Kenna Kennor’s name first echoed through the beauty world for fearless cuts and painterly color work, yet today it rings just as warmly in Brooklyn playgrounds, quiet coffee lines, and candle-lit dinner parties where he shows up carrying a toddler’s backpack alongside his styling kit. While many celebrity creatives retreat from the everyday swirl of family life, the London-born, New York-seasoned hairstylist—widely recognized as actress Britt Lower’s husband—embraces it, weaving fatherhood, art, and neighborhood rhythms into one larger creative practice.
His approach is not about rigid “work-life balance” but about letting each role inform the others, allowing the lessons of parenting to sharpen his craft and the discipline of artistry to deepen his presence at home.
Artistry Rooted in Authenticity
Long before paparazzi photos identified him as Lower’s partner, Kennor was carving out a reputation for soulful, texture-first hair in editorial spreads, runway shows, and music videos. Raised in Scotland and sharpened by London’s frenetic fashion scene, he resisted the temptation to chase viral trends, instead searching for the honest movement inside each client’s strand pattern. That ethos traveled with him across the Atlantic, landing in Greenpoint, where he set up a chair that prizes conversation over speed and emotion over perfection.
Colleagues often remark that the same patience required to coax curls into soft, lived-in shapes mirrors the patience he later demonstrates while convincing a three-year-old to finish a slice of avocado toast. For Kennor, style is never forced; it is invited to reveal itself through attentive listening—whether the subject is hair, a client’s story, or a child’s emerging imagination.
Navigating Fatherhood with Intentionality
When Kennor and Lower welcomed their first child, they resolved to approach parenting as an ever-evolving collaboration, not a scripted performance. Observers might expect a celebrity family to lean on nannies and strict scheduling, yet friends say the couple keeps routines flexible so each parent can enjoy uninterrupted creative flow when inspiration hits. Mornings often see Kennor sketching lighting concepts for an upcoming shoot while his daughter practices watercolor beside him, both spilling color outside the lines with equal delight.
The hairstylist admits that sleepless nights initially threatened his precision behind the chair, but those same nights also sharpened empathy—an emotional muscle he now regards as essential to both cutting fringe and calming toddler meltdowns. Fatherhood, he notes, has replaced perfectionism with a forgiving perspective that welcomes happy accidents and growth spurts alike.
Building Community Through Kennaland
At Kennaland, the Brooklyn studio he co-founded, chairs crowd around mismatched wooden tables rather than sterile salon stations, a design choice that invites conversation across clients, stylists, and neighborhood passers-by who wander in purely for the vibe. The space doubles as an informal gallery for local painters, photographers, and ceramicists, illustrating Kennor’s conviction that beauty thrives when disciplines mingle. In fact, a recent feature on CriticalHit—“The Art of Texture”—captured how the salon pulses like a creative commons rather than a transactional shop.
Regulars say Kennor’s ability to remember a high-schooler’s prom date and an octogenarian’s favorite indie band makes the studio feel more like a warm kitchen than a business. That welcoming energy spills outward as he organizes monthly haircut-for-charity events and barista-pop-up mornings, teaching his child by example that success is sweetest when shared.
Finding Creative Calm in Brooklyn’s Energy
Brooklyn’s relentless hum can jolt even seasoned New Yorkers, yet Kennor treats it as white noise that sharpens focus. He often walks the tree-lined stretch between McCarren Park and the East River at dawn, jotting color palette ideas drawn from graffiti shards and sunrise reflections on warehouse glass. Those meditative strolls double as stroller routes, and he laughs that pushing a sleeping toddler through cobblestone streets is the best core workout a stylist could hope for.
The borough’s blend of heritage brownstones and start-up studios mirrors his own life: a historic craft anchored in scissors and combs, evolving daily through digital look-books and global Zoom consultations. When evenings cool, family dinners spill onto the stoop, where neighbors trade recipe tips and Kennor quietly notes how street-lamp light softens silver hair—a mental reference he might apply to a future shade blend.
Balancing Partnership and Individual Growth
Although public fascination often frames Kennor as “Britt Lower’s husband,” within their loft the titles shift fluidly—creative collaborators, co-parents, occasional career advisors. The actress’s script readings sometimes spark late-night brainstorming in which Kennor visualizes how a character’s arc could translate into a subtle change of fringe or a bolder palette, while Lower critiques the narrative tension in his salon’s upcoming campaign. They maintain an unwritten rule: each must safeguard pockets of solitude to preserve individual artistic voices.
For Kennor, that might be a half-hour refining shears on the rooftop while Lower rehearses lines in the next room. Their daughter, in turn, sees adults who model mutual support without sacrificing personal dreams. That example, Kennor hopes, will teach her that creativity and caregiving are not opposing forces but harmonies waiting to be composed—much like the way he layers texture, tone, and tenderness over every life he touches.