1. Make sure your shade is not too dark for your skin tone, nor too light.

2. I like brunettes to have some warmth - not red! It should be rich and I like to add gold tones, otherwise it looks dull.

3. I recommend getting a few highlights to break the color up, this way it doesn’t look dense or like a wig.

4. Make sure you keep your locks hydrated and healthy, use a shampoo and conditioner that say “hydrating” on them.

5. If you have any grey and color every two weeks, try to lighten up your color by a shade or two or get highlights around the hairline.

6. If you’re a natural brunette and are starting to get grey, you have a few options:
a. Cover it completely with a permanent dye.
b. If you don’t want to color you hair with a full single process, just get a few highlights. This will help blend and camouflage the few grays that you do have.
c. For something less harsh, you can use a vegetable dye if you have limited grey.

7. Brunettes can look exotic in a world of many blondes! So if you’re looking for a change and your blonde, use a vegetable or semi-permanent dye. This will keep your hair healthy and shiny.

8. Make sure you wear the right makeup for your skin tone; otherwise you may look washed out. Sandy Linter, makeup artist extraordinaire at my salon (and who’s taught me a thing or two on having a flawless face), says that brunettes should “make sure they wear the right makeup for their skin tone, otherwise they may look washed out. A key factor with brunettes is having beautiful brows - do not over-pluck! Brows are really noticed on brunettes.”

9. When you go into the sun, make sure you use products with SPF in them. Brown hair tends to fade very fast and can get orangey or brassy in the sun.

10. If you feel like your hair always turns brassy, I suggest going one shade darker.

xx, Rita Hazan

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Hollywood has truly gone snip happy this season. (What is it with the bob haircut this year?) Add Anne Hathaway to the long list of celebs who’ve decided to chop it all off!

Instead of an angular cut like Rihanna’s and Victoria Beckham’s, or perfect & precise like Katie Holmes’s, Anne Hathaway’s cut is a bit choppy, and decidedly undone. And you know what? I actually like it!

While her off-center part is a little jagged, and a few pieces look a little longer than the next, I can see what look she was going for when she opted for this cutesy cropped coif. I’ll call this look “shaggy chic.”

Anne Hathaway, you’ve been officially inducted into GlamBlush’s Haute Bob Club. Wear it well.

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