MESSAGE FROM TYRA: Who wants a makeover?!
Hi y'all,
It's finally getting cold here in New York. For a while the weather was pretty much the same as in Los Angeles, but now I'm finally wearing my winter coat and turning the heat on in my apartment. I'm LOVING life in NYC. I just step out my front door and there are people everywhere - even late at night. I went to the grocery store at 11pm the other night and the sidewalk was as crowded as it is during the daytime. People are running errands, the restaurants are packed and the city is alive. One thing I see a lot of in NYC, is working women. I see them in the morning, walking, heading to the subway, jumping on the bus, dropping their kids off - looking all cute, walking with a sense of pride and purpose.
Women who work in the city come from all over. There are five boroughs in Manhattan (The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island). I decided I wanted to do a special makeover show that would honor the women of all five boroughs and reward their hard work with some personal pampering, hot styling and fierce hair and makeup! I picked five women to make over, I even surprised some of them by showing up in a garbage truck, looking like a sanitation worker. They NEVER saw that coming!
It's really incredible when women who put everyone else BEFORE themselves are given love and attention. These ladies were so deserving and their makeovers are really INCREDIBLE. You'd never recognize them seeing their before and afters. They look like new women - and it really comes from their inner transformation.
Check out the NYC Working Women Makeover show THIS FRIDAY, November 9th!!! I've got some great style tips YOU can use at home too. And if you get a chance, take some time to put YOURSELF at the top of your TO DO LIST. You deserve it!
Love,
Tyra
PS...here are some behind-the-scenes photos we took during the makeovers!















Comments
IM 17 AND REALLY NEED A MAKEOVER I HAVE DARK SPOTS ALL OVER MY FACE I REALLY NEED A MAKEOVER PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE
Posted by: Summer Hardin | December 22, 2008 5:44 PM
hello tyra, im your biggest fan. i watch your shows evryday and i wonder if you could give me a makeover. my friends and classmates talks aotu me and it hurts, but not as baad as when my own sisters and brothers do. i don't like to smile so much because of my teeth and i hate them and i want to feel beautiful one day. i want to be beautiful one day so please can you help me. im kind of shy and im not good talking in front of people or telling them that i feel ugly, but i feel comfortable talking to you.
Posted by: sonia | November 28, 2008 5:42 PM
Hi Tyra.i just adore u.u are so nataurally beautiful & kind.i'm from South Africa,a surburb called Durban.i would looove to be on your show, if its for a makeover, WOW!!!it would be so much more than a dream come true.we don't have shows like yours where i come from,i wish you'd make my Christmas Wish come true.love u lots & God bless!
Posted by: Nicolette | November 10, 2008 4:08 AM
Hi tyra my name is rachel bazemore..I am 18 years old..I just graduated high school of 08..I went to liberty high.....Well im writing you beacuse i would love a make over..All my life i got tease because i had really broad shoulders..Which I hide alot now..I try to were sweaters alot..and when it hot i always were a jacket..I think the only time i thought I was pretty was when it was my senior pictures..And i got made fun of when i took those..People always say that i had a big back and belong on the football team...Im not really comfertable around other people and ineed to learn how to except my self the way that i am..UUmmm the good think aboutit is i have a twin sister we look just alike and we both got teased..Were both afriacan american.. We both have gaps in our teath..and we both have broad shoulders.. I really hat when people would make fun of m sister in front of me and i really hate that they made fun of me to... I have a boyfriend..which I was with all out threw high school.he reall y just appricated how i was..He always told me that I was beautiful...but I find out hard to believe..Well i really think i need this make over beacuse i very self-consionus about my self, and I need to see the beauty that inside of me.. I have a very kind heart...Im just not beautiful..ps...I love your show...Rachel
Posted by: Rachel | November 8, 2008 8:42 AM
Hey Tyra! I was wondering, if this isn't too much to ask for, but, can't you pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease get Mr. James Patterson, the author, on your show?!!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease????!!! He has written such wonderful books, such as Maximum Ride, which I am completely obsessed with! And I would really like to hear you and him talking about it on your show! I really want you to read it too! It's amazing! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?????!!!!!
Posted by: Luisa | November 6, 2008 1:41 PM
HEY TYRA MY NAME IS JALISA IM FROM TALLASSEE AL. CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE ME A CHANCE I WATCH YOUR SHOW ALL THE TIME I CAN SING REAL GOOD IM PLAYING IM FOR REAL I WANNA BE ON YOUR SHOW. I ALSO WANT A MAKEOVER MY TEETH ARE SO UGLY IM 17 YEARS OLD MY MOM DONT HAVE THE MONEY TO HELP ME THEY CALL STACKS AT SCHOOL IM TIRED OF GETTIN PICKED ON PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: jalisa | October 30, 2008 6:45 AM
Hi Tyra,if I may ask where did you get your beautiful smile? Please if you can email me and maybe hold my hand just maybe i can get my self-esteem back,Iknow it sounds crazy but very much afraid!!!!
