Do you stangers touch ur hair looking for weaves?

[tenjoy]

I always where protective styles. When I do where my hair down, i get a lot of people (family, friends and strangers) asking is I have a weave. Before I can get my "no" out, they already have their fingers in my hair checking. This happens all the time! I espically hate when they then asked what am i mixed with! How rude.

 

[ChocalateDiva]

I have had this happen!!! My hair is not even long so i am alway like WTH??erplexed

My sista says its cause my hair has dat "swang" when I flat iron it....

Folks are a trip. I hate their grubby hands in my hair- i dont know where there hands have been.

 

[AmilLion]

I always where protective styles. When I do where my hair down, i get a lot of people (family, friends and strangers) asking is I have a weave. Before I can get my "no" out, they already have their fingers in my hair checking. This happens all the time! I espically hate when they then asked what am i mixed with! How rude.

Where are you from? Do that where I'm from and they might get their jaw broken j/k

 

[tenjoy]

Im from Paterson, NJ. A lot of QuickWeave Queens around hear. I hate that (no pun to those who wear them).

I guess the next time I should just smack a ho and asks do it sting!

 

[curlcomplexity]

Im from Paterson, NJ. A lot of QuickWeave Queens around hear. I hate that (no pun to those who wear them).

I guess the next time I should just smack a ho and asks do it sting!

That's hilarious!

This never happens to me though.

 

[shadylane21]

This happens to me on a regular! I live in Tucson so not a lot black folk I am a nurse in the ER and the only black nurse. Well anyways before I joined the board I always wore micros or crochets and I would always have someone coming up trying to touch my hair. I remember one time one of the patients family members came up and starting petting my head and this asked if it was a weave thingy. Heres a question for everyone do you get people asking you stupid questions when you take out your braids or whatever and they see you with your real hair, like "oh did you cut your hair" or when u put the hair bak in they say "wow your hair grows really fast"

 

[AllAboutMoi]

I had a braid out and my cousin's aunt actually yanked it. She got a pass since she is my cousins aunt. But I get more "Girl I am a weave connoissuer but what kind of hair is that?" when I have a braid out. Too funny!!!!

 

[Evazhair]

Where are you from? Do that where I'm from and they might get their jaw broken j/k

This is true for me too..... I don't play that. My hair is real, don't violate my personal space and for that matter, people can believe what they want...... my hair is not in a perfect style, it is layered and one side grows slightly faster than the other. IMO you would have to be crazy to put in a weave, and cut it into a layered nonstyle as mine.

 

[longhairdreamzz]

Wow, well I can't wait til' my hair get's to that point, when strangers have to ask if it's real or fake. to me, that means that means I'm doing something right. lol

 

[intergalacticartist]

My friend has weave checked someone. I REALLY didn't think people violated other's personal space like that but this girl went up to this other girl we were hanging with and just basically scratched her scalp
My mouth was like
I was kind of surprised she didn't get cursed out
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[BlackPearl1]

People have been doing this to me most of my life( have been dancing around this length 4 a long time thanks to scissor happy stylist ) and I hate it. I never wanted to say anything because I was afraid they would think I was conceited . The past three years this has changed. I would curse some out really fast. Plus I learn not to stand too close to people, so my hair is not in their arm reach.

 

[Energee]

That's strange because I can't imagine some random stranger touching my hair. It's NEVER happened to me. I have received a lot of comments on my hair and stares but no stranger has ever touched my hair....lol. I don't think I give people the impression that they can just come up to me and touch my hair. Also I guess it's the area I'm in...people don't generally do that type of thing.

Even when I had a weave in....no one touched my hair looking for a weave...lol....

 

[kellie7777]

i've had people scratch my scalp, pull on my hair, ask if i was wearing a wig/weave. and get this. i had a woman one time drop something on the sly and asked me to pick it up and i thought sure, being helpful. only to have her pass her hand through my hair from root to tip while i was bending over... i was like, what'd you do that for. she said she wanted to see if i had tracks. i was like tracks??? then she said weave. i just shook my head.....

now who in the heck goes that far to think this stuff up.. weirdos..

 

[sunshinebeautiful]

Never happened to me. I actually wish somebody would.

 

[kbfluff]

Nah, no touching. But my supervisor at my new job had always seen me in cornrows...you know the strinkage factor.
so I wore it out flat ironed. SHE asked "So is that like all your hair?" I was very professional and simply said "Yes, it is"
(FYI: 2inches from APL).
I guess people are not usto a Black woman having hair and it being all hers. She wasn't rude in the way she asked me, but she asked me as if it was just common knowledge that Black women wear fake hair...period.
For this, i am sooooooo glad that LHCF exists. Just think 3 more years from now it will be a ton of sistas with waistlength/tailbone hair walking around.
Look out world!!! Here we come.
I bet they will blame it on global warming.

 

[kbfluff]

i've had people scratch my scalp, pull on my hair, ask if i was wearing a wig/weave. and get this. i had a woman one time drop something on the sly and asked me to pick it up and i thought sure, being helpful. only to have her pass her hand through my hair from root to tip while i was bending over... i was like, what'd you do that for. she said she wanted to see if i had tracks. i was like tracks??? then she said weave. i just shook my head.....

now who in the heck goes that far to think this stuff up.. weirdos..

WTF!!! That was soooo corny, on her part! Why not just ask to touch your hair instead of being so stupid about it. I don't like that.

 

[Eisani]

I get that from strangers but even my mother and sister says my hair looks like a wig. I've heard that since HS though. I'll take that as a compliment, but I do hate for random people to just come touch my hair and I'll tell them as much. Give me 50 feet!

 

[silverlotus]

Nope, never happened to me. My hair doesn't really look like a weave anyway. Maybe it's where i live, but I can't imagine someone having the audacity to do that.

