by
Lisa Jean Francois
TODAY Show Beauty Expert Deepica Mutyala believes that any woman can style her hair for a quick summer updo in under a minute. Â Mutyala attempted to prove her hypothesis by showcasing easy summer styles on women of different ethnicities and hair textures.
While I can’t say any of the styles were particularly impressive (the first model’s style was called “a rope twist”), the styling of the black model’s hair was no doubt the least impressive of the bunch. When asked about the seemingly intentional imperfect styling of the hair, Mutyala replied:
“It’s actually not that trendy to be perfect.”
The insane thing is the model actually had a cute style to start, only to have it horrifically ‘made over’. Take a look for yourself:Â
Here’s the official video from The Today Show.
While we commend the TODAY show for their inclusivity in selecting the models for this segment, it’s clear Mutyala’s beauty expertise does not extend to the styling of black women’s hair.
What are your thoughts? Should we give Deepica Mutyala an A for effort or nah?
71 Responses
That model smiled like a real champion lol! She deserves an award for those acting skills. I would have looked so annoyed.
She should not only be ashamed but she needs to apologize to that model and to everyone that watched that show.. that was terrible and she should never be able to do hair as long as she lives..
So this is why that Indian lady had all those black girls on her youtube channel teaching her about black hair. She got bashed for this awful looking hairstyle. I literally laughed out loud when she was done. Like that poor woman.
Omg ??? the way she was yanking her hair
It’s a cute style if she’s about to go workout or make a quick run to the gas station….otherwise, no ma’am.
Yes thats right this is bodily harm. It’s bloody awful!
I don’t know who decided that bed hair looks good. It doesn’t look casual, it looks a mess.
Just watched that hair brutality again… ABSOLUTELY AWFUL…
That so-called “stylist” was WACK!!!! She NEVER should have attempted to style that woman’s hair if she didn’t know what she was doing… (as evidenced by the video tape!!!) #SitDown
I’m sorry but that natural hair do turned into a natural hair don’t. The models hair was great before the socall make over. It’s obvious she needs more skills working with natural hair.
The model took it like a champ but the “stylist” is clearly a hack!
I think maybe an ‘E’ for ‘effort’ lol she should be arrested for that ???
Lol poor lil girl.she prbly reading thru the comments right now.if she acted a fool on national television everyone was gonna brand her as a crazy black woman but because she just laughed it off after that “stylist” tried to scalp her with her bare hands u wanna call her stupid.its a no win situation lol.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! She jacked homegirl’s hair UP!!! ?????
Lmao that was horrible
That hair do is a hair don’t. It looks downright stupid.
She can’t put a pony tail in the right way maybe if she didn’t have them nails on she would have done better she could’ve gave the Asian girl a bun in under 60seconds 2 braids for the black girl done a second twist in the white girls hair and put the tails in a ponytail with a bun and the hell with her own hair …. But she didn’t and should not have a license
This woman just wanted to get ‘face time’ on TV. Well she got it……..horrible stylist. She did a poor job on all of the models. But the black female has a really nice, cute style before this idiot started grabbing, tugging and just totally mangling her hairstyle. Next time maybe the producers on the ‘Today Show’ will properly research the ‘fake’ stylist they bring on the show. Embarrassing and disrespectful.
I felt bad for the model, with the way she kept pulling that part she put in the elastic band. I doubt that it was comfortable. The front part being pulled down sure didn’t work. Had she left the front how it was, it wouldn’t have been too bad. I don’t think she knew how to do textured, natural, hair. It’s a different animal than straight hair and trying to treat it like straight hair just doesn’t work.
OMG. I feel so bad for the stylist. But what super kills me is ain’t nothing about that stylist 60 seconds. Honey, she probably spent 60 minutes beating her own face. And, yes, all those styles were a mess. She probably would have been better off by twisting the brown sister’s hair and letting the white sister’s hair do the side-hang. And the Asian sister, she left all that scalp showing. Mercy me. If that’s talent, they need to book me next week.
Indeed, all three hairstyles were a hot mess!!
According to the model, the stylist and her practised the style before and got it right. Unfortunately, they only gave a few segments to work on a TV segment. This led to a nervous, rushed, sloppy job. The stylist meant no harm.
To be fair all of her hairstyles were terrible not just the one mentioned.
Wow wth was that.. thats a perfect reason why i DO NOT LET ANYONE TOUCH MY HAIR.
Smh.. Okay, so now that she fucked up my girl’s beautiful hair, a REAL hairstylist who SPEACIALIZES IN NATURAL HAIR needs to find that clown and school her on how to properly style it.
First off what is with black people letting other people touched there f****** hair! Then she just sat there looking dumb as f*** with a smile on her face. She look like she just rolled out of bed after tossin, turnin and sleeping on her hair all night….Thats just straight up disrepectful to bring her on national TV and do something like that. Was this black woman under the impression that she knew what the f*** she was doing!???
she probably HAD to smile –‘
This was actually embarassing to watch…and all of the models’ “hairstyles” looked crazy, she just messed the black woman’s up the worst. I’ve seen better twisted ponytails on my 8 year old neice after an hour on the playground.
if you can’t do it, stay in ya lane!
