Paramore's Hayley Williams Gets Ready For Her LA Concert | Vogue

hi Vogue it's Haley from Paramore come get ready with me for a show tonight at The Forum in Los Angeles [Music] right now we're backstage at The Forum this is night two of two sold out shows which is unbelievable to me this is such a legendary place and we played last night I was out of body the whole time so now I get a second chance to be in my body for it it's 3 20 right now we go on at nine and I'm not the best now but I'm pretty sure that that's like six hours unpause [Music] it's time for

Glam I'm gonna turn this into something that gets to be on stage I used to never let Brian put extensions in my hair no I was such a proud about it our band grew up in a time where like especially females were picked apart in our scene I think in a lot of ways I probably wouldn't have been caught dead doing a lot of fashion stuff because it was just what is being a poser and what is being Punk and you know where my scene points now there is a lot more understanding of presentation and expression

means to like the overall person I'm so glad we've grown out of that I mean I am a 34 year old woman yeah now you get to have fun really like to make sure by the end of the show what we call bang over here so we want it to really look like you can see the hairstyle from the first song and by the time you get to the last song you can see like it's performed the hair releasing like oh yeah she's she did play a two-hour show we've typically planned so much around my hair or my makeup look now that

we have these opportunities to work with people making custom looks for me to wear on stage for the shows like Rodarte brought these two Killer looks that are both pretty unique to each other but there's a through line like last night was very mini dress totally fits what we've been doing but this kind of feels like that same character in the next decade it's a little bit more 70s and that's really cool to me I feel like they made two looks that I really love a lot and we really do want to be a

ble to focus on that and celebrate what they did how many times have I gotten to wear custom designer for a paramour show it's really not happened a lot it was always like not really into the makeup aspects of this whole job until I really got close with Brian makeup for a while was like how do I cover my face and it's the antithesis of what that process should be about should be almost uncovering something about you please I'm just enhancing the freckles that Haley already has I just want them

to kind of peek through under her skin my freckles go down here no right now it's crazy I was like I could keep going like I'm like your whole face will be fresh [Music] foreign [Music] all right I'm gonna attempt to put on my own lip liner no one asked for this part of this segment but we're gonna give it to them anyway Pat McGrath please don't watch this what I'm doing with your product foreign okay I'm terrified to show you all but this is where we're at it looks good you're doing a good job

I tried just a few more finishing touches to go I'm gonna go get my outfit on and then we'll be ready this is inspired from a look that they did for fall winter of 2020 for darte we've been loving Haley in metallics and Silvers we Revisited this in Gold it was originally with pants we made a short little ballerina skirt we're having a fashion moment tonight it's really exciting once we hone in on someone like Debbie or like a Jane Birkin or even a Jane Asher Tina Turner Cher like look at these p

eople they're like icons that kind of like morphed as fashion had its own Evolution and that to me is like what we're getting to play out over two nights okay I'm gonna go get changed and I'll see y'all in a second [Music] oh we're hanging out we're hanging over to the 80s a little bit [Music] yeah I like seeing a little bit of that orange come through it's cool all right okay here we go [Music] thank you [Music] ah it's so good to meet you so good to meet you in real life finally I'm in the bus

iness demand Siri let's take it from from there yeah okay I'm gonna do my vocal warm-ups now and I'll see you right before the show what an amazing freeing feeling to just show up as myself and not have to cover up anything or feel like I'm supposed to you're accused thank you oh you're a little worse it's a little bit more Bowie than I thought it's really cool yeah all right Vogue thank you for hanging out with me thank you for getting ready with me it's time to play a show now so see you later

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