Posted by: christina | October 26, 2008 9:14 PM
Hi Tyra, Ilove your smile if I could have a smile like yours,Iwould be in heven!!!!
Posted by: christina | October 26, 2008 9:03 PM
Hi Miss Tyra!! i love ur show! but i have some thing important to ask u...... well i want a..... well need a makeover for my Mommy, she is 49 years old and she looks WAY older cuz she has been through so much!! like my father died when i was only 8years old, she used to do drugs but she quit and also she is missin a few of her front teeth..... i would really appriciate it if u did this favor for her cuz i really want her to get a boyfriend but she thinks shes ugly.... also we dont have much money cuz she cant work cuz her hands are bad so we live off of $600 bucks a month and she has to pay bills and go halfers to my brother, sister and I so its really hard for her............please will u do this for her!!!!!
P.S.
Posted by: Alejandra | October 7, 2008 10:21 PM
Hi Miss Tyra!! i love ur show! but i have some thing important to ask u...... well i want a..... well need a makeover for my Mommy, she is 49 years old and she looks WAY older cuz she has been through so much!! like my father died when i was only 8years old, she used to do drugs but she quit and also she is missin a few of her front teeth..... i would really appriciate it if u did this favor for her cuz i really want her to get a boyfriend but she thinks shes ugly.... also we dont have much money cuz she cant work cuz her hands are bad so we live off of $600 bucks a month and she has to pay bills and go halfers to my brother, sister and I so its really hard for her............please will u do this for her!!!!!
P.S.
Posted by: Alejandra | October 7, 2008 10:19 PM
hi tyra my name is kristina I am 11 years and I feel ugly and fat cus I werigh more then my 13 year old brother 5 to 6 more then him and my dreamis to get a make over
Posted by: kristina | August 13, 2008 2:51 PM
I would love a makeover, I have gotten fat from being on steroids having asthma and tearing my achilles tendon several times dotors solution are always weight gain meds and I would love a makeover and to lose 90 pounds to look like myself again. I had long hair but it is now very short s well. I am currently orking on my MBA in Business Admin and HR. I currently have three college degrees and am a diorced parent. I do know that employers discrimate agains weight, and never knew how much until I gained weight and how people view you differently. Thank you kindly.
Posted by: Crystal | August 1, 2008 7:22 PM
As the primary backer of HD DVD, Toshiba spent a lot of money developing technology that they didn't get a lot of use out of. Some features from HD DVD players, like upscaling, fit nicely into standard DVD players. Others, like web-enabled content, aren't quite as applicable. Sure you could put the same capabilities into a DVD player, but with no official standard you'd be hard pressed to get anyone to take advantage of it.
Posted by: AndimerForts | July 4, 2008 1:54 PM
Hi Tyra my name is Shantel im 16 years old. Im writing you dis letter because my mom need a makeover. Me and her are going through alot write now... my mother is not the same as she use to be.. She's so depressed and everytime i see her like that it breaks my heart as her child. She cant find no job and we are living at home with other people.. she's worried about her childrens no having what they need! because she has no job... She needs to get herself together and she needs this important makeover... my mom deserves it.. it breaks my heart to see her like this can u please help us?
thank you for taking the time to read this letter.. hopefully you can help my mom..!
god bless you and thank you!
Shantel
Posted by: Shantel | June 16, 2008 11:37 AM
Hi Tyra my name is Shantel im 16 years old. Im writing you dis letter because my mom need a makeover. Me and her are going through alot write now... my mother is not the same as she use to be.. She's so depressed and everytime i see her like that it breaks my heart as her child. She cant find no job and we are living at home with other people.. she's worried about her childrens no having what they need! because she has no job... She needs to get herself together and she needs this important makeover... my mom deserves it.. it breaks my heart to see her like this can u please help us?
thank you for taking the time to read this letter.. hopefully you can help my mom..!
god bless you and thank you!
Shantel
Posted by: Shantel | June 16, 2008 11:35 AM
Hi Tyra i so much love your show but i have to ask you a seriouse question why dontyou come to AFRICA and do the makeovers to us?am from KENYA AND AM EXTREMLY BEGING FOR U TO MAKE ME OVER.PLEASE
Posted by: MITCHELLE | June 15, 2008 12:38 AM
HiTyra I loooooooove your show,especialy all the makeovers.I Wanted to know why you dont come to AFRICA?We would love to have you here especially in KENYA.THANKS FOR YOUR SHOW.I AM MITCHELLE AUDREY 19years old from KENYA,NAIROBI.
