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- Today I'm going to
cook Spam, eggs and rice.
This is obviously the Korean Spam.
You can just break your eggs.
Doesn't it look delicious?
Open this up, whoa!
And when they open the microwave,
like the glass like
blasts into their eyes.
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Oh I meant to show you guys my shirt.
Keep calm and love, woo!
(speaks foreign language)
(speaks foreign language)
is the Republic of Korea,
in case you didn't know.
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Hey guys, it's Gabriel.
Welcome back to my channel.
As you guys can see, my hair
is a little bit different.
I decided that now that
I was on summer break
now is the time to change my life.
I've heard so many good things about
people doing Magic Straight Perms.
Thankfully I ran into a place that seemed
to really get a lot of positive reviews.
There's a Facebook page, it's
called Two Two Hair Salon,
and in Korean it's called
(speaks foreign language).
They're located in Herringday,
which is actually pretty close to my home.
I was having a consultation
with the manager, Vicky,
who speaks English.
As soon as I walked in she
immediately greeted me.
Instantly just like felt really welcomed.
Sometimes when you go to hair salons,
especially if you're
there for a long time,
like it can be a little bit awkward,
'cause somebody's like literally
spending hours with you,
but I felt like all the
workers at this place
they just kind of knew how
to connect with the customer,
even in different
languages, I kid you not.
They were speaking to
me in English, Korean,
Japanese and Chinese.
So first things first, we washed my hair,
then we go to sit down.
We blow dry my hair,
and then they start to flat-iron my hair.
After they flat-iron it, they
put in the first chemical,
and it also smelled too by the way.
So we put in the first chemical,
that kind of allowed your
hair to get redesigned
and form the shape of whatever
it is that you want it to be.
If you were to roll up your
hair, once you take it out,
that's gonna be the shape of your hair.
If you straighten your hair,
then that's what the shape is gonna be.
We washed it out, re-flat-ironed my hair.
At one point all three of the workers
were flat-ironing my hair and
I was like am I a K-Pop star?
I didn't look like a K-Pop star, but...
Then they put in a second chemical.
The second chemical
basically sets everything.
Whenever I flat-iron my hair by myself,
without any chemicals,
like the humidity or sweat
or anything just like makes it puff again,
the second chemical is what
prevents that from happening.
When you go under the
rain, you don't puff.
You sweat, no puff.
And then after that you go
ahead and wash that out.
Flat-iron your hair one more time.
I didn't know like exactly
what kind of style to go for.
I already sort of had an under cut from
when I straightened my hair before.
She kind of helped make a tube-like style,
and then she also put layers in it.
So this is basically the hair style.
This hair is all from the top,
and I just flat-ironed it back,
underneath it's completely shaven down.
It's just all down from there.
I wanted to have like
more hair in the front,
like I could do that, I
could also bring it back.
So when you get the Magic Straight Perm,
they recommend that you wait two days
before you wash it again, but in my case
I waited about, almost five days.
It was so straight, and
so soft, and so silky.
A lot of people have actually said this,
but, after you do Magic Straight Perm,
like your hair actually feels
a lot healthier than it was before,
even though technically some
people say it can be damaging.
You know I'm a boy so if my
hair falls out it's fine,
I'll just regrow it back.
For some people that do Magic Straight,
they're able to take a shower and just go.
But for me in my case, maybe
I'm just a little bit picky,
when I come out of the shower
it's really really straight,
but as it dries, it's a little more puffy.
I would much rather just
re-straighten my hair
and just make it like how it is now.
It's so much easier after
having Magic Straight.
It cuts down the time
by I would say like 80%.
So at this point I'll
talk about my experience
at actually having people see it.
That whole week that
I had my new hairstyle
I was purposefully like going
out grocery shopping at night.
Unfortunately I did run in
to a couple of students.
They saw me and I didn't want
to be like, oh, you know,
so I turned to them
and I was like hi guys.
They were on the other side of the street
and they were looking
and they were like...
I'm definitely glad that
I took the time for myself
to be comfortable with
having straight hair again,
'cause if I got it done
and then I went to school
like the next day, my self esteem
would have been like,
whoo, like really low.
We had a teacher's
meeting this past Monday.
When I walked in teachers
that I don't even talk to
were like ooooooh!
I didn't know what to do.
They were all passing out papers,
and so I picked up the papers,
all completely in Korean,
I couldn't understand
anything in the paper
but I was looking at it like you know,
I had some business to take care of.
Even the Vice Principal, she
was like giving a speech,
and she like noticed my hair and she like
stopped in the middle of it,
and I was like please don't, oh,
keep talking, just keep talking.
One office worker, she
was in the cafeteria,
she looked at me and she was like,
veddy good, veddy good hair.
And I was like oh yay!
It is a new school semester, so I'm happy
to like start off on a different foot.
This semester actually represents
a lot of things for me,
because I'm going to be coming up on my
one-year anniversary of being in Korea.
And this semester is
also the last semester
that I have with my co-teachers
which is actually really sad.
After this year there's gonna
be even more changes coming.
I don't know, maybe this was like
a subconscious thing to sort of jump-start
all of the things heading
my way, I don't know.
I am definitely happy
that I did Magic Straight,
it is something that I would do again.
I paid 250,000 won, which is about $250.
According to some people
it was a little bit pricey.
The experience that I had
at Two Two (speaks foreign language),
Two Two Hair Salon, that for me
kind of made it all worth it.
I felt really comfortable.
I'm glad that I have a
place that I can go to
where I don't have to worry about
how do I say this in Korean?
And there's a plus with
the whole language thing.
I can practice my Engl--
Practice my English (laughs).
I probably do need to practice my English.
I can practice my Korean,
I can practice my Japanese,
not really interested in learning Chinese,
but you know, okay.
If you live in Busan or if
you're close to the area
definitely go there, it's so worth it.
So that's what I've been up to.
I've been hiding away, if
you've been on Snapchat,
I don't know if people have noticed that,
but I've only been doing videos
where I'm either talking
and the camera is like
looking at something else,
or I'm just like showing
my students or something.
I can't hide anymore.
Starting next week I start classes again,
and my students, oh!
I don't know what they're
gonna say, but we'll see.
So now I can finally post a picture.
Whenever I change my hair
people are always like
I liked the old one.
Actually, not even,
kidding, my best friend's
nine year old brother saw my hair
and instantly was like nooooo!
He was so not happy.
Literally he was the first
person to see what I looked like.
And I was like, this is
off to a not good start.
Leave a comment down below,
don't say anything mean about my hair,
but let me know what you think of it.
I can honestly say,
like now that it's done,
like I'm definitely very
happy with the results.
I think there is a part
of me that's gonna miss
the more simple life, I
do feel like I have to
like sleep a little differently,
well only if I'm going
to school the next day.
On the weekends I'll just like crazy.
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I'm Xuffed678.
Be yourself, love yourself,
and I'll see you guys
in the next video.
All right, bye!
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♫ Don't let this be our final show
It is one of four in the morning.
This is definitely the
latest that I've ever filmed
an episode for YouTube.
The things I do for you all.
I remember he asked me
how many eggs did I want?
And when I told him three he looked at me,
like I had asked for a million eggs.
And I was like is three
eggs too much, really?
And then now I've upgraded to four.
First we add some pepper.
Da ta-da da!
Pepper, maybe that was too much.
