When former NAACP president Rachel Dolezal spoke with NBC Today’s Matt Lauer about her transracial orientation on Tuesday, most viewers wondered how she got her Caucasian hair to behave like black hair. The answer is simpler than you thought.
The 37-year-old hairstylist-by-trade told an NBC News affiliate that her curly hair was actually hair weave.
“This is a weave and I do it myself,” Dolezal told Amber Payne, editor of NBCBLK website.
Dolezal told Payne she would refuse to answer the same question if “I was at a grocery store or anywhere else,” because it’s “none of your business, back off.”
Dolezal is known for wearing various ethnic hairstyles including braids extensions and cornrows to bring her imagined ethnicity more in line with her reality.
Many black observers assumed Rachel’s tight curls were achieved through a process known as a straw set, aka a “protective hairstyle”. For black women with unruly tight curls, a straw set loosens our kinky curl pattern and makes natural hair more appealing to the eye.
But for white women with bone straight hair, the straw set look is nearly impossible to achieve without dumping mass quantities of damaging holding spray on their heads.
Thankfully those of us who are 100 percenters don’t have to go that route.
Blacknaps.org has tips on how you can achieve Rachel’s look with just a pack of straws, some bobby pins and a portable hair dryer.
To create this style you will need:
• Drinking straws: Yes, the sippy sippy kind. The size you need will be determined by your hairs length. 1” to 2” lengths can use regular sized drinking straws. Hair that is 2” or longer will need large diameter straws like the ones at McDonald’s (hint, hint).
• Bobby pins: To hold the straws in place.
• Gel: I prefer something with a soft flexible hold like ORS Lock and Twist Gel. Be sure to choose one that is not drying.
• Rat tail comb: For parting and sectioning.
The next items are optional but will make the job a lot easier:
• End papers: These will help to ensure that the ends wrap around the straws flat resulting in smoother ends. They also make it easier to wrap shorter hair
• Hooded dryer or bonnet attachment for blow dryer: To speed drying time.
• Spray bottle: To keep hair damp
Ready, set!
As with any style start with clean, moisturized and detangled hair. Determine how large you want each section to be and cut straws to that length. For example, if you will be rolling 1” wide sections cut the straws at least 1” in length (this can be done ahead of time). Smaller sections will last longer and result in a tighter, more defined curl.
Part out a section and detangle from end to root. Make sure it is damp and apply a small amount of gel concentrating on the ends. Comb through the ends to make sure they are flat and fold an end paper vertically over them (optional). Start wrapping the hair around one of the straw sections and roll all the way up to the scalp. Insert a bobby pin through each end of the straw to secure making sure that the hair is also caught in the pin. I prefer putting a bobby pin above the curl at the scalp and another below at the base of the curl.
Continue this process until the entire head is set. Allow to air dry, sit under a hooded dryer or use a bonnet attachment connected to a blow dryer. If allowed to air dry straws will need to remain in overnight. Make sure hair is completely dry before removing the straws. Failure to do this WILL result in frizz.
Set it Free!
Once the hair is completely dry, begin removing the straws. Adding a little oil to the hands before doing this will help to cut down on frizz. I will admit that a small amount of frizz in this style provides a more natural look. After all of the straws are removed begin fluffing and separating curls to close in parts and to achieve the desired fullness.
Congrats you are done!
Considerations:
Hair does not need to be parted straight or all set in one direction.
Some people prefer not to cut the straws and use the full length. I find this more difficult, especially for short hair and you will not be able to sleep on them.
Time to complete is 4 to 8 hours depending on length and thickness of the hair (does not include prep and drying time).
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Comes in and falls right out
I can’t stand this woman.
I bet she never got weave-checked. #whiteprivilege
the funny chit about this, my boss (who is Caucasian, bless her heart) gon ask me “So how did she get her hair hair like that”. I’m looking at her over the top of my glasses like “bish why?”
ain’t this some mess chile
I tried straw curls once, mine were too tightly wound.
Now if she said she dyed her hair with a kool-aid packet, she’d have more credibility…..
Old school Mountain Berry flavor.
I’m salty they discontinued that color….oops I mean flavor.
miley gets twerking and Rachel gets tight curls. Cultural misappropriation is too easy
Funny they’re curious about it when it’s them, but when it’s sm1 black, u need to change it or comb it. And this is why I said I’d stop cutting my hair. White guys can walk around in the same office/dept with hair down their butts and nothing is said. Black guy has long hair or locks and he’s out of “dress code.”
“This is a weave and I do it myself,” Dolezal told Amber Payne, editor of NBCBLK website.