I watched this thinking it was going to be as bad or worse than that Buzzfeed makeovers video in which they truly jacked up the black girl’s hair. Honestly, it wasn’t. It was a 4-minute segment on national TV and after spending so much time gathering the back up into a puff, she missed a layer. Yes, I agree it was the worst of the three, and the Asian model’s hair wasn’t that much better. But to go from that to “she can’t do black women’s hair!” is a bit of a stretch IMO.
I consider this bodily harm.
It’s gonna be a NAH for me dawg (in my Randy Jackson Voice)….that shxt was a HOTMESS EXPRESS ????????But, the model is beautiful and handled it w/poise!
I’m with you. She could not even walk out the house to go to the gym with that mess on her head. Looked like a 2 year old did her hair
Yeah, it was painful to watch…more so because I used to do that very thing in my early days. Even the host was like”…let’s keep this moving”, lol.
My six year old styles my hair better than that…
terrible stylist, i would not even trust her with my poodles tail
She was rushed for time, that East Asian girls head looked a mess too. I think I understand what look she was going for, but her bangs look too long for a pebbles from the flinstones kind of look.
Hells no. Girl could have achieved that look just rolling out of bed. LOL
Nah…. That was just messed all the way up. There should have been a practice round or rehearsal, something before she got up there and made that model look like that in national television. She should know better, frfr. So, that’s a big NO from me on the “A for Effort” thing. Especially considering the fact that these were all supposed to be “effortless”. She gets an A for ZERO EFFORT.
Definate nah she’s a terrible hairstylist
Bruh, she tried her xD
That was painful to watch. That stylist has zero experience with natural textured hair. Personally, I wouldn’t attempt a 60 second hair makeover for any hair texture.
She didn’t really do a good job on the Asian woman’s hair either, that braid look terrible. I have no idea what hairstyle she was trying to accomplish with the black woman’s hair, I love the style she had before.
All I got to say is this………. SHE CANNOT DO HAIR TO SAVE HER DAMN LIFE!!! What the heck was that????!!!!
The young lady’s hair was just FINE, before the “stylist” got her hands in it. WHAT was she thinking??? I hope that young lady checked a mirror before she went out……bad enough it was on NATIONAL TV ! !
Hot mess!
SMH…..
Wow, I can’t believe she thought that style was acceptable lol…Can you say HOT MESS Smh
I give her a nah, and a ha ha! It was actually funny, and I think the model thought so too! I think she may have done better had the segment been allowed more time.
It’s as if she wasn’t even trying to make it look good. What happened to that piece on the side she left out? She clearly just gave up in the middle of it.
what the hell did she dooooo
WHY?? And she continues to smile…
What…the heck.
That was painful to watch! OMG! She has no idea what she’s doing with natural hair…
If she can’t do all hair types, she doesn’t deserve to be called an “expert”. And her demonstration was far from expert worthy… The model’s hair looked better before she messed it up. Shame….
Yes her before look was so much better than the after.
that was SO horrid! i’d bet that when the sistah saw how that so-called stylist made her look like she lost her scarf in the cotton field, she wanted to (said like Jill Scott in “Why Did I Get Married”) whoop…dat…A**!!
That would be “Or nah,” on the A for Effort question.
No. She gets no sprinkles. Either you know what you’re doing or you don’t.
Or nah lmao
She gets a nah from me. She is the reason my mom always told me growing up “you can’t let everybody play in your hair!”
nah, she fucked that girl’s hair up if she claims she can do hair she should be able to do hair of all textures.
The model’s face was like “wtf is she DOING????”
I watched that show…..I remember her saying something about a side pony….I must have turned away because she F’d her hair up! OMG!
WHYYYYYYY.
This was hilariously bad
It just got worse with every second! I know the woman in the chair was thinking “What the heck is happening?”. And then, when the “stylist” started tugging all roughly at the messy ponytail to make it tighter/fluffier (such a no-no in my opinion, very damaging if done regularaly).
Oooh, Deepica. You might need to turn in your beauty license. IF you have one.
lmao I can’t believe they did this lady like this. That “beauty expert” should be ashamed. That braid on the first girl was terrible. The second style was… as we can all see… an abomination. Idk what she was thinking, but that first hard pull after getting the girls natural hair in the pony tail… D33r L0rt, I knew it was gonna get worse.
I’d be pissed at hell she messed up my hair with that ugly updo. I don’t know any woman of color, black woman specifically who would go out in public with that do!! UG_ A_ LEE!!
No A for effort – she needs to go learn how to style black hair before landing on a show doing a demo. Even if she was attempting a messy bun the least she could have done was catch the whole head of hair in a higher bun and pull out two ear tendrils….fluff up the bun and keep it moving. Instead she left her looking like she passed through a wind storm…hair all jacked up…smh