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In Living Color
Color Effects
Do you have any idea how hard it
is for a color effect to be included
in this chapter? Sure, by the time a
color effect winds up here, with all the glitz
and glamour, it looks like a lot of fun, but
believe me, it’s a lot of hard work. It starts with
an open audition for color effects, which takes
place in Houston, L.A., New York, and Atlanta.
In each city, a panel of judges then views each
aspiring color effect, and from that group they
choose only 30 color effects to go compete
in the regional semifinals. At the semis, the
judges then narrow the color effects down to
just 10, who will be vying for