PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS… KA’MAURA ELEY
Stylist Ka’Maura Eley has high hair hopes.
Presented by Electronic Urban Report.
Hair stylist and makeup artist Ka’maura Eley is pressing her way to success in more ways than one.
Aside from working with celebrities such as the Black Eyes Peas, Jill Scott, and Christina Milian, Ka’Maura has established herself as a go to stylist in the film and television business.
The talented coiffeur started “doing” hair when she was only 15 years old, and is now on her way to becoming a top Hollywood stylist – a talent she said was both developed by nature and nurture.
“My father and two aunts on both sides of my family did hair,” she told EUR’s Lee Bailey. “I was raised in the beauty shop because my father, when I was a youngster, did hair. That’s where I got the inspiration.”
She explained that hair is an important way for people express themselves and how other people see them, which is a big part of her work in the entertainment industry.
“[Hair] says if we’re stylish. It says if we’re a part of setting trends or if we’re following trends,” she said. “I do hair for television and film as well as doing hair for the everyday [woman], and hair has a huge impact in that. If we’re trying to take an actress in her mid-40s and we want her to look like a 70-year-old woman, the hair has a lot to do with that . Or it plays a significant role in if you’re going to look young.”
Eley has most recently worked as the department head in hair/makeup for the ABC Family television series “Lincoln Heights” for three seasons…
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