 Hi, beautiful. Today, Eric is back on the channel. It's been a while. I'm back. I miss you guys. By popular demand, aka nobody asked for Eric to be back. Oh, okay. All right, that is not true. There are many, many people. Thank you all for being concerned with my life. Eric was dying to come back on my channel. A few people thought that I died. No, some people said we had a fight. That wouldn't be totally false. We've had many fights. Not just one. No, there was no fighting. But Eric just hasn't been on my channel because we've been very busy. We've been very busy with X-Mondo. Eric takes care of a lot of the business aspect of X-Mondo. We have a lot of things going on in the creative side. So there's just a lot going on. We're excited to have him back. Thank you. And today, I thought, why don't I ask you guys what we should do today? So I took to Twitter. I asked you guys what you think I should do with Eric. And a lot of you guys said do a perm. A perm? And I was like, oh my God, that'd be fun. Like, why don't I do one side? Eric does the other side. And we perm Miss Manny Quinn. Miss Manny Quinn's going back? It's been a while since I've done a perm. Eric's never done one. Never done one. Perming is actually one of the more difficult things you learn in hair school. A lot of people have difficulty with it. So I'm planning on Eric having a lot of difficulty with it. Since he doesn't really have much hair talent. Even though that one time you did Bollyya's. And it did a haircut. And it was terrible. But Miss Manny Quinn loved them both. She was okay with it. But a perm you can't exactly undo. Is that why it's called a perm? It's permanent. Why don't we break out Miss Manny Quinn and teach Eric how to do his first ever perm? So little question for you, Eric. Have you ever tried to roll sushi before? What? Didn't go too well. Have you ever tried to roll anything else in that sort of gesture that you kind of go like this? You know what I'm really good at rolling up? Air mattresses. You know when you have to like fold them up and roll? Right. I'm really good at getting all the air out. So you're probably gonna be good at doing perm. 100% I'm gonna use my air mattress skills. Let's get it started. Let's do it. This is not Miss Manny Quinn. Okay, Eric. This is not her, Brad. I left her with chunky money pieces. All right. Remember what I pronounced? Bollyya, Bailey, Bailey. Can you take a seat for a second? I need to tell you something. Manny Quinn's gonna try. She passed away. Oh! Are you serious? Brad! Eric, the other Miss Manny Quinn had her time. This is your new Miss Manny Quinn. I hope you can find a place in your little heart of the new one. Don't follow these directions on how to do a perm yourself, please. Because I'm really going over the basics of perm. Just to see Eric put some perm rods in Miss Manny Quinn's hair and make it curly permanently. This is not a tutorial by any means. I'm kind of gonna be doing a not so great sets just to show Eric how to do it. It's just gonna be a quick, fun thing we do. It's not gonna be taken like- That's what we do here, Brad. Too seriously. We just have fun. It's not a tutorial, okay? It's just a fun thing. All right, Eric. We got some clips. We got some combs. All right, what's step one? We are going to comb her back. To comb her hair all out of her face. Is she more water in her hair? Actually, it's important that she stays nice and moist throughout this process, Eric. We have clarified her hair. So we're ready for the perm rods to go in. And now this process can be tedious. We wanna make sure there's no hooks. Everything is wrapped very perfectly. Typically, I wouldn't exactly do a middle part because however you perm her hair is how it will stay. But today we don't really care. I'm just trying to do half of the head and you're trying to do half of the head. So it'll still give a cute little effect. It just won't be very wearable. So I'm gonna be teaching Eric on my side how to do it and he's gonna replicate it on his side. And we'll see how it turns out compared to mine. I'm excited. I'm gonna take from the high point of her head, the apex, down to the back of her ear and that will be a parting. And then you can put this into a clip. Got it. Okay. That is our section. There's number one. There's A, if you will. Okay. Now your turn. Oh, lay the comb down on the head this way. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. And you part like that. So you're like combing while you're parting. Nice. Wow. So now you comb that forward. Okay, well you went a little slanted down the back. Well it's hard to put a straight line in a spherical object. It looks pretty straight to me. All right, well everything looks kind of straight. We're gonna clip this up for time's sake because I don't feel like waiting for you. I'm gonna part the middle. Great. Now you could take that side. This is your side though. Is it? Yeah. Okay, we'll clip it up. Now we start putting the perm rods in. This is the part that gets tricky. Again, you guys, this has been a while for me so don't come for me because I don't do perms on the regular day. Perms are coming back in. They are. They're sort of perm a lot, which was a sort of body wave perm. We didn't use rods, we used like large long tongs to do them so that's what I'm familiar with. And it was very creative patterns we use. You're gonna watch me. Why don't you watch me first? Okay. Why don't you come over here on my shoulder? Top of my shoulder. We take a little bit of a section out of here, okay? You know, it's pretty thin. Okay. And we're gonna- All the way across. We're gonna make sure the hair is nice and wet. Okay, that's important. This is just so that you can wrap it properly and there's no flyaways. So we're gonna take our end papers and this is what an end paper is, okay? So it's just a little tiny- Piece of paper. You can call it a piece of paper. So you put one on one side. At the bottom. Yes, and the other on the other side, okay? Make a little hair sandwich. A little hair sandwich and you wet it. And you gotta go all the way to the ends of the hair or else you'll get hooks on the hair. Okay. Which means you didn't really do it and you gotta hold it there until you get it really tight. So you're like pulling and twisting at the same time. Okay, so then you might see some hairs coming off. You gotta keep wrapping them around. Okay. I usually use a tail comb for this. I don't know why I'm not using one right now. You can wrap it around with a tail comb. Okay. You really want it wrapped around. So you gotta pull her head while you're wrapping it so that when you get to the base, it's super tight and then this gets wrapped around here. Wow, that's a beautiful perm rod. So bro, I'm not gonna lie. You definitely made it look very easy. So why don't we have you try and I'll watch. Okay. And then we can kind of move forward faster. So what we're doing is taking a nice straight section. What the F? That's a good one. What the hell is that? It's good, right? Take it bigger. Sorry, I was trying to do it being too perfect. It's my weakness. You're holding it like this and you have this. You gotta go like through it and then you- You come out. You come towards here. You keep your fingers on the top of the comb and you part that stuff down. You pull that stuff up. Parting is something people had a lot of trouble with in hair school, I remember. And I looked at people like- Yeah, it's hard. It's hard hair. It's like a lot of things going in all different directions. You keep doing the same thing. No, I did it right. No, I'm gonna teach you how to properly part. You're gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. No, put it in your hand. Do what you would do. And let me walk you through with your hands. No, Eric, you have to- I can't. How am I supposed to part it? Don't lift the hair up, please. Oh, okay, and then I go. Yeah? And then I go. And then I come towards you. No, no, no. Hold the F! I thought you meant this! Okay, we're going through. You're through now. So now you move these two fingers down here. You go on top of the comb and grab that hair. Okay. Oh my God. Okay, and then you- No, Eric, see, you have to grab all this stuff on the top of the comb. This one has to go up to the top. See, look it. Now that's a part. Wow! That was good, Brad. I actually learned a lot from that. It was the claw. The claw right above the comb. Let me clip this up. Now, your next step is to water it. It's water. You don't have to shake it. Okay, that's enough. Not in the mic. And we're gonna comb it through. Now you have to make sure it's very precisely combed and everything's looking good before you then put the perm rod in. Okay. Okay, now you have to elevate this section so that it is 90 degrees from the head. And comb it that way. Okay, that'll give her volume. And she wants volume. Okay, now you do the end papers, right? Make this a little bit more narrow at the bottom. That'll help you. And then we also take another paper and we put it on top. Eric, make sure you're elevating it all times. Now, you got your perm rod. You start in the middle. And then we go down. Okay, now you slide down slowly. Slowly. Always keeping your finger on that pressure. It's right there. It's right there. Hold on, I'm nervous. Okay, you're at the bottom. Yeah. Now start rolling with the blunt. Oh, okay. No, keep, all right. It is so tight. Keep tension. No, it is so tent. I know, but you gotta keep your hand on the hair too. Cause sometimes it comes loose. 