“We had a call a couple days ago about this,” hairstylist Bridget Brager says by phone from the Ritz-Carlton, shortly after styling Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s hair into lived-in, sideswept waves.
“We wanted to make sure to strike the balance of bold and kind of cool,” Brager says, describing the sweet spot that she and makeup artist Jo Baker zeroed in on.
“The first thing I asked was, ‘What did you wash with?’” says Brager, explaining that the actor had just come from a round of New York press, where the hairstyles ranged from sleek blowout to hip-length ponytail twist.
It’s the sort of thing that might make a red-carpet hairstylist gulp, but Brager relishes that kind of ease—when a client who knows how to move with their hair.
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