- What is that?
What's in my hair?
There's literal trash in my hair.
Today I am getting my hair straightened
for the first time in like 10 years.
I've had curly hair my entire life
and when I was a kid I really did not like it.
Everybody else had beautiful, smooth,
wonderful hair, but my mother had straight hair
and she did not really know what to do
with this business.
I resorted to hats a lot.
You know now, obviously, I have found ways
to deal with my hair and I love
it and I wouldn't have it any other way.
But people always ask me, "What do you
"look like with straight hair, do you
"have a picture, do you have anything?"
The answer is "No I don't."
I truthfully don't know what it looks like.
But I guess today we're gonna find out.
What do you think I'll look like with straight hair?
- Okay
- I guess I'm ready
for this experience.
There might be like some bobby pins
hidden in there (laughs).
- [Rachel] Oh my gosh.
(fast music)
- When you wake up with straight hair,
you're like, "Oh, it's fine."
I wake up and I look like an electrocuted sheep.
(sheep bleats)
(fast music)
What is that?
What's in my hair?
There's literal trash in my hair.
(upbeat music)
Wow.
(laughs)
It definitely looks a little bit like a wig.
It's so weird, it's like looking
into a parallel universe or something.
This is the other me who would murder
me at night and take over my life.
I'm running for governor.
I feel like people will be shocked to see this,
especially since I didn't really tell
anybody about it.
I can like already feel my hair just
wanting to curl up.
I'm curious to see what people say about it,
what they think about it.
Maybe they'll think it makes me look more mature.
- Look at this.
You look like, you have the Rachel.
- [Sara] What do you think about my hair, Ryan?
- Whoa, hey I like it, it looks good.
- [Sara] Ryan loves it.
- I didn't say it wasn't good.
- [Sara] Shane.
- (gasps) Your hair!
- Yes, (cheers),
I like this.
- [Sara] You're into it, you like it?
- I do, you look edgy.
- You know what, a little bit.
You look a little like a governor.
- I think you have like such good curls
that I'm like "Don't you leave me,
"don't you leave us alone, you better rock the curls."
- Why are you trying to run out here
like you don't look cute?
- [Sara] You think it looks good?
- Yeah, you look adorable.
You look like an edgy, millennial that
knows what she wants and doesn't
give a fuck about what anyone
else thinks but looks cool either way.
- God.
- [Sara] Yes, this is coconut.
- Oh my god it's so weird.
- As a curly-haired person, it makes me
sad to see someone with beautiful
curly hair straighten it 'cause it's
so representative of your personality,
but it doesn't look bad.
- [Sara] Hi, what do you think?
- Hi (mumbles)
- It's so different.
You're a new lady.
- I truly do like your natural hair.
You just look so iconic with your natural hair.
- Oh, thank you, wow.
I'm surprised that people are saying that
it looks good.
I don't know, maybe I should try to switch it up more.
There's no way I'd ever be able to do this
by myself without the help of a skilled professional.
This is kind of good.
(rock music)
- It's funny how integral hair is
to your identity because when I looked
at you, I was like "That's not the quirky,
"fun Sara I know."
- Whoa.
I love it.
Wow, how long did it take?
- Kinda looks like a cool mom.
- I'm gonna be honest, when I passed
by you, I was just like,
"There's another person in the office with purple hair?"
And then you turned around, I was like,
"Oh that's Sara."
- Sort of settling into having this hair,
it's really fun to do that.
It's kind of the hairstyle of Scully
from the X Files.
So that was a day.
I just don't feel like myself with this look.
Which is interesting because it's what
I always wanted when I was a kid.
Even though it's something that I want,
it's just not really true to who I am.
I find it interesting that just by
being straightened it's trying to curl back,
almost like just resisting normalization.
If you have curly hair and you wanna
straighten it, I support you
but I also think that having curly hair
kind of makes you unique.
It's something not everybody has.
There's a certain joy that I think
can be associated with it.
(lively music)