To say Sasha Colby is well-known for her mastery of drag is an enormous understatement. Strolling into the Werk Room for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15, her fellow queens had been gooped and gagged at competing in opposition to drag royalty. Previously Miss Continental 2012, the legend stood out with fierce confidence and sweetness, coupled with tight, polished performances and the power to make us all really feel like she was Mom, heat but in command. After snatching the RuPaul’s Drag Race crown, Colby grew to become the fourth transgender queen to win, confirming her already solidified icon standing throughout the globe.
So what’s subsequent for America’s reigning Drag Celebrity? Sasha Colby Hair, a line of hair extensions embodying her iconic ponytail fashion, which, in Sasha’s phrases, permits anybody to “unleash and embrace their fierce interior diva.” Yas, queen! In collaboration with Salon Xtensions, the road is on the market in 10 thrilling colours of 28-inch ponytails, every manufactured from a novel fiber mix for a human hair feel and appear at an accessible worth level ($99). “Making this ponytail not solely person pleasant however reasonably priced was actually essential to me,” Sasha tells StyleCaster over Zoom, explaining that growing an inclusive and accessible assortment was of the utmost significance. A simple, reasonably priced solution to turn into an honorary member of the Home of Colby? Add to cart!
Under, Sasha dishes on hair, the ability of transformation, and feeling snatched.
This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.
StyleCaster: You wanting gorgeous.
Sasha Colby: Thanks! How are you? Good to satisfy you.
StyleCaster: I’m nice. Congratulations on the launch. It’s such an enormous deal! You’re launching with the horse, your signature fashion. Why is that the primary product, and the way did you give you the thought?
Sasha Colby: My pony has at all times been my signature. It’s been my activation piece for myself to love, really feel activated in drag. And I really like the way it makes me really feel pulled up and snatched, like a bit kitten with a whip. It’s gotten me via 20 years of nice drag, and I simply thought that it could be so enjoyable. That is extra a response to quite a lot of the followers and individuals who watch the present and love the ponytail. They need to know how you can do it. They need a ponytail tutorial. So all of those individuals and followers asking actually acquired me occupied with, how do I make this accessible to the plenty?
StyleCaster: Do you have got suggestions for people who find themselves new to wigs or extensions or any type of hair?
Sasha Colby: I imply, the hair journey is a enjoyable journey. It’s a solution to actually specific what you’re feeling. And particularly these days, there are such a lot of varieties and totally different venues of hair selections you could actually play and be so many alternative characters or alter egos, simply to have a bit extra spice in your life.
StyleCaster: Completely. I at all times joke when I’ve my homosexual pals over, and even my straight pals, I at all times bust out the wigs and we simply begin taking part in round with them.
Sasha Colby: Oh, we try this on a regular basis! I imply, particularly when you have got a wall of wigs and other people come to your home.
StyleCaster: And the straight boys at all times need to strive one.
Sasha Colby: They need the longest, like, diva hair.
StyleCaster: Do you have got any ideas on the ability of transformation, or the ability of drag in that regard? It’s like a superpower.
StyleCaster: Completely. The thought of getting the ponytail is an extension of what drag is, which is with the ability to remodel your self into no matter you want. Really, that’s the enjoyable factor about drag, to remodel your self into no matter chances are you’ll want at that time in your life. If you happen to really feel such as you’re not very assured or a bit shy, placing on drag, reworking your self, and giving your self the arrogance that you simply really feel is exterior truly brings out what’s already inside you, which is gorgeous.
My pony has at all times been my signature … I really like the way it makes me really feel snatched and pulled, like a bit kitten with a whip.
Sasha Colby
StyleCaster: The road may be very moderately and accessibly priced. Why was that essential for you?
Sasha Colby: Making this ponytail not solely person pleasant however reasonably priced was actually essential to me. I make my very own ponies. My greatest pal and I, we’ve form of got here right down to this formulation, however we use human hair. We had been shopping for bundles, and it’s nice for drag and Drag Race, however probably not possible for on a regular basis life or the touring drag we want. So I actually needed to make it possible for the hair high quality was straightforward. Simply pull it out, brush it, shake it out, and it’s model new.
Whereas with human hair, you’re gonna should be a bit extra cautious with it and prep it extra. In order that saves time. And that helps with lots of people who’re perhaps intimidated with utilizing quite a lot of instruments and all of that. This might simply be for them. And people are the identical those that I really feel that watch Drag Race and that this explicit worth level suits for: the youthful drag queens, perhaps single mothers, who is aware of! That’s the beautiful factor about this ponytail, is it may well cater to everybody and I actually needed that.
StyleCaster: It is available in quite a lot of colours. Do you have got one that you simply gravitate in direction of or is a favourite?
