1. Well, there was this one time my mom took me to the to get something done, a makeover. We were going to a cousin′s wedding. And at the salon, the hairdresser convinced me to lighten my hair, to put highlights in my hair, and that′s something I had never done. And being Latina, you know, I have dark and dark skin tone… It would never be anything I considered on my own. But, finally, she convinced me, and it my appearance. It made me look a little bit more, uh, I think trendy, maybe a little younger. And now they grew out, but next summer, I think I′m going to get them done again. I′m going to have my mom come with me and maybe she′ll get them done this time.
Recently, I went to get a haircut. I just… generally, I get the line done around the edge of my hair here. As you can see now, there is no , and the reason for that is I went to a familiar place but used an unfamiliar barber. This gentleman was not as experienced as my usual and… didn′t do the exact line that I wanted him to do. By the time I′d figured this out, he′d already taken away so much hair that I just asked him to take the rest of it off. And now I sit before you without any hair.
Well, in the late 80s, the fashion trend was definitely big hair, so I went right down to the to fit in with everyone else, and I got my hair permed, which of course made it a lot bigger than it is now. So I walked around with very curly, very big hair. And the fashion then was bangs, which I don′t have any more, but they were here. But they weren′t just straight, they were big. So I walked around with big bangs and big hair for a long time, and I′m extremely happy that that is not the fashion trend anymore, and it is long, hair with no bangs.
I′ve done a lot of things to alter my appearance. One of the things I remember most is, uh, when, I was a , I tried to bleach my hair . I thought it was a very cool thing to do, so I′ve always wanted to do it because all the other people looked really good, I think. Uh… When I did it, my parents didn′t like it. My friends thought it was very, uh, very light and made fun of me for it. But all that matters is I was very happy with it, and I loved it. I was happy with myself.