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The 5 Things You Must Know to Work Backstage

Artist—Patrick Kalle, Tammy Mixon

By Christen Grumstrup·December 04, 2017

When 92 girls are competing in a live, three-hour beauty pageant, things get CHAOTIC backstage—even though the hair and makeup must be absolutely, perfectly TV-ready. While the rest of the world watches for the winner, BTC is backstage finding out what you want to know: How do they style so quickly and beautifully? HOW?!

Enter the CHI style team. They move fast, they don’t buckle under pressure and they get the job done. CHI artists and pageant stylist veterans Tammy Mixon and Patrick Kalle clued us in on what every hairdresser must be prepared for backstage during…

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