Carrie White (hairdresser)

White recovered from addiction, however, and started her business from scratch. She worked in other salons, before opening Carrie White Hair, based in Beverly Hills, in 2005.

As a child White survived abandonment, alcoholism and sexual abuse, participating in gangs as a teenager, and having three husbands and five children before the age of 29. She also suffered from alcohol and drug addictions, which led to her losing everything - her business, her family, her home, and even her car. In 1983, lying on her apartment floor, having vomited and defecated on herself, she sent her 12-year-old daughter out to try to get more drugs from her dealer.

White collaborated with Richard Avedon on shoots for Vogue, and her work appeared in Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Allure, Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle, and Glamour. She was credited as technical advisor on the 1975 film Shampoo and, in 2011, she published her internationally bestselling autobiography, Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life. In 2021 Upper Cut began development as a feature film starring Julia Fox.

Film credentials include Model Shop, styling Anouk Aimée, The Goodbye Girl, styling Marsha Mason, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, styling Ellen Burstyn, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, styling Louise Fletcher, Dollars, styling Goldie Hawn, Being There, styling Peter Sellers, Coma, styling Geneviève Bujold; she was technical advisor on Shampoo, working with her clients, actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, and Goldie Hawn, and writer Robert Towne. She has also styled Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Nancy Reagan, Michael Crichton; more recently, she hair colored Brad Pitt, and for seven years styled Sandra Bullock. George Hamilton remained a client from 1970, among many others frequenting her exclusive Beverly Hills salon, which opened in 2005.

She appeared as herself on television on To Tell the Truth, in 1968.

In 1967 photographer Melvin Sokolsky commissioned White to act as hairdresser for Yardley commercials shot in London, with Jean Shrimpton, and India, with Donna Mitchell. This launched White as a hairstylist for film stars, as she did many American beauty product television commercials, from 1967 to 1977. She also did platform shows for Revlon and Clairol, on such stages as Century Plaza Ballroom and the Hollywood Palladium.

White began her hairdressing career in 1964, in Beverly Hills, working with Billy Grimes, Gene Shacove, and Richard Alcala. James Galanos recommended her to Jennifer Jones. Through this connection, White took over George Masters's clientele, which included Nancy Reagan, Betsy Bloomingdale, Edith Mayer Goetz, and the wives of Hollywood society, including television and film stars.

White on Burton Way in Beverly Hills. Her family moved to Pacoima, California when she was seven, and moved back to Hollywood when she was fifteen. At Hollywood High, she studied art with June Hardwood and drama with John Engle and Martin Landau. After graduating high school, she supported herself while pursuing a cosmetology degree by working at Bob's Big Boy, modeling hats downtown in the garment district, and trying out for Playboy; she was selected by Playboy as Playmate of the Month in July 1963.

Carole White (née Enwright; August 25, 1943 – May 3, 2022) was an American hairdresser, author, and spokesperson. She was known as the "First Lady of Hairdressing," who styled Jennifer Jones, Betsy Bloomingdale, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Camille Cosby, Ann-Margret, Elvis Presley, Sharon Tate, Brad Pitt, and Sandra Bullock, among others.