It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

I think to many people, textured curls still signify 'difference.' And kids like to pick on what's different.

As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.