As a stylist, I've been lucky enough in my career to travel the planet.
Through my travels, I've met some interesting people,
seen some amazing places,
and found inspiration all along the way.
Join me as I make new friends, seek out inspiration, and leave a trail of hair behind.
I'm Colin Caruso, and this is Style Trip.
On this episode of Style Trip,
we travel to the island of Aloha, to meet up with industry icon Angus Mitchell.
For Angus, hairdressing is in his DNA.
To say his bloodline is strong would be an understatement.
Angus is not only an amazing hairstylist himself,
he also is the son of the late, great hairdressing legend, Paul Mitchell.
Join us as we take a trip through paradise to see Angus Mitchell's Hawaii
and learn more about the incredible journey of the family haircare company
that has done well, simply by doing good.
Our story begins in a small white hut on the beach in Waimanalo.
ANGUS MITCHELL: The most amazing memories have always been right here in this spot.
And that was pre-Paul Mitchell, where he was recharging his batteries,
where he could re-think what he wanted to do for the future
of the hair business and the hair industry.
HEATHER KAANOI: This is where it all started.
ANGUS: My father had started the company and it fell flat on its face.
It was called PM and it was such a hippie line. Shampoo One was called Tea and Lemon,
The Conditioner was called Dream Cream,
and I think the corporate company was based out of New York while my dad was living right here.
COLIN: Right on.
ANGUS: My dad was on his last dollars, uh, John Paul was on his last few dollars,
and together they scraped up whatever they could to be able to create what is now John Paul Mitchell Systems.
And, uh, you know, to be sitting here after thirty years of Paul's passing
and, uh, the thirty-nine years of our business,
I mean, I can't tell you how proud I am.
Feeling inspired and hungry, we head to Buzz's Steakhouse
a Mitchell family staple and iconic island favorite since 1962.
COLIN: We got you a famous Buzz's Mai Tai. ANGUS MITCHELL: Ooh, my favorite.
COLIN: Enjoy.
ANGUS: Salud, my friend.
HEATHER: Okole maluna. ANGUS: Okole maluna.
Woo! Nothin' like a Buzz's Mai Tai.
Um, guys, this is such an exciting day.
You know, what makes Buzz's such a unique, wonderful experience is,
this is really the place that my father and my grandmother
and I would come, and it's the last restaurant, the most iconic restaurant on this beautiful beach.
When I like to, um, reflect back on who Paul was and where his life started in Scotland
and earning all of his competitions and winning them and making his way to London,
and being able to work with Vidal, and then Vidal chose my dad, actually, to open up the first Sassoon Salon and manage that in New York city.
COLIN: Wow. HEATHER: Whoa.
ANGUS: So it was part of the British Invasion then: fashion and makeup and music
and rock 'n' roll was just at its top peak. And, wash and wear hair.
They had liberated women from rollers, and that's what Paul was famous for.
And the super hair was his education center. And back in those days,
he was actually creating and making shampoo out of beakers for individual clients.
So he was already pioneering individual shampoos before he even knew that it was a direction that he wanted to go.
It's kinda like how we are. We're all hair nerds, and they would do classes,
and they would stay up until two, three, four o'clock in the morning doing classes,
and really getting intense on every detail.
If it was hair cutting, if it was perming, if it was hair color, and they really got into,
"Okay, well, how can we best benefit with product, individually for each client?"
COLIN: Yeah.
ANGUS: But then of course, at that time, it just got to a place where he just burnt out,
coming to Hawaii was the place that just completely got him to unplug.
COLIN: When you came here, was Paul Mitchell, the hair care product company, in existence,
or when did all that come about?
ANGUS: You know, I think it began to come about when my father began to wanna come back into the industry.
But I think, really, what made it magical is Paul Mitchell products never really came out
because it was a new type of shampoo, it was a new way of doing business.
And the way that he saw it was this amazing, sticky setting lotion called Sculpting Lotion.
And it was a way to help hairdressers spend less time blow drying hair. He could just set them down,
and do a simple finger wave or pin curl set, then that would give them a nice wet look
and then, throughout the day they could slowly brush it out and it would come out in a nice soft, looser look
reducing the blow-dry time
COLIN: Yeah.
ANGUS: and being able to work on more clients.
COLIN: Always hairdresser first, always thinking about the hairdresser
ANGUS: Yeah. COLIN: and that started here.
