Christina is a hair adventurer, willing to sport styles from Mohawks to a self-made "Texas look." But since taking a job at a salon, she's discovered the high price her hair has paid to be blonde.
Christina's Story
"Being blonde doesn't come easy."
I have been dying my hair since I was young. I have a very light color, a natural light brown color, and to me it is just so boring. I should embrace my true hair color, but I don't. Throughout my life I have been doing highlights, highlights, highlights and bleach to get any kind of blonde. I have also put a darker hair dyes in my hair, and ended up dying that blonde again.
"I've learned that I really don't know anything about hair."
I care about my hair a lot, especially since I started working at The Cut salon and learning more about it. People really have very little knowledge about their hair and are willing to sacrifice its health for very basic looks; I've been doing it for years trying to stay blonde. Hair can be damaged so many ways: from the sun, from too much heat from your blow dryer or flat iron, from coloring it. Bleach is the most damaging that I have learned about so far, so I am doing a series of treatments to restore mine. Products can also damage your hair greatly, which I didn't realize. Everyone thinks that if you are putting a product in your hair to make it look better, it must be good for your hair, but that is not that case. It is all just one big chemistry game, and you are putting different things together and seeing what comes out.
"The way you style your hair can subconsciously help your self esteem."
I'll wear my hair any way, as long as it looks cute and appealing to the eye. My impression of cute can be way different than anyone else's because if you can wear a Mohawk the right way I think it looks good, especially on a girl.
I like to play around with my hair because you can never do just one thing to it -- I hate that, having it up all the time or having just one look. I wear my hair differently according to what I am wearing. It subconsciously helps your self esteem. When you change up your hair, people are like, "Oh, it is a new look," or "That looks good, I like that hair color," or whatever. It keeps things changing, and change is good.