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8 The Colorist | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 | thecoloristmag.com so long, farewell PHOTOGRAPHY: PHOTO COURTESY OF REDKEN; COURTESY OF SCRUPLES. Marianne Dougherty EDITOR IN CHIEF mdougherty@creativeage.com From Left: Arnold Zegarelli, Marianne Dougherty, Frank Liguori and Arthur DiConciliis of Pittsburgh Beauty Academy at the Zeggie Awards in September, 1997 S he wasn't a hairdresser, but Paula Kent Meehan was as important to the beauty industry as Vidal Sassoon, not only pioneering a scientifi c approach to hair care but also introducing the concept of selling beauty products in salons. By now we all know the backstory, that Paula was an aspiring actress (she played the hatcheck girl on 77 Sunset Strip) who found that the shampoos and hairspray used on set were irritating her scalp and causing her hair to break off . When she complained to her hairdresser, Jheri Redding, who was also an amateur chemist, he talked her into helping him get a line of pH-balanced shampoos off the ground. She did just that, investing $3,000 she'd earned from a Hamm's Beer commercial. T e rest, as they say, is history. What most of us do not know about Paula is that she was deeply spiritual and devoutly generous. Ann Mincey, who helped Paula spread the gospel of Redken to hairdressers all over the world, was with her two weeks before she passed away in June. Mincey had been invited to speak at a distributor sales consultants' induction training and asked Paula if she had any advice she wanted to pass along to this group of fresh, dedicated sales people. "With zero hesitation she replied, 'Everything that should come to you will come to you through open and winding passages,'" says Mincey. "It was her favorite quote from poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it was the guiding mantra of her personal and professional life. Everything that should have come to Paula did come to her, and she joyfully shared her good fortune with her family, friends and the community." We could all learn a thing or two from Paula's tenacity in the face of adversity. As she famously told the Beverly Hills Courier some years ago, "After painfully coming to the conclusion that Hollywood wasn't going to make me the next Joan Crawford, I wanted to control my own destiny." Here's to destiny, which more often than not comes to us by way of those open and winding passages Emerson wrote about. We just have to pay attention. T e beauty i dus ry los another f iend this year when Scruples co-founder Frank Liguori passed away in May. Recently his daughter Mia sent me this photo, which was taken on the night her father received the Zeggie Award from Pittsburgh Beauty Academy in recognition of his contributions to the professional beauty industry. I was there that night because I had received the same award the previous year. Read about Frank's passion for vintage convertibles in Backstory this month. upf ont