Here’s something fascinating! Kelly Ripa, the vivacious host of Live With Kelly and Ryan, recently shared an ingenious trick for managing her gray roots while in quarantine. While hosting the show from her home during the pandemic, she accidentally left butterfly-shaped barrettes in her hair, turning a small mishap into a clever styling solution.
Life in Quarantine: Kelly Ripa’s Hair Journey
During the Thursday, May 13 episode, the ever-charming 49-year-old star joked about the challenges of putting on a professional TV show while working from home. “I’m just a girl trying to put on a TV show through the computer!” she quipped. With salons closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kelly has been upfront about embracing her gray hair and letting it grow out.
Kelly revealed her secret weapon for taming her gray roots: small hair clips that she sprays brown to blend with her natural color. “These little clips, and you can see I’ve sprayed them brown too, these little clips really help hold the gray,” she explained, adding that her hair has become especially frizzy because it hasn’t been professionally styled in months. “Because my hair is now gray—and gray hair has a different texture, anyone with gray hair can tell you—it’s very wiry,” she told cohost Ryan Seacrest. “It tends to stand up.”
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Ryan Seacrest’s Playful Response
Ryan, ever the supportive cohost, chimed in with a joke of his own. “It looks blonde to me,” the 45-year-old American Idol host teased. Kelly couldn’t help but laugh at his comment, responding with a sly, “That’s good. That’s excellent. It’s all part of my sinister plan to fool you.” It was a lighthearted moment that reminded fans why they love this dynamic duo so much.
Week 8 of the Gray Root Watch
On May 11, Kelly gave her fans a behind-the-scenes look at her quarantine hair journey by sharing a close-up selfie of her gray roots on Instagram Stories. She captioned the photo, “Root watch week 8,” and added a playful GIF that read, “Nope” in large pink letters. It was her way of showing that even celebrities face the same challenges we all do during these unusual times.
While Kelly may be waiting for salons to reopen to get her hair professionally colored, she didn’t hesitate to take matters into her own hands when it came to trimming her locks. In a previous episode of Live, the All My Children alum confessed that she gave herself a haircut using kitchen scissors. “I’m not going to lie, I cut my own hair,” she admitted, sitting alongside her husband, Mark Consuelos, who was filling in for Ryan. “We obviously don’t have haircutting scissors, so I used what we had. I didn’t dare cut bangs, though—that’s a whole other level,” she joked.
Mark, ever the supportive partner, chimed in, “I would have stopped you!” he joked. “I didn’t say anything, but I was ready to intervene if you went near the bangs.”
Despite the challenges of quarantine, Kelly continues to look fabulous, proving that a little creativity and humor can go a long way.
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