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Wonders if a microwave was involved. If so, she might be black after all.
@futuredocdonte:disqus You on one this morning too, huh? HAHAHA!
Trifecta! I be knowin!
I told y’all. I TOLD Y’ALL (boosie baby voice)
We getting a Carters post to and more trans gender, racial, fat, diabetes, ISIS and Republican posts too
Don’t forget violent, lazy and scary.
Um who thought that was her real hair? Her being white doing hair isn’t the problem bc are some that can get down; low key the steps are on point.
This pic!!!!!!
Life Affirming!
BOL
I hate that chit a passion.
you will get pure cursed out.
Ask me first, just don’t touch my hair
“This is a weave and I do it myself,”
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I would say “You ain’t NEVER lied….” but…..well…. darn.
I hate you….its true but still…
This was a social experiment for her. She’s gonna write a book, sell the rights to a movie and get paid. Hell, she’ll prolly start offering training classes to white bishes.
:roll eyes:
Not doing a damn thing at work. I need to sat this phone down
I follow that YTer! That’s all I got.
I bet whoever plays her, wears that ugly ass wig Angelina Jolie wore in Salt.
Won’t that story really about a black woman?
idk
but I’m white today
tomorrow I plan to be trans species
Sandra messin wit us…and its all yo fault!
**storms off wailing…head thowed back**
LOL blue raspberry was my baby
I’d make it fresh, then let it chill to an almost slush state.
Drink it out of wine glass all classy & junk…
So heres what Im thinking. Give opinions. Fill mason jar with popcorn kernels with tag that says for a very POPular teacher.
Sha’Rachel looked like a pissed of black woman in that middle pic
My aunt used to do this shyt all the time. I’m all happy go lucky, bout to pop me a hot dog in the micro, only to open and find what looks like a burnt dog balled up in that bytch.
Hot dogs and broken plate pieces all over the flo’.
Cute, cheap n easy…perfecto!
An angry black woman you say?
So stereotypical no?
**weepin** omg… ????
Our men are being eliminated, our culture is being assimilated, and our power is being neutralized by the slight of hand trick. Don’t look at the real issues, come harp on this foolishness. Look they ain’t talking about us killin them no more cuz we worried bout ONE confused Sprite with Coke in her can.. AND WHO THE FUKK TOLD MARC JACOBS IT WAS COOL TO STEAL BANTU KNOTS AND SAY HE INSPIRED THIS LOOK!! (eliminate, assimilate and whats left neutralize) WHITE PEOPLE ARE REALLY THE BORG FROM STAR TREK!!!
So..I think its safe to say Rachel IS NOT getting a postage stamp like the real life white woman who helped found the NAACP did huh?
Maybe? No?
WHALE
lololol
we forgot a dope a main post.
5 to 1 it is Brandon Jennings in Tae or Ciara
I was thinking about God tea too. So 3 get popcorn 3 tea, or just all one thing?
you not lie’n
Afternoon ma’am !
Love it
Like Lynn on “Beauty Shop”
She was just “pretending” to be black tho.
Im going to lurnch and fukk this lady Imm finna go eat a mayonnaise sammich with my pink up…show them I can do shyt they do too…stomps off
LMAO Chile….I can’t
Man listen fdb
Ben Carson still trying to figure that one out himself.
I tried them straws years ago. My hair too long. My patience too short. Never got to the end. I love the style when finished though. Not really liking it on Rach up there.
Top of the hour to ya!
My bet is Ciara adjacent
Thugs!
Dude said on the radio this morning that since everybody else can be trans-something, he’s going to be trans-student loan. Said tomorrow, he going to wake up as a fully paid for college grad.
My coworker who has the most beautiful natural hair ever and is married to a man from Africa….came to work hot as fish grease about them bantu knots
But she made flied chicken and corn on the cobbuh.
She was black.
Don’t forget your unsweet tea.
Yeah Rachel can’t eem make collards.
Is the teacher YT?
HAIL NAW!! **Sofia from color purpah voice**
What? She woke up like dis! ?
Wait until these criminals start pleading transguilty, cause they identify themselves as innocent men
saw that in a meme
I tried it but my hair is super thick, Ma arms felt like jello. That wig looks like she got it from NyHairMall for 25.99 or maybe is the orange “natural” glow that it growing it off.
You sound like mister when he see a yt person hitchhiking. He be like dont feel sorry for him he using this experience to write a book. I try not to pay him to much attention cause he stoopid.
we worried bout ONE confused Sprite with Coke in her can..
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#stolet …….just like our skin color
Postage stamp? Shiiiiiiiit, this chick gone need a food stamp now that she ain’t got no job.
