HE’S the hairdresser to the celebs, styling the locks of Hollywood’s best-known blondes from Gwyneth Paltrow to Britney Spears.
And in new TV sequence Blowing LA, Los Angeles salon proprietor Kim Vo reveals that generally his A-list shoppers could be greater than a bit snippy.
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Grasp colourist Kim, often known as “greatest blender within the enterprise”, stated: “Those you assume which are the sweetest and low-maintenance, woo — they’re virtually like bridezilla or promzilla.
“It’s those you by no means anticipate to be like that . . . wow!”
The cheekily named Paramount+ sequence — dubbed “Promoting Sundown for hairdressing” — dives into the world of superstar salons the place haircuts can value greater than £2,000 earlier than a tip.
And while you pay huge for Hollywood tresses you’ll be able to afford to unleash some diva behaviour.
Kim says one in all his most difficult shoppers was Britney, who he would secretly smuggle into resort rooms to do her highlights.
He stated: “I’ve been doing her hair since she was 18.
“We might go to suites and do their hair. So we didn’t essentially need to go to their houses.
“They may come to us and we will have a personal entrance, a personal elevator that goes proper as much as the room.”
However after Britney obtained along with ex-husband Kevin Federline, she would always insist on wrecking his hours of bleaching.
Kim stated: “I’ll get a name from the assistant, most likely at 3am, saying she determined to go and get black hair color and dye her hair.
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‘The hair with the crimson swimsuit is my work’
“The paps would get her along with her new look and the magazines would name me and say, ‘Did you do her darkish?’
“And I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh. I assumed that was a dream’.
“So, sure, there have been instances the place I feel she needed some enjoyable. She needed some freedom and we must appropriate it.”
Kim — who additionally claims to be a pet psychic — as soon as induced one in all Britney’s break-ups.
He observed Britney’s canine took subject with a boyfriend she had earlier than assembly husband Sam Asghari, whom she married in June.
Kim stated: “One of many funniest moments was the place the canine was ped with one in all her new boyfriends.
“She’s like, ‘I don’t know why he will get so moody when this individual comes round’. And I’m going, ‘As a result of he’s ped at him, he’s telling me!’
“She goes, ‘Oh my God. That makes whole sense’.
“I feel there was a whole lot of jealousy between the canine and the boyfriend.”
Born in Vietnam, floppy-haired Kim moved to California along with his household aged 9.
After going to magnificence faculty he landed jobs in a few of Tinseltown’s most well-known salons throughout the Nineties.
That’s when he gained his first well-known shopper, a mousy-haired Canadian actress referred to as Pamela Anderson.
Kim stated it was because of him {that a} newly peroxided Pammie grew to become an iconic Baywatch bottle-blonde.
He defined: “That blonde hair with the crimson swimsuit is my work.
“I used to be like 20, 21, and doing this and simply not understanding the affect hair has. I used to be very younger and he or she was superb and beginning her profession.”
Kim advised how, whereas on the street, he must coach Pamela’s assistant over the cellphone on contact up her roots.
He stated: “That is means earlier than FaceTime and Skyping and all this. “So we’d be on the cellphone and he or she’d be like, ‘Am I doing this proper?’ and I’m like, ‘I can’t see it, love. Describe what you’re doing’.” But it surely wasn’t till he labored with Gwyneth Paltrow that he really landed on the showbiz hairdressing map.
He first dyed her locks in 1997, when she was filming Sliding Doorways and courting Brad Pitt.
Kim stated: “She’s obtained her personal masseuses. She’s obtained all of it arrange.
“She’s a kind of individuals who’s one of the best hostess. She’s obtained her world.
“I solely do hair color. I don’t blow dry or minimize. So I carry our little glam squad with me.
“But it surely was after Gwyneth that Vogue journal voted me one of the best blonder within the enterprise, so that is when the journey began with all my blondes.”
Kim credit himself with creating the “ombre” hair pattern — the place hair is darker on the roots and lighter on the suggestions.
He says the type happened by chance when working with socialite Paris Hilton’s sister Nicky.
He stated: “She needed to develop out her pure color. I began portray the ends after which we ended up creating this ombre.
“Then I created one other look referred to as sombre, which is a softer aspect of ombre.”
Working virtually completely with blonde shoppers, Kim has highlighted family names from Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone and actress Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate to Reservoir Canines star Uma Thurman.
However he made one exception — for a raven-haired Katy Perry when she was first cracking the music enterprise within the Noughties.
He stated: “I can kick myself now. She gave me a CD, a demo, and I didn’t hold it as a result of it was simply this foolish track referred to as I Kissed A Woman.
“I used to be like, ‘I’m not a report producer. Is that this track going to go wherever? What’s the massive deal?’.
“I don’t know what I did with it but it surely grew to become well-known. It was successful and I had the unique.”
Particular desk for a designer purse
The pair quickly grew to become quick buddies, with Katy inviting Kim to her rock ’n’ roll events.
He stated: “I bear in mind her twenty fifth party, the place she had us all put on white.
“It was an Alice In Wonderland theme and what she didn’t inform you is that after we obtained in there, we have been going to get splashed with paint in several colors.
So I had a beautiful Dolce & Gabbana all-white outfit.
“If somebody would’ve advised me, I might’ve worn Zara. However nonetheless, for Katy I might do something.
“That’s how she is, that’s how spontaneous she is.”
In addition to celebrities, Kim and his salon cater to some very excessive net-worth people who need the Hollywood remedy on their hair.
One shopper, who goes solely by the title Megan, has a hidden closet in her mansion the place she hides £3.3million of designer Hermes Birkin purses.
He explains different shoppers demand separate tables to position their luxurious purses.
Kim stated: “I bear in mind the primary time I’d seen that, the place they’re like, ‘Oh, can I get a desk for my Birkin?’ I assumed this individual was drunk.
I didn’t perceive. And the waiter brings out this little desk only for the bag. It’s very Beverly Hills.”
But even the wealthiest shoppers can have their heads dunked underneath the kitchen faucet in the event that they don’t have an at-home salon arrange.
Kim stated: “You place their hair color on, put a towel over their face and we actually put your head underneath the faucet.
“So that you’re pondering to your self, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m placing this superstar that’s price 100 million in her sink, attempting to clean her hair’.
“If she’s sporting mascara, she comes up with a raccoon look.”
Though Kim sees celebrities at their least glamorous moments, he prides himself on his discretion.
However even when he needed to bask in tittle tattle, the juiciest moments are often protected by iron-clad NDAs.
He stated: “As soon as somebody touches your hair and you actually belief them, boundaries come down. And I really feel with celebrities, they’ve to essentially watch what they are saying.”
He added: “I’m always in these moments the place celebrities discover out one thing’s going to hit the press and all of it kicks off.
“The fascinating factor about this — and that is the place the NDA kicks in — I actually can’t inform you about these moments.”
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He hinted: “We simply had a film opening lately the place two of the actresses didn’t get alongside and one other actor was rejected from the movie. He bowed out gracefully.”
- Blowing LA is accessible from December 7 on Paramount+.
