The Real Housewives of New Jersey are hardly known for their subtlety.
Suffice it to say the look was polarizing.
But it had a swell of support too.
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I want to hate your hair but…its growing on me!
Seriously I kinda love it, wrote one fan.
Even Bethenny Frankelperhaps the most outspoken of all current or former Housewivesweighed in.
Teresa and Louie with their cardboard cutouts at BravoCon.
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I was working at MAC [Cosmetics], she recalls.
I met Teresa in the mall.
She came in, and we just clicked.
Fast-forward, and the two collaborated on perhaps the most iconic hairstyle inHousewiveshistory.
(Sorry,Lisa Rinna.
We had some good times!)
Ahead ofTeresa Gets Married, which airs Tuesday, May 23, at 8 p.m.
ET on (where else?)
Lucia Casazza:We never even did a trial run.
You would think she would want to do 10, 12 trials.
No, she had that much confidence in me and that much faith.
She was like, Let’s make this hair look epic.
Teresa Giudice:We just never had the time to do it.
I kept saying to her, I want to do a trial.
I want to do a trial.
And I guess with my filming schedule, I didn’t have the time.
Lucia:There was this picture of hair that I sent her that was a bride cutting a cake.
And I said, Oh my God, that’s so her and Louie.
Teresa:At first I told her I wanted the Hollywood wave that everybody does now.
She’s like, You’re not doing your hair like that.
Every single bride does their hair like that.
You’re not like every single bride.
Lucia:Me, her, and Gia, we went to pick out the headpiece.
We tried onwhen I tell you everything in this whole entire storeeverything.
And I was playing with her hair within all the different pieces and the different styles.
She’s like, I don’t know if I want to wear a crown.
And I’m like, I feel like you should.
Then came the wedding day.
After hours in the chair, a planned second hairstyleintended to go with Giudice’s reception dresswas scrapped.
Lucia:It took about three and a half hours.
It was very tedious.
But we prepped her the day before.
I have my own extensions line, Lucia hair extensions.
So I ended up doing her implement the day, or two days, prior.
And then he goes, Yeah, you look absolutely beautiful.
Lucia:She actually ended up doing another headpiece because she had two dresses.
She never ended up even wearing the second headpiece.
Teresa:I wanted to switch my hair, but that was not happening.
I changed my dress for the reception, but it was still a full wedding dress.
My first dress was Mark Zunino, my second dress was Galia Lahav.
The hair went great with the second dress also.
After the wedding, numbers began circulating about the cost of the hairstyleupwards of $10,000.
But that wasnt the only big number.
But there’s a price point for everyone.
Teresa:It took 45 minutes to take out.
My makeup artist, Priscilla [DiStasio], took it out.
We were sitting out on my balcony in the hotel and she was helping me.
So it’s basically a big optical illusion and everything’s pinned to it.
It was like, let’s just take a guess.
How many pins are going to go in your head right now?
And one pound was, I think, 500 pins.
We ended up using three boxes.
So she had about 1,500 bobbies within her head.
Teresa:It felt heavy in the beginning because I was nervous before I walked out of the chapel.
Then after that, it all went away.
I was just working myself up.
I started feeling hot because of my nerves.
And then after I walked out those doors, it all went away.
Lucia:Her head had to have weighed at least six, seven pounds all on its own.
But only a queen can keep that crown in place.
As soon as the wedding photos made their way to social media, the reaction was swiftand polarizing.
I was just like, Aw.
I loved that he loved my hair.
And then afterward, that’s when it started all happening.
Lucia:I did not expect that.
There was all this crazy entertainment at the wedding.
There were fire blowers!
I literally had to put my phone down on Sunday morning because my heart was pumping through my chest.
I thought my career was over, seeing memes and stuff all over Instagram.
I’m like, What the hell did I do?
Do people not like it?
But then it was 50-50 and a lot of people liked it.
People were fighting over it.
There were videos going viral.
Teresa:They were like, Your hair broke the internet.
I was like, Oh my God.
I remember seeing Chrissy Teigen, she took a picture in it because she was at BravoCon.
Andy, he took a picture in it.
I feel so honored that they did that at BravoCon.
Teresa and Louie with their cardboard cutouts at BravoCon.
Lucia:Teresa was sending me screenshots like, Andy loved my hair.
He’s texting me.
And then she goes, Andy wants your phone number.
I was like, For what?
He wanted me to be his guest, his cohost on his radio show.
I’m like, Quit breaking my balls this morning.
Two hours later, he had me on his radio show on XM.
Teresa’s like my sister.
She’s one of my best friends.
I really wanted to just make her beautiful, like a princess on her wedding day.
That was my only goal.
So everything else that happened from it, I was in pure shock.
Teresa:You know how sometimes you’re like, Is there anything you regret?
No, I absolutely loved it.
Like I said, I didn’t want to just look like every other bride.
My background is in fashion.
I like to stand out and be different.
So I guess I succeeded.
I definitely wanted it to be unforgettable, and it is.
Teresa Gets Marriedairs Tuesday, May 23, at 8 p.m.