Maybe if they give her a stamp like the founding yt lady cracka, she will get gone.
I.JUST.CAN’T.ANYMORE Every black person has been asked about this broad and what “we” think about her. White lady at my old job asked what I thought. I said bish cray, she your kin, what you think?
Lol..and she had the “booty” and got her hair ghettofied. She was “down”.
Hell, I NEED a food stamp WITH a job. Fvk you mean? LOL
Speaking of Sprites and fuckery behavior.. It’s the dept goodie day and this one hefty heifa always brings some bullish but hoards 5-6 plates of good food. This bish walked in with a damn bowl of trail mix talking about it took her 2 hours to make it last night. Ain’t nobody turch that ish.. She made a beeline for the sub platter and chicken salad I brought and I said I ain’t through putting it together I’ll let you know when I’m done.
OK frfr…I used to eat miracle whip sandwiches.
it tastes betta than mayonaisse.
Forget it. You ain’t fat and lazy enough. *sarcasm
I said HAIL NAW!!
You ain’t put no banana or nothing on it. *blink
You nasty. HAHAHAHA!
Just like Ms. Sofia said it twice?
#petty
Ok now that’s where we part ways.
Miracle Whip is satan’s lube, Mayonnaise……….Is where it’s at
I AINT eem SEE you
That straw set in that above video looks nothing like Rachel’s hair. My real hair looks like Rachel’s hair weave and I achieve it without straws or anything else.
Lmaooooo
Okay, now I understand why the news media keeps bringing this woman up…they want to equate her story and ‘struggle’ to Caitlyn-Bruce. I mean if we can accept a white woman living as black, surely we can accept a man living as a woman. gtfohwtbs!
She was fancy. They always bring them nut covered cheese balls here. Or a casserole that look like dog vomit.
Don’t nobody eat that shyt.
YES! I wanna get the some Skrimps and 19.99 crab meat too, I’ve been craving a crab cake but my spirit won’t spend 25 on the can. smh
I am! I got the T-shirt on today. She always bringing garbage and then at the end of the day she say ‘well I see I have snacks to take home” shoulda kept it at home. Some damn trail mix.
She orange. She probably wanted root realness. How does 1 get orange though? Spray tan?
LOL trail mix, have the YT folk finally given up on the waldorf salad?
WAS???? I got a pack of that in the catchall drawer RAT NOW!
All of them are.
This one guy wife insist on baking a cake every month and EVERY month that mfer shoulda stayed in the oven about 10 more mins.. Shid just be running.
bwhahahahaha
Fellas would you smash or pass?
We have a pot luck next Friday.
We got one of those too.
Oh sweetie, I’d pass, pass, pass. I wouldn’t come within a mile of that FISH. PASS.
Make it for me!
I can only drink water now!! ?
And have your ass running if you eat it.
He probably be gassing his wife up,too. Talking about “Honey it’s that time again.”
Better then someone bringing in “Dip”. What the hehl is “Dip”?!?! and why is it just white, did you just dump sour cream in a bowl and sprinkle parsley on top? Take it back.
I guess that might take to much effort. One lady thinks she’s Betty Crocker.. She brought a pan of brownies and I love some brownies and all other sweets.. The other minority gave me the look that said keep moving. I took one and took a bite and my damn teeth started throbbing, straight diabetes in a pan.. You won’t give me the suga!
Then that bish gets a Rachael Dolezal starter pack…
Tanner
A $5 pack Marley hair)
A metro bus pass
And a summer pass to the cultural museum
It comes complete in a keepsake purpa Crown Royal bag.
ummm well ma’am fxhk off Tony brought dip and I swear the chips were open. He brings OJ or diet soda every month. What the hell we gone do with this plain ass dip.
Yep! ?
HAHAHAHA!!!! Take a half day and GO HOME!!!
For black women with unruly tight curls, a straw set loosens our kinky curl pattern and makes natural hair more appealing to the eye.
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They insist that we have one every month so I’m all aboard making queso dip, bringing hot wings, chicken tenders you know shid I want to eat… This mfers got me fxcked up thinking I’m gone feed them while they bring this crap. Watch what happens next month. I’ma bring a bag of ice.
Whatevs man!! Miracle whip tastes betta than mayo on a sandwich. ?
What yall puttin in yall Rachael Dolezal “black like me” starter kits?
Here’s mine…..
Tanner
A $5 pack Marley hair
Metro bus pass
Sunflower seeds
It all comes complete in a keepsake purpa Crown Royal bag.
Or you can buy several wHigs to achieve this dry messy look. Take it off each night and throw it under the sink.
