What Alvarado means when she says: “If white women can change their hair color the way they change lipstick – with complete impunity and no worries over ‘correctly’ representing their community – why couldn’t I?” she is showing the injustice that she feels she receives due to her being a Latino women. Alvarado feels that a Latino women is expected to keep her hair one color because they are expected to represent their nationality, and if they do change their color they are disrespecting their heritage. She accepts in the end that the change was not for the better, and she is happy to keep her natural hair color because she can “stay brown and proud.”
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