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As the world struggles to think of reasons why shelling out $1,500 for Google Glass is truly necessary, hair care company Matrix may be on to something. In Matrix's Class For Glass series, stylists wear Google Glass for videos on creating waves and red carpet updos from a hair stylist's POV. For the series, Matrix enlisted Danielle and Jodi Snyder from Dannijo and gave them low ponytails and buns. The Matrix stylists put on Google Glass, announce "Google side ponytail," then scroll through messy ponytail images like some kind of hair stylist Terminators. "You can recreate this at home because you've got this all on video now," Matrix's George Papanikolas chirps.
We get it. Who hasn't zoned out while getting your hair styled after a cut, and then felt totally clueless the next morning while standing in front of the mirror with the blowdryer, wishing you had paid more attention? If all hair stylists wore Google Glass, that would be a thing of the past. And maybe the sisters from Dannijo will be the next designers to collab with Google. Danielle Snyder says in the video, "We need to help Google Glass, we should do a design collaboration."
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