Wind in her hair, she was there.
Before attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding celebration on Friday, Mariska Hargitay consulted her go-to hairstylist, Chris McMillan, for the perfect look.
“Her hair had such an effortless ease to it. It was side-parted, tucked behind her ears and looked perfect with the dress.”
Given the day’s high of 98 degrees Fahrenheit, McMillan came armed with his go-to hack for styles that beat the heat: The Glassy Smooth Blow Dry Spray.
“Especially in NYC during a heat wave, you really can’t use too much,” he told us of the product, designed to provide super-powered frizz protection and a sleek, glossy finish.
He spritzed it on liberally before blow-drying the front of the “Law & Order” star’s bob — using his fingers to lift the roots and “create height” — before going in with a T3 flat iron to create her soft, effortless waves.
To keep Hargitay’s strands protected from the heat (and ensure the look lasted), he also spritzed on The Major Hairspray, then went in with The Styling Balm for his signature “lived-in, sexy, day-old hair” look.
After all, having created iconic looks like Jennifer Aniston’s “The Rachel” and Leslie Bibb’s so-called “c—ty little bob” for “The White Lotus,” McMillan knows how to make shorter styles anything but boring.
“Bobs can easily turn matronly,” he said.
“I always tell people that when it’s wet, comb it and tuck it behind your ears. Then, when it’s about halfway dry, blow-dry just the root area and let the ends do their own thing.”
Hargitay’s chop was inspired by her Broadway show “Every Brilliant Thing,” a project McMillan said she “wanted a new look” for.
“We’d always talked about cutting her hair into a bob,” he added. “The hairdresser for the show [Adir Abergel] created a bob wig, and she loved it.”
While Abergel did the original cut, modeled after the wig he created for the play, McMillan has been maintaining it ever since — and having a great time doing so.
“It’s always fun working with Mariska, no matter the occasion,” he told us.
