- I don't know what I got myself into.
I agreed to this, though.
(lively music)
Hi, I'm Rachel and I am here today
because I'm being transformed into a soft girl.
So I actually have no understanding of what a soft girl is.
I have no idea, I've never even heard the term.
This is really, this is a soft, oh god, it's very pink.
This is nothing of what I look like, but wow, okay.
I would describe my style as, I suppose, alternative.
I think I kept trying to fit in when I was younger
and I kept not working and I felt always isolated,
so I just decided to go in the total opposite direction
and just do whatever I wanted.
I started getting tattoos when I was 19.
I think I have 40 tattoos and I'm definitely
going to get a bunch more.
The way that I look definitely affects
the way that people treat me.
Very commonly, in certain stores, people think
that I'm stealing.
I definitely get spoken down to a lot.
It's frustrating.
It's made me almost like double guess myself
and my choices and things like that
and I know that I shouldn't because I shouldn't
be judged off the way that I look,
like, I don't judge anybody else on how they look,
so I don't know why it's okay just
because mine is a little bit extreme.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing
what the other side is like.
I think from being on my own since I was young,
I've always had to keep this outward appearance
of being tough and so it's gonna be really hard
for me for people to outwardly assume
that I am not as tough.
I'm not saying that soft girls aren't as tough,
but I think I've always wanted on the outside
to appear like a badass and this is definitely
gonna be an adjustment because me
just wearing pink is very, very bizarre to me.
I'm excited, let's get this started.
Soft girl.
(upbeat music)
Just finished the transformation.
I'm going out into the world like this.
It's really bright, I'm really bright.
As you can see, I'm very pink and very blonde.
Help me.
This is so pink, this is like uncomfortably pink.
This is very, very pink.
I am on a very pink wall
'cause I'm just adding into my chaos.
Okay, let's see how the day goes.
Hello, guys - Hi.
- This is me.
- I mean, I'll say you have that Disney
princess vibe going on right now.
- That's a good one, that's a good one.
I mean, the socks are like my favorite thing.
It is a look, though.
Do you like my look?
- Uh-uh, I'm not against it at all, actually.
(laughing)
So I have to dress like this for the next day.
- I mean, I'm not against it.
It's just, you know, farmer's daughter.
- Are you Rapunzel?
- I'm a soft girl.
- A what?
- A soft girl.
- What the hell is that? (laughing)
- It's what the kids are.
What do you think?
- I don't know what it is.
I mean, it's weird 'cause you don't,
seeing you blonde, I like purple or orange-hair Rachel.
♪ Everybody else likes me better the other way ♪
(laughing)
It's going okay.
It just feels so right.
I feel like it's making me be in a better mood.
I feel like people like it.
What do you think?
- You look like Barbie.
You look very foreign. - Barbie's a cool one.
- That is so unlike you.
You know you're pure sex,
- This is so-- - drugs and rock and roll.
- Yeah! Yes!
Do you like it or do you hate it?
- It's just so different.
Who is this?
- Who is this person? - Like who is this person?
- I don't know who this person is either,
but I feel like it makes me smile more.
- I dig it.
Love it. - You like it?
- Yes. - What a bad angle.
(laughing)
Everyone definitely has a reaction.
Some are good, some are bad,
but there's definitely reactions.
So it's going pretty well.
I'm confident in this look.
I think it's this hair that's giving me life right now.
It's definitely a lot different than what I would wear.
I'm really cold and it's really inconvenient having these.
I'm all about what's functional and I guess
kind of looks okay, but mostly what's functional.
I don't have pockets.
This skirt is very stiff.
These sleeves keep going in the toilet.
I have to keep applying this stuff
to my tattoos because it keeps coming off.
Put it on there.
This is so unsoft girl-like.
This outfit is making me question everything about myself.
Why do I have to be this rough all the time?
This thing is so dirty by now.
So I'm actually very surprised.
People seem to like this look.
Some seem to like it better than my normal look,
so we're cutting them off.
Just kidding.
The day's actually going pretty well.
Everyone seems to like it, they think it's very cute.
I'm not really used to being calling cute.
So at the start of this challenge,
I was thinking like, nothing's really
gonna be that different,
but people are definitely a lot nicer to me.
I was just in a store and like three different people
offered to help me when normally no one does.
And everybody keeps saying how nice I look,
which is very weird.
It makes me feel almost like a kid, kinda,
like younger because people are so warm to me
and I feel like I don't really deal with that normally.
I passed a group of teenagers and normally people
won't say anything to me 'cause I look like
(growling), but they did and I don't like it.
It reminds me of why I dress they way that I do.
This lipstick is staying very well.
I think one of the most difficult things
has been just adjusting to the outfit.
Where I always have comfort and I'm so uncomfortable
in this, but it's still really cute.
Okay, but in the light, like, I look like an elf.
I had to get my scrunchie for my beautiful hair.
Butterfly clips.
This is actually very exciting
and it makes me feel really cute.
I don't know what I'm supposed to do
and I feel like a little plant and I like it.
I'm adorable.
This is, I get why you guys dress like this,
this is so cute.
The last time that I felt like this,
I was in seventh grade and I'm here for it.
Oh my god.
♪ Ah ♪
I guess I didn't notice how much someone's style
can affect how people feel about them
and how much my style has probably affected me
throughout my life because this is super cute
and it's putting me in a really good mood.
I also had a really good day, but this is totally helping.
Seriously, I've been just posing for hours for no reason
other than I am the cutest thing on the planet.
As you can see, I'm in the bathroom
because I'm wiping all of this off.
It went really well.
I actually didn't mind it at all.
I thought it was really cute and fun
and it definitely made me feel very cheery and stuff.
I don't know if it was just because it was a new look.
I think it was because like the pink
and the blonde and the brightness.
I definitely will consider changing
my wardrobe a bit after this.
I think that I just kinda like stuck to what I know
and stuck to what has worked for a while.
This is definitely an eye-opening experience.
It definitely changed the way that I see other people, too.
I totally get, you know, I know that everybody
has their own style and stuff like that,
but I totally get this one.
I'm loving the scrunchies, I'm loving
the pink, loving the hair.
I love my little butterfly clips that I get to keep.
But overall it was really fun and it was nice
to spend a life in the day of a soft girl.
(upbeat music)