Do you think growing up you put yourself in the tomboy box? Or is there another reason you didn't experiment until college?
I was definitely a tomboy in high school, but I still wore dresses to dances or anything else that required formal dressing. Now I'm bigger [into] two-piece or suit. But growing up, I didn't have a whole group of friends who were beauty fans. Now my little sister really loves beauty – she does full makeup, all her hair and watches all the videos on YouTube. So I actually go to her for beauty advice. Most of my friends just played basketball. That's probably all I knew growing up.
Is there anything you learned from your sister?
How to use a curling iron and how to make waves with a flat iron. I really just knew how to iron my hair and make it bone straight.
What about your teammates?
[UConn's] Yana El Alfi loved this intense, long skin care routine that she taught me in college. I don't use it now, but it was a whole bunchLa Roche-Posay products. SeraVe also used in skin care treatments. Obviously there is foaming cleansermoisturizer… I don't remember the exact process now, but I remember her teaching me a whole skin care routine.
Before she was traded to the Minnesota Lynx, you played with DiJonai Carrington on the Dallas Wings. I've seen her game makeup skills and transformation she did with Natisha Hideman. Have you learned anything from her?
She wants to decorate me and do all the makeup and glam session. We haven't done that yet. Perhaps we can achieve this in Unrivaled. But I think she would tell me to use this product called One/Size. This spray installation which she uses, and everyone is like, “Your makeup always sticks when you play. How does it stay on?” One Size is the product she uses.
Speaking of Unrivaled, you're currently at the Breeze Basketball Club with a team of young stars that includes Cameron Brink, Ricky Jackson, Keith Martin, Ari McDonald and Dominic Malonga. What advantage do you think you'll have over some of the more experienced teams?
