To say Sasha Colby is well-known for her mastery of drag is an unlimited understatement. Strolling into the Werk Room for RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15, her fellow queens have been gooped and gagged at competing towards 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 Famous person? 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 inside diva.” Yas, queen! In collaboration with Salon Xtensions, the road is out there in 10 thrilling colours of 28-inch ponytails, every product of a singular fiber mix for a human hair feel and look at an accessible value level ($99). “Making this ponytail not solely consumer pleasant however inexpensive was actually essential to me,” Sasha tells StyleCaster over Zoom, explaining that creating an inclusive and accessible assortment was of the utmost significance. A straightforward, inexpensive option to change into an honorary member of the Home of Colby? Add to cart!

Under, Sasha dishes on hair, the facility 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 fulfill 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 provide you with 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 little bit kitten with a whip. It’s gotten me by means of 20 years of nice drag, and I simply thought that it could be so enjoyable. That is extra a response to a number of the followers and individuals who watch the present and love the ponytail. They need to know methods to do it. They need a ponytail tutorial. So all of those folks and followers asking actually obtained me desirous about, how do I make this accessible to the lots?

StyleCaster: Do you’ve got suggestions for people who find themselves new to wigs or extensions or any kind of hair?

Sasha Colby: I imply, the hair journey is a enjoyable journey. It’s a option to actually categorical what you’re feeling. And particularly these days, there are such a lot of varieties and totally different venues of hair decisions that you may actually play and be so many alternative characters or alter egos, simply to have a little bit extra spice in your life. 

StyleCaster: Completely. I at all times joke when I’ve my homosexual buddies over, and even my straight buddies, I at all times bust out the wigs and we simply begin taking part in round with them. 

Sasha Colby: Oh, we do this on a regular basis! I imply, particularly when you’ve got a wall of wigs and folks 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’ve got any ideas on the facility of transformation, or the facility 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 rework your self into no matter it’s possible you’ll want at that time in your life. For those who really feel such as you’re not very assured or a little bit shy, placing on drag, reworking your self, and giving your self the arrogance that you just 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 little bit kitten with a whip.

Sasha Colby

StyleCaster: The road could be very fairly and accessibly priced. Why was that essential for you?

Sasha Colby: Making this ponytail not solely consumer pleasant however inexpensive was actually essential to me. I make my very own ponies. My greatest buddy and I, we’ve type 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’d like. So I actually needed to guarantee 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 should be a little 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 a number 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 value level suits for: the youthful drag queens, perhaps single mothers, who is aware of! That’s the stunning factor about this ponytail, is it could cater to everybody and I actually needed that.

StyleCaster: It is available in a wide range of colours. Do you’ve got one that you just 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 whenever 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 at all times 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 purple 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 are able to count on so much 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 although that is heat-safe and you’ll fashion the straight one, we’re going to have a number of totally different seaside layers, seaside curls, huge spherical curls, and a number of textures for our POC women. So we’re actually excited for that.

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

Sasha Colby: Oh, movie star hair-spirations… I really like a ’90s mannequin. I really like a layered lower. That’s similar to my go-to. I’m truly at the moment below this ponytail rocking the Rachel from Associates. Yesterday, I had my hair in a claw, half up, half down and I seemed like Sarah from The Craft. So I believe I’m in my ’90s period proper now.

StyleCaster: You’re happening tour subsequent yr, so what can we count on?

Sasha Colby: Oh, sure, we can be happening tour. My one girl present known 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 house. You’ll be able to count on a extremely stripped down model of what I at all times present you. What Sasha Colby is. I prefer to say it’s a peek behind the inside workings of my thoughts. What evokes me, what I dwell for. And simply sharing tales and attending to know the viewers, which I believe 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 secure haven for queer those who have been type 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 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 buddies like it. My household loves it. 

Sasha Colby: It’s an amazing a standard denominator. 

StyleCaster: I believe 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 whenever you’re watching another person dare. 

StyleCaster: You took house 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 together 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 latterly attended your first vogue week. Do you see your self getting extra concerned on the planet 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 sweetness side or the fashions, however actually vogue, the garments. I simply love studying about vogue by means of historical past. And I might like to be extra within the vogue world, be a vogue girly. It’s a number of enjoyable. It’s like watching drag, actually! Once you go to those vogue weeks, everybody’s of their order. Everybody’s of their artifice. And so they venture who they need to be and are simply these fantastical folks.

StyleCaster: One closing 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 moving into telling extra tales by means of my music and thru performing.