 Hi, beautiful. Today we're doing a Mondo makeover and I'm so excited because it's with my good friend, Melissa, also known as Chunky's Dad, also rebranding her name soon, so wait for that. She's crazy, she's wild, she's beautiful and I cannot wait to get my hands on her hair. She has never professionally colored her hair before, so this is gonna be a dramatic change. Let's do it. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Brad. It's so good to see you. I'm glad you could make it today. Yeah. Oh my God. She was only like an hour late. I'm sorry, okay? I literally just woke up having brushed my teeth. I feel crazy and I'm just like sweaty and I'm wearing a straight jacket. So you're alive, girl. You're alive. Dude, yeah, I'm more alive than most people. This is actually me tired, so. You took your affirmations. Yeah, I did my affirmations. I used to- I love myself. I have this, okay, so I have like a three page affirmation done because if I didn't tell myself for three minutes straight, I love myself. I love myself, I love myself, then I wouldn't. I used to think that mindfulness or whatever and yoga and like, I don't know, all that shit. I was just like, I don't mean that. I'm better. Like that's too seos-y. All these people are in their seos and now like every morning I wake up and I'm desperately clutching to my three page Google Doc being like, today I will choose how I feel. Pain in and out. Oh my God. I need an animal that's suffering is optional. We'll talk more about that later. Yeah. We'll get more into that. Yeah, more never. If you guys don't know who Melissa is, she's an amazing comedic content creator. That's how you explain yourself. I basically say that I'm a force to be reckoned with. My name in Chinese literally means brute force. I'm an artist. I used to work for Google. Got internet famous in the pandemic or whatever. And now I'm just saying all my intrusive thoughts in various art forms. It's time to tell me what's going on. I see that it's lightened. Just know that I am saying this with a heart full of shame and regret. Last summer I was just like, can I want my hair to be lighter? Cause like last year I was doing a whole like, I'm gonna be tan and have like golden brown hair and I want to be like this like tan goddess. And now I'm like doing the total opposite where I just want to be a vampire. So we have sun in here, which might make it a little bit difficult to lighten, but we'll see. And then we also have some damage on the ends. You know, just a little bit of crispiness. It's feeling a little rough to the touch outside. Yeah, I know. I'm embarrassed. With a little haircut. Okay. So what are you comfortable with cutting? I would prefer to, it's kind of like a guy's fucking size. Probably use as little as possible, but if it's been coughing my life. Great, sounds good. Okay, we're gonna try and get you light in order to put the pink on. We also just came out with a new color called Vortilite, which is like extremely bright, gorgeous, like cool pink. And I really want to do it on you today. Fuck yeah. I want it. Okay, good. I want that. Give it to me. I'm so excited. We're gonna give it like a lived in moment though, with the lightness. Like I want you to be able to maintain it easily. So I don't want to go all the way up to your root with it. Yeah, there's no way I would be able to take care of that. I don't know. Like you know me. It'd be like a hard line, like in the middle of your head and I don't want that for you. Yeah. No one wanted that for me. A good balayage moment with the pink, a little cut, it's gonna look fabulous. Okay, I love this. It's gonna give you that pop star fantasy look that you're so ready for. Yeah, and I'm so excited because I wanted to do this before I filmed my music video. I was like, well, I'm doing like a whole thing. I've been working on this song for, but I just wanted to like fully redo my look before the video started with the hair. Woo! I'm so excited to be part of it and- I'm so grateful that you're a part of it. Let's get started, shall we? Let's do it. There's gonna be a little chopperoony just to get us started here. Ooh, this feels so good for me. Oh my God, you can actually run your hands through your hair now. Oh my God, that's so different because before I would run my hands through my hair to the end. It would get stuck at the end. Well, and at the end, it would just be like this weird desert storm and I was just like- It's still a bit there, but- I mean, people are like, are you, did you fall asleep in a toaster? And I'm just like, no, that was last year, okay. Oh! Ooh! Oh! No, no, it's giving me life too. Oh my God. I mean, I haven't gotten my hair done in like over a year. But yeah, I love hair. We're getting there. I chopped off a bunch of sh**. It already is like, I feel so much cleaner and smoother already. Just like, freeing. That hair was holding down. All right, we're gonna start your color now. Yeah, I don't really spell therapy. Oh yeah! We're gonna start your color and your cut is looking already so much better. No, you're- I just cut off of your head. I know! I like went into it being like, oh my gosh, just a couple inches. I just kept going. Like, I needed to be done. Oh my gosh, like literally, this is all like, this feels like it came from the desert. Girl, it's literally like, ugh! It's a loaded question. No, no, no. I know you always have crazy things going on and a lot of things and a lot of wild stories. Actually, what's your number one most wild story from the past year? Basically last year I just felt like, oh my God, all my dreams are coming true. Everything's happening at once. And so in particular, there was this one week that was like the craziest week of my life where this song that I've written called Don't Kill Yourself or Too Sexy. It went viral, that song. Yeah, it went viral. Don't kill yourself, you're too sexy. And I was like, whoa, like, this is good. And then last year my friend, Eric, who's the CEO of Carrot, it's like the credit card company for Influence or whatever, was like, yo, do you want a Times Square billboard? It's like part of having the card. And I was like, uh, hell yeah. If I'm gonna have a Times Square billboard, what's like the most positive