Sarah Wooden is the wig wizard behind Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter hair

Precisely a 12 months in the past, London-based hair and wig stylist Sarah Wooden – founding father of Necia’s Hairstyling – obtained a message that simply had to be a hoax.

“It was from Michael Handler [Beyoncé’s executive assistant] saying ‘Miss Carter Knowles needs you to make these wigs,” Sarah tells GLAMOUR. Removed from a prank, the e-mail was in truth very actual, with a request to create a wig wardrobe of 12 totally different seems to be for visuals showing on-stage on the singer’s Cowboy Carter tour – which has lastly arrived in London.

“All the things that she picked out have been my creations, which is superb since you usually get requested to recreate one thing that any person else has completed,” she says. Locking herself away for 2 weeks to get the mammoth process full, Beyoncé was there in spirit all through the method. “I devoted all my time, I don’t assume I spoke to anybody else apart from my husband who organized all of the logistics to verify the wigs have been protected within the packing containers and made it on time,” the hairstylist continues. “I listened to the whole Cowboy Carter album time and again whereas I used to be working.”

Eagle-eyed followers have already noticed Sarah’s work blown up on the enormous star-shaped display night time after night time on the tour. For those who’ve not managed to get tickets this time round, the hairstylist has given a sneak peek on her Instagram account as extra seems to be from the visuals drop all through the tour. From a bouffant updo accessorised with bunny ears, to basic 70s curls given a contemporary twist in child pink, and vampy V-shaped bangs – every wig completely transforms Beyoncé into a special character. Famously, a pernickety, detail-oriented Virgo, ready for her suggestions, Sarah was understandably nervous. “It was a privilege and I bought no notes from Miss Carter, which is wild,” she says. “I’m going to avoid wasting that endlessly.”

Whereas Queen B is amongst Sarah’s newer shoppers, she boasts a again catalogue of different icons – like Dolly Parton and Dita Von Teese – and upcoming abilities together with Raye and the electrical Amy Taylor, frontwoman of punk band Amyl and the Sniffers. “She’s sizzling shit proper now,” she says. “I gravitate in the direction of those that I completely adore and stand for what they’re doing.”