| Marley Shelton - Uptown Girl With Funk |
| Karen Marie Shelton |
| Revised Date: 09/19/07 - Original Publication
Date: 08/08/2003 |
Introduction
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Marley Shelton
Uptown Girls Premiere
2003 |
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The
maestro of lightening hair changes, celebrity hairstylist
Ken Paves,
recently joined stellar forces with spectacularly beautiful
Marley
Shelton to make smashing new short hair history. The sizzling
new style was instantly captured for the annuals of hair history by
the frenzied paparazzi on the red carpet. Marley, according to Ken, is
"so committed to her acting craft", that she is always
"eager to experiment and morph through a range of hairstyles to
give authenticity to her myriad of film roles". Widely admired for her long lush blonde locks in The Bachelor with
Renee Zwelleger, Marley recently submitted her lengthy strands to the
cutting room floor, in the name of a new film role.
Marley's
resulting psuedo Mia Farrow gamine look was specifically designed to work with her nice
girl socialite Ingrid role in
Uptown
Girls. Wanting to make a
spectacular premiere entrance, Marley selected a drop-dead gorgeous
gown from Armani. Of course every goddess needs a matching
hairstyle.
For her appearance, Marley wanted to show a whisper of her naughty
girl side. After all, as Marley recently confessed in the August InStyle magazine "she likes to be demure and sexy at the same
time". Ken, who "absolutely adores working
with Marley" because she is really "amazing to work
with" was tapped to create a little of his legendary hair magic
for the big event. So Ken popped
over to the actress's house, just around the corner, to brainstorm
some sizzling new coifs to work with her spectacular gown. The result of their
magnificent collaboration? The eye-popping
MiaFarrow-Meets-Halston-At-Studio54 which was the instant talk of the
town. Working at his normal speed-demon styling frenzy, Ken
transformed super short haired Marley from primly proper to sultry siren
in 30 minutes.
Ken Paves: Magical Fingers
& Lots Of Hairpieces
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Marley Shelton
Uptown Girls Premiere
2003 |
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Starting with his trusty razor, Ken completely altered Marley's
neckline by tapering it into an edgy rounded shape that gave the shape
of her head and neckline a completely new look. Then
Ken's magical flying fingers went to work "gluing tons and tons
of individual human hair strands that averaged 12 inches in uncut length, to
Marley's crown" and "positioning them towards the front of
her hairline to create a shock of full bangs". Yes,
Ken created the new sultry front fringe by means of fusion hair
extensions. Even more amazing, Ken alternated "three different shades of
custom colored hair
pieces to give Marley's hair that brilliant blonde goddess
glow".
Using the "very lightest shades of gold, ash and
platinum blonde", Ken meticulously hand-placed and fused "each
and every tiny strand into the
most strategic position. His goal was to achieve wild texture
that would also lay sleekly
against Marley's head". Once
the many different pieces of hair were in absolute perfect placement
to create an instant elongated fringe, Ken went to work skillfully razoring the
newly added hair extension pieces until every
single strand was different lengths ranging from 2 1/2 to 4 1/2
inch strands. Wildly shearing so that the bangs formed a
slight asymmetrical drape, Ken created an impressive array of amazing
hair
textures. Once Ken was satisfied with his magical hair placement and
layering, he reached for his flat iron. Painstaking separating all of
her strands into very small sections, he ironed all of her hair. As he worked with the iron, he elevated each strand
into the air so it resembled a crazy "diffused Mohawk". When he was
finished Mohawking Marley's hair, she laughed and asked in amazement
if that was how Ken "was going to leave her hair". "Well of course
not", he assured her. Rene Furterer Spray Gloss
Ken then applied a liberal amount of Shinbi's Magic
Move to Marley's temporarily elevated tresses. He then whipped out his magical
red blow
dryer and applied heat to all of her strands.
Working in a clockwise
direction he delicately finger ruffled, smoothed and arranged her new extensions
interlacing them with her natural tresses. He continued to
fingerpick and tousle until he had created the edgy texture and fluid movement
he envisioned for this hairstyle.  Ken finished the
style with a liberal blast of
Rene
Furterer's fabulous new Spray Gloss (shown
to the side) which
creates a soft, mirror-like effect on each strand to enhance shine and
hair texture.
Note:
Ken Paves also used
Rene Furterer's Carthame Oil
on Jennifer Lopez during the filming of The Wedding Planner.
The perfect product for Marley's highly textured
new do. Viola, the making of a blonde Red Carpet goddess with an
instant new fringe was complete. Ken
Paves' Magical Hair Creation Secrets
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Ken Paves
2003 |
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So how was Ken able to create instant hair history with Marley's
stunning short do in such an abbreviated time span? Having had the
privilege to watch Ken work in real time, I totally understand how
he was able to whip up a spectacular history making new do in a
matter of 30 minutes.
I swear this man can fly. OK. Maybe it just
seems like it because his hair styling movements are so elegant and fluid. The real truth is that
Ken is one of the best stylists in
the world.
Yes I am prejudiced, but so are his many
sizzling celebrity
clients ranging from
Celine Dion,
Jessica Simpson,
Lara Flynn
Boyle and Nancy
O'Dell to Carmen
Electra, Christina
Applegate,
Ashlee
Simpson, Jennifer Lopez,
Minnie
Driver, Heather Locklear, Lucy Liu and
Victoria
Principle, to name just a few of the legions of his celebrity
clients around the world . Not only has Ken been working
with Marley's hair for a long time, he understands how she likes him
to handle her "tons and tons of straight hair that has a little wave".
The famed celeb hairdresser also has collaborated with her long enough for them to form a
relationship built on mutual trust and understanding. Which
is Ken's modus operandi. Ken
confessed to me that Marley reminds him of "a supermodel who
understands the value of constantly reworking her image to do justice
to whatever role or event she is currently involved with".
His
"hair creation juices are completely unleashed when he works with Marley,
because she is like a blank canvas, totally open to
experimentation for the sake of her craft and for the character
she has assumed". He acknowledged "it takes a
lot of courage to be willing to drastically change your image for the
sake of art". In that regard, Ken finds "Marley is unlike a lot of
actresses who are more reticent about making major hair or style
changes". Ken and Marley have a lot in common because Ken
"lives to create spectacular looks for his clients".
He does this by "understanding who they are and what they are
trying to accomplish". So what else can I say? Ken's work
says it all.
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