message that I can spread? And of course I thought, don't kill yourself, you're too sexy. And it was like, awesome to go to Times Square and be like, holy s***, like, then I hosted this party and then I'm in the bathroom to like, you know, to do some fun stuff in the bathroom. Because I love just going to the bathroom randomly for no reason at all in the middle of the party. Just spending a little time there. As I was having that fun time in the bathroom, I get a message or an email for like one of my agents being like, hey, like, you're invited to the Kanye Genius premiere. And I was like, wait, that's so awesome. Of course I wanna go to that. They're like, yeah, but it's like in LA and it's like tomorrow. That means I have to go like literally right now. And this is all stuff that my friend was telling me because I was actually blacked out while this was happening. And then I wake up actually on the plane back to LA and then my friend kind of fills me in on what happened. She was like, don't you remember? Like when we were blacked out a thing, you were like manic and you were telling me that like, we're gonna go to the Kanye thing that you would sneak me in as your assistant. And I was like, well, that does sound like something I would say. We get back to my place in LA. It's the afternoon or whatever. And we have like a few hours until the Kanye thing. And I was like, f***, I'm so tired. The only way I'm gonna be able to get through this is if I put this little square of paper in my mouth for no reason. We get there and I'm feeling really good and really wavy gravy. But I didn't know Kanye was gonna actually be there because similar to me, he's very unpredictable. The screening is cool. And then Kanye comes out and surprises everyone in the screen. I was like, oh, s***, Kanye's here. That's surprising. And I was like, wow. I'm so glad I got to see Kanye from like a hundred feet away or whatever. I walked in the after party and Kanye's like literally right there, like five feet away from me. I was like, holy f***. I was just really nervous the whole time. And he was kind of like, can you stop talking to me? I was like, okay. I didn't say that. I could feel the vibe. And I was like, okay. So yeah, that's the time I met Kanye with little square in my mouth. After having it, don't kid yourself. She's like the time square four. What the f***? Now it's like 24 hours. It was like 36 hours. And for those of you who don't know, for those of you who don't f*** me, for those of you who don't know- Gladly. She used to work in Google. I always, this thing called a UX researcher. Like at Google, they'd be like, okay, what are people doing? And I'll be like, they're looking at porn. What do you think they're doing? And they're like, cool. Well, what are we going to do about that? And I'm just like, I don't like, like make it more like that. Well, I cannot imagine you in like a corporate meeting. I mean, I was very like miserable because I was pretending to be someone I wasn't. I was just doing something that I hated and working in an industry that I didn't like because I was too scared to like pursue my actual passion, which apparently is making but whole jokes online. How has your journey been online? So I started TikTok in the pandemic. So like beginning of 2020, and then I like exploded in five months. I still have that like Google grind in me. So I was like waking up every single day at like six or seven, doing a workout, like running along the Hudson River or whatever and then just making as many videos as possible from then until midnight was gradually growing. It took me two months to get my first 10K. And then after that, it was like 10K a week. And then after that was like a hundred K a week. Just kind of exponentially snowball. And then once I hit one million in May, I did the step chickens thing. Basically I started a cult online where I was like, everyone changed their profile picture just by to my face. And it's called the step chickens and it's based in this skit that I made called what are you doing step chicken? Which is like a pro thing where it's like, what are you doing step brother? And it's like two chickens. And it's like, don't worry, it'll be just like doing it with a rooster. Like I won't tell a motherhand like... I thought he talked for a second because I need to mix color. Yeah. Brad's like, Oh my God. Everybody's on my cult in May. It just went way more viral than I expected. and I thought that maybe like a couple thousand people were gonna do it and then it was like millions and then like a month on the app, everyone had my profile picture and I went from one to two million followers in like a week and was like in all this press and got like signed and yeah, it was just really crazy fast and I think I'm only now beginning to process that moment because after that I was like, oh, it was just a lot and I got caught up in like the excitement of like just the sudden fame or whatever. I'm chilling for now. Melissa, you never cease to amaze me. I just finished the Blonding portion. Hell yeah. I'm gonna just put some darkness between these oils. You have really good dimension in between. Hell yeah. And then way back, once you have a nice blonde palette to work with, we can start applying that pink color. You'd fuck yes. Yes. Hi you guys. I'm sorry, you were way through there. Barely. Like at the beginning, I love myself. Ben over. Um, and now I'm gonna pass out. That's okay. Just, you feel differently sometimes. Is that it? Yeah, you're having a relaxing moment, just finishing the color. Oh finally, I think this is Brad's first time ever seeing me relaxed. Yeah. Literally ever. Yeah, and it's only because I'm tired. Your color looks so fucking good. You're just gonna die. I'm really excited. It's really different when you walked in with. I mean, I've always wanted like to do the pink hair thing. I just never pulled the trigger because I was like just making excuses and now I'm like, fuck it. I just wanna have pink hair now. We put our new color, Rotolay by X-Mondo in your hair and it is so bright, extreme pink, but it's a very cool toned pink and it still looks so hot with your skin tone. Okay, I love this. I love this for me. I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm gonna be my own little black pink. I'm microdosing my own black pink. So we're gonna let that sit for about 20 minutes. We'll rinse it out. I'll finish up your haircut, we'll style your hair and we'll show the finished results. Ooh, okay. I'm so excited. Let's do it. Well, hello Brad. Hi Melissa, I'm down here. I'm not moving my head. Wow. Your color looks sick. Like this is a huge change for you. I'm actually interested to know what your hair means to you. I feel like my aesthetic is very important to me even though I'm inhabiting the body of an Asian girl. In my mind, I'm like a genderless and more swamp demon creature anime character. Like I definitely feel different. It's like, oh, when I have straight hair, I feel like this, when I have curly hair, I feel like this. And to be honest, I was just getting sick of my reflection. You know when you're just like, you see the same hair over and over again. You're like, oh, I'm so over this. I need to totally do a new thing. And your aesthetic has changed dramatically. So much, so much. How would you describe your old style versus the new style? Oh my God. I just kind of felt like I had to conform to this life. I was living because I was doing the like, yeah, I'm like in my early 20s and I'm living in Manhattan and I'm working at Gull. And so I kind of was just doing the like, what everyone else is doing where it's like, okay, I guess I'm just wearing all black and doing what everyone else is doing, which is what? Getting my grow blading logic extensions in a manicure every two weeks? Like what? I was just doing the uniform thing. And I also was like, well, I have to wear stuff that's gonna be okay for work and then for late, right? But now that it totally doesn't matter and I can just do whatever I want. I just was like, wait, what do I actually like? And then I just kind of exploded into the like, the sex anime demon goddess and I love it. I feel like you genuinely don't give a fuck what people think of you. I would say I am selected with my fucks and I don't get my self-worth from other people's opinions. Like I just have inherent self-worth. You know, I used to care about what other people thought of me, but I only cared about what they thought of me because it impacted what I would think about myself. And it was just because I was insecure and I was letting other people's definitions define me instead of me, defining myself which is a really shit way to live. Like if you wake up every day and you're just worrying about what everyone thinks of you and feeling shit about yourself, like that's just not sustainable and then go through life. That's what I'm trying to live, girl. I am about to start styling your hair but I'm putting in our recalibrate bond building cream and first because your hair just went through a lot of bleaching. We gotta make sure it stays nice and healthy and looking fabulous and shiny. So we're gonna put this in and then I put a little force field heat shield in your hair. So when you're at home, make sure you're protecting this hair, putting some cream in there to moisturize and a little bit of viper smoothing oil which is gonna obviously smooth your hair and make it even shinier and like glossy. So all right, I'm gonna start blow drying and... Blow me, baby. You guys will see the final look. Blow me until I'm dry. Well, Melissa. Rad. It has come the time where you get to see your entire new look and your hair looks fucking incredible. Like top five favorite makeovers ever. Really top five? You look dramatically different. You look dramatically different. Well, that top five is a lot coming from you. Wow. I'm so excited to show you. I'm so excited to see it. I've like literally always wanted to have my hair pink and I just never did it until now. Let's turn you around in three, two, one. Marvel super villain. When you told me black pink, I really said, girl, I'll give you black pink. I'm literally speechless. I'm literally speechless. It's perfect. I'm choking. This is what I needed. I just wanted to like... Like I've had the same hair kind of my whole life. Yeah. Wow, okay. You came in with this warm chocolatey brown. And it was just... It was transformed into this very contrasting balayage, rhodolite pink color. And it looks almost too good. That it looks naff. No, no, wait. I'm like, am I like an AI anime? I feel like I look too good to be like a real human right now. I'm just like, am I like an anime? Doesn't the color look almost fake? It's like unreal. Also, we were skeptical as to whether it would work because I had all the sudden in my hair. But you're you. It was a little tricky. Yeah. You had some orange banding. You have some yellow. You had some white. Not to mention it was just very dry. Like when you cut off all the hair, it was like, oh, that's a dead animal. That's a road kill. That's a tumbleweed. And I'm afraid. The new link and the layering. And like also just like... No, I just feel like my hair is actually alive now. I just feel like I just have dead hair weighing me down. This is so much better because I was so sick of just seeing my same like weird brown tumbleweed hair every day. And now this is totally different. And I actually came to New York because I was having a mental breakdown and now I feel really good. I know, right? I feel really good. All you need was a hair color change. Yeah. You cut color style and you're back. It really works. Thank you so much for coming in today. Thank you for... I mean, I was going to beg you to do this. So, we've been trying this for a long time. You look just amazing. Normally, I'm not this speechless. Just like normally I have a lot to say. You're talking a lot. Okay. No, okay, fine. You got it. I love you. You're amazing. No, I love you. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for transforming me. That was a long day, but it was very worth it. Like that end result, I'm going to be dreaming about it for the rest of my life. Stunning. I hope you guys like the makeover as much as I do. And if you want to check out any of the products I used in today's video, they're all linked right down below. Or go to xmondohair.com. That is all for today. Thank you guys for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye.