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" Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends. "

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" I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because of doing hair, I've heard so many life stories. "

Jonathan Van Ness

Life

Clients

Color

" Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since. "

" Probably the advice I could follow more is the self-love sort of advice. I think, four out of every five days, I'm good at that, but certain situations can trigger self-doubt or cloudiness around how I feel about myself. "

" My podcast 'Getting Curious' keeps me really busy, which I love. "

" I think that because I struggled and did get very bullied, that definitely made me learn how to be funny and let things roll off and be able to laugh, and I think that has definitely helped me when it comes to being in the public eye with 'Gay of Thrones' and 'Queer Eye.' "

" To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life. "

Jonathan Van Ness

Life

Inspire

" Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important. "

" I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way. "

" You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great. "

Jonathan Van Ness

Hairy

You

" From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something. "

" When you're willing to be vulnerable, you can surprise yourself at how strong you can be. "

" When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles. "

Jonathan Van Ness

Having

Moment

" Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11. "

" I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength. "

" I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it. "

" I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot. "

Jonathan Van Ness

High School

Hard

" Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly. "

" Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized. "

" Podcasts are hard! I mean, you gotta get the microphones and all these things... there's a lot going on there. I never really realized how much goes into producing things till I did 'Gay of Thrones.' "

" I was really, really, really feminine and really into cheerleading and really into figure skating and really into gymnastics. Really into everything that other boys weren't. "

" I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut. "

" I'm a big proponent of all love winning and love just being fab. "

" One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women. "

" So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse. "

" You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself. "

" There are times when you should listen to what people say about you, but also a lot of times you just don't need to listen so much. Don't worry so much and just go. Unless you're, like, in danger, and then don't. And then run, girl. "

" I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died. "

" How you take care of yourself is how the world sees you. "

" People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too. "

Jonathan Van Ness

Myself

Compassion

" Loneliness is, like, when you wish someone else was there, and solitude is when you enjoy being alone. I don't always wanna be alone, but I definitely like pockets of solitude to recharge and come back to myself. I think that's so important for everyone. "