrumental and uh you 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.239 know health and health and yeah, exactly help them to 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.520 uh to bring bring that into the forefront of the 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:08.880 African American heritage for for for our culture as far 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.320 as but the hair in in thirty five years, that 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:13.520 means you went through a lot of different you know, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:20.360 the afro, the bridge, the soft sheen look that dominated. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.799 So what's what style? Not the natural style that's the 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.760 dominant tone, even though you know people still getting perms 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.160 and getting their hair straight. What what what? What's happening 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.560 now there in the world of hair in the world here? Now? 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.440 You know, it's the natural look. But you know, wigs 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:41.080 are the thing now. It's like, uh, what's that rapper 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.880 that I just got out of jail? Meek meek milk. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.680 You know, he's kind of complained about the wigs because 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.320 the women are in all these lace weeks. These guys 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.040 don't know that they have wigs on because they look 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.520 so real, you know. So you know when they get 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.360 him in the in the room, in the bedroom and 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.400 they start wanting their hands in their hair, and then 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.560 they start feeling this glue and all this stuff, and 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.280 you know, they think, oh my god, what is this. 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.600 So you know, it's like a lot of women wearing 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.440 wigs because they're very convenient and they look good and 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.400 make them sexy. What what made them? What made the transition? 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.400 Because my mom wore with how much happened? I do? 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.080 What happened? It? Um? You know, women have been wearing 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.360 lace wigs since the thirties, and I've been actually doing 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.679 lace weeks in the movie industry since the nineties early nineties. 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.560 And it kind of caught on after I think Tyra 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.080 Banks and be honest, kind of let the cat out 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.880 of the bag because their their hairstyles put laces wigs 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.359 on them and they looked incredible, and women want to know, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.120 Oh my god, a woman hair to looked like that 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.400 because it was blowing in the wind. You could see 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.360 scalp and it looked like it was going out of 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.960 this scalp. So they wanted that, and so it created 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.560 such a demand. So that's what people want now. And 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.920 because when you put a lace wig on and you 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.120 blue it on properly, it looks like it's going out 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.440 of your scale. Okay, a male so helping, would you 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.760 say the word blew it on? Well, you have to. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.320 What they do. It comes with a very fine lace 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.560 that you can see through, and they take one hair 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.680 at a time and they when they do what you 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.719 call ventilate. If we ventilate the hair through that lace 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.080 so that it matches your skin tone, they died and 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.120 they died to look at your skin toe. So when you. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.480 When we glue it, it's a clear glue and it 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.920 dries and it clear. It's clear and it and it's 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.440 like it looks like your skin. So when we when 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.360 we glue it to your like forehead, it looks like 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.200 it's hair growing out of your skin. So it's it 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.520 just mimics your skin and hair. So it looks like 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.520 like like you might have gotten hair. Well you don't 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.640 have it. If you don't have edges, you can you 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.200 can just have edges. Now, my next courtion will be 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.960 can you wear that? Usually it was designed to wear 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.159 it like put it on, take it off in the 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.400 movie industry, but with the commercial success of these wigs, 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.200 they've gotten so many different glues that you can wear 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.640 it for a week to two weeks without taking it off. 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.920 Now because they've made they've made better glues. They've got 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.440 adhesives that that doesn't damage your's your skin and your 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.720 hair and it doesn't you know, they've they've made a 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.560 made better goose surgical adhesives that will hold for like 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.039 two weeks, and you just take it off, you know, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.320 go to the salon, have it removed, have your wig, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.480 shampoo clean the wig, have it reglued and you set 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:29.040 for another two weeks. Well, tell us about your wig collection. Okay, cool, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.680 Well you know my weird collection. What I did, I mean, 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.800 everybody's doing wigs, but you know, I wanted to do 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:41.159 wigs that were, um going to be custom, and um, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.599 I like to do wigs that are custom hairline because 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.840 sometimes the hairline on on the wigs that manufacturers make 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:51.359 they don't match our hairlines. They're sometimes they're like really 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.360 straight hairlines and they don't look real. Uh, they don't 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.039 have widow speaks, they don't have the temple area is 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.240 not matching, and certain things that these little new wants. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.680 It makes it not look real. And I I like, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.560 I like hair to look real. And so a lot 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.080 of times what I do with some of my wigs is, um, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.840 I will ventilate kinky hair around the edges. And what 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.760 I do is because you know, nobody's hair is bones straight, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.440 especially I especial black women. You know, they got they 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:25.160 got edges and well it's baby hair or some of them, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.560 but some of them got the edges. Now you know, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.080 some of these women got edges, they got they got 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.640 that who makes you dunct you stuff? You know it's like, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:34.960 so you know, you gotta you gotta do with that. 