Awkward Weave Compliments
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belletropjolie
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Just smile, say "Aww thank you" and any of these phrases "that's sweet of you too notice/I like it too/I just wanted a change" and smoothly change the subject.
No need to offer any explanations or feel awkward. If you got fake nails, you would never say thanks I got fake nails, you would just say thanks and move on.
I don't feel you should ever have to explain what sprouts from your head. If anyone says "Is that a weave", just say (with straight face), why do ask??
No need to offer any explanations or feel awkward. If you got fake nails, you would never say thanks I got fake nails, you would just say thanks and move on.
I don't feel you should ever have to explain what sprouts from your head. If anyone says "Is that a weave", just say (with straight face), why do ask??
Monaleezza
New Member
I'm proud of wearing weaves, so I don't feel any way to say, it's not my hair, my hair is resting underneath.
White people are now wearing extensions as much as black women and there isn't all this secrecy and mystery!
I think the worst part about wearing a weave is the pretence. Be proud, and educate the ignorant... "hair don't grow overnight sweetheart!" lol
White people are now wearing extensions as much as black women and there isn't all this secrecy and mystery!
I think the worst part about wearing a weave is the pretence. Be proud, and educate the ignorant... "hair don't grow overnight sweetheart!" lol
bhndbrwneyes
Well-Known Member
Conversely for me, when I straighten my natural hair (as opposed to my usual WNG) this one co-worker in particular gives me a strange eye and says "you're hair is longer", suspecting that my hair is not my own. Every time, I have to tell him about shrinkage of my natural hair. He does not buy it and I'm pretty sure he doesn't think ANY of my hair is real and I just go back and forth between a curly and straight weave/wig. It's awkward.
prettybyrd
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I love this response! I use it for every question I don't want to answer - hair and anything else.
pre_medicalrulz
It Always Been About Hair!
I just say thank you unless I know for sure that they think its mine. Then I'd say thanks - its a weave. *shrugs*
belletropjolie
New Member
I love this response! I use it for every question I don't want to answer - hair and anything else.
I agree, I use it in non-hair situations and I've noticed that people are taken so aback. There's usually an awkward silence, bugging out of eyes and then a sputtering/mumbled answer.
Belle Du Jour
Well-Known Member
Thanks and change the subject 
I do not like having conversations about my hair with non-black people.
I do not like having conversations about my hair with non-black people. 
southerncitygirl
Well-Known Member
stop feeling the need to explain shizz to ppl. if they want to know more they can ask and you answer accordingly.
anoriginalpyt
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i've been wigging it lately with a short bob. when people compliment, i say that i wanted a temporary change, and i keep it moving.
Froreal3
haulin hard in the paint
How do you guys handle it when your white friends compliment your new hair (...weave...erplexed) thinking it's your own hair that magically grew overnight and became straight
I've been getting compliments everywhere but I feel tempted to be like IT'S A WEAVE!!!!
Its happened to me the opposite way. I used to wear extension braids a lot in highschool. I took them out one time and did my hair in mini twists...my real hair was like neck length. Everybody thought it was so cute. They were like, "OMG you cut your hair!" I'd just say "thanks" and smile. Lol
karenjoe
New Member
I've been wondering about this too... I just got a short weave (chin length) and people keep commenting on me cutting all my hair off. I know they are going to be looking at me strange when a couple of months from now I walk in the office with BSL hair...
I would tell them then...... & show them w pride...
look this is my hair! "I thought I wanted short hair so I tried a short wig for a while."
tee hee! watch their faces after that...
if you go into its a weave they start w the questions & want to know the details...... it was a wig! ok!!
Fessing up? mmmmm
sometimes they know & want a confession...
it depend of my relationship w the person asking
..... some folks you can't tell. hit
sometimes they will ask at the wrong time..
its your hair, you confess to who you want & when you want.....
handle it girl don't let it stress you.
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ChocolatePie777
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Yes......all the time...i work with a bunch of white people so yeah.....i just say thank you and if they ask how i got it like that i tell them straight up its a weave/wig
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