Effortless French-Girl Hair at Home
(Our Source Is Frédéric Fekkai)

goop beauty editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill love to ask—and answer—questions. In their podcast, The Beauty Closet, they’re doing both. To familiarize you with each week’s guest, we came up with a goop beauty (and life) questionnaire.

This week we’re talking to:

Frédéric Fekkai, hairstylist, salon owner, and chairman of Blue Mistral LLC

Watch Frédéric Fekkai doing hair and beyond the devastating handsomeness and undeniable charm, you notice his intense focus on the person he’s working on. Fekkai’s remarkable ability to see what’s beautiful in a person—and to bring it out—has set him apart throughout his career, from his start as an assistant from the country (okay, Aix-en-Provence) in a Paris salon through his rise to become the biggest name in hair with a namesake salon in Bergdorf Goodman where every star and supermodel waited for months for a cut with him.

Today, he’s got a salon across the street from Bergdorf (and four others across the country), a newly-bought-back hair-care company, and, fortunately for all of us, a focus on clean. Clean hair care has been notoriously hard to formulate, but try Fekkai’s The One line and you will be blown away: The shiny, bouncy, healthy, natural, subtly scented, French-girl hair Fekkai is famous for couldn’t be easier.

Fekkai is full of tips on how to get that gorgeous hair—no matter what your hair type—so we had a hard time letting him leave our beauty podcast studio. He has amazing answers for everything, from how to get your best haircut and the right way to condition (it’s really specific and kind of surprised us) to the secret to effortless-looking hair, every day.

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He also talked about going vegan, what it’s like to divide your time between Provence and New York, and of course, all things French-style related. We finally stopped when a rogue snowstorm unexpectedly hit New York, sending every one of our phones into full-on alert. We couldn’t wait to get his goop questionnaire back—and he did not disappoint.