90 degrees. But that looks good though. You went down though. See how this hair is pulling underneath and this hair is loose? Tighter, tighter. Pull our hair really hard. Brett, I am pulling it so hard. See how this thing right here needs to be in that hook. All right, so we're hooking it right across. Woo! She's got a blunt on her face. This is Eric's. This is mine. That's pretty good. That's really good, Eric. It's your first one. Wow. Why don't we do one at the same time now? Okay. Okay, we got our section out. I'm just gonna take a little bit of the bigger section because I want to be here all day. Oh wait, Brett, look at this, ready? Is that so hard? It's not. It is. Once you get that baby on there, Eric, pull when you're turning. This hair is really good for this because she doesn't have any layering in it. Sometimes people have extremely short layers and you have to work with the layering and it's really annoying. Question, what are the papers for? To keep the ends wrapped in. No, because usually the ends are very straggly so you're trying to contain them. How we doing, buddy? Oh, oh. How we doing? Okay, let's keep moving. Okay. Next time, you need to just make sure you're always pulling at 90 degrees really hard as you twist in. So Brad, I surprised everyone with and ask me anything on my Instagram and there were some questions for you. Top question, well who are you talking to? Who are the boys? No. Yeah. That was the top question in my love life. Yeah. People care. Yeah. Am I dating? Yes, are you dating anyone? Hell no. Why not? Well, there are a few boys, but. You're on them dating platforms. Are you dating anybody, Eric? Am I? Yeah. Brad, I didn't ask that. So, yes. His name's Hunter. He's really cute and really nice. I think I've seen him. I've met him. People be scared. But not you. Numbing. I sleep all at night. I'm not gonna lie, these perm rods are terrible. They're like very loose, so they're not keeping the hair very tight in there, but it's fine. We're gonna keep working or going towards the finish line up here. We're gonna have to part this into two because this is too tight. Eric, look at you wrapping a perm. This is so cute. Walk it in. Walk in the talk and wrap in the wrap. Oh my God. You look like a real ace hairdresser. The bend and snap works every time. It is warm in here. Are you spitting? It's real. Your sweat, you look shiny too. Oh, he's pissed. You look shiny too. Did you have any questions for me? Yes, actually, everybody was dying to know. What were they dying to know? Are you a twin? I knew it. That's a complicated question, if you ask me. Uh, yeah. Well, if you, if you, I don't know, there's that other thing. In the thing after that and you know, that other thing from the other day. Yeah, so. There's a lot of moving parts and some of the other twins. Records. And then some twins don't classify as other twins. Maternal, paternal. So, what was the question about? How's your mom? Just kidding. How are you settling into New York City? How am I settling in New York City? That's a great question. So actually, since I've moved to New York City and paid this much for an apartment, I have never spent less time in my apartment ever and left the city more loving it. The question was, am I gonna be here forever? The answer to that probably would be no. Wow. But is, if the question is, how am I liking New York right now? The answer to that is, I really like it. It's been almost a year, right? Yeah, almost a year. Isn't that wild? Give me a minute, I've been here like six. That is wild, bro. Six. That is wild. Imagine living in this city for six years. How do these look? Why do you think I'm going crazier? It all makes sense. It really does. Honestly, now that I know that, it all makes sense. Okay, well, now that we got that out of the way, you know, are there any other questions, concerns? Well, there was one other question. What? Oh my God, wait for me. What? Brad. Oh. Oh, juicy. Yeah. Brad, which one? Pit? Your paternal. What the f*** is paternal? I think it's paternal. Yeah, I would say in a limited time that I see him, we have a great time. We have a great time together. We really never see each other. What are you talking about? I'm in constant communication with you and we work together and sometimes we hang out after work. And then we sometimes we watch Netflix together and text the entire time. And then sometimes he'll be watching Love is Blind and I'll be watching Love is Blind and he'll be texting about everything that goes on. So Brad, I've been thinking about getting a perm. Me too. Really? Yeah. Wait, really? Yeah. I thought you just thought it was a bad idea. No, I want one. You can hurt me sick, talk about that every day. No. What? I've selected listening when it comes to you. Selective hearing. Would you have bigger curls or they'd be smaller? How would it exactly work? Well, it depends on what rods you use, what kind of perming solution you use, how long you leave that perming solution in for. Brad, is she gonna look like George Washington when she's done? 100%. Great. Wait, is this all my section? Yeah, it is. So just the last one you've explained it to? Just for context, you guys, we've already worked an entire day and now we're sitting here perving. So this is not very easy or satisfying and I'm kind of going crazy. I feel pretty satisfied. I have finished my side. Oh, wow. There she is. She's not at the most perfect I've ever done a perm, but that's okay. We're not really going for perfection today. We're just trying to get it done. And Eric is- I'm working away over here. Working away. Show us your sec- Oh, not