"I haven't had a proper haircut in ages, so as you can imagine my ends are totally fried," says Anna, 25, a recent graduate of USC. "My color is always from a box and is all over the place once I hang out in the sun for any period of time. Blotchy color coupled with dead ends does nothing for my self-confidence let me tell you. I feel like I have no 'look' to my hair and I actually wonder if people are staring at my split ends when they're talking to me, which is not what I should be worrying about," she confesses.
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The color
Anna's color needs to be livened up and given the rich quality it lacks. To accomplish this, Moreno starts by adding a dark auburn color to her roots. "A chocolate raspberry shade will bring out the warmth in her olive skin," says Moreno. Once processed, the color is washed out and Moreno finishes by coating Anna's hair in a chestnut glaze to balance out the ends. "The glaze will give dimension to the red we added earlier," continues Moreno, which will give Anna a subtle, rich all-over color.
Starting a career after college is tough -- the competition is intense and the jobs are sparse. To get a competitive edge in a cutthroat market, Anna wants a cut and color that will make a statement, but still look professional. So we called in our team of experts at the Warren-Tricomi salon in Los Angeles, Calif., which includes hairstylists Whitney Olson and Reanna Garcia, colorists Jherra Moreno and Ashleigh Childers, and celebrity makeup artist and co-founder of the Luxe Beauty Team Sarah Uslan. See how they turned a blas� style into a "notice me" look.