I have been asked how I ended up on the show, so I’m sharing
my adventure. In August of 2011, I had
seen a tweet (I now don’t remember who put it up), about people looking for
makeovers from the show. I went to the
show website and found the link. You just had to send the show an email with why you wanted/needed a
makeover along with a picture. I know,
simple right?! So I sent my email and
then, to be honest, I completely forgot about it. I had sent the email near the end of August, and it wasn’t until
early October that I heard anything. Since I had mentioned in the initial email
that I had grey hair I dyed, I was contacted to be 1 of 3 women who would have
a hair makeover in a segment titled “Embracing Your Grey Hair”. After sending in a few more pictures of my
hair, I was asked to come in to have my hair makeover and start the filming. With 2 small kids at home, there was a bit
of a panic to find someone to look after them on short notice, but I have an
awesome aunt who agreed to watch them for me.
We made the trip to Toronto on the day of and from there we filmed the
scenes in Marc Anthony’s salon and I had my hair cut and highlighted. Now, I’ll admit something, when I was first
told it was Marc Anthony, I got very excited.
I had heard of him and even watching some videos online before that day,
I knew I recognized him, but it didn’t fully sink in until I had arrived at the
salon and saw his products on the shelves just exactly how else I knew his
name. I’m sure you’ve seen his products
in the store before and I realized I did too.
I was already nervous, but this knowledge made it worse! I was star struck! This is a man who literally has a hair empire and has worked with
many famous people…and I was meeting him!
He was very nice and I really lucked out, the other women who were there
for their hair makeovers were incredibly sweet and we clicked easily.
Once our hair was ready, it was back again on the Wednesday
for the reveal on the live show. My mom
was able to come up to look after my kids and since I had to drive through rush
hour traffic, we decided it was best if she stayed at home with them while I
went by myself. It was a very early
morning for me. In order to be there on
time and make it through the traffic, I had to leave the house at about
5:40am. When I got there, I met up with
the 2 other ladies and we were taken to have our hair and makeup done. The makeup artist Amy was such a sweetheart
and we saw some of the employees from Marc’s salon again. I was nervous again,
but everyone was so nice, it was easy to start to relax. Now, I mentioned I was star struck meeting Marc,
when we went through what would happen during the live taping, I also noticed
others who’s names and faces I knew, including Bryce Wylde from CP24 Wylde on
Health and chef Rocco DiSpirito. Then
of course, there was Marilyn herself. I
don’t get to watch her show too much right now since my tv is usually set to a
kid’s channel, but I remember her from her CityLine days and she’s always been
one of my favourites! I was so nervous
and everyone was making jokes and trying to help me relax. Then it was time for the show to start. We were the 1st segment and I was
the first reveal. I had been worried I
would say something stupid, but luckily, I think I came across ok. I’m not used to the tv thing so I don’t know
how it’s measured, but I think I did pretty good. Once our part was done and we cut to commercial, we were able to
shake hands with Marilyn and thank her for the opportunity. I could lie and say everyone was so stuck
up, but that just wasn’t the case, everyone was so nice and it was such a fun day
for me. And to top it off, Rocco walked
right past me as I was saying thank you and goodbye to my makeup artist and I
even saw Ben Mulroney walking through the building! Sigh, I think I’m still a little star struck! I will admit though, a friend asked me to
tell Rocco how much she loves him and I got so nervous when he went past I
couldn’t open my mouth to say what a huge fan she was. Hope she’s not too upset with me.
It’s not something I ever expected to happen, but this was
one of the most memorable experiences I’ve ever had, apart from my wedding day
and the births of my kids. And I just wanted to say thank you again to Marilyn
for making it possible, to Marc and the workers at his salon, especially
Jenneffer and Marilisa for making my hair awesome, to Jodi, Sarah and Bianca
for their help, to Amy, make up artist extraordinaire, to anyone else involved
with this process who helped make this experience a blast, to Josephine,
Hyacinthe and Louise who I got to share a lot of this with, and especially to
my husband for encouraging me to go, and my mom and my aunt who agreed to look
after my kids on short notice. My kids
were cute by the way, they behaved great for their caregivers and while my
youngest didn’t appear to notice me on tv, my oldest did and apparently told
her grandma that “I want to see mommy on tv again”. Too cute!