bad. What happened to the sectioning? Wait, no, no, no, no, no, I'm in the midsection. No, it's actually not that bad. It's not bad? No, it's really not. No. No. All right, let me finish. Hey, let me finish and get back to you on that. Okay. I'm gonna get started on the back. So hopefully we can finish this today and we'll be back to talk in a bit once Eric finishes the front. We've done half the back. Again, this is not my best perm I've ever done in my life. I'm definitely half assing it a little bit. I'm so sorry, guys, but Eric's actually kind of slight. And I'm kind of doing just a decent perm, I guess. Again, it's been a long damn time since I've done a perm, so this is not my thing. Eric, please don't stand in the background. I'm trying to get my perm in. Perm, lock and drop it. Perm, lock and drop it. Perm, lock and drop it. Brad, I have a question. What's the question, Eric? How does a perm work? Oh my God, I'm so glad you asked me that question, Eric. The disulfide bonds are broken and then reformed in the shape of a spiral or whatever shape you put the hair on. So in this case, it would be a circle. And then the neutralizer hardens the hair back up into that shape and keeps it that way. That's like me, Brad. I'm like the neutralizer. So while Eric finishes up here, we are gonna be using the Redken Creative Curl today. It's for normal to resistant hair and that's all I know about it. If you're wondering what a perm smells like, well, it smells like you cooked eggs and then like they rotted. It's like a wet dog. A wet dog that's wet from eggs. It's exactly what it is. No, you can crack eggs on a wet dog and let it sit there for a day. And then it rolled, you wrapped it up in a towel but it didn't dry it. You just let it marinate in the dog and then just straight up blow dried it. All right, here we go. Let's put it in there. It smells horrendous. All right, so you want to hold, normally you would put cotton around their face or so you don't blind them, but she doesn't have real eyes. Wait, you're serious with the blinding? Yes, it'll blind you. So I'm doing two swipes on each rod for now. We'll go back to each rod. You have to make sure you know which ones you've done and which ones you haven't done. Why, but what happened? If you don't put stuff on it, then it will not curl. What if you put too much? Yeah, you just don't want it because it'll drip all over the place. Okay, so we're going like one or two swipes at each roll. Now I'm going to go back actually and I'm going to really make sure I get it in there. You can kind of mess up the hair a little bit. You're not trying to go on the root either. I'm actually really excited for what this is going to look like. Is it going to be like frizzy permy or is it going to be like? Well, the hope is that we didn't make it frizzy. Okay. If you do it incorrectly, it'll be frizzy. They're going to be like curly girls. It'll be like really nice ringlets. How are we doing over there? Really, really nice. So what happened if you just missed one? It would just, it would be straight. Yes, what do you mean? It would just look like our regular hair. Yeah. The one strand that's like completely straight and the rest is really curly. Of course. It wouldn't be cute. And so we don't have to use all the way into the solution. They usually give you a lot of extra. All right, you did it? Did it. Are you sure? You've got enough on each strand. I don't know. Can you just do a little more? Can you just do a little? Oh no, don't do that. Okay, I'm not doing that. You want to be very precise with this, okay? They're very saturated. Okay. We got that done. We are going to put a bag over her and we're going to let that process for 10 minutes to start and then we're going to check and do our first test curl. Test curl. Okay, well, we just see how it's setting. Great, how do you feel? I feel good. I think she's a little deaf here, but yeah, I think she looks good. Personally, I feel good. Is this the big reveal? And no, it's actually not. She's halfway done. So we're going to actually do a test strand. Look, it's starting to curl and her hair color is starting to fade. Oh, I see it. Look, I see it right over here with hair color. Wait, is that what happens? The hair color fades? Sometimes it comes out a bit. So we'll see that separation we're getting up here. That's good, but see how it's not separating over here? But if this is, that's good. We want more of that. That's what we want over here. This is what we don't want. We're after our backup and we're going to put a little more waving solution on that one I took out. This looks like a horror movie. And we're going to do like 15 more minutes. Plop her back on there and we'll see you guys when this is all done. We're going to rinse it and then we're going to come back and do our neutralizer. That's always a fun step there. Woo, can't wait. Oh my God, why does she look like that? Scary Brad. Luke, let her breathe. You did it. Don't let her in. Don't let her in here. I'm trying. So guys, we actually ended up finishing the