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I get questions about DD's hair a lot. I think whites think if they ask about hers instead of mine that it is more acceptable. DD has a LOT of shrinkage so her twists are super springy and stretchable. I've had them ask if her twists are real because they stretch so much. Once she had to go straight to a school play from ice skating. Her team wears phony ponies, white girls too. She was wearing her straight, flipped up pony (with a pilgrim costume, no less, lol) and one of the mothers asked me if it was her hair. When I flat iron her hair I can see the stares, especially from the people who usually see her in the shorter looking twists. Her (white) friends at school ask if and why doesn't she wear an Afro.:nono: I've also had white mothers ask me if I thought their daughter's hair could hold cornrows.:lol:
 
It happens to me all the time so its not uncommon. As a matter of fact the only people that DARE ask me if my hair is real or if I have clips on are white people LOL

I either get the weave question or the "how did you get your hair to do that?" (the curls)

People are strange.
 
Back in 2005 I was transitioning to natural. I went to a job interview with curly human hair box braids. I kept them in a neat bun, and after a few weeks got a weave. I ended up getting the job and got along well with my boss, a 30 something white guy from the Hamptons with a penchant for pinstripe suits. About a month or so into our working relationship he asked me "that was all of my hair"? I said excuse me? I could not believe what I was hearing. He explained that he noticed where my hair stopped and the braids began at my interview. The braids were considerably shorter than the extensions..he said. I was entertained. I chuckled and said yes. This is all my hair. It does amazing things when it is stretched. Goodness! Why do they care?
 
Wanna stop white women weave checking in their tracks?

Look them over and determine what is appropriate...

Are your boobs fake? :look:

Do you get lip injections? :look:

Do you get Botox injections? :look:

Do you get fat from other parts of your body transferred to your butt? :look:

Do you throw up your food or just starve yourself? :look:

Your hair is so thin, raggedy and damaged to you want the number to my stylist? :look:

As your making one or more of the above statements, do not smile or bat a eye. Give that I'm concerned but I really don't give a damn look.


Let's not forget they wear weaves and tracks (or other "extensions" too)...the difference is that people don't assume that they can't possibly have long hair as well, or automatically assume that their hair is a weave.

That's more what gets me about propaganda like Good hair. Not that people don't enhance their hair, or protective style, etc...but that it appears that it's the only option for us or short hair. Like it could not be that we are just styling our hair in various ways just like other women of other cultures do various things to their hair too.
 
Let's not forget they wear weaves and tracks (or other "extensions" too)...the difference is that people don't assume that they can't possibly have long hair as well, or automatically assume that their hair is a weave.

That's more what gets me about propaganda like Good hair. Not that people don't enhance their hair, or protective style, etc...but that it appears that it's the only option for us or short hair. Like it could not be that we are just styling our hair in various ways just like other women of other cultures do various things to their hair too.


@ Lucki

I've heard ww ask other ww if they had extensions, they even assume it's weave due to the length. Very long hair (WL,HL, CL) is rare these days, even among ww. Not Asian and Hispanic but I'm sure they ask each other too.

I'm not really surprised that WP are asking about our hair. Thanks to visable tracks, poorly placed wigs and Good Hair many people of other races and even BP think BW can't grow hair long. Some think we are absolutely bald. :lol:

Regarding the Chris Rock documentary, I still haven't seen it. Now that I think about it, I was skyping with a White guy not to long ago and he complimented me on my hair and asked if it was all natural or real. He then asked me if I had seen Good Hair, I told him no I haven't. He proceeded to tell me what a great movie it was and that I should see it. :rolleyes: I asked him why should I see it? He then told me he learned some things he didn't know and he seemed enlightened and excited about it.

I've noticed that the only WP who opening ask about our hair are Americans, not Europeans. Has anyone else noticed this? Depending on which part of Europe Black people aren't their in great numbers so they don't have that familarity. Or it could be that they are just more mannerable and polite which I have found to be true.
 
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WOW you got a white people weave check??? Dang you must have some long hair!!
 
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A white woman once came up to me when I was wearing my Halley's Curls natural weave and she told me my hair was beautiful. Then she said that she knows that it's all mine because she saw the Chris Rock movie and knows that you can't buy weave like that.
:perplexed
 
A white woman once came up to me when I was wearing my Halley's Curls natural weave and she told me my hair was beautiful. Then she said that she knows that it's all mine because she saw the Chris Rock movie and knows that you can't buy weave like that.
:perplexed

OMGosh!!! Girl!! I LOL'ed so loud I scared the cat!!

That was funny!
 
