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" Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions. "

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" One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it. "