Chris Appleton is stepping out from behind the chair and straight onto bookshelves with his new release, Your Roots Don’t Define You, out today, January 20th via Hanover Square Press.
The book is described as being filled with candid wisdom and deeply personal stories from Chris’s life and anonymous clients, inviting readers to “take a seat in Chris’s chair” and experience an inside out transformation they did not even know they needed.
Chris uses his own story, plus the lives he has touched as a celebrity hairstylist, to show that transformation is not just for people on red carpets, it’s for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and wanted more.
Known for crafting some of the most iconic beauty moments of the last decade, Chris could’ve easily written a glossy beauty book and called it a day. Instead, the book goes deeper and blends self-help insights, real-life stories, and practical tools to help readers quiet the “you are not enough” voice and harness their past and pain as fuel for a comeback.
It’s about healing the parts of yourself you have been hiding and rewriting your self image so it finally matches the person you know you are underneath. This is not just a book about hair; it’s about permission!
If you’ve ever felt stuck, unseen, or secretly wondered if it was too late to change, this book positions itself as a wake-up call. Your roots may have shaped you, but they do not get to define you, and Chris is handing over a framework he has used on himself and his A-list clients to prove it.
With its release today, the book feels less like a vanity project and more like a deeply personal offering from someone who has lived the transformation he is asking his readers to believe in.
XO Diva D 