Hi, my name is Cristina, and welcome to Hair Me Out.
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I wanna dye my hair pink.
I have dyed my hair before,
but it was only ever like box dyes,
of like reddish brown,
or black.
I actually really love my current hair.
I love how thick my hair is,
I actually really like it’s natural color.
My hair inspiration was from
this one character from an older anime called
Revolutionary Girl Utena.
The main character has pink hair,
and I put the wig on,
and I was like, obsessed with that color,
like the specific pink color.
I’ve always really liked dressing up in costumes,
and I had a little costume box as a kid.
I learned about anime, and then I learned about conventions,
and then I learned that people would dress up at conventions,
and I was just instantly just obsessed with the idea of it.
There is actually a model that has pink hair that I really like.
Fernanda Ly made me realize
that pink hair doesn’t have to look, like,
super quirky,
it can look like high fashion and cool, and very stylish.
I’m excited to see what people think about it,
and I’m excited to see it for myself.
Now let's head over to the salon to see the transformation.
Okay Cristina, so,
just so you know how this process works,
I’m going to be applying
the lightener to the ends first, and then to the roots.
It’s going to get quite light, quite quickly
at the- closer to your scalp because the heat from your head.
And then we wait.
I’m so excited.
I know, I’m always, like, get excited.
And then I’m like just sit still for a while now, ya know.
One of the reasons I’ve always hesitated
dying my hair pink is because it would take
away one of the things that makes me fit in with my culture.
I’ve always been, like, a white-passing Latina,
and so I feel like if I take away
that dark hair
then that takes away
one of the things that makes me feel like I look Latina.
I’m hoping that dying my hair pink will
still make me feel confident and awesome,
and won’t take away any part of my identity.
But you never know.
I’m a little nervous
just because I don’t know what upkeep goes into it,
and I’ve also heard that having dark hair
and dying it a light color can be really challenging.
I guess my only fear is that
it’s gonna come out like a different pink
than I’ve always envisioned,
or like maybe my skin tone doesn’t go super well with it.
I wanna dye my hair now
because I feel like I’ve been putting it off for a really long time,
and I don’t want to get to a point where I regret not trying it out sooner.
I also have a lot of friends that have really encouraged me
in getting my hair dyed pink,
so nothing’s really holding me back at this point.
Ah.
Oh my god.
I love it?
I feel great, I feel very anime.
I love it.
Excellent. Excellent.
Feels about what I expected to feel,
I guess because I’ve worn so many wigs and stuff,
it’s just interesting that this is what my hair’s
gonna look like all the time now.
The new length is nice too,
I didn’t expect to get a little trim, that’s a good…
a nice little refresh.
Now that it’s lighter I feel like I can experiment
with different colors in the future
as well.
But for right now I’m definitely gonna enjoy the pink.
I feel so much more confident.
I didn’t realize I would like it this much.
I was really worried about it taking away my identity,
and it doesn’t do that at all,
I still feel like myself.
I’m so excited to rock this pink hair.
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