Tracee Ellis Ross tapped her Girlfriends castmates—Jill Marie Jones, Golden Brooks, and Persia White—for her Sample Magnificence model’s first business.
The 60-second spot facilities round Sample’s “cocktail” of styling merchandise and instruments whereas spotlighting the beloved sitcom forged’s ever-perfect chemistry. It’s the model’s first TV business since its launch in 2019.
Spurred by the love for Ross’ signature curls, Sample shortly grew to become one of the crucial common superstar hair manufacturers and is obtainable in Macys, Ulta and Sephora. The discharge of the road’s personal styling instruments, together with their award-winning hair steamer, solely added to the recognition. However giving the individuals the Girlfriends reunion they’ve been begging for could push Sample over the sting.
“Hair cocktailing is a standard observe in our neighborhood: We layer curl gels, lotions, oils, and extra to create a customized components that works greatest for our personal hair,” Ellis Ross stated. “Partnering with youngster, a wildly gifted director who can be a member of the Sample neighborhood, was a delight. Youngster introduced creativity, ardour, and a singular viewpoint to our business. On this spot, we wished to rejoice the styling rituals with our forged of varied textures in addition to reunite my Girlfriends to indicate the enjoyment that lives in our shared hair moments.”
After all, our queen Tracee blessed us with behind-the-scenes footage of the arrival of her castmates to the set of the business and there merely aren’t sufficient “awwww”-s on this planet to caption the second. The foursome is seen screaming, clapping and embracing forward of their time on-camera.
After all, this isn’t the primary time that Tracee has performed with our hearts. She introduced her women to the blackish universe for an episode again in 2019 the place they performed the roles of her character Bow’s previous faculty roommates. They even recreated the enduring opening credit stroll for the second. Shut sufficient!
The present’s creator, Mara Brock Akil, has repeatedly silenced any talks of a reboot or film for the legions of Girlfriends followers who nonetheless really feel slighted by the present’s abrupt ending; nevertheless, she understands why her sitcom is so beloved.
“What was distinctive about Girlfriends that was completely different than Intercourse and the Metropolis was Intercourse and the Metropolis was all about their courting relationships with a woman group to debate it with,” she instructed Harper’s Bazaar. “I wished to shift it to the chosen household of sisterhood and use Joan and Toni as my Carrie and Mr. Large. It was all the time about that—whether or not or not that relationship was ever going to make it, after which letting all the opposite ones wrap round it. [Black women] didn’t have any seat on the desk on Intercourse and the Metropolis. And though I nonetheless actually loved the present, I didn’t see that as a rejection; I noticed it as a possibility.”
Properly, whether or not we ever get to see Joan, Maya, Toni, and Lynn on our screens to inform their tales once more or not, we’re all the time full of pleasure to see Tracee, Golden, Jill, and Persia.