What do we have in store on this trip? We're all excited to be here, we want to see your Hawaii, what can we expect?
ANGUS: This is something that really means a lot to me and to my family.
You know, the history of the places I'm gonna take is gonna be fantastic; we're gonna have an amazing time.
But first, let's go in the back and I'll show you how to make these amazing Buzz's Mai Tais.
I'm not gonna tell you, this is the way that they used to make it back in the Elvis days, in the 50s and 60s.
It's easy to see how Buzz's has captured the hearts of locals, tourists, and presidents alike.
COLIN: How are you?
RONI KUNIMITSU: It's Friday. ALL: Aloha.
RONI: So we're all doing Mai Tai drink.
COLIN: So Buzz's. Thank you for having us.
Now that we've learned the not-so-secret recipe for Hawaii's favorite cocktail,
let's head over to the other side of the island to discover more about how two industry renegades
turned four Paul Mitchell products into the number one brand in styling globally, John Paul Mitchell Systems.
ANGUS: This was probably the second year that Paul Mitchell was birthed and
this was the first time he was able to actually get the credit to buy this house.
We used to joke around that he was a short-haired hippie. So, you know, he always had these avant-garde ideas
of self-sufficiency, uh, creating this vegetarian farm...
COLIN: How did the brand get started?
ANGUS: Well, my father and John Paul met. Together, those two were just so dynamic.
John Paul being a door-to-door salesman, my father being the artist,
and both of them having amazing personalities.
People fell in love with these two. They were the dynamic duo.
And, uh, to be able to see what they were able to do and build in such a short time.
People thought that there was no way that we could have ever succeeded, and look at us today.
COLIN: It's pretty amazing. HEATHER: Wow.
COLIN: So, we start in Waimanalo, and Paul has his original company,
meets JP, and now all of a sudden, we birth Paul Mitchell the company, we end up here. What's happening in this era?
ANGUS: Well, you know, when he met John Paul and, uh, they had established the company,
our corporate headquarters was in LA. But, this was really where all of the creative things were happening for my dad.
COLIN: After hearing a bit about the Awapuhi Farm, we wanted to fly into Hilo on the Big Island
to take a closer look for ourselves.
Since its origin in 1980, the Awapuhi Farm has been ahead of its time.
Not only is the farm an extraordinary example of environmental consciousness, it's also the place John Paul Mitchell Systems
organically grows and cultivates the Awapuhi found in its many products.
Let's catch up with the farm's caretaker, Harry McDonald, to learn more about this magical place.
COLIN: So I'm here with Harry McDonald. You've been running this farm for how long?
HARRY MCDONALD: Mm, about thirty-five years now.
COLIN: And what do you do, on, like, a daily basis?
HARRY: Keep the place looking beautiful. We'll take a walk, I'll show you how we do it.
COLIN: Let's check it out.
HARRY: This is Awapuhi here. COLIN: Okay, cool.
HARRY: And these bulbs, this is what grows up in it. And the Hawaiians used to squeeze that--
COLIN: Wow. HARRY: and put it on their hair as a conditioner.
COLIN: You put it in your beard? HARRY: And, you can put it in your beard,
HARRY: put it in your hair-- COLIN: Nice.
COLIN: So what is it, what are the benefits of it?
HARRY: Um, it's a conditioner. It's got all the amino acids that are really important
to hair conditioning and shampooing and that's what they use, so...
And it grows wild. It grows very small when it's growing in the gulches and everything, it's little like this
and it grows along the sides of the stream. But when we fertilize it, and we do it all organically here,
when we fertilize this it just grows bigger and we get quite a bit off a square yard.
Much more than when we first started.
ANGUS: His vision in this life was about this property. Uh, this property birthed the dreams that he always wanted to create.
Self-sufficiency, creating a neutral carbon imprint on this planet.
COLIN: One thing I think we should touch on: never tested on animals.
ANGUS: Oh, well, that's my favorite. You know, again, I said my dad was a short-haired hippie, I'm not joking.
You know, back in these days, nobody put that on a bottle. It wasn't even a thing.
Um, but it was my father's vision, that, hey, together with John Paul, they both believed,
this is important enough to be able to put out there. Because they really believe in protecting not just the animals,
but, but the planet. What makes me proud about our business is that we are a company that does well by doing good.
