Ninety nine percent of the time, I wear my hair up in a protective style. I've been asked by coworkers of other races if my hair is real even though it's up. I tell them yes, and they will reply as follows:
1) "What do you use?"
2) "I can tell it's yours, because the texture is the same from the front to the back."
3) "Take it down so I can see. Take it down! You have long hair! Ooh, look at her hair!"
4) "I would like to see your hair." As a new employee on the job for the first day, I said: "Here it is. She sees my pictures on the website, and when I went back to my desk--on the other side of the office--she said to the coworkers working around her: "There she is! Look!"
I'm reluctant to take it down a day after I oil it, but I did as you can see in Response Number 3.
When I wear it down, I get all type of compliments from strangers and friends. My jealous coworker did a
horrible, extensive weave check on me--even though two months earlier, I took it down after it had been freshly cut (6 inches) by my stylist. I thought that was enough proof, because she just kept giving me hints that the bun looks like it was attached to my hair.
The silly :flyingwit thought I was lying, and she's 65 years old and looks better than me, so I can't understand what's the problem! I could have snatched her wig off and flushed it down the toilet, and then I should have done this
to show her that it won't fall off, like she thought it would.
Then there are some who just stare,
erplexed and I'm wondering what they're staring at; then it occurred to me that they find it hard to believe that it is mine, but they won't say anything.
That's mostly when I wear it straight. Haven't gotten that many stares because I've had my hair braided most of this year. Oh and I do get double takes when I wear my hair down at school. That's happened during the semester (and it's with all colors. I had a white guy in my class in May darn near fall over when I walked in with my hair down. I could feel his eyes burning at me throughout the class. And others did the whole sneak peak, but he was sooo obvious about it. I don't know if they were looking for a weave though. Probably just surprised but who knows. By the end of class I was clipping it up into a bun and then you could see the "oooh" thought process of I guess that IS her hair. But it's usually up. He ended up re writing the main love interest as a black woman with long hair
It was in my screen writing class. She was blonde as the day is long, and all of a sudden she was a brown skinned black woman with long dark black hair and a generous smile..... My So, now my Fiance, upon telling him the story said I changed the poor class boy's world around
. It was the next week at the rewrite, that I discovered the adjustment to his love interest in his screenplay. Almost everything stayed the same except her description and a few tweaks of the plot. I got a kick out of that). I don't think it's a big deal if someone questions my hair. I KNOW it's real. That's their ignorance at play. I will say though to get ready for a few stares here and there cause the spotlight will fall on you for sure.
wallbash:....I really refrained from telling that woman about herself
OP and 
I love reading these posts. 