See this is why WE have to be careful about how WE are portrayed on TV and the Big Screen because some White people can't separate Fiction from Reality:nono::nono: Also we have to be careful how we are on a daily.
Because, they will make the assuption that if One black person does this or that, they all do it. but when it's their race doing this or that it's that individual not the entire race.

Example 50 years ago My DH's step father was mugged by a black man, after that all black people became dangerous in their eyes.

Conversely 15 years ago my DH was jumped by a gang of white guys and mugged. Now do you think they decided that ALL white people are dangerous??? Nope just the guys that jumped him. Oh and when it happened he told me everyone asked him ,"where they black?":nono:


A white woman once came up to me when I was wearing my Halley's Curls natural weave and she told me my hair was beautiful. Then she said that she knows that it's all mine because she saw the Chris Rock movie and knows that you can't buy weave like that.
:perplexed
 
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Yes, my fiancé brother’s girlfriend.

We talked for about 2 hours outside when I first arrived at the house …BUT she waited until dinner time at the table of 10 to ask if I’m wearing a weave. Back story: She is very jealous that her boyfriend is very nice to me… she. cannot. stand. it… she should get mad at her man and leave me alone! I was stunned that she would pull such a thing even though she has done other things in the past. And funny enough his whole family saw “good hair” too. Ugh!

Im not one of those black women who feels comfortable with those types of questions even when asked by other blacks. Usually when someone enhances something they don’t feel comfortable with being questioned about it. That’s why eveyone goes for the natural look so its not obvious. When I have my waistlength hair by Christmas Im going to be swagin my neck haarrd hoping she asked, then while were on the topic Im going to suggest some lip plumper’s and skin tanners and a verry sweet and inviting voice. I may even pass a comment or two on her horridly thin lifeless hair is and suggest jessica simpsons hair extensions to add fullness. That B*.
 
Hmm. I never experienced this. Most people in general just compliment me on my hair if they say anything about it at all. I mostly get reactions from white people when they see it curly, not so much straight.

Because my hair is prone to poofiness, I think most people know it's real, even when it gets long and when I have it straightened.

I wouldn't take it personally. I would take it as a compliment that your hair looks good and well maintained. Many people (black women included) are used to seeing black women with shorter tresses and hair that's not always healthy.

Also a lot of white, hispanic, and asian women wear weave now. I sometimes find myself questioning non-blacks girls with long hair if it's all theres because extensions have become so popular.

this is true, in my microbiology lab my partner is this black chick and she noticed tht one white girl was wearing a phony pony.at first i was like nuuh uuh but then i looked closely and i i realized it actually was a phony pony i was so shocked lol

Wanna stop white women weave checking in their tracks?

Look them over and determine what is appropriate...

Are your boobs fake? :look:

Do you get lip injections? :look:

Do you get Botox injections? :look:

Do you get fat from other parts of your body transferred to your butt? :look:

Do you throw up your food or just starve yourself? :look:

Your hair is so thin, raggedy and damaged to you want the number to my stylist? :look:

As your making one or more of the above statements, do not smile or bat a eye. Give that I'm concerned but I really don't give a damn look.

lmaaoo omg im going to use this the next time if i ever get weave checked again by a white chick

Yes, my fiancé brother’s girlfriend.

We talked for about 2 hours outside when I first arrived at the house …BUT she waited until dinner time at the table of 10 to ask if I’m wearing a weave. Back story: She is very jealous that her boyfriend is very nice to me… she. cannot. stand. it… she should get mad at her man and leave me alone! I was stunned that she would pull such a thing even though she has done other things in the past. And funny enough his whole family saw “good hair” too. Ugh!

Im not one of those black women who feels comfortable with those types of questions even when asked by other blacks. Usually when someone enhances something they don’t feel comfortable with being questioned about it. That’s why eveyone goes for the natural look so its not obvious. When I have my waistlength hair by Christmas Im going to be swagin my neck haarrd hoping she asked, then while were on the topic Im going to suggest some lip plumper’s and skin tanners and a verry sweet and inviting voice. I may even pass a comment or two on her horridly thin lifeless hair is and suggest jessica simpsons hair extensions to add fullness. That B*.

WHAAAaaaATT?!!!!!aawww HAYLS nawls!usually when im pissed/upset i dont say anything but in that situation i wouldve deff gone off i wouldve dropped my "white-girl-im-so-innocent" accent and gone straight to my black-haitian-you-messed-with the-wrong-**** accent.i woulda thrown a little random jamaican accent somewhere in there too and called tht heiffer out lool nuuuuh uuuh i cant believe becky tried you like that!
When you hit WL you better whip it in that beckys face,whip it hard girl WHIP.IT.HAAAARD.!lol
 
Next time, shake it vigourously and run your hand through it, parting it with your fingers.. Heck, with BOTH hands too!
 
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