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The Hair Game

Ep. 37 · How to Cause a Riot with Alexis and David Thurston of @pulpriothair

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Business

4.9571 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Pulp Riot founders David and Alexis Thurston went from salon owners to creating one of the hottest brands in our industry. Listen in to see how they did it.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, this is the hair game and in this episode we talked to Alexis and David Thurston,

0:09.0

a butterfly loft salon, butterfly circus, and pulp riot fame.

0:14.0

I've gotten to know these two over the last year or so and our offices are actually very close to each other in L.A.

0:20.0

So Donovan and I

0:21.4

cruised over there and we sat down for this conversation. This was right

0:25.8

before they announced their sale to L'Oreal. So after the conversation I'll

0:30.1

fill you in on what David said post-announcement. So thanks so much for

0:36.5

being here guys taking the time.

0:38.3

Absolutely, thanks for happiness.

0:40.3

Thanks for the opportunity.

0:41.3

We have Alexis here and David.

0:43.3

So Alexis, why don't you tell us where you're from and how you got to hair?

0:46.3

Well, I mainly grew up in Santa Barbara, California.

0:51.3

Not a bad place.

0:52.3

Not a bad place.

0:53.3

It's kind of one of those places that you don't know how awesome it is until you leave.

0:58.0

And then had the opportunity of moving to Sao Paulo, Brazil, my last two years of high school.

1:03.0

So I got to live in South America, which was amazing and travel around.

1:07.0

Why was that?

1:08.0

What's that?

1:09.0

Why did you go that?

1:10.0

My dad's job. And so with that, you know, I had a lot of opportunity to travel and be able to experience

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