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.760 And they have a lot of kinky textures. You know, 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.760 some of these women got these kinky textures and they 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.920 want to put this European hairy and it doesn't match. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.920 So I like using different textures. I like using the 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.440 kinky textures, like put kicky edges in. And what I 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:48.800 do is I put them in, but I used the 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.000 pressing home to press them so it makes it look real. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.040 So that's that's that's that's where I do. That almost 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.880 feels custom. It is custom. So when you get those 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.240 kinky edges and you put that present home on, you 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.360 know it's gonna look like, okay, it looks like your edges. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.320 You ain't gotta do the baby had okay, because it's 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.680 gonna look like your real edges. And if you started 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.920 the perspie them things gonna they're gonna start kicking up, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:14.440 like you know, it really takes it to another level. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.120 It makes it look more authentic. Now, that's that's a vision, okay. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.600 Now when when when you ever you start a vision, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.160 people always question, why are you gonna do that? Just 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.120 what everybody else is doing? How did you walk through that? Well, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.040 you know what, it's just like I was doing. I've 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.240 been doing weeks in movies. Um, and I did um 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.880 this show with to Sheina Arnold and she was she 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.040 was wearing a wig and the wig was so straight. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.760 I said, now I need this this this this week. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.920 Don't like it's going out of her scalp. So I Uh, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.200 I wanted to skinky hair. And I ventilated some skinky 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.400 hair around her edges and then I started to pressing 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 and it made it look more real and I started 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.160 to use that. Uh, it was a show, Um, it 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.400 was my showtime. What was the show I did with her? 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.360 It was? What was that show? It was a Stars 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.600 Survivor's Remorse. I did that with your show Survive Morris. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.760 I did that were and so she wore the wig 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.120 and uh, basically I wanted it to look like her hair. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.400 And I was a fan of that show. Yeah, so 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.360 you saw it. I saw it. So what I did, 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:27.480 and she was always throwing, so I just wanted I 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.040 didn't want it to look like a wig. And I 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.440 did that for Erica ashe as well. So she had 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.560 a wig on too. It was a blond wig. So 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.960 I did that for her too. So just so that 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.160 you know, I didn't want them to look like the 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.360 regular Thank you, thank you very much, because I especially Eric, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.480 you know, I thought she just died her hair. Yeah, 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.440 and that was a wig. Thank you. And then I 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.200 also I did did a wig on epayth The Murkerson 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:51.640 when I did a Lack of One of Blues. I 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.839 don't know if you remember that movie for HBO. Yeah, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.280 I did that, and that's what movie I've nominated for 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.600 an M four. And I wanted the texture to look 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.560 like it was back in the day. I didn't wanted 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.840 to look like a wig. I wanted to look like natural, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.240 you know, black woman's hair. So the texture that I 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.079 used for that wig, and then the hair that I used, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.280 you know, it looked like it was pressed hair. So 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.880 so we were talking about wigs. Okay, and you have 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:24.960 a you have a location right that the wig is online? Yeah, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.840 I have. I have a website. It's called the Renowned 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.000 Weird Collection dot com. That's that's perfect for you, now, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.960 weird Collection. I would think of no other name now. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.840 And I'll tell you where I got that name from. Actually, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:41.040 my friend Vincent that's sitting over there. He started working 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.079 me back when the first got out of beauty school, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.360 like maybe twenty five years ago when I had my 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.120 son on Lindbergh. He was he was one of my 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:49.840 first workers. He had just got out of Beuty school. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:51.880 So he worked with me. So I used to they 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.199 used come to work and used I was very adamant 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.719 about them coming on time. Where ties right? And so 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.480 he started calling me. He called me the now way 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.200 back then, and he just kept calling me to now 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.000 every time you see me, the renown, the renown, the renown. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.080 So this year, I said, last year, I said, I said, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.280 I'm gonna call myself the renown because he calls me 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.040 that all the time. So I said, I'm just gonna 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.920 ahead and and then on my name because that's what 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.840 I loves me and I love it. It's perfect because 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.880 the thing about it, you know why it fits because 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.520 you've heard it so long. It's part of your culture. Well, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.439 that's your mentality, you know what. That's what he's spoke 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.760 into my life. He spoke into my life. He kept 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.560 calling me the renown, the renown, the renown. So I said, well, 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.679 I'm gonna go ahead and receive that and either renow. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.000 We know the interesting thing about I've always tell people 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.000 you gotta have people around who champing you, and that 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.880 that's something I had to discover, because you you gotta 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:42.439 have people to tell you how great you are. You 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.400 have two people tell you how special you are. That 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.119 you're doing is differently and that's all he was doing exactly. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.800 He was speaking. You decided to listen. He was speaking 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.520 prophetic words in stop stop stop exactly. He was speaking 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.040 prophetically in my life and I didn't know it. You know, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.920 it's like, come on, That's why. That's why I mean 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.880 to speak prophetically over over our children, over everybody we meet. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.280 You want to speak prophetic things over them. Speak And 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.440 it's important because one of the reason I wanted to 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.559 because to me, you're a legend, okay, and sometimes sometimes 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.160 when you when you're doing things and the craft that's 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.480 behind the scenes, people just assume, Like I said, here, 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.280 I'm watching your work on Survivors Remors, not knowing it 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.520 and thinking that and then now now not being able 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.320 to communicate with it and then break down the skill set. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.320 Just tie to it. You're not just throwing wigs on 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.760 ladies hair man's hair. Character. You're three characters and with 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.000 these these these things can create a different social change 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.319 for you. When we come back and want to talk 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.839 more about the location that you have in Atlanta. But 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.200 I want to talk about the movie Vice. Okay, we 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.680 can talk about that as well. We'll be back in 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.319 a few minutes. The movie vices right, White White did 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.120 Tyler Perry He's playing Poland power. Let's talk about the 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:57.080 right back. I just Rashan McDonald. You're back on any 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.560 making conversation. Uh my gases. Charles Gregory, if you don't know, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.080 the renown Charles Gregory, thirty or five years in the business, 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.280 launched the renowned Weird Collection with wik styles for women 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.600 and men. The wigs are top notch, made with the 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 best human hair and very fine lace which is used 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.400 for film and TV to be undetectable under the scrutiny 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.040 of today's high definition camera. The renowned Weird Collection is 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.400 available online and also at his beauty bar in Atlanta. Georgers, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.199 please welcome back to the show, Charles Gregory. His beauty 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.000 bar is called Charles Gregory Blow Dry and Beauty Ball. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.920 Thank you. Thanks. We got talking about sit next to 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.880 your celebrity to start talking about these movies that you 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.360 you were talking about before we left. Yeah, let's talk 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.560 about this movie and the movie always talking about right 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.760 now as Vice. Uh, that's the movie that's up for 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.679 Oscars now, several oscars. It's been nominated for, including hair 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.880 and makeup, which I did work on. Um, I'm not 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.040 fortunate enough to have my name called for the nomination, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.040 but I did work on the team, work with the team. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.720 I did Tyler Perry on that movie. He played Colin Powell, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.160 and if you saw the movie, you would see that 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.200 he has hair like Colon Power, but you know Tyler 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:08.280 and hamming hair. So I helped design that wig that 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.199 he's wearing that making it like Colon Powers. It's it's 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.920 a full lace wig. It's it's lace all over. How 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.559 did how was you invited to the project and how 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.800 did you sit down? Did you talk to Tyler? Did 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.400 you go back and forth on what? Okay? Look, the 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.440 way I was invited to the project is that the 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.680 wig maker that I normally use in l a name 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.840 Bob crutch Mayer. He Um. He called me said Charles, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.800 I have a job here and I need you to 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.200 help me with it. He usually consults me in a 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.840 lot of wigs because he you know, I'm a black 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:43.040 expert in during black wigs, and so I said, okay, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.760 he said with for Tyler Peer. I said, oh, you know, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.240 I worked with Tyler all the time. I do my 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.160 DA all that, you know, So I've worked with Tyler 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.120 a lot, so I hadn't worked with him in a while. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.520 So and then he put me onto Tyler's makeup artist 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.160 which does all the specially effects, which his name is 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.000 West Wesley, and he was gonna do special effects for 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.600 him to you know, make him look like Colon. And 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.600 when I got in touch with West, you know West 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.280 get sent me some pictures and stuff and we collaborated. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.040 And then you told Tyler that I was going to 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.240 be on the project. And I said, oh, yeah, Chas, yeah, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.720 because he knows me, because you know, we've we've been 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.080 been together maybe fifteen years, and I've done all a 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.600 lot of his shows House of Pain. I've been department 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.000 here on a lot of his movies, his TV shows stuff. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.920 So you know, we maybe we thought there this is there. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.920 So um when I did when I designed the wig, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.720 I took the pictures and I saw the week so 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.360 I had Bob to make the wig with white hair. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.600 So he made it poor white because it was like 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.840 salt and pepper. So I wanted to control. I wanted 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.360 to control the amount of salt and pepper that I got, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.680 So instead of having him do gray and black hair, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.760 I wanted him to do white hair so that I 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.480 could artistically color it to make it look like I wanted, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.040 like to match Colon power. So I that's how how 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.920 I came up with the salt and pepper. So I 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.960 colored the wig so that it's strategically looked just like 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.440 Colon's hair as far as where he grayed and where 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.880 he was black and when he wasn't. So you're an artist, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.920 I'm an artist. I'm an artist. Yeah, And actually I 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.840 studied art as it relates to hair, hairstunding, and structure, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.480 so I do teach. I have a class that I 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.120 teach on on hair strung hair, hair design as it 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.000 relates to art, and teach your art principles on how 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.400 to do hair design as it relates to different art 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.760 principles like repetition, alternation, um a, progression, all these things 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.120 that you need to be an artist, and I teach 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:36.840 you how to how to take the medium of hair 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.760 and create artistically beautiful hair designs. So when you when 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.600 I look at you and I look at that, there's 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:46.320 a certain I'm talking to a professor, Okay, I'm talking 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.000 to an individual that just competantly talks about it. And 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.760 so when one comes into your beauty ball, what is 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.880 the expectation of a client. The expectation is just to 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.880 leave more fabulous than you came in, and to leave 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.000 with a smile on your face, and just to leave 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.760 feeling uh motivated, and just to feel uplifted. Because when 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:11.040 when women are beautiful, they feel they have self confidence. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.080 I give them self confidence in themself and I make 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.159 them feel better. And that's that's that's that's, that's what 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.400 part I love about my job is making you looking 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:20.920 at mirror and I want to see a big smile 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.600 on your face. And when you walk to the redgist, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.160 I want to see a bigger smile when I give 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.320 you my pride, okay, and you'd be having to bay okay, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.760 because you're gonna be happy because what I've given you. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.800 So that the un in Atlanta, why why did you 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.439 choose that location? And as a as a you know, 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.280 you had all this just experience, you had this reputation. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.440 Why did you trust yourself enough to be an entrepreneur 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.000 and a brick and mortar. Well, you know what, my 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.680 mother owned a beauty salon in Charlotte, and I came 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.000 up in the salon, you know, when I was as 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.760 far as I can remember, She's always had a salon 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.359 and I just I just had the entrepreneur spirit through 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:03.120 uh heredity. Right. So I've always been I've always sold something. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.480 Even as a child. I grew up selling see selling 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.840 candy selling uh Mary Kay. As a teenagers selling, I 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.159 even so try to sell wigs. I worked in the 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.120 wig shop when I was when I was a teenager, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.720 like fifteen, I would I would cut afros in the 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.119 team in a wig shop. Just I worked in his 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.400 Korean wickshop downtown Charlotte. I would cut afros. This lead. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.119 I would go by there every day and watch this 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.520 koreer and cut these afros. And she she got time. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.000 She said, let me show you how to cut, to cut, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.560 and she gave me a job. And then then she 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.280 showed me how to do shin yawns and taught me 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:34.919 how to do stuff before I even got out of 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.360 high school. So it's just been, uh, it's just been 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.400 in me to do that. When did you start trusting yourself? 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.000 Because the reason I say that is that I remember 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.120 that I can't cut anybody's hair. That's I mean, that's 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.280 a nerve racking experience. You know, people think that's simple. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.000 Somebody's gonna sit in your chair and then you have 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.680 a razor and you have to cut their hair. Why 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.399 don't you start trusting yours? You know, I always believe 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.880 I could do it, and I always tried to do it, 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.560 but I never trusted myself until I went to beauty 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:08.040 school and really got all of the fundamentals. And then 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.640 once I got that, it's like I took off, I 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.920 like perfected everything I was. I was already doing hair 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.320 and straightening hair at home and doing this. But once 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:20.840 I learned how to do the cutting and the styling 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.800 and the blow drying and the and the chemical stuff. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.440 Once I learned that, you know, the sky was the limit. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.920 So what do the mistakes that the young stylers do 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:29.800 or people get in the business. What are the mistakes 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.120 the mistakes they do is they stop educating themselves. They 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.959 stopped learning, They stopped They think once they get out 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.240 of beauty school they know it all. They think they 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.560 stopped learning, and what happens is they get left behind. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.439 They left behind. In technology, things are different now, you know, 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.439 people I used to use the oven and stuff that. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.120 You know, the ovens is past, say now you gotta 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.159 use the ceramic. Guys, you know, you gotta change with 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.359 the times. If you don't change, you're gonna be behind. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.560 You know, you gotta stay educated, You gotta keep going 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.239