After years of getting my dish water blond hair highlighted with your standard ammonia based highlights, I was sick of looking like a South Jersey soccer mom.  Ammonia based highlights are the gift that keeps on giving.  I'd leave the salon looking like a million bucks and a month later my golden tresses would look like the unfortunate Sun-in bleach job I rocked in high school. 

Well, I can fret no more.  There's a new highlight in town – L'Oreal Profesionel INOA.  INOA, which stands for Innovation No Ammonia, advertises itself as the hair color for the future and I have to agree.  I can't rave enough about the amazing highlights Kaz Amor, principal west coast extraordinaire at Warren Tricomi, gave me using INOA.  You get so used to the toxic smell, the eyes watering, the scalp burning that it was hard to believe INOA was actually going to lighten my hair enough like Kaz assured me it would.  Well, mission accomplished.  Not only did I leave the salon with the gorgeous honey blonde I wanted, but three weeks later my hair is still gorgeous, shiny and soft.  
 
This is one hair color you can feel great about – INOA doesn't harm environment, there's no animals testing and there's no yucky chemicals for you.  The question now is why would anyone go back to their ammonia based highlights? They're so twentieth century.
 
And speaking of the twentieth century – I did my eyebrows no favors in that millennium.  Apparently my brow butchering was so bad, that brow and lash specialist to the stars, Kristie Streicher, spotted my desperate need for help from across the room as Kaz was transforming my hair.  Kristie is in so much demand in both New York and LA that she has to fly back and forth every six weeks to keep her peeps looking good.  She’s now based mostly in LA so we’re super lucky to have access to her magic threading, tender tweezing and lengthening lashing.  And what's so great about Kristi is that she’s into the natural brow so you don’t leave the salon feeling plucked to death.  She shapes, tints – vegetable-based tint, btw – and tweezes the brows into a natural shape that frames your face. I also learned a little trick for people like me who have holes in their brows – the brow comb-over!

xo Chelsea Gilmore
 

SPECIAL OFFER FOR GROOMED L.A. PEEPS!

The first 10 people get HALF OFF (!!) of a INOA treatment with

West Coast partner of Warren-Tricomi Kaz Amor.  

The service starts at $146 (for single process)

( does not include a blowout )