By RNZ Porirua-based Jasmine Lupo is a social media sensation , with videos of her hair transformations racking up over 35 million views on TikTok. She specialises in colour treatments and hair transformations. Her first piece of advice to Nights host Emile Donovan was lose the mullet.
“That was definitely like two years ago!” Becoming a hairdresser has been a life-long career dream, she says. “I have wanted to be a hairdresser pretty much my whole life. I started when I was 16, I dropped out of school when I was 16, school wasn’t for me.
And then I just kind of kept doing it, I’ve been doing it for 12 years.” She started posting in November when she turned freelance, she said. “When I started my TikTok, that’s when it started blowing up, I think because there’s not much saturation of hairdressers on TikTok.
And I saw a gap there. I was like, oh, I wonder what would happen? And then it just got massive.” One of the best parts of her job is putting her clients at ease, she said.
“I’ve got lots of people that come in and they are quite anxious to get their hair done. So, seeing them go from not loving what they look like, and feeling a bit anxious about being in the seat and being in the salon, to just have that joy in their face is just amazing, it’s priceless.” She’s gone from 400 followers to more than 30,000, she said.
“It kind of happened within one month. I think it was from about January to February was when it started to get quite big. I .
