Meet 5 Black Hairstylists Behind Your Favourite Superstar Wigs — Interview

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Tevin Washington‘s curiosity in hairstyling started in highschool when he used to binge hair movies from YouTubers like Adrianna Thomas. Finally, he determined it was time to strive the hairstyling methods he discovered from “YouTube College,” as he jokingly refers to it on our Zoom name, on his mates. In faculty, when he began doing his classmates’ hair as a facet hustle, he determined hairstyling was value pursuing full time. In 2015, he dropped out and entered cosmetology college.

There, he found {that a} hairstylist can work in a variety of capacities: freelancing, working in a salon, engaged on set —  all he needed to do was select his method. He determined that was set styling. “I may do loopy, out-there issues with out damaging somebody’s hair, [which] drew me to doing wigs and desirous to be a set stylist,” he shares.

Like many hairstylists who work with extensions, Washington’s entry into the sector started with sew-ins. However as wigs grew to become extra standard, he began to experiment with them extra usually. He dipped into the class working with lace closures, hairpieces which are positioned on the hairline, sometimes 4×4 or 5×5 inches in dimension for ample parting house or affixed throughout and in the direction of the crown. Then frontals, which cowl your entire perimeter of the hairline, began to change into the fad. He did his first lace frontal set up in 2012, which he admits was “horrible.” He did not contact one other one till 2015, after persistent requests from his mates.