| Hollywood Hair Happenings: Ken Paves |
| Karen Marie Shelton |
| Date: 7/8/2003 |
Introduction
 It
seems like every time I catch up with celebrity hairstylist
Ken
Paves he is getting on or off a plane to some celebrity hair
happening. (Photo of Ken Paves courtesy of Ken Paves - all
rights reserved).
OK, so there was the time that Ken was giving me an
impromptu phone interview on his crackly cell phone while standing on
the tarmac, under the roaring engines, of Victoria Principle's private
jet. Ken and Victoria were leaving Chicago where they had just
completed taping of an Oprah makeover show, which went
"fabulous" by the way.
As you may or may not know, Ken is a regular, along
with New York's
Rita
Hazan, on Oprah's fab hair makeovers. Ken cuts and styles while
Rita weaves her color magic on the lucky makeover clients. When I
caught up with Ken in the Windy City, he and the lovely Ms. Principle
were rushing off to LA where Victoria was scheduled to be on Larry
King's TV show. Yes, of course, Ken was doing her hair for Larry
King and in fact, has been doing Victoria's hair "for a long
time."
Then there was the time that I just happened to catch
Ken rushing to the Las Vegas airport in the wee hours of the morning
after tending
to
the spectacular backstage strands of songbird Celine Dion.
KP, as his friends call him, had to be back in LA bright and early to
work his hair magic for a cover shoot with curly girl Minnie
Driver. After wrangling Minnie's gorgeous curls into a beautiful
style, Ken had to pop over to a Jane cover shoot where he created even
more hair wizardry with long time client Pamela Anderson. Not only did
Ken do Pam's Jane shoot, he regularly creates spectacular looks for
the blonde beauty's various showbiz and TV appearances. Pam has even
been known to drop by Ken's award winning Pave Salon in Clinton
Township, Michigan.
 Needless
to say, rushing to and fro and running through airports is just part
of Ken's daily existence. It is all part of his joy filled days
tending to the tresses of JLo,
Jessica and
Ashlee
Simpson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Heather Locklear, Calista Flockhart,
Kirsten Dunst, Camen Electra and Christina Applegate, to name
just a few of his many star studded clients. (Photo:
Ashlee Simpson as Cecilia on 7th Heaven - Copyright The WB - all
rights reserved).
Ken
genuinely adores all of his clients and is the first to say how
incredibly blessed he is to get to work with them. And
his clients adore him back. Ken is an incredibly talented
stylist with vision, creativity and a heart that is pure
gold.
Since
it had been a few weeks since I last caught Ken sprinting through an
airport, I was experiencing extreme celebrity hair news
withdrawal. I decided to track the hair maestro by phone.
Believe it or not, I caught him at home in LA, in the late hours of
the night, doing what else? Packing of course. Ken is
heading off in the early hours to New York City with
Celine
Dion.
For
those not in the know, Ken recently transformed Celine into her hot
trend setting new shorter style. He commented that "Celine's
hair is growing out to a little longer length that looks great on
her." Ken likes the longer locks on Celine and remarked
that "her hair looks very chic".
As
we chatted Dallas to LA, Ken filled me in on his recent celebrity hair
happenings. He gave me all the details about how he created the
spectacular waist length sultry beach hair styles for the lovely
Jessica
Simpson's new Sweet As Sin
music video. Using all human hair extensions with a natural wave to
match Jessica's natural hair texture, Ken created a romantic, yet
long, sensuous look, that worked perfectly with the video's setting
behind a still waterfall. Ken was very pleased with the results
and said that Jessica's hair looks "simply amazing". He
reported that "he used his fav
Phyto
and Kerastase products on Jess's locks to achieve perfection".
Ken
also reported "he will be popping in and out of Jessica and hubby
Nick's upcoming reality TV show" and is filmed doing the lovely
Jessica's hair in the background. Be sure to look for him on the
upcoming TV reality show. He will also be doing Jessica's
tresses for her spectacular birthday bash on Friday (July 11,
2003). No stranger to cameo appearances, Ken can be seen briefly
exiting an elevator in The Wedding Planner, thanks to long time
client, JLo, who insisted that he have a small part in her film.
Ken
has a very long history of doing the hair for all the Simpson
women. He did Jessica's hair for her 2002 wedding to Nick Lachey
and is included in Jessica's forthcoming wedding book.
Speaking
of the Simpsons, Ken promised to send photos of
Ashlee
Simpson's
hot new hairstyle that he recently created at his home in LA.
Ken and Ashlee put their heads together to create "a hot new
style for her ongoing role in Seventh Heaven", which is about to
resume filming for the Fall 2003 season. Ken reported that
Ashlee has an amazing new "very light blonde" look that is
"absolutely stunning".
Although
last season she was required to have her hair the color and style that
the producers envisioned for her role as the girl next store, her new
look is "what Ashlee wants". Ken removed 8-10" of her
hair extensions and then cut approximately 2" more off the
overall length. He "layered it beyond layered" and
said the results are "Chrissy Hynes meets Joan Jett meets Bianca
Jaeger." According to Ken, the new Ashlee Simpson
style will "turn heads" because it is "so edgy and
hot".
By
the way, if you are wondering where the gorgeous Simpson sisters get
their great looks you only need to look at beautiful mom Tina Simpson,
whom I had the great honor of meeting, to understand where all those
great looks originated.
New York News
Even though Ken is flying to New York tomorrow to work
with Celine's hair, his schedule is jam packed with lots of hair
happenings and activities. He is scheduled to do long time
client Christina Applegate's hair for a Cosmo photo shoot. Ken has
been working with Christina for some time and did her hair for her
wedding.
While he is in The City, Ken reported that he promised
to create a brand new hair look for Carmen Electra. I asked him
it this would impact her wedding hair and Ken assured me that Carmen's
wedding is scheduled for some time in the future. So any new
hair style he creates will not really impact how Carmen wears her hair
for her upcoming wedding. In his spare time, Ken will make the City's
celebrity hair rounds maybe popping in to see his good friends
Rita
Hazan and
Louise
O'Connor at the hot new Adir salon. He will be one very busy
boy, which suits the hair maestro just fine.
 So
what else is Ken up to? As always, he is attending to the
luscious locks of
Lara
Flynn Boyle who is "doing just fabulous" and who is
"fine with leaving the Practice" since she had already
planned to go off and "work on several movie and films" in
the very near future.
Ken accompanied LF, as he calls her, on last summer's
Men In Black II European premiere tour and reported it was "one
of the best experiences of his life". Ken commented on the
fact that LF has gone with luscious face framing caramel
highlights that "look amazing". He will be
catching up with LF when he returns from New York City because
"she is due for her regular haircut". (Photo
of Lara Flynn Boyle above - courtesy The Practice - all rights
reserved).
The ever energetic KP will also
continue to jet home to Michigan to work with at his Paves Salon,
consult on his own forthcoming hair care line and continue to attend
to the heads of his fabulous celebrity clientele.
Ken is such a joy to chat with
because he always has such interesting and exciting news. Even
better, he is one of those people that are doing ten different things
while chatting on the phone. You can just feel his energy
pulsating through the phone while he talks. Geez, if only I
could bottle some of the Ken Paves power, I would be in energy heaven. |