Hair as Salvation Ft Illeisha Lussiano AKA The Hair Artiste
Naked Beauty
The Naked Beauty Podcast
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
“When you’re in the hair salon, speak up. Be direct. Direct questions, get direct answers.” - my wise guest & talented hair artist Illeisha on claiming your voice and advocating for what you want when it comes to your hair
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Illeisha has an artistically-based education but expresses her art through hair. She’s spent the last decade in the industry building an incredible career and working with some of the top talent in the game. We talk about how she took the jump from Boston to NY to pursue her dreams, how she approaches life behind the scenes, and what it was like to work with Naomi Campbell at just 21. We get into how to find the right stylist and how to ask the right questions – like her 6-year old client who knew exactly what he wanted when he got in the chair. She explains how to make the most of your appointment and getting what you pay for. Illiesha also gives me an incredibly helpful vocabulary lesson and teaches me what the difference is between base color, ombre, lowlights/highlights and balayage.
I ask her what the deal is with shampoo (is it as damaging as people claim) & how many products do we really need? She shares some amazing thoughts on how the energy you put into your hair manifests itself and how important it is to A) speak up but B) find someone who listens to you. Making time for yourself and loving your hair are two things Illeisha really believes in and I walked away feeling so inspired by our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Brooke Devard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty |
| 0:05.3 | Podcast. This episode is special because I'm actually talking to an expert. I have |
| 0:11.5 | Alicia with me, also known as the hair artist. She does |
| 0:15.3 | amazing things with hair and color and she does natural hair, she does braids. I mean she |
| 0:20.0 | really really does it all and we get into her her full career journey but then I also |
| 0:24.3 | just use the time to ask her some of the questions that I've always had about |
| 0:28.4 | hair I think because I'm a you know self-professed DIY queen and I think I can educate myself on the internet and books and just do it all on my own. |
| 0:39.0 | I realize that I had a lot of reservations and doubts about professional hair stylists and because I had |
| 0:48.8 | bad experiences I got really bad heat damage about two years ago. I like never ever |
| 0:53.6 | wanted to go to anyone to flat iron my hair. I still am super |
| 0:56.2 | careful about putting heat on my hair but just also learning how much an |
| 1:01.5 | expert knows versus what I know and seeing how much working with her |
| 1:05.3 | has just increased the quality of my life because I just love my hair so much and |
| 1:10.1 | I love the color that she's done and also as she's doing my hair she talks to me about |
| 1:14.4 | which products work well which products I should avoid because of my hair type and it's just been a really |
| 1:20.0 | amazing journey so I'm excited to share her perspective with you guys. |
| 1:23.4 | As always thank you all for your support for following Naked Beauty Planet on |
| 1:27.8 | Instagram and please please if you're not subscribed to the podcast just take a |
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