| Don't Judge A Celebrity By Their Hair Roots |
| Karen Marie Shelton |
| Date: 03/01/2006 - Revised 03/16/06 |
Introduction
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Jessica
Simpson - People's Choice Awards - January 2006 |
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Jessica Simpson,
Jaime Pressly and Sarah
Jessica Parker are famous for their luscious blonde
locks. Ironically, while their atomic kitten
white, honey and dark golden shades are the constant
subject of the entertainment, beauty and fashion media,
their dark re-growth roots are also buzzed about.
Recently a well-known celebrity
watcher's website publicly chided celebrity hairdresser Ken Paves
for the fact that his famous client, Jessica, had very
obvious dark roots. (See image to the side).
Ken laughed about the dark root
mention as we recently chatted while he took a quick
break from working on Eva Longoria's hair.
These Roots Are Made For Showing
"Jessica has dark roots on
purpose", the famous celebrity hairdresser pointed out.
Ken explained that "during the initial hair design phase
for Jessica's new movie", Employee of the Month,
Ken and Jessica "discussed at length how Jessica's
character might wear her hair".
Since Jessica's
character works "in a Costco-like store" and "is a real
woman who has a busy life" Jessica and Ken decided to go
with a more "realistic and less glamorous look for the
character's hair." Ken and Jessica wanted to honor how
her character might really deal with her own hair.
In preparation for her role "Jess and I decided to just
let her darker roots grow in" he explained. "Once
the roots appeared, I added hair extensions for the
movie". After the roots had grown a bit, Ken and
Jess decided that "they really liked the look" (with the
darker root area) and agreed that "with the added
extension length", Jessica's hair "was exactly what they
were going for".
The people (producers, director) with the movie also
"really liked the contrasting dark root look with the
added length". As a result, Jessica has made it a
point to avoid having her hair colored since well before
the movie started filming.
Resulting in the
noticeable and intentional dark roots that Jessica has
recently been photographed wearing. Note the
word "intentional". Which makes the attack on
Ken's talent as a celebrity hairdresser completely unwarranted, unfair and not
based on fact. The man is a true hair genius and one of
the very best in Hollywood.
Ken also reported that Jessica's
on-set hairdresser, Jessie Holiday, recently slightly
touched up her roots, but left them darker for
continuity".
Move Over Joy On Everyone Loves Earl
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Jaime Pressly
- Everyone Loves Earl - 2006 - Hopper Stone |
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Famous celebrity hair colorist
Rita Hazan (of the
Rita Hazan
Salon in New York City - 212-735-4757)
has been "working with Jessica's
hair color for several years".
She also personally tends to the
custom weaving of the glorious golden hues of sizzling
star Jaime Pressly.
Not only has Jaime been working with Rita for "quite
some time" the two women are "very good friends".
Earl's Joy is the queen of trailer trash. Her hair
is often teased into an array of big hairstyles with
very prominent dark roots. While the brassy blonde hair
and dark root line is perfect for Joy, it can cause some
challenges for the actress when she is doing a Red
Carpet gig.
I spoke to Rita right before the
recent People's Choice Awards show. She had just
recently "freshened up" Jaime's blonde hues and
"made it
a point to leave the darker roots intact".
Rita explained that when her
famous clients like Jessica, Ashlee, Jennifer Lopez and
Jaime are working in a specific role, she is limited to
what she can do with their current color. Rita
also confirmed that Jessica Simpson's current hair roots
are intentional for her Employee of the Month character.
Rita reminded me that Jessica also had roots in her Dukes
of Hazard role because it went with the "true character
of the role and how Daisy Duke would have really worn her
hair" After all, Daisy Duke was a busy young lady
who most likely didn't have time to hang out getting her
foils redone on a regular basis. In fact, Daisy
was probably a fan of the Wal-Mart hair colors.
Natural Hair Color?
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Sarah Jessica
Parker - 2004 Golden Globe Awards |
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If you consider carefully the
fact that most actresses (and actors), are often
required to jump though all sorts of appearance hoops to
portray film and TV characters, the viewing audience
should be more surprised when the celebrities don't have
odd hair color anomalies then when they do.
I was personally surprised to
learn that there was any buzz about Jessica's latest
root appearances. After all, Jessica is blessed
with access to the very
best celebrity hairdresser and colorist in the industry
at this time. Certainly it would never occurred to
me that she would have root growth looming from her
follicles unless there was a very good reason.
Ken and Rita are very protective
of their famous client. They also consider her
part of their families. I would never believe that
Jessica's hair would be intentionally ignored
by either celebrity hair icon.
Hue Happenings?
Rita Hazan understands better
than most hair colorists the constraints of constant
hair color changes that her celebrity clients and their
delicate strands must endure. She explained "whether the challenge is freshening up the surrounding
color while maintaining the roots or dealing with
drastic color changes, her goal is always ultimately to
honor her client's performance requirements" and to make
sure "their hair stays as healthy as possible".
Color And Conditioning At The Same Time
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Jennifer Lopez
& Marc Anthony |
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Regardless of the color
constraints that Rita has to live with, she confessed
that she always "loves the color she utilizes on
all of her clients to be
really vibrant" regardless of the shade.
To guarantee perfect hues, Rita always finishes off her
highlights and color treatments with "a glossing
treatment" that adds "shine and prevents frizziness".
Rita insists that her famous clients "have a series
of deep
conditioning treatments to maintain the health of their
heavily treated tresses".
Rita confided that she has other
tricks that allow "Jessica, Jennifer, Jaime and her other
famous celebrities to get their tresses conditioned while they are being
colored or highlighted". Rita's secret? She
"mixes
Phyto's
Huile D'Ales - Intense Hydrating Oil Treatment with
the color chemicals".
Rita loves the results that she obtains with the
Huile D'Ales. She pointed out that it is a
fabulous "revitalizing botanical oil that smoothes &
hydrates dry, brittle hair & mends splits ends". The oil
is also 100% natural and it includes essential oils of
sage, rosemary & juniper. It is ideal for color-treated & long
hair.
Rita encourages her clients "to use the
Huile D'Ales at home in between their color
treatments". She promised that "using
Huile D'Ales makes a significant difference" and
makes her celeb's tresses "super shiny, healthy and
luscious".
Summary
Never judge a celebrity by their hair roots.
Afterall, if the actress has darker roots, it probably
just means that she is very sought after in her acting
field since working actresses are most likely to be
required to color their hair for their latest role.
It could be a lot worse. They could be required to
gain or lose large amounts of weight for a character and
that is a lot harder to do then let a few roots go dark. |