How many companies can you think of that can walk the walk and talk the talk?
COLIN: So I know there's a lot of amazing places on the Awapuhi farm here.
Anything that's the most meaningful for you?
ANGUS: The most meaningful place on this property has to be, uh, my father's, um, memorial down here.
Uh, he loved this place so much, he wanted to, to be buried on this land.
COLIN: A Mitchell family trip to the Big Island would not be complete without a visit to the hydro-powered Kulawai Farm.
Not only is this the perfect place to recharge and unwind, it also provides a perfect backdrop for a style break
with John Paul Mitchell System's Artistic Director, Heather Kaanoi.
Since the farm is located on Hilo, and Hilo means "braid", Heather's gonna show us three simple braiding techniques
using the Awapuhi product line.
HEATHER KAANOI: The first style is a rope braid.
Apply the HydroCream Whip throughout the length of the hair for added hydration and a long lasting hold.
Divide the hair into two equal sections. Keep each section separate and begin to twist in the same direction.
As I twist the hair to the right, I want to keep all of the hair coiled up into itself.
Intertwine the two strands by crossing the right strand on top of the left strand and the left strand will go
underneath the right strand.
Continue this process until you reach the end length of the hair, and secure with an elastic rubber band.
Gently expand the braid for a fuller effect.
Design this style with a beautiful flower and the Anti-Frizz Hairspray for a medium hold.
The second style is the waterfall braid.
Use Styling Treatment Oil to keep the hair polished and smooth.
Start the braid on the fuller side of the natural part.
Take a section near the front hairline and divide into three equal sections.
Create an inverted French braid by alternating the left and right strands underneath the middle strand.
Add hair from the base when twining the right and left strands underneath the middle strand.
On the right side, only add half of the hair picked up from the base to twine underneath the middle strand.
This creates the waterfall effect in this style.
Continue to braid this pattern past the center back and secure with an elastic band and pin into place.
Expand the braid by pinching and pulling the outer sides to give a fuller effect and to isolate the pieces of hair
to emphasize the waterfall.
For a finishing touch in the waterfall braid, use the Anti-Frizz Hairspray for a medium hold.
The third style will be a French braid set that will give you natural, beachy waves
when the braid is released.
Prep the hair with the No Blowout HydroCream to give a soft hold and tame the frizz.
Divide the hair into two equal sections.
Begin on the right side and take a small section near the front hairline and divide into three equal parts.
Create an inverted French braid by alternating the left and right strands underneath the middle strand.
To keep the braid anchored to the scalp, add hair from the base of the scalp
before twining the right strand underneath the middle strand.
Braid the hair all the way down into the neck area.
Connect both braids into one braid with three strands and continue the braiding process
until you reach the end of the hair.
Secure with an elastic rubber band.
Allow your hair to completely dry before releasing to enjoy these beautiful, natural, beachy waves.
After the most beautiful day at the office ever, it's time to relax and unwind by the fire
with family and friends in true Angus Mitchell style.
Feeling refreshed and renewed, we head back to the island of Oahu
for an early morning hike overlooking the beautiful beaches of Lanikai.
It is for certain that Hawaii is one of the most epically beautiful places in the world.
With inspiration everywhere, it should be pretty easy to get together tonight and discuss
cut, color, and style ideas for this once in a lifetime collaboration.
COLIN: What an amazing few days. It started at Buzz's. Right?
HEATHER: Those Mai Tais. Great to just see the craft of what they're doing there.
Put you right in the right vibe of being here in Hawaii.
COLIN: That's how you wanna start a trip.
ANGUS: Well, just thinking about this color, uh, inspiration's starting to get me tipsy, so let's get into it.
COLIN: All right. So here's what I was thinking: Why not use the Mai Tai as the actual inspiration for the color?
ANGUS: I love it.
COLIN: You like it? ANGUS: Yeah.
COLIN: Um, what I love about that Mai Tai is it's quite simple. Right?
There's not a lot of ingredients, but there's different variations of those ingredients.
So, I think we keep our blonding placement really simple and traditional just like the drink itself,
and then we really look for those golden tones.
You know, when we remember that my favorite part of that drink was a dark rum. That's the top.
That's where we should start. A little bit darker,
and just let it melt into those golden rums, all the way into that little silvery, sandy, beachy rum towards the end.
