Tina Knowles has recalled in her memoir the day she saved her daughter’s music video look. In her Matriarch memoir, 71-year-old Knowles shared that she was once in charge of hair for the group Destiny’s Child’s during its “No, No, No (Part 2)” music video shoot.
The group, made up of her daughter Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett had Darren Grant as director, Chris Maldonado and Eric Ferrell as makeup artists and Knowles as hairstylist for the Los Angeles video shoot.
“Each girl wanted something special, and Beyoncé’s request was that I would let her have highlights for the first time,” Knowles wrote of her daughter, who was 16 years old at the time of the shoot. “I had light blonde ones in my own hair, but she would have fake platinum blond hair I would glue in as little streaks.”
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But things didn’t go as expected. When Knowles entered the hair and makeup area during the shoot, she realized that makeup artists Maldonado and Ferrell had taken up most of the space with “two giant tables” and left “one little spot at the end” for her. She heard the two laughing and chatting before she got in but as soon as she joined them, they fell silent and “scowled” at her, Knowles recounted in her memoir.
Knowles was unfazed by their cold attitude and got to work but she soon realized that she didn’t bring enough hair for Beyoncé’s faux blonde streaks. Noticing how frustrated Beyonce was, Knowles knew there and then that the two makeup artists were waiting to see her fail.
However, things quickly changed when Beyoncé casually called her “mama.” At that moment, the makeup artists started laughing, not at Knowles, but at themselves.
“They confessed they had been freezing me out,” Knowles wrote in the memoir.
Maldonado then told her that his friend was originally called to style the group’s hair but was later told not to come because “the director’s girlfriend was gonna do the hair.” After getting to know that Knowles was not dating the director, who was 15 years her junior, the two makeup artists and Knowles started getting along.
But Beyonce still needed more blonde hair and Knowles came up with a solution. “I looked at myself in the mirror, took a little scissors and began to cut some highlights from my own hair, just enough here and there to glue into my daughter’s hair without leaving me bald-headed,” she wrote.
Maldonado and Ferrell were shocked. They understood that Knowles was clearly Beyoncé’s mom as no other hairstylist would cut their own hair to save a client’s look.
“No, No, No (Part 2)” featuring Wyclef Jean made waves after its release in 1997. Besides reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, it also topped the publication’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, according to People.
