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 turned 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 type, which, in Sasha’s phrases, permits anybody to “unleash and embrace their fierce internal diva.” Yas, queen! In collaboration with Salon Xtensions, the road is out there in 10 thrilling colours of 28-inch ponytails, every made from a singular fiber mix for a human hair appear and feel at an accessible value level ($99). “Making this ponytail not solely person pleasant however reasonably priced 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, reasonably priced solution to turn into an honorary member of the Home of Colby? Add to cart!

Beneath, 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 type. Why is that the primary product, and the way did you give you the concept?

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 just a little kitten with a whip. It’s gotten me by 20 years of nice drag, and I simply thought that it might be so enjoyable. That is extra a response to a whole lot of the followers and individuals who watch the present and love the ponytail. They need to know the best way to do it. They need a ponytail tutorial. So all of those folks and followers asking actually acquired me serious about, how do I make this accessible to the plenty?

StyleCaster: Do you’ve gotten 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 that you would be able to actually play and be so many various characters or alter egos, simply to have just a little extra spice in your life. 

StyleCaster: Completely. I all the time joke when I’ve my homosexual mates over, and even my straight mates, I all the time 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’ve gotten a wall of wigs and other people 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’ve gotten 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 having the ability to remodel your self into no matter you want. Really, that’s the enjoyable factor about drag, to rework your self into no matter it’s possible you’ll want at that time in your life. In case you really feel such as you’re not very assured or just a little shy, placing on drag, reworking your self, and giving your self the boldness that you just 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 just a little 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 person pleasant however reasonably priced was actually necessary to me. I make my very own ponies. My finest pal and I, we’ve form of got here right down to this method, 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 want. So I actually needed to ensure 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 just a little 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 a whole 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 value level matches for: the youthful drag queens, perhaps single mothers, who is aware of! That’s the beautiful factor about this ponytail, is it will probably cater to everybody and I actually needed that.

StyleCaster: It is available in a wide range of colours. Do you’ve gotten one that you just 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 if you order your Sasha Colby ponytail. It’s 28 inches lengthy, and it’s a pleasant, full pony. I undoubtedly have my tutorials up on my Instagram and my social media so you possibly can all the time examine 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 woman. Additionally, a bunch of blondes, a bunch of browns, identical to the fundamental colours proper now, 10, which is a tremendous choice. However keep tuned as a result of we undoubtedly have extra colours coming for you.

StyleCaster: That was my subsequent query: What else can hair followers anticipate?

Sasha Colby: We will anticipate quite a bit 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 if in case you have darker hair, and also you need to be blonde that day, it’ll make sense with the ombré pony. And in addition, 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 type the straight one, we’re going to have a whole lot of totally different seashore layers, seashore curls, large spherical curls, and a whole lot of textures for our POC ladies. So we’re actually excited for that.

StyleCaster: You might be clearly iconic to your hair and the horse. Do you’ve gotten every other drag inspiration or movie star inspirations that you just look as much as for hair?

Sasha Colby: Oh, movie star hair-spirations… I like a ’90s mannequin. I like a layered minimize. That’s identical to my go-to. I’m really at the moment underneath 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 feel I’m in my ’90s period proper now.

StyleCaster: You’re occurring tour subsequent 12 months, so what can we anticipate?

Sasha Colby: Oh, sure, we will likely be occurring 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 dwelling. You possibly can anticipate a very 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 internal workings of my thoughts. What conjures up me, what I stay for. And simply sharing tales and attending to know the viewers, which I feel is actually 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 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 offer 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 folks, straight folks, heterosexual folks. It’s like the brand new sports activities, you understand?

StyleCaster: All my straight mates like it. My household loves it. 

Sasha Colby: It’s an excellent a standard 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 if 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 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 stress-free and such a star. 

StyleCaster: You lately attended your first trend week. Do you see your self getting extra concerned on the earth of excessive trend?

Sasha Colby: I undoubtedly really feel impressed, since I used to be younger, with excessive trend and the style business. Not simply the sweetness facet or the fashions, however actually trend, the garments. I simply love studying about trend by historical past. And I’d like to be extra within the trend world, be a trend girly. It’s a whole lot of enjoyable. It’s like watching drag, actually! While you go to those trend weeks, everybody’s of their order. Everybody’s of their artifice. And so they undertaking who they need to be and are simply these fantastical folks.

StyleCaster: One remaining 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 in addition, simply entering into telling extra tales by my music and thru appearing.