Upper Cut - by Carrie White (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Shampoo meets You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again in a rollicking and riveting memoir from the woman who for decades styled Hollywood's most celebrated players.

Review Quotes

"Carrie White reveals a life as dramatic as any Hollywood movie...[her] autobiography is as inspirational as it is cautionary, an often larger-than-life story about chasing your dreams, while also offering a graphic depiction of substance abuse. Carrie's story is poignant, sometimes devastating, and ultimately universal. It captures the turning of decades, the humanity behind the celebrities we elevate to Gods, and the heartbreak of the circle of life."" --"TCM.com

"Hair! Drugs! Rock 'n' roll! Redemption! You MUST buy this book, and also give a copy to your stylist."
"--xojane.com
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"White offers a mesmerizing lens into the lives of the bold-facers that called Hollywood home in the sixties and seventies as only a hairstylist could; everyone knows that the salon floor is where all the best gossip happens." --"style.com"

"A riveting tale." Jackie Collins

As one of Hollywood's most sought after hairstylists, White tells a rollercoaster of hair, celebrities and surviving life in the fast lane White's voice is captivating...and her story is an inspiring one, spiked with Hollywood gossip. --"Publishers Weekly"

Hair! Drugs! Rock 'n' roll! Redemption! You MUST buy this book, and also give a copy to your stylist.
" xojane.com
"

White offers a mesmerizing lens into the lives of the bold-facers that called Hollywood home in the sixties and seventies as only a hairstylist could; everyone knows that the salon floor is where all the best gossip happens." "style.com"


White writes insightfully an engaging, celebrity-filled life story. "Library Journal"

"A riveting tale." --Jackie Collins

"White writes insightfully...an engaging, celebrity-filled life story." --"Library Journal"

"As one of Hollywood's most sought after hairstylists, White tells a rollercoaster of hair, celebrities and surviving life in the fast lane...White's voice is captivating...and her story is an inspiring one, spiked with Hollywood gossip." --"Publishers Weekly"

About the Author

Carrie White was born and raised in Southern California. A celebrity hairdresser with a career that spanned more than forty-five years, she has styled everyone from Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor to Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, In Style, Allure, Vanity Fair, and Ladies Home Journal. She is the author of Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life which is being made into a movie starring Julia Fox. White died in 2022 at the age of seventy-eight.