Um, I love the consistency of it, the simplicity of it. And I think it's just a beautiful,
almost more of a, a toning technique than anything. HEATHER: Yeah.
COLIN: Let's talk haircut. What are you thinkin'?
ANGUS: With my mind I'm thinkin' something that's gonna be long, that's past the shoulders, shattered edge,
um, and then what's inspired me here is really natural textures.
So beachy, wavy textures. Uh, so, we live in the wave. This model has a lovely little wave and movement to her hair,
so I'm gonna work a really nice layered, shattered shape.
With our model she wants to have kind of like a sweepy fringe, so I'm gonna do something a little bit more, uh,
past the eyeball, nice blunt, long bang, and, uh, something that can really help make that shape look a lot more modern.
Um, I was able to find one of my father's, uh, books here.
It's called Super Hair II, and this is what dad was famous for back in New York.
This was his big school and his happening salon.
Um, and, I think you're able to find inspiration through things that have been done in the past.
And if anyone has ever told you that they've invented something,
don't listen to 'em.
I think it's already been done.
As we've always been able to work together, make it tasty, make it, make it talk about what's happening now.
HEATHER: What do you think about, um, in the styling world?
HEATHER: It's a shout-out to the legacy products ANGUS: Right?
HEATHER: that started here in Hawaii. ANGUS: Yeah.
HEATHER: Hearing you talk about weight removal in the haircut, it's going to lighten up the texture this model has.
Nothing better than Sculpting Foam and Hair Sculpting Lotion to bring that haircut to life.
ANGUS: I'm gonna take you guys on a journey to this most amazing place, and, um,
What I wanna do is,
I actually want the model's feet to be in the sand and have the water overlap on her feet while I cut her hair.
COLIN: That's amazing.
ANGUS: Does that sound awesome? HEATHER: Yeah.
COLIN: Right on. HEATHER: Sounds good.
COLIN: Well, I'm happy to be a part of it. So I say we get our hands in some hair and our feet in the sand.
Before we can hit the sand we need to head to the Paul Mitchell School Honolulu
to get our Mai Tai inspired color look started.
First we will need to pre-lighten Mackenzie's hair.
Once the canvas is light enough, we can rough dry and apply our three-rum inspired color.
We'll use a deeper color at the base, and more golden color through the mid-levels,
and a sandy-beachy color on her ends.
When our color look is complete, we head back to Lani Kai for a proper tour of the Paul Mitchell estate,
a property Paul Mitchell never saw fully finished, but was a culmination of his hard work and dedication
to the craft of hair dressing.
Where better than for Angus to cut hair in the sand and have Heather create a finished style
using the Paul Mitchell original legacy products?
ANGUS: Hey, welcome.
Hale a Lani Kai.
COLIN: Hey man.
Paul Mitchell estate.
It was designed through the Balinese kind of state of mind, separating different structures,
from kitchen to bedrooms,
and then what you end up with is kind of like a Smurf village.
Today we have the privilege of working with island photographer Keiger Bowman to capture some stills.
In true Style Trip fashion, we wanted to meet this artist and learn more from him about the art of photography.
COLIN: I've always wanted to ask photographers some questions. Now you're here, it's the perfect opportunity.
On a beautiful property like this or when you're on vacation or when you have all these beautiful surroundings around,
how do you choose the perfect place to take a picture?
KEIGER BOWMAN: Great question. Um, sometimes it's,
you want something beautiful like the Mokes behind you,
but you don't want them so close up that people are looking at those rather than looking at you.
COLIN: Yeah.
KEIGER: So I always say, if you want to take a picture of what's in the background,
take a picture of what's in the background.
If there's something in the front, then that should be the focus.
The other thing would then be, does it look goofy?
Is there a palm tree behind you making it look like it's growing out of the back of your head?
COLIN: You're gonna teach me, Angus, and Heather how to take perfect selfie, right?
KEIGER: Yep.
COLIN: All right. What are the tips and tricks on those?
KEIGER All right. Safety Number 1. Okay, don't walk off cliffs.
COLIN CARUSO: Agreed.
KEIGER: People do it, you know.
COLIN: It's funny you have to acknowledge that, but you are correct.
KEIGER: Yeah. COLIN: Safety Number 1.
