Sky Tops, Botox and skanky-looking hair are the signature look of the Real Housewives of Orange County. The Oprah Show met them in Culver, City, California for a makeover photo shoot featured in November's O magazine. Lauri, Jeana, Tamra, Vicki and the new one, Gretchen Rossi, resisted getting a New York fashion makeover
This is a description of them by Valerie Monroe, a writer for O Magazine:
1. Hair: blonde and long
2. Skin: very tan (often spray-tanned)
3. Teeth: blindingly white
4. Lips: conspicuously full
5. Noses: pert
6. Breasts: notably large
7. Tummies: flat; hips: nonexistent
8. Nails: long, French-tipped, and square
9. Jewelry: big and frequently diamond
10. Clothes: mostly pastels, corals; formfitting and revealing
Behold the makeovers: Ken Paves, Jessica Simpson's hair extension guru, did the hair.
"Vicki's hair has been overlayered, so it's too short on the crown, which makes it look thin all over," says Paves. It's also very processed, so it's hard to style. Paves uses several hairpieces to add length at the top of Vicki's hair, while taking off about 6 inches from the bottom. Her haircolor is extremely yellow, so Paves uses hair with more beige, which still has texture and richness and warms up her complexion.
Lauri
"I want to keep the bombshell look that Lauri likes; it suits her," says Paves. "But instead of set, untouchable hair, I'm giving her a looser, fuller style." Paves uses hairpieces to give Lauri an underlayer of darker color ("It makes thin hair look a lot bulkier") and shorten it by 8 to 10 inches. Then he wraps sections of her hair around a wide-barrel hot iron to give her big, soft waves. "Lauri still looks sexy, and now her hair is thick and full of dimension," says Paves. All-one-color hair tends to look flat; adding highlights or lowlights can add dimension instantly.
Who would recognize Tamra?
"Tamra has a gorgeous, strong jawline and high cheekbones, so I'll use my hairpieces to give her a shorter cut, angled around her face, accentuating her bone structure," says Paves. "Her haircolor is too beige, which makes it blend with her skin tone, fading her complexion." Paves deepens Tamra's color with a honey reddish tint, takes 6 inches off the length, and blows it out straight, rolling the ends under just a little. A whisper of richer color, especially along the hairline, gives Tamra's features even more definition.
Jeana's hair:
"The ashy streaks in Jeana's hair aren't doing anything for her complexion," Paves says. Using his hairpieces, he gives Jeana a rich chestnut haircolor with caramel highlights, which instantly brightens her skin and makes her very blue eyes more vivid. Though Jeana is used to wearing extensions to add length and fullness, Paves cuts the hair to her shoulders and layers it around her face. "The shorter length with a side bang is more chic than long and straight," he says.
To see the complete makeover story, go to
http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/200811_omag_oc
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