Posted by: MITCHELLE | June 15, 2008 12:29 AM
HiTyra I loooooooove your show,especialy all the makeovers.I Wanted to know why you dont come to AFRICA?We would love to have you here especially in KENYA.THANKS FOR YOUR SHOW.I AM MITCHELLE AUDREY 19years old from KENYA,NAIROBI.
Posted by: MITCHELLE | June 15, 2008 12:29 AM
hi tyra name is marline im about to be 16 on june 2nd 2008 but i dont know have money pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help me tyra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: marline | May 28, 2008 5:38 PM
Dear Tyra:
I am writing to your for for what can only be described as a generous act of kindness. I work in a residence for severely mentally ill formerly homeless adults. Unfortunately, even as celebrities disclose their own bouts with mental illness and the media has begun to focus attention on depression, bipolar illness and schizophrenia, this population is severely underrepresented. The stigma of mental illness is great and my clients experience it daily. They have been in and out of shelters, shuffled from relative to relative and repeatedly institutionalized. Finally, they have come to live here, at Georgia’s Place, a decidedly unique residence located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY. Georgia’s Place has a very intimate, open feel. Home to 39 formerly homeless, mentally ill adults and 10 low income adults, Georgia’s Place is a haven for those that have struggled through addiction, crime, incarceration, abuse, etc. The list is endless. My colleagues and I would love to give the women here something they could never afford themselves on fixed incomes. We would love to make them beautiful. I know you probably receive many requests, but these women are special. It would mean so much to them to meet you. Please say you'll consider helping us.
Diane Racz, MSW, CASAC-T
MICA Specialist
Georgia's Place
Posted by: Diane | May 22, 2008 8:55 AM
Tyra
My name is Brianna I am 15 years old and I'm writing to you about my grandma
She's an amazing woman but has had a very hard life.
Quite a few years ago she was hit by a dump truck which caused her major life issues, and she almost died. She is always in pain, she won't let anyone take her picture because her teeth are all rotten/broken off and she sometimes can barely walk.
Money is a tough issue for her she has been on disability for a long time. I know a lot of people laugh when someone my age writes something, but it's hard to see such a loving, giving, and caring person feel so down all the time yet still continues to do so much for everyone else.
We've tried so many places to help her get her teeth fixed but no luck. If you cant help could someone please help me with some information to be able to get her help with a makeover and maybe her teeth fixed so that she's not ashamed to smile, and so one day I can have my picture taken with my grandma :(
Posted by: Brianna | May 20, 2008 9:04 PM
Hi my name is evelyn i am the only girl other then my mom in my family i have two younger brothers and a dad i always have been a tomboy ever since i could rememeber which means that i wear jeans and boy shirts i actually recently started wearing my dad's shirts cause they cover me well however recently some of my clothes havent been fitting me and i dont feel preety boys just look at me as their freiend but now i want them to look at me differently Tyra do you think you could help me
Posted by: Evelyn | May 10, 2008 2:26 PM
Hi Tyra,
my name is nikki and im 22.mothers day is coming up and i really need your help getting my mom the perfect gift.she really deserves something special.she does everything in her power to get stuff for me and my kid and my brother and his kid.like for christmas she got everything on our lists and we really didnt have the money to get her what she wanted and for mother's day i want to get her what she deserves.like she wanted stuff for her camera but you kno how far money goes.please help....Nikki
Posted by: Nikki | April 30, 2008 1:40 PM
Hi Tyra,
I have a girlfriend that I have been friends with all of my life. We went to elementary school together and though life has taken us on different paths, we have managed to stay in touch and in one another's life.
Here's the deal: Girlfriend has no idea that she dresses funny and is clueless about skincare and makeup. We are both 50 years old and my buddy dresses like her 25 year old daughter... it's a mess!
Tyra, I believe that if she were shown how lovely she could be, it would make all the difference in the world.
I want you to select her for a makeover without disclosing how tacky I think she dresses. (That's cold, isn't it?)
Thanks,
Victoria
Posted by: Victoria | April 30, 2008 1:23 PM
Dear Tyra,
I am tired of my mom complaing of how ugly she feels. She is beautiful and hard working. She is always helping others and the elderly. I think my mom deserves a make over. i lived with my dad until hurricane Katrina my dad passed away the next september, and she dropped everything she had going in Utah to move here so i could finish school with my friends. She just finished nursing school and deserves this more than anyone. Please do this for her.
Thank You so much,
Staci, 18.
Posted by: Staci | April 30, 2008 1:07 PM