Seeing Unhealthy Bunny stay is not only a live performance — it is a cultural expertise, one for which his followers are prepared to tug each cease potential with regards to their wardrobe, hair, and make-up. Many purchase completely new outfits only for the event, have their make-up performed for them, and — in lots of instances – rent a really particular hairstylist to offer them a really particular coiffure. That hairstylist can be Nicole Morales.

Should you search “Unhealthy Bunny hairstyles” on TikTok, you will not discover movies of the singer’s personal hairstyles — you may come throughout Morales’s account as an alternative. Movies of followers with related hairstyles that includes glittery mermaid waves, pastel butterfly hair clips, and bubble pigtails — the kind of hairstyling accountable for her robust social media presence and virality — might be seen all through her account. The Puerto Rico native remembers when the artist first introduced his tour; she had an inflow of latest purchasers who had seen her work on-line requesting appointments earlier than he even revealed the dates and areas. Instantly, she knew she wanted to arrange, however what she didn’t know was simply how far this tour would take her.

“This live performance modified my life,” Morales recollects to Attract. She created a home-based hairstyling enterprise in Puerto Rico in the course of the pandemic and slowly constructed a small shopper base and social media following that means. But it surely was a coiffure she did for a shopper going to Unhealthy Bunny’s World’s Hottest Tour that catapulted her into virality and helped increase her shopper base to america. “I woke as much as my TikTok going viral; it was my first video to go viral,” Morales recollects of the times after Unhealthy Bunny’s first cease in Puerto Rico on July twenty eighth, 2022. The video generated 771,000 and counting views on TikTok, and it isn’t even her hottest video on the app as of at this time (her most in style video from September 26, taken in the course of the tour’s Las Vegas cease, options a number of of her purchasers in her notorious bubble pigtails and mermaid waves and presently has 2.4 million views). The TikTok featured a coiffure of a concertgoer that included these aforementioned butterfly hair clips, tinsel, mermaid waves, bubble pigtails, and glitter hairspray.

After that, the coiffure — now referred to as Morale’s signature — rapidly turned synonymous with Unhealthy Bunny‘s World’s Hottest Tour. Quickly sufficient, it could convey Morales on her personal worldwide tour whereas following Unhealthy Bunny’s US tour leg. “Women began to succeed in out to me through DM on Instagram and requested me to come back to their metropolis to do their hair,” Morales recollects. Upon realizing this might turn into a real profession alternative for her daughter, Morales’s mom Heyde agreed to assist her handle her schedule, and the duo launched into their journey from there. They made stops in Florida, New York, Nevada, Arizona, California, and Texas, the place concertgoers may get their hair performed by Morales and, in fact, take part in her social media content material.

Morales credit her success to the group of younger folks in Puerto Rico. “Getting dressed up and our hair performed for live shows is a ritual now. In Puerto Rico we go all out; ‘hay que darlo todo’ (you need to give it your all),” Morales explains. In reality, she says there’s no less than one live performance a month on the island, with the mecca of all live performance venues being El Choliseo positioned in San Juan, the island’s capital. “El Choli,” as Puerto Ricans have nicknamed the venue the place Unhealthy Bunny made his first cease, has turn into a scorching spot for reggaeton artists and the scorching youth tradition of Puerto Rico to come back collectively.