Photo: Mike Coppola/GettyChloe Fineman’s Instagram andSaturday Night Livesketches are full of spot-on celebrity and pop culture impressions ranging from Drew Barrymore to Phoebe Dynevor inBridgerton, and they all have one thing in common: They start with her hair.Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/GettyTheSNLstar — who is the face of Pantene’s Conditioner Collective as the brand relaunches their iconic conditioners — tells PEOPLE that her fascination with hair transformations started at a young age. She remembers being in 5th or 6th grade and buying her first bottle of the brand’s conditioner — the first “grown-up” product she had ever used — and going up to her friends at school to gush about how soft her hair was.In high school, before everyone else was experimenting with ill-fated box dyes and cutting their hair, Fineman was always changing up her look. “I had black/purple hair and then I chopped it off really short and had a Twiggy pixie — I was always experimenting and definitely made huge mistakes,” she tells PEOPLE.“I dyed my hair blonde as soon as I could,” she says of her current hue, adding, “My bat mitzvah picture was me as a blonde for the first time, and I was like, ‘I have arrived!'“Though she has landed on a color (for now — shedidchange her hair color 15 times during quarantine) she has not changed her attitude towards hair: Her obsession with her own locks has become an obsession with wigs.Fineman says of her wig collection: “It’s bad — because of COVID, I discovered Amazon and a wig is like $11.” You could compare her to a real-life version of Moira Rose theSchitt’s Creekcharacter with a seemingly endless supply of ever-changing wigs. “My dream is to have that closet,” Fineman says. “The problem is [Moira] is so lucky because she got to have [wig] heads, but I just have bins and they’re not as fun. And because of the bin life, I don’t know how many I have.” And thus continues the cycle of buying even more wigs.Will Heath/NBC/GettyAnd thank goodness because more wigs equal more characters! One of her favorite people to impersonate, she shares, has beenactress Jennifer Coolidge. It was an impression she hadn’t ever planned on using — she was even specifically told while putting together herSNLaudition not to impersonate her — but with the success ofWhite Lotusshe got to give it a go. “I realized it’s an impression I’ve truly been doing sinceAmerican Piecame out.” She says, “I really went psycho on it. I was like, I’m going to make this so perfect.“For Fineman, there’s “something voyeuristic” about meeting the people she impersonates in front of millions. She says that sometimes she gets “really awkward because it’s almost like, ‘I talked about you and maybe you found out.'“And then there are the sillier encounters, like when she moderated the20th anniversary virtual reunion ofLegally Blondewith Reese Witherspoon, who she has also impersonated. Fineman says slipping seamlessly into character as Witherspoon, “I think I slipped into doing her [during the event] and she was like, “I feel like you’re doing me right now.” And I was like, “No, I’m not.” And she was like, “Yeah, you are.” My brain just goes crazy!As for how she keeps her hair healthy after all of her styling and wig-wearing, Fineman says it’s a mixture of deep conditioner and (perhaps too many) gummy vitamins. She jokes, “I got blood work done a year ago and the doctor was like, ‘These vitamins are like through the roof. What the hell?’ And it’s just because I would like eat them like candy. So I probably have to be careful.”
Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty
Chloe Fineman’s Instagram andSaturday Night Livesketches are full of spot-on celebrity and pop culture impressions ranging from Drew Barrymore to Phoebe Dynevor inBridgerton, and they all have one thing in common: They start with her hair.Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/GettyTheSNLstar — who is the face of Pantene’s Conditioner Collective as the brand relaunches their iconic conditioners — tells PEOPLE that her fascination with hair transformations started at a young age. She remembers being in 5th or 6th grade and buying her first bottle of the brand’s conditioner — the first “grown-up” product she had ever used — and going up to her friends at school to gush about how soft her hair was.In high school, before everyone else was experimenting with ill-fated box dyes and cutting their hair, Fineman was always changing up her look. “I had black/purple hair and then I chopped it off really short and had a Twiggy pixie — I was always experimenting and definitely made huge mistakes,” she tells PEOPLE.“I dyed my hair blonde as soon as I could,” she says of her current hue, adding, “My bat mitzvah picture was me as a blonde for the first time, and I was like, ‘I have arrived!'