I know I’ve said before that I love my job, and I know I’ve said before that I love working with Lea Michele, but I want to be perfectly clear here….

I LOVE MY JOB AND WORKING WITH LEA MICHELE IS AN ABSOLUTE DREAM!

The other night was the Glee Academy event in Los Angeles so I went to The Music Box Theater in Hollywood to see the lovely and talented Lea Michele and get her ready for the event.  I was so happy we were getting her ready at the theater because that meant that I could see the rehearsals for the event with the whole cast!  You have to understand that I am a HUGE GLEEK, I am absolutely obsessed with this show and I follow religiously on twitter, so it was a dream come true to watch them perform live in such an intimate setting and I get chills every time Lea so much as hums a few notes while I’m doing her hair.

For this event I wanted to put Lea’s hair up to show off that amazing Reem Acra dress so I put some Dove Curl and Sculpt Defining Mousse (I LOVE this stuff!) in Lea’s damp hair and then blow dried with a round brush.  Next I took 3 inch sections of hair and wrapped each section around a 1 inch curling iron to create waves all over.  Then I started gathering random sections of hair and giving each section a twist and securing with bobby pins in the back of the head letting layers fall out of the twists for softness.  It looks like a large, twisted, soft chignon which is exactly what I was going for!