Ellin Lavar Hair Salon: Experience the Difference of a Top-Rated Salon

When she was nine years old, Ellin started braiding her sister's hair, and soon all of the girls in her Mount Vernon, New York, neighborhood were lining up at Ellin's door. By age 14 she had her own chair at a local salon. At 16 she met Susan L. Taylor, then Essence Magazine's fashion and beauty editor. She created Taylor's trademark hairstyle and has been braiding the editorial director's hair for the last 20 years.

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When not flying around the world to work on films and with clients, LaVar works in her welcoming and intimate salon, LaVar Hair Designs, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Fashion-forward women from around the world flock to the West 72nd Street salon for LaVar's artistry in hair design, which many say is the best in the world.

To live and dye in New York: "Hair Trauma" will give viewers a hair-raising look at the life of a stylist to the stars. The six-episode reality series captures the highlights and kinks of LaVar Hair Designs, the Manhattan salon run by Ellin LaVar, whose client roster includes Donnatella Versace, Farrah Fawcett, Bono, Whitney Houston, Kevin Bacon, and Venus and Serena Williams. Also on hand: LaVar's staff, including her brother, a former opera singer, and her fun-loving but trouble-making sister, whom Lavar has previously fired more than a dozen times. Clearly a cutting-edge show, "Hair Trauma" premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. on WE: Women's Entertainment. 2ff7e9595c