Two weeks ago, I visited the brand-new McMillan Canale salon in Malibu on assignment for VanityFair.com.  (Check out my piece here!)  It’s a collaboration between stylist Chris McMillan and colorist Michael Canale, who are both insanely famous for their talent and long celebrity list…but are perhaps best known as the duo behind Jennifer Aniston‘s perfect golden locks.

My hair was done by Chase Kusero, who is Chris’s right-hand man, and also one of the most distractingly good-looking people I’ve ever met in my life. While I felt guilty for cheating on Neil Weisberg and Amanda George at Neil George Salon, it goes with the territory of being a beauty writer!

Luckily, the cut and color Chase gave me are flawless; he just snipped a bit of definition and layers into my overgrown hair (it had been a long time since my last salon visit) and then added some soft highlights to my blondie, which is still recovering from the red hair fiasco of 2008.

Here’s the new look, at right, with my friend K. in London.  Do we look happy?  Yup, we are.