Determine skater Alysa Liu is difficult to overlook. At age 13, she turned the youngest ever nationwide champion and the primary U.S. lady to land three triple axels throughout competitors. The next yr, she turned the primary to land a quadruple leap in competitors. She made the Olympic staff in 2022, positioned sixth in Beijing, then retired at 16… and now, the 20-year-old is again to compete on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan on her personal phrases. One in all her non-negotiables? Her hair.
Like her skills, the horizontal blonde and brunette stripes in Liu’s hair are one among a form. Final month, she instructed NBC New York that she’s DIY’d including a hoop of gingery blonde to the crown of her head yearly since 2023—however this yr, she wished them to be lighter and realized she may solely accomplish that with “salon-grade merchandise” and the assistance of knowledgeable. So, she determined to place down the at-home bleach and referred to as St. Louis-based hairstylist Kelsey Miller to clean up her look forward of the U.S. Determine Skating Championships in January.
Miller initially related with Liu by a consumer who requested if she was free to do somebody’s hair, holding her identify a secret. Upon discovering out it was Liu, Miller says she was excited, much more so when she discovered the determine skater wished the brassy rings to face out extra towards her darkish brunette hair and be made “a milk tea coloration.”
“I focus on dimensional hair coloration, pink heads, and extensions, so this was undoubtedly a really distinctive scenario for me,” Miller tells Attract. “We get so set in our methods and it was enjoyable to shake it up and do one thing I do not sometimes do.” She adopted Liu’s already carved out sample of halos to make them stand out extra. “We began behind her head and took it right through,” she says. The method took 5 hours in complete.
