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.