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When the pandemic hit, Matt Newman, like many hairstylists, found himself at home unoccupied. Eventually, though, he took his expertise to TikTok — and today, he has 2.4 million followers on the platform and another 1.2 million on Instagram.
Regularly working with brands like Tresemmé, he’s known for both his tutorials and his takes on viral trends and hacks. But what he is most proud of in his four years of content creation is simply teaching people how to do their hair, he said. “The thing people tell me when I meet my internet friends in real life, is, ‘You taught me how to blowdry my hair.’ That’s my biggest accomplishment — and it’s not always my most viral content, but it’s my most meaningful content. It’s empowering to know how to fall in love with your own hair in your bathroom, with the stuff you already own.”
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