KEIGER: Safety Number 1: Look where you're going.
I always tell people, practice at home so you know what you look like.
Some people like the left of their face, some people like the right.
Once you know that, then you can kind of set shots up.
COLIN: Let's grab the team and take some selfies.
HEATHER: All right.
ANGUS: [indistinct], baby.
ANGUS: As a customer, I think it's really important to be able to work with your hair dresser,
so, with our beautiful, uh, model, Mackenzie, her main priority was to keep her length.
So I worked with a concave layer to be able to establish where that length would sit.
And then I started to work with a convex layer, working up the head,
and then as I worked through the top, I worked with a disconnection called channeling.
And the very last bit was her fringe. So I worked everything wet.
That being said, with the fringe being wet, I made sure that it was extra-long,
because I knew that the hair would actually react when it begins to dry and it would jump up a bit shorter.
COLIN: Now that Angus has finished his beautiful cut on Makenzie,
let's join Heather and see what styling tricks she has up her sleeve to make this cut and color come together.
COLIN: So Makenzie, have you ever had your hair cut on the beach before?
MAKENZIE BOYD: No, never.
COLIN: First time? MAKENZIE: Yeah.
COLIN: Well it looks beautiful. All right, let's get into it. HEATHER: All right.
So now we'll apply one of our foundational products. This is our Sculpting Foam.
The Sculpting Foam is a nice conditioning foam that is gonna hydrate the hair while it will
eliminate the frizz throughout the day as Makenzie's hair will dry and we'll see that nice, natural wave come to life.
Next, we'll come through with our Hair Sculpting Lotion.
I like to think of this as a muscle product, meaning, this is really gonna help to start showing off our style
as far as the texture and the sculpting.
So, with Makenzie's new fringe,
I'm really gonna focus to apply the Hair Sculpting Lotion in that front area.
We can already see that natural movement coming into place and I'm gonna work with, what's coming to play right here,
and this will really help to just give us a strong foundation and a hold to that style so Makenzie can set it
and forget it when she's working this at home.
And this is where that fringe area stops, that new line that is gonna accentuate that cheekbone right through here.
So nice little sculpting right through here. We're gonna allow that to dry in its natural formation.
And lastly, for the back, we'll come through with this Super Sculpt.
This is our styling glaze that also helps to reduce dry time.
So, when you're working through this with your blow dryer and diffuser,
no need to worry about how much time you're gonna spend while styling your hair.
It's gonna give you a quick end result.
But more importantly, being a nice, light styling glaze, we're really gonna get the texture coming to life here.
And with all that layering in the back of Makenzie's new haircut, you can really start to see more of that movement come to life.
I wanna be sure that product is saturated everywhere onto the ends of the hair
and also tying into the length of after where we sculpted.
Now, one added tip, before you go through and diffuse on any of your style work,
what I like to do is come in with a nice towel
and we'll come through and scrunch any excess moisture out of the hair,
and this will really help to start defining more of that movement and wave
that Makenzie has in her natural formation of her style.
This is our Turbolight+. And we're coming through with the diffuser attachment.
That's gonna help to circulate the airflow when we're coming through this style.
That's gonna enhance more of that natural texture.
Great. Now that we have Makenzie's hair nice and dried, we can really see how that haircut Angus went through
accentuates that weight removal, still keeping the length, but now Makenzie has more styling options to work with.
HEATHER: I hope you enjoy your new haircut and style. MAKENZIE: I really do.
HEATHER: Good.
COLIN: We started this, uh, project with the intention of not showing you how to do something,
but showing you how creative people, what they're inspired by.
And what better tour guide than hairdresser, and the people who made the community beautiful?
So to have one of the most beautiful spirits and people and personalities,
uh, Angus Mitchell take us on this journey, has been nothing short of a pleasure.
And, hopefully we get to come work with more people and tell more stories.
Um, every story is unique.
Every person that's creative has a spark of inspiration, and what's so amazing is we wanna be to capture that,
little bit of that inspiration and share it with the world.
So, if you guys are inspired by this episode, if you're into what we did,
hashtag your own work style trip.
Um, and maybe we'll be able to see what you're doing and grow as a community, and maybe we'll come visit you.
You never know.
So, hopefully, you guys enjoyed Style Trip Hawaii and we'll catch you on the next one.
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