13 Actors Who Called Out Inexperienced Hairstylists On TV Or Movie Sets, Including Some Who Gave Up Entirely And Literally Shaved Their Heads To Avoid The Stress

1. Earlier this month, British histrion Erin Kellyman revealed that she did her ain hairsbreadth connected movie sets “for a truly agelong time” due to the fact that stylists often didn’t cognize however to enactment with her hairsbreadth type. “I thought that’s what mixed and Black radical had to do,” she explained, adding that she’d witnessed “all-white” hairsbreadth and constitution teams connected sets who didn’t cognize “how to bash Black and mixed hair” — adjacent if determination were aggregate non-white actors present.

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Erin revealed that it was yet her cause who advocated for her and fto her cognize that she should beryllium getting her hairsbreadth done connected acceptable similar each her achromatic peers. “She was like, ‘So that can’t happen, and you’re not a diva for wanting your hairsbreadth to beryllium done erstwhile everybody else’s hairsbreadth is getting done,’” the Willow prima recalled.

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2. Similarly, Yvette Nicole Brown revealed that she often attended caller sets with her hairsbreadth already done to debar immoderate disappointments. She tweeted successful 2019, “Most achromatic actresses travel to a caller acceptable w/ their hairsbreadth done (me) oregon bring their wigs & clip-ins w/them. It's either that oregon instrumentality a accidental that you volition look brainsick connected screen.”

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3. And New Girl histrion Lamorne Morris erstwhile revealed that helium was made to bash his ain hairsbreadth connected a production, contempt the information that his costars were capable to get their hairsbreadth cut. “I would person to spell to the barbershop astatine 4, 4.30 a.m. earlier acceptable to get my hairsbreadth cut. When I would get to set, I would spot everyone other successful the hairsbreadth and constitution trailer getting their hairsbreadth cut. When I asked wherefore I couldn’t get my hairsbreadth chopped astatine work, it was due to the fact that – this is what they told maine – they didn’t person the fund for my hair,” helium shared.

4. Tati Gabrielle spent 2 years doing her iconic digit waves connected the bid Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, earlier yet realizing that it wasn’t “fair.” After sharing a video of herself styling her character’s hair, Tati shared, “What could instrumentality a hairstylist possibly 20 minutes to bash my full head, it took maine an hr [to an] hr and a half. I was having to aftermath up earlier than everybody other to bash my ain hair. It was conscionable a lot. I went to the constituent of being like, 'OK, this isn't fair.’”

In fact, Tati ended up shaving her head partway done the bid truthful that she nary longer had to support the hairstyle.

5. In a akin vein, Halle Berry erstwhile revealed that her iconic pixie chopped was really a deliberate choice, arsenic it meant that her hairsbreadth was easier to support and negociate connected movie sets. “That’s wherefore I had abbreviated hair… [Maintaining] it was easy. I deliberation arsenic radical of color, particularly successful the business, we haven’t ever had radical that cognize however to negociate our hair,” she said.

6. Former kid prima Skai Jackson erstwhile shared that she’d experienced moving with hairstylists connected sets who “knew however to bash everyone else's hair” but hers. “It was decidedly my ma ever doing my hair, adjacent erstwhile I was connected Jessie, she would bash it the nighttime earlier filming the adjacent day, truthful I was prepared,” she said, referring to her Disney Channel archetypal series.

7. In 2021, Meagan Good revealed that a hairstylist accidentally burned her with a blistery comb erstwhile attempting to bash her hair. “When helium went to property my hair, helium enactment a metallic comb underneath the comb and that comb slipped retired and the pressing comb fundamentally burned my forehead and I had astir 5 oregon six bony marks connected my face,” she recalled. "It was rather frustrating for idiosyncratic to accidental that they knew however to bash it and benignant of usage maine arsenic an experiment."

8. Tia Mowry erstwhile revealed that she really broke down successful tears connected acceptable aft seeing the mode a hairstylist attempted to bash her hair. “I was doing this movie and, my God, I was the lead. And aft this idiosyncratic did my hair, I cried. I was similar ‘I cannot, like, I cannot spell retired determination looking similar this,” she shared, elsewhere adding, “It’s mind-blowing to maine that we inactive have… to combat to person achromatic hairdressers connected acceptable for us.”

9. A fewer years ago, Monique Coleman revealed that she was perpetually dressed successful headbands successful the High School Musical movies to fell however poorly-styled her hairsbreadth was underneath “We’ve grown a batch successful this manufacture and we’ve grown a batch successful practice and we’ve grown a batch successful presumption of knowing the needs of an African-American actress. But the information is, is that they had done my hair, and they had done it precise poorly successful the front,” she said.

Monique explained that unit members connected acceptable didn’t ever person clip to hole her hair, yet prompting her to suggest that her quality deterioration the headbands.

10. Actor Taraji P. Henson was erstwhile near with her locks wholly damaged aft an inexperienced stylist utilized a basal booster connected her hairsbreadth for a mag shoot. She told The Hollywood Reporter that she considered asking for a caller stylist, though yet spot her lingua for fearfulness of being labeled “difficult.”

During a abstracted shoot, Taraji was fixed a “cheap wig” by a stylist who seemingly “didn’t adjacent know” however to marque it enactment connected her. As a result, she ended up paying for a stylist retired of her ain pocket.

11. Similarly, The White Lotus prima Natasha Rothwell erstwhile recalled having to bargain her ain hairsbreadth supplies aboriginal successful her career, which she said outgo her astir arsenic overmuch arsenic what she’d marque for filming per day. As for her achromatic costars, Natasha said, “They tin aftermath up, rotation retired of furniture and don’t person to interest astir what’s successful their bag.”

“It’s a existent disservice to actors of colour who are efficaciously doing idiosyncratic else’s occupation and not getting paid for it,” she added. “There’s thing [more] dehumanizing than sitting successful a hairsbreadth and constitution seat and watching your costars spell done the works and leave, and you’re inactive determination due to the fact that someone’s moving precise dilatory due to the fact that they’re precise scared. It’s [you] feeling similar a occupation to beryllium solved.”

12. Back successful 2017, Gabrielle Union revealed she besides ended up paying for her ain hairsbreadth to beryllium done aboriginal successful her career. Penning a candid effort for Glamour magazine, she said, “I was similar a guinea pig connected set, and I didn’t yet person capable powerfulness to petition a stylist who I really wanted to interaction my hair. It got to the constituent that I would wage to person my hairsbreadth done earlier I got to enactment and commune they didn’t screw it up.”

“I realized precise rapidly that determination were galore radical successful hairsbreadth and constitution trailers who were wholly unqualified to bash my hair. Hairstylists utilized Aqua Net–like hairspray with brainsick amounts of alcohol, which caused chunks of my hairsbreadth to virtually travel disconnected connected a styling tool,” she shared.

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