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 have 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 flexibility 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 model, which, in Sasha’s phrases, permits anybody to “unleash and embrace their fierce inside diva.” Yas, queen! In collaboration with Salon Xtensions, the road is on the market in 10 thrilling colours of 28-inch ponytails, every product of a singular fiber mix for a human hair feel and appear at an accessible worth level ($99). “Making this ponytail not solely consumer pleasant however inexpensive was actually necessary to me,” Sasha tells StyleCaster over Zoom, explaining that creating an inclusive and accessible assortment was of the utmost significance. A simple, inexpensive option to develop 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 beautiful.
Sasha Colby: Thanks! How are you? Good to fulfill you.
StyleCaster: I’m nice. Congratulations on the launch. It’s such an enormous deal! You’re launching with the horse, your signature model. Why is that the primary product, and the way did you give you the thought?
Sasha Colby: My pony has all the time been my signature. It’s been my activation piece for myself to love, really feel activated in drag. And I like the way it makes me really feel pulled up and snatched, like a bit of kitten with a whip. It’s gotten me by way of 20 years of nice drag, and I simply thought that it will be so enjoyable. That is extra a response to a variety of the followers and individuals who watch the present and love the ponytail. They need to know the right way to 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 could have ideas for people who find themselves new to wigs or extensions or any form of hair?
Sasha Colby: I imply, the hair journey is a enjoyable journey. It’s a option to actually specific what you’re feeling. And particularly these days, there are such a lot of varieties and completely different venues of hair selections which you could actually play and be so many various characters or alter egos, simply to have a bit of extra spice in your life.
StyleCaster: Completely. I all the time joke when I’ve my homosexual associates over, and even my straight associates, I all the time bust out the wigs and we simply begin enjoying round with them.
Sasha Colby: Oh, we try this on a regular basis! I imply, particularly when you could have a wall of wigs and folks come to your home.
StyleCaster: And the straight boys all the time need to strive one.
Sasha Colby: They need the longest, like, diva hair.
StyleCaster: Do you could have any ideas on the ability of transformation, or the ability of drag in that regard? It’s like a superpower.
StyleCaster: Completely. The concept of getting the ponytail is an extension of what drag is, which is with the ability to rework your self into no matter you want. Truly, that’s the enjoyable factor about drag, to remodel your self into no matter you might want at that time in your life. Should you really feel such as you’re not very assured or a bit of shy, placing on drag, reworking your self, and giving your self the arrogance that you simply really feel is exterior really brings out what’s already inside you, which is gorgeous.
My pony has all the time been my signature … I like the way it makes me really feel snatched and pulled, like a bit of kitten with a whip.
Sasha Colby
StyleCaster: The road could be very moderately and accessibly priced. Why was that necessary for you?
Sasha Colby: Making this ponytail not solely consumer pleasant however inexpensive was actually necessary to me. I make my very own ponies. My finest buddy and I, we’ve form of got here right down to this components, however we use human hair. We have 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’d like. So I actually needed to be sure that the hair high quality was simple. Simply pull it out, brush it, shake it out, and it’s model new.
Whereas with human hair, you’re gonna must be a bit of extra cautious with it and prep it extra. In order that saves time. And that helps with lots of people who’re possibly intimidated with utilizing a variety of instruments and all of that. This might simply be for them. And people are the identical those who I really feel that watch Drag Race and that this explicit worth level matches for: the youthful drag queens, possibly single mothers, who is aware of! That’s the stunning factor about this ponytail, is it might cater to everybody and I actually needed that.
StyleCaster: It is available in quite a lot of colours. Do you could have one that you simply gravitate in the direction of or is a favourite?
Sasha Colby: For myself, I’ve Pele on proper now. It is a pony that you’ll 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 possibly can all the time test 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 pink lady. Additionally, a bunch of blondes, a bunch of browns, similar to the fundamental colours proper now, 10, which is a tremendous 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 count on?
Sasha Colby: We will count on loads 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 you probably 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 enjoying [with]. So though that is heat-safe and you may model the straight one, we’re going to have a variety of completely different seaside layers, seaside curls, large spherical curls, and a variety of textures for our POC women. So we’re actually excited for that.
StyleCaster: You’re clearly iconic in your hair and the horse. Do you could have another drag inspiration or celeb inspirations that you simply look as much as for hair?
Sasha Colby: Oh, celeb hair-spirations… I like a ’90s mannequin. I like a layered lower. That’s similar to my go-to. I’m really presently beneath this ponytail rocking the Rachel from Pals. Yesterday, I had my hair in a claw, half up, half down and I regarded like Sarah from The Craft. So I feel I’m in my ’90s period proper now.
StyleCaster: You’re happening tour subsequent 12 months, so what can we count on?
Sasha Colby: Oh, sure, we might be happening tour. My one girl present known as Stripped. We’ll be hitting 22 cities everywhere in the continental U.S. (and Hawaii!), so I’m very excited to be acting at residence. You possibly can count on a extremely stripped down model of what I all the time present you. What Sasha Colby is. I wish to say it’s a peek behind the inside workings of my thoughts. What conjures up me, what I reside for. And simply sharing tales and attending to know the viewers, which I feel is admittedly 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 identification 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 who have been form of ostracized and we couldn’t be in on a regular basis society, we discovered this, this factor known as drag, to provide us a sacred place. And it was very a lot for the queer group, however is now opening up and actually increasing the perceptions of queer group and of artwork for cis individuals, straight individuals, heterosexual individuals. It’s like the brand new sports activities, you understand?
StyleCaster: All my straight associates find it irresistible. My household loves it.
Sasha Colby: It’s a terrific a typical denominator.
StyleCaster: I feel all of us crave having enjoyable. And that’s what it’s.
Sasha Colby: You can’t 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 residence 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 like her. It was so good to look at the world fall in love along with her and her persona and being just like the narrator of the present. She’s simply so enjoyable to look at and so stress-free and such a star.
StyleCaster: You lately attended your first style week. Do you see your self getting extra concerned on the planet of excessive style?
Sasha Colby: I positively really feel impressed, since I used to be younger, with excessive style and the style trade. Not simply the wonder facet or the fashions, however actually style, the garments. I simply love studying about style by way of historical past. And I’d like to be extra within the style world, be a style girly. It’s a variety of enjoyable. It’s like watching drag, actually! While you go to those style weeks, everybody’s of their order. Everybody’s of their artifice. And so they mission who they need to be and are simply these fantastical individuals.
StyleCaster: One ultimate query. What else are you trying 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 stepping into telling extra tales by way of my music and thru performing.
