Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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If my energy was fake, then I would feel pressured, because I gotta, like, keep this up. I thank God it's just how I am. But I find myself wanting to work on being more comfortable in the silence with people.
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In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries.
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My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.
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One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.
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You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great.
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Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.
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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
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I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.
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I like people too much. I really do.
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In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.
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I'm just waiting for the first #MeToo moment to happen from a salon because the culture of how assistants are treated, especially in salons in L.A. and New York, is, like, truly unbelievable. You're expected to clock out for lunch and never get paid. You're expected to be there an hour early, stay two hours late.
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If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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I'm good at following my own grooming advice.
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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
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I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.
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Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.
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I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.
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Going to school was an absolute terror for me for, like, a decade.