“We’re just playing dress-up,” Evanie Frausto tells me at his salon in Brooklyn. He’s pinning an electric cobalt wig to a mannequin head, prepping it for a model who will arrive shortly at his studio. It’s the day after Halloween — a time when most people are putting their costumes back into storage — but for the celebrity hairstylist, fantasy is always in season.

The day before, Frausto pulled a “double shift”: styling Rosalía in the morning, then heading to Madison Square Garden to get Sabrina Carpenter stage-ready for her Short n’ Sweet show. Asking if he ever gets tired is pointless (“I love to work”), but asking him to brag about his stacked roster of It girls is even more of a dead end. He prefers to slip his clients into conversation like old friends, and that’s because most of t

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