“Though she has landed on a color (for now — shedidchange her hair color 15 times during quarantine) she has not changed her attitude towards hair: Her obsession with her own locks has become an obsession with wigs.Fineman says of her wig collection: “It’s bad — because of COVID, I discovered Amazon and a wig is like $11.” You could compare her to a real-life version of Moira Rose theSchitt’s Creekcharacter with a seemingly endless supply of ever-changing wigs. “My dream is to have that closet,” Fineman says. “The problem is [Moira] is so lucky because she got to have [wig] heads, but I just have bins and they’re not as fun. And because of the bin life, I don’t know how many I have.” And thus continues the cycle of buying even more wigs.Will Heath/NBC/GettyAnd thank goodness because more wigs equal more characters! One of her favorite people to impersonate, she shares, has beenactress Jennifer Coolidge. It was an impression she hadn’t ever planned on using — she was even specifically told while putting together herSNLaudition not to impersonate her — but with the success ofWhite Lotusshe got to give it a go. “I realized it’s an impression I’ve truly been doing sinceAmerican Piecame out.” She says, “I really went psycho on it. I was like, I’m going to make this so perfect.“For Fineman, there’s “something voyeuristic” about meeting the people she impersonates in front of millions. She says that sometimes she gets “really awkward because it’s almost like, ‘I talked about you and maybe you found out.'“And then there are the sillier encounters, like when she moderated the20th anniversary virtual reunion ofLegally Blondewith Reese Witherspoon, who she has also impersonated. Fineman says slipping seamlessly into character as Witherspoon, “I think I slipped into doing her [during the event] and she was like, “I feel like you’re doing me right now.” And I was like, “No, I’m not.” And she was like, “Yeah, you are.” My brain just goes crazy!As for how she keeps her hair healthy after all of her styling and wig-wearing, Fineman says it’s a mixture of deep conditioner and (perhaps too many) gummy vitamins. She jokes, “I got blood work done a year ago and the doctor was like, ‘These vitamins are like through the roof. What the hell?’ And it’s just because I would like eat them like candy. So I probably have to be careful.”
Chloe Fineman’s Instagram andSaturday Night Livesketches are full of spot-on celebrity and pop culture impressions ranging from Drew Barrymore to Phoebe Dynevor inBridgerton, and they all have one thing in common: They start with her hair.
Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/Getty
TheSNLstar — who is the face of Pantene’s Conditioner Collective as the brand relaunches their iconic conditioners — tells PEOPLE that her fascination with hair transformations started at a young age. She remembers being in 5th or 6th grade and buying her first bottle of the brand’s conditioner — the first “grown-up” product she had ever used — and going up to her friends at school to gush about how soft her hair was.
In high school, before everyone else was experimenting with ill-fated box dyes and cutting their hair, Fineman was always changing up her look. “I had black/purple hair and then I chopped it off really short and had a Twiggy pixie — I was always experimenting and definitely made huge mistakes,” she tells PEOPLE.
“I dyed my hair blonde as soon as I could,” she says of her current hue, adding, “My bat mitzvah picture was me as a blonde for the first time, and I was like, ‘I have arrived!'”
Though she has landed on a color (for now — shedidchange her hair color 15 times during quarantine) she has not changed her attitude towards hair: Her obsession with her own locks has become an obsession with wigs.
Fineman says of her wig collection: “It’s bad — because of COVID, I discovered Amazon and a wig is like $11.” You could compare her to a real-life version of Moira Rose theSchitt’s Creekcharacter with a seemingly endless supply of ever-changing wigs. “My dream is to have that closet,” Fineman says. “The problem is [Moira] is so lucky because she got to have [wig] heads, but I just have bins and they’re not as fun. And because of the bin life, I don’t know how many I have.” And thus continues the cycle of buying even more wigs.
Will Heath/NBC/Getty
And thank goodness because more wigs equal more characters! One of her favorite people to impersonate, she shares, has beenactress Jennifer Coolidge. It was an impression she hadn’t ever planned on using — she was even specifically told while putting together herSNLaudition not to impersonate her — but with the success ofWhite Lotusshe got to give it a go. “I realized it’s an impression I’ve truly been doing sinceAmerican Piecame out.” She says, “I really went psycho on it. I was like, I’m going to make this so perfect.”
For Fineman, there’s “something voyeuristic” about meeting the people she impersonates in front of millions. She says that sometimes she gets “really awkward because it’s almost like, ‘I talked about you and maybe you found out.'”
And then there are the sillier encounters, like when she moderated the20th anniversary virtual reunion ofLegally Blondewith Reese Witherspoon, who she has also impersonated. Fineman says slipping seamlessly into character as Witherspoon, “I think I slipped into doing her [during the event] and she was like, “I feel like you’re doing me right now.” And I was like, “No, I’m not.” And she was like, “Yeah, you are.” My brain just goes crazy!
As for how she keeps her hair healthy after all of her styling and wig-wearing, Fineman says it’s a mixture of deep conditioner and (perhaps too many) gummy vitamins. She jokes, “I got blood work done a year ago and the doctor was like, ‘These vitamins are like through the roof. What the hell?’ And it’s just because I would like eat them like candy. So I probably have to be careful.”
source: people.com
