Celebrity hair stylist Jay Birmingham shares his greatest prepping and styling hair ideas | EUROtoday

Khloe Kardashian, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Rochelle Humes are simply three celebrities who’ve their hair styled by Jay Birmingham.

But his first consumer was 11.5 inches tall and made fully from plastic. “As a child, I would steal my cousin’s Barbie dolls all the time. I’d take them home and I’d be plaiting the hair and brushing and combing it,” he says.

His ardour for hair continued by his teenage years in Sutton Coldfield close to Birmingham, the place he undertook a Saturday job in a hair salon: “I wasn’t earning any money and I wasn’t even doing anyone’s hair, just washing it. But I loved the hustle and bustle and that’s kind of where it started.”

Although Barbie dolls and salon basins have been traded in for Los Angeles and crimson carpets, Birmingham stays humble and pleasant. When we meet, he embraces me like an outdated buddy and asks how I’ve been.

Hair instruments to make your life simpler

Although Birmingham grew up utilizing “old school heated rollers, a loud, robust, heavy hairdryer [and a] really small plastic brush”, he’s now a model ambassador for Shark Beauty, and was beforehand the identical for Beauty Works.

So it’s unsurprising that after I ask about his favorite hair instruments, he lists the Shark Glam, a multi-styler that dries, straightens, curls and kinds and the Shark SilkiPro Straight, an air straightener that can be utilized on moist and dry hair.

He recommends utilizing scorching brushes with “really good bristles on them” for optimum stress and maintain, together with some flat clips. “Even if you’re doing a lifted fringe or a flat, sleek look, the flat clips are really good to help hold the style in place.”