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  Peru Salon owner finds her place backstage at New York Paris fashion
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  weeks, Written by Emily Beebe This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Hairstylist Hale Anne Bruno of
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  Tonica and owner of Adler Salon in Peru recently returned from working
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  backstage at both New York and Paris Fashion Weeks, styling models at
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  some of the fashion industry's biggest stages. Her first morning was a
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  wake up call. Half awake at 5:30 AM as the models filed
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  in, She watched two who arrived minutes late get turned away on
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  the spot. Oh, we're in it, she thought. We are in it
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  now. Hair was the family business. Her grandmother, Jeanette Tamsha, has been
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  doing hair since the 1980s, and Bruno grew up in her salon.
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  She never planned on hair as a career, not until her grandfather
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  George got sick. She enrolled in beauty school shortly after he passed
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  and fell in love with the work while rapping perms. Fashion Week
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  found her before she felt ready. She was asked to do New
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  York in Paris back in twenty twenty two, she said, but turned
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  it down. She didn't have the confidence yet. Then someone reached out
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  on social media about doing New York, and this time she said
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  yes. Bruno said Backstage is its own world. Her kit was sponsored
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  by a single brand, Ref Stockholm and Stylists were given about twenty
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  minutes per model tops, pins, and hairspray were rationed because The model
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  transitioned between shows. In Paris, call times were eight AM and days
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  ran fourteen hours, while in New York, two shows meant a break
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  back at the hotel. Bruno was on the touch-up team, stationed by
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  The
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  runway, when a model in a skin-tight wedding dress turned around saying
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  her bun fell out. The model was taller than Bruno so Bruno
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  told her to sit. The model said she couldn't sit in the
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  wedding dress. That that left Bruno about 20 seconds to repin the
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  sleekest bun of her life, plus the veil, while walking her toward
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  the runway. You learn how to problem solve really, really quickly, she
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  said. The two cities ran on different frequencies. New York's styles could
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  get a little crazy, whereas Paris was super chic and elevated. Bruno
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  worked with different agencies in each city and saw more shows in
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  Paris. Plenty didn't go to plan. Designers whose hair vision didn't match
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  the clothes and 10-pound crowns to anchor into intricate braids. It'll be
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  fine, she said of the crown work, it's only for a few
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  seconds. The job to Bruno isn't really about hair at all. Hair
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  is art, she said. It's such a huge part of how people
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  look at themselves and their confidence. You can completely change everything that
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  you feel about yourself just by changing your hair. Coming Home came
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  with its own whirlwind. After the fashion weeks, her Instagram took off
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  and Jason Darullo re shared one of her styles. Back behind the
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  chair at Adler Salon 4110 Progress Boulevard, Bruno admits to a little
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  imposter syndrome, but everyone asking her about the trip has her wanting
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  to put more art into the ordinary, such as finding new ways
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  to make a weekly set hold tighter. The biggest thing the runway's
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  taught her, anybody can do this. You just have to take The
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  jump and do it scared and jump in with both feet and
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  figure it out, she said. There is no failure. Her advice to
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  young stylist is the same. Never believe that you can't do it.
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  If you don't believe that you can fail, you'll never fail and
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  do everything scared, Bruno said. Milan is next on her list, partly
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  because she'd like to see Italy. London and Dubai are possibilities too.
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  The dream for Bruno is backstage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
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  I'm definitely hooked on Fashion Week, she said. The adrenaline rush is
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  crazy. It's no different than when you play a sport and you
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  get that adrenaline rush before you go out.