 

[ddean]

i've had people scratch my scalp, pull on my hair, ask if i was wearing a wig/weave. and get this. i had a woman one time drop something on the sly and asked me to pick it up and i thought sure, being helpful. only to have her pass her hand through my hair from root to tip while i was bending over... i was like, what'd you do that for. she said she wanted to see if i had tracks. i was like tracks??? then she said weave. i just shook my head.....

now who in the heck goes that far to think this stuff up.. weirdos..

Now that's going waayyy overboard! You should've her...

 

[ItsyBitsy]

That's strange because I can't imagine some random stranger touching my hair. It's NEVER happened to me. I have received a lot of comments on my hair and stares but no stranger has ever touched my hair....lol. I don't think I give people the impression that they can just come up to me and touch my hair. Also I guess it's the area I'm in...people don't generally do that type of thing.

Even when I had a weave in....no one touched my hair looking for a weave...lol....

ITA! This has never happened to me, but SO on the other hand SO has dreadlocks that are what we would consider between APL & BSL. We were at Home Depot & some random *&#%@ walks up & runs her hand through his hair SO was in shock!! UGH I was pissed! I wanted to :hardslap::210: I can't repeat what was said but by the time I finished giving her a verbal trashing SO & the ***** were like
Psst... I grabed my gallon of paint, flipped hair & walked off!

 

[eyunka]

This has happened to me once a cousin from my DH side asked and felt at the same time. I just said no it is mine. My 10yr old daughter has had this happen a couple time where a little girl thought her hair was fake and literally pulled her ponytail sooo hard it made her cry.

Recently one of the school staff members checked aaliyah's hair for tracks. She usually wear braided ponytails or just some type of up do. well this day i decided to let her where a big girl hair style (flat ironed it) and the lady was like oh aaliyah your hair is so silky while running her finger thru her hair. Ladies we all know giving a compiment and then feeling what that really means.

I just take it all in stride and thing once you have examed our hair and realize it's our "know what" (if my shoulder forward)

 

[harrison]

I'm natural now... but once ... way back when I was relaxed...

I was at church and this older woman walked up to me and asked (in her italian accent) "is this your hair?" and proceeded to tug at the right side of my head like I was a rag doll.

I said yes and walked away from her. Its a shame what that lady had me thinking in the Lord's house!

 

[Nuelle]

It has happened a few times. I had my scalp scratched while standing in a group waiting for our pictures to be taken. i was so shocked, when I turned around, she had this grin on her face, trying to act all innocent...Then, recently, a white co-worker asked me in front of other co-workers if my hair was real and when I told that yes, it grows from my scalp, she proceeds to reach over and touch my hair, then has the audacity to say, but it feels so soft and silky. What did she expect!!!??? During my 6-month stretch, I wore mostly curly styles, but when I would get a blow-out, my manager would always ask me if it was mine and finally one day, she rubs her finger over my scalp checking for tracks...I try to remain calm, so I give them this fake smile with a blank look to let them know how inappropriate this is...

 

[natural_one]

When i was natural it would happen all the time. Especially when i had my hair in a puff. I had a guy one time try to pull my puff off! I about took his head off..He was like "oh my bad, U know how you girls be wearing those fake hair things".

I cant wait to I get to that point with my relaxed hair.

 

[bellezanegra826]

This happens to me on a regular! I live in Tucson so not a lot black folk I am a nurse in the ER and the only black nurse. Well anyways before I joined the board I always wore micros or crochets and I would always have someone coming up trying to touch my hair. I remember one time one of the patients family members came up and starting petting my head and this asked if it was a weave thingy. Heres a question for everyone do you get people asking you stupid questions when you take out your braids or whatever and they see you with your real hair, like "oh did you cut your hair" or when u put the hair bak in they say "wow your hair grows really fast"

when i was younger and got braids, i would always get the braids longer than my natural hair and when white people saw me for the first time after getting braids they would always ask me if i had cut my hair. it always confused me how they logically thought that a hair cut would make my hair longer. i have come to realize over that years that since a lot of whites only change their hairstyle by cutting their hair, asking 'did you get a hair cut' is code for 'what have you done differently to your hair?'

 

[Kawaii1]

Never had enough hair to have that happen but I am thinking in about a year it will. It's a shame how people just associate weave with black folks because so many white celbrities have sl hair one day and bsl the next. It is a musing and upsetting all at the same time.

 

[Brownie518]

Where are you from? Do that where I'm from and they might get their jaw broken j/k

For real!!! They'll do it if they want a quick buck-fifty in the face!!!

 

[bluefolli]

No...and I hope a stranger is never bold enough to try. Their hand would get slapped... I do get asked if I am wearing a weave by family members or associates, but no one has ever touched my hair unless I have given them the ok...which is very rare.

 

[MJ]

For this, i am sooooooo glad that LHCF exists. Just think 3 more years from now it will be a ton of sistas with waistlength/tailbone hair walking around.
Look out world!!! Here we come.
I bet they will blame it on global warming.

 

[BlackPearl1]

Nah, no touching. But my supervisor at my new job had always seen me in cornrows...you know the strinkage factor.
so I wore it out flat ironed. SHE asked "So is that like all your hair?" I was very professional and simply said "Yes, it is"
(FYI: 2inches from APL).
I guess people are not usto a Black woman having hair and it being all hers. She wasn't rude in the way she asked me, but she asked me as if it was just common knowledge that Black women wear fake hair...period.
For this, i am sooooooo glad that LHCF exists. Just think 3 more years from now it will be a ton of sistas with waistlength/tailbone hair walking around.
Look out world!!! Here we come.
I bet they will blame it on global warming.

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