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"This morning we just were talking about how Lucy Hale has the sweetest relationship with her glam squad (watch her trade places with her makeup artist in the video at the end of this post!), and lo and behold, she&amp;#39;s now giving us further reason to wish we could hang out with her 24/7. Her hairstylist Kristin Ess is a master at lived-in, Cali-girl highlights&amp;#8212;and she just took Hale very blond. The actress revealed a photo of her new look on Instagram, captioning the shot, &amp;quot;I dye. Thank you @kristin_ess for temporarily making me the blonde alter ego I&amp;#39;ve always wanted to be.&amp;quot;\nThis obviously left us with so many questions: Exactly how temporary is this color change? The last time she went blond, she kept the color for nearly the whole summer. And what does this mean for Aria on Pretty Little Liars? You know those Liars only change up their hair during major life-changing moments on the show. Which is why we went straight to Ess to find out.\nThe reason for the cut? &amp;quot;Lucy is in between filming a movie, *Dude, *and going back to PLL,&amp;quot; says Ess. &amp;quot;She wanted to do something new with her hair color because she&amp;#39;s just fun like that!&amp;quot; And as for how it&amp;#39;ll affect Aria, well, don&amp;#39;t worry...it won&amp;#39;t. &amp;quot;It will only be blond until she goes back to filming PLL,&amp;quot; says Ess. &amp;quot;Her character, Aria, is a tried-and-true brunette.&amp;quot;\nOh, and if you&amp;#39;re dying to know exactly how Ess gets that so perfect, easy-breezy color, the answer is babylights. &amp;quot;We did a super baby fine highlight using foils and maintained a natural root because Lucy has a dark bold brow,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;We wanted this to look as natural as possible.&amp;quot; Mission accomplished. Just look at the depth and dimension in this shot below.\nLoadingView on InstagramIn the meantime&amp;#8212;while you&amp;#39;re getting your colorist on the phone&amp;#8212;you must watch this video of Hale glamming up her makeup artist/close friend/mark. makeup partner in crime, Kelsey Deenihan. When we say it&amp;#39;s the cutest, we really mean it&amp;#39;s the cutest.\nUPDATE 1/18: We just heard back from our girl Lucy about the new color, and here&amp;#39;s what she had to say: &amp;quot;I have hair ADD and frequently switch it up. But I&amp;#39;ll have to go back darker for the show [PLL]. That&amp;#39;s sort of Aria&amp;#39;s statement. It&amp;#39;s just a temporary, fun thing.&amp;quot; Another thing she&amp;#39;s loving about going to the light side: &amp;quot;I feel like I possibly look tanner? So that&amp;#39;s cool!&amp;quot; Funny, because we always think she looks cool&amp;#8212;blond, brunette, or pink streaked."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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