process off camera because it was a very annoying process that I totally forgot about. A lot of rinsing, a lot of neutralizing, a lot of rinsing again. And now we're ready to see our end result. Our end result. Let's see if it actually worked. I'm actually kind of nervous that it didn't curl properly because I wasn't that patient. Actually, you know what? I was kind of patient. I'm going to give myself that one. I just want to say my side is still pretty intact. It looks okay, Eric. This one's good. It might have been a little bit difficult for me to rinse that. Oh, yours looks really good. All right, let's take the rods out and hope for the best here. Which is the one? Start at the bottom. Start at the bottom. Oh, it's curly. Oh my God, it's so curly. Oh wow. Oh my God, I'm so happy. That's actually like a really good perm. Also, don't manipulate the curl too much right now. Don't pull on it because it's still kind of setting in place. Brad, I want this in my hair. Wow, I kind of slayed it. I was like actually expecting it not to work that well. Mine looks good too. Ah, she's giving me curly girl. I have a hawk. She kind of looks stunning like I'm not going to lie. Wait, wait, look at yours versus look at mine. Oh, look at mine, you're so nice. I did it correctly. I did too. Oh, and now we get the little mini guy. Mini, right here. Oh, oh, oh. We're just going to run our hands through just slightly just to break it up a little bit and mess up the part a little bit. Just be a little bit more gentle, please. If you make it frizzy right now, it'll set frizzy for the rest of her life. It looks good. You kind of slayed, Eric. Yeah, it looks good. It looks real good. Oh my, wait, Brad, look over here. Look at, wow, look at those. Look at those. I always knew I make good perms. I don't know what's going on with this one, but. I'm sorry. Whose side is that on? Wait, is this yours? No, ma'am. Check the center part. So let me see yours, Eric. I think it looks really good actually. Look it, look, look. That is great curl structure. I'll have to see it dry. I don't know what just happened to the top of mine, but the bottom looks good. We're going to diffuse it with proper curling products and we'll see you guys with the finished results. Eric and I have finished the perm, mostly me, but Eric. I held my own, Brad. We styled it a little bit differently than each other, but it actually looks pretty fierce. It looks pretty good. You want to see it? Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow. I want this. I want this. Eric decided to go a little more of a structured style. Beautiful curl structure. I went for more of like a voluminous style. I would rock Eric's side. I think it looks great. How do you think you? I think you did. I think I did pretty good. I think there are some points of improvement, especially around the hooked ends. Oh yeah, there was a few hooks. There are a few hooks here, but I think it came out really good and I'm really happy with my curl structure. Is it fun? It was fun. Isn't it cool that you can just transform hair with like chemicals and it completely structures it and makes it permanently curly? Like how cool is that? Science. But I'm really proud of you. I give this like a solid seven out of 10. Look at that. And I feel like once we actually wash it and kind of break up this like line going on in here, it'll look even better and it'll be very natural and cute and beachy and oof. I'm really obsessed with this wave. I actually think it looks great. I think perms should make a serious comeback and they already kind of are, but I think they should come back even more. And I think everybody should do it as long as you get it done correctly because they kind of go very wrong, but they're so beautiful. I'm obsessed with perms. Like I think it's so fun and it's so cool that you can just change your hair structure like that. We have a little bit of a glow here from our Viper. Yes, we put Viper in and our BDSM bomb. I love this stuff for styling curls. It adds just enough hydration, enough structure, an amazing amount of shine without weighing it down or making it feel stiff or crunchy. So super great for curly hair. And of course, you know what? An amazing oil is always great for curly hair. Let's shake it out. Let's see how what we get out of this thing. Oh my God. Wow. She looks fierce. She looks like she's at the beach right now and she's living. Whoa. Yo. Amazing. Listen, if Eric can do it, anybody can do it. Great job. Great job, bud. Thanks, kiddo. Anyways, so that's all from Eric and I today. Eric, congrats on your first perm. Thank you. You graduate hair school. I'm gonna have to do like a thousand more of those. Don't forget to follow Eric and I on Instagram at BramondoNYC at ericmondo underscore and follow me on TikTok and Twitter at BramondoNYC. You can also shop X-Mondo hair. It's linked below and follow us at X-Mondo hair on Instagram. And that is all for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. 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