Whitney Port Dyes Her Hair Red!

Lauren Conrad isn't the only Hills alum to make a major hair change. Whitney Port showed off a new reddish color at the Night of a Billion Stars party in L.A. on Thursday.

So what prompted the 25-year-old to dye her long blonde locks? "We changed just because we can! That's what hair color is all about," the star's hair pro, Kristin Ess told Us Magazine of the color she jokingly calls "apricot gingersnap."

To get the desired effect, Ess first applied an apricot base, followed by a matching gloss to add shine and help lock in the new color. Then, she topped it off with a few fine blonde highlights around Port’s face and at the ends so it looks natural.

"Whitney loves it. She's already feeling comfortable [as a redhead] and that's most important," says Ess.

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Whitney Port Attends "Luck Shops LA" Event

Whitney Port attends Lucky Magazine Host The First Annual "Lucky Shops LA" at Siren Studios on April 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

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Whitney Port & Friends Shopping At H&M

Whitney Port was spotted out shopping at H&M in Sunset Plaza with a friend and her sister on April 2, 2011.

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Whitney Port At “Sucker Punch” Nylon Party

Whitney Port and boyfriend Ben Nemtin attended Nylon Magazine 12th Anniversary Issue Party with the "Sucker Punch" cast at Tru Hollywood on March 24, 2011 in Hollywood, California.

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Whitney Port Hosts No-Regrets Fashion Party

Whitney Port attends the No-Regrets Fashion Pary with American Express Premium Return Protection And Shop It To Me hosted by Whitney Port at Sunset Tower on March 23, 2011 in West Hollywood, California.

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Whitney Port Drops By Beverly Hills Nail Design

Looking perfectly polished, Whitney Port left Beverly Hills Nail design after a manicure and pedicure on Wednesday evening (March 16).

The reality star was all-smiles after her pampered treatment while clad in a blue collared shirt, loose t-shirt, gray shorts and flip-flops.

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Whitney Port Leaves La Scala After Having Lunch

Whitney Port and friends were seen leaving the La Scala Restaurant after lunch in Beverly Hills, CA on March 15, 2011.

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Lauren & Whitney: Who What Wear Book Launch

Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port put the feud rumors to rest when they got all lovey dovey at the Who What Wear book launch at Il Sole in West Hollywood.

They joined a string of a-list names including actress Jessica Alba and celeb stylist Rachel Zoe!

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Whitney Port's Au Natural Nail Salon Session

Taking a moment to pamper herself, Whitney Port showed off a makeup-less look while out for a manicure session. She was clad in blue jeans and a casual gray top as she went au natural last night (March 8) in Beverly Hills.

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Whitney Port’s 26th Birthday Celebration

Looking to get a little wild, Whitney Port celebrated her 26th birthday in Las Vegas on Friday night (March 4).

The former City hottie was joined by her boyfriend Ben Nemtin at the grand opening of the Sugar Factory American Brasserie restaurant.

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Whitney Port Never Wanted to Be Famous

Pop Eater's Rob Shuter had the pleasure of chatting with former The City star Whitney Port about 'True Whit,' her fun, new advice book that is in stores now. 

Tell me about the book.
Basically it's a lifestyle book for girls kind of going through that quarter-life crisis that is inevitable in all our lives where we all kind of move out of our houses and have to be on our own and become independent.

Did you screw up in any of those areas?
Of course! In all of them! In dating, choosing guys that weren't necessarily the best for me and job interviewing, not knowing everything I needed to know and not being as prepared as possible.

Not taking anything away from your success but you were very lucky to have a TV show to help you.
Right, of course I definitely had a great platform, they helped me with all the connections, definitely I'm the first one to admit that but I think still even before being on TV, I was working in fashion and worked my way up. Just from my experiences I could kind of see how you could do it without the cameras.

Do you ever get sick of the cameras?
Of course, yeah. I don't have the cameras around me right now, which is pretty refreshing. Yeah there were definitely times where I was like "I'm not in the mood for this today."

Did you actually want to be famous?
No, never I went to interview to be an intern at Teen Vogue and I found out MTV was going to be filming a show there and they wondered if I'd be interested in doing a casting tape so I kind of went along with it and I never knew it was going to turn into anything like this. I've just kind of been riding the wave I guess. It hasn't ever been like a goal of mine to be famous or to be on TV.

When you go home are you like, 'I'm not clearing the table, I'm Whitney Port!'
Oh my gosh, no way could I get away with that. I know this sounds crazy but when I'm not in the realm of this job, this career, whether its press or filming or interviews I don't even think of myself in that light and my family would never allow me to either. I feel like I was raised in a really normal, loving family so I don't get caught up in all that stuff.

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Whitney Port Clears Up The Lauren Conrad Feud

With all the rumors of a Lauren Conrad / Whitney Port feud over Whit's show cancelation something had to be done! Whitney took to her official site to release the following statement:

"This week has been a little crazy with some funny nonsense that US Weekly has been circulating. I feel sometimes like I don't have to justify this stuff, but I just want to clear up that everything is more than fine between Lauren and me. So to put the rumor to rest, I wanted to let you know that there are no hard feelings between us! I shared something so amazing with her and just because the show is over doesn't mean our friendship is over!"

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Whitney Blames Lauren For Canceled TV Show?

Though Whitney Port, 25, and Lauren Conrad, 25, were close pals on The Hills, an insider tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on stands now) that the two have gone their separate ways.

"Whitney is upset because she thinks that The City was canceled to make room for Lauren's new reality show," the source tells Us. "Whitney feels like she got the shaft."

(Ironically, Conrad's latest MTV venture was scrapped February 4 after the network deemed it too "high brow" for its current lineup.)

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Whitney Port: Border's Book Signing

Whitney Port, formerly of MTV's The Hills and The City, signed copies of her latest book "True Whit" at the Borders store in Santa Monica.

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Whitney Port & Ben Nemtin: The Peapod Benefit

Whitney Port and her boyfriend Ben Nemtin attended the Black Eyed Peas' Seventh Annual Peapod Benefit Concert at the Music Box in Hollywood.

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