"I've never done anything to my hair besides a haircut ... anything in addition to that would be awesome!" says Theresa, 23, who is ready to finally try hair color for the first time in her life. She also wants help taming her frizzy curls, which she spends an hour-and-a-half straightening with a flat iron regularly. Needless to say, she is ready for a cut and style that will help her contain her unruly mane. "I'm finally feeling confident enough for a change," she says. "In the past I would have been nervous, but I'm finally willing to let go because it's not my mom or my mom's friend cutting my hair."
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The cut
To tame Theresa's wild curls, Olson says she needs to fix Theresa's current cut. "She has two haircuts living on the same head -- long hair and then suddenly a bob on top of that," says Olson. In order to bring weight off the curls and from around Theresa's face, Olson "marries the two styles" by cutting about an inch-and-a-half off the bottom of Theresa's hair, cleaning up any damaged ends and giving her hair a shape that's easy to manage.
With virgin color and hair that has only been cut by family members, Theresa is due for a style overhaul. Here to make the magic happen is our talented makeover team 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 Amy Hollier. See how they take the reserved music teacher's look to a whole new level of sophistication with subtle highlights and smoothed out curls, giving her the elegant look she craves.