Sasha Colby: For myself, I’ve Pele on proper now. It is a pony that you’re going to get while you order your Sasha Colby ponytail. It’s 28 inches lengthy, and it’s a pleasant, full pony. I positively have my tutorials up on my Instagram and my social media so you may at all times verify that out. It’s very easy to do. This one simply matches excellent for any ginger, however I do have a bluer tone that’s extra for that auburn, darker purple woman. Additionally, a bunch of blondes, a bunch of browns, similar to the essential colours proper now, 10, which is an incredible choice. However keep tuned as a result of we positively have extra colours coming for you.
StyleCaster: That was my subsequent query: What else can hair followers anticipate?
Sasha Colby: We are able to anticipate rather a lot with this ponytail line. We’re engaged on new colours. We’re going to have much more variations of colours (enjoyable colours additionally), and I’m engaged on ombrés. So when you have darker hair, and also you need to be blonde that day, it’ll make sense with the ombré pony. And likewise, we’re gonna have much more textures we’re taking part in [with]. So despite the fact that that is heat-safe and you’ll fashion the straight one, we’re going to have quite a lot of totally different seaside layers, seaside curls, massive spherical curls, and quite a lot of textures for our POC women. So we’re actually excited for that.
StyleCaster: You’re clearly iconic on your hair and the horse. Do you have got every other drag inspiration or celeb inspirations that you simply look as much as for hair?
Sasha Colby: Oh, celeb hair-spirations… I really like a ’90s mannequin. I really like a layered minimize. That’s similar to my go-to. I’m truly at the moment beneath this ponytail rocking the Rachel from Pals. Yesterday, I had my hair in a claw, half up, half down and I appeared like Sarah from The Craft. So I believe I’m in my ’90s period proper now.
StyleCaster: You’re happening tour subsequent 12 months, so what can we anticipate?
Sasha Colby: Oh, sure, we will likely be happening tour. My one girl present referred to as Stripped. We’ll be hitting 22 cities all around the continental U.S. (and Hawaii!), so I’m very excited to be acting at dwelling. You possibly can anticipate a extremely stripped down model of what I at all times present you. What Sasha Colby is. I wish to say it’s a peek behind the interior workings of my thoughts. What evokes me, what I reside for. And simply sharing tales and attending to know the viewers, which I believe is basically stripped down and what lots of people are craving proper now.
StyleCaster: Over the previous few years on Drag Race, and within the drag world interval, we’ve seen the boundaries being pushed—from inclusivity and id to extra avant garde efficiency. What’s your hope for the way forward for drag?
Sasha Colby: That it simply retains on increasing everybody’s perceptions of what artwork, magnificence, gender, and actually, to be alive is. From being a protected haven for queer those that had been form of ostracized and we couldn’t be in on a regular basis society, we discovered this, this factor referred to as drag, to present us a sacred place. And it was very a lot for the queer neighborhood, however is now opening up and actually increasing the perceptions of queer neighborhood and of artwork for cis individuals, straight individuals, heterosexual individuals. It’s like the brand new sports activities, you understand?
StyleCaster: All my straight pals find it irresistible. My household loves it.
Sasha Colby: It’s an amazing a typical denominator.
StyleCaster: I believe all of us crave having enjoyable. And that’s what it’s.
Sasha Colby: You can not not really feel such as you need to be your self or do one thing daring while you’re watching another person dare.
StyleCaster: You took dwelling the crown in your season. I used to be clearly rooting for you. What was it like watching your daughter, Kerri Colby, on the earlier season when she competed?
Sasha Coby: Watching Kerri in Season 14 was so enjoyable. I really like her. It was so good to observe the world fall in love along with her and her character and being just like the narrator of the present. She’s simply so enjoyable to observe and so enjoyable and such a star.
StyleCaster: You lately attended your first vogue week. Do you see your self getting extra concerned on the earth of excessive vogue?
Sasha Colby: I positively really feel impressed, since I used to be younger, with excessive vogue and the style business. Not simply the wonder facet or the fashions, however actually vogue, the garments. I simply love studying about vogue via historical past. And I’d like to be extra within the vogue world, be a vogue girly. It’s quite a lot of enjoyable. It’s like watching drag, actually! Whenever you go to those vogue weeks, everybody’s of their order. Everybody’s of their artifice. They usually challenge who they need to be and are simply these fantastical individuals.
StyleCaster: One closing query. What else are you seeking to accomplish sooner or later?
Sasha Colby: Oh, you understand, simply, sky’s the restrict for me proper now. I’m actually excited to journey extra, carry out extra, meet extra followers, and make extra connections. And likewise, simply entering into telling extra tales via my music and thru appearing.