LMBO
I like Duke’s but my momma swears by miracle whip
I don’t hate her but I am REALLY tired of her getting shine for tanning and getting a perm.
“The 37-year-old hairstylist-by-trade told an NBC News affiliate that her curly hair was actually hair weave.”
those with common sense and can see knew that from the jump.
I’m tired of hearing about her azz.
That’s salad dressing??
Yuck. Tony probably don’t wash his hand either. Its always one who lick their fingers going through the line.
Pryynnnnnnnnn : – How the heck are you?
Martin disc set.
Gone nah!! ???
Gotta have Red Koolaid!
Cole you stooped, ROFL!!!!!
Hey now
LMBO
add: Hot sauce and a child support application.
Falls out laghing
My kool-aid is notorious for the start of onset “suggahs”. Stick to ya water, baby. LOL
I’ve never ate that sandwich, & will not.
Just gimme some peanut butter, yall hurting my feelings
This lady is one joke after another…
Grape Nileators
A jar of Blue Majic
A sour pickle
A big bag of Takis and a Fruit Punch Arizona (tall can)
And an Obama phone with the T9 keypad.
Hell yeah!!!! Last month I tried to coordinate so we wouldn’t just have a bunch of random shix,.. So I said hey Mike how about you bring a fruit tray.. He said OH NO Linda feelings would be hurt if she couldn’t bake something.. She enjoys doing that for ya’ll. She don’t bake from me. The first time I cut into her cake and it started sliding and leaning like the Leaning Tower of Pisa I said NO NO NO!!
2 vanilla dutch masters
a bonnet
Hollywood Beauty Olive oil Cholesterol
Red Hot
and a Dansk cookie tin
Good lord! I’m nauseous ??
So downstairs I got kicked off the couch cause I was told I ain’t a Temptation
Coupla black n milds…not a whole pack, just 1 or 2.
But Rachael lied, why can’t @kdub ? LOL
Pack of now & laters, Chico sticks, flaming hots
Make sure one of ’em already been shorted out for later.
#Helpful
Luckily for us here, folks bring stuff in for our carry in potlucks? From the sto’. One fella here brings Bojangles and biscuits every TIME and I luh him for it!
Lmaoo mine is known for being a bit sour, told them to stop telling me to make it
I’m brining pulled pork in the crock pot
Last time I fried fish; they ain’t know what to do
Like you said chit I want to eat! A few of go in too so I’m not eating the whole cost
Who dis crybaby?
Remember the episode when Tommy introduced Aquanetta! She was Rachel’s before pic!
Shiiiiddd! I can be. LOL
Tell Linda FOH.
From the office.
I’m putting her ass under a huge rock. Tired of this bitch
I just want snacks and food n’chit.
Yes. It’s so disrespectful!
That’s Betty nasty ass. Walking around here smelling like cigarette, mouth ball, two day old used pads and strawberry ass.. I can go over to her desk now and ask for a pen and promise you she got 3 plates stored in there for later.
New post.
Spray tanned to Hell. She looks like she just mixed some coco powder and lotion, said Oh Alright that’s what they look like.
EYE like Mayo…. and I just / your comment. LOL
About 1/2 here do that.. But you got those stubborn few that want to dust something out their freezer and bring it. The VP is good for bringing Bojangles, chick fil a or something for Panera.
LOL you always gotta take the advice from the other minority!
Gotta be Jif Natural. YUM!
The difference is we are easier to accept yt with intentions of betterment for us when you come in as you. Done dawn a black suit and pretend to know my struggle. Cuz at the end of the day she can trans her azz right back and we cant…
Who da hell is a Duke?
Difference?
A summons for child support court.
Wait.
Rachel got a broke baby daddy already don’t she?
I’m mad she made trail mix. Why would 1 do that?
That’s always been my thought process. Why even go through the trouble of doing it if you just gon bring trash?
When your “other” coworker give you that look, you move the fukk on. We actually go in packs and tell each other what somebody cooked. I always end up eating the shyt I brought and maybe a soda and some tator chips. But only if I get to open the bag first.
She more into the “struggle” than I thought.
Mayo is sweet, MW is tangy & a bit sour
Gawd I’m fat…….
I just had my first banana and whip sammich..( My mom is country are hell) that mess was bomb. I felt shamed but would do it again.
Girl I was too through when I saw it!
With strawberry or apple jam!
Gawd I’m fat……….
We ALL mad she brought it. Shid got buy some Oreos or something that we can identify. I’m funny about food. Ion know if your house clean, you got pets? Do you wash your hands when you prep food? I have to many questions.
Girl my yt work husband came in last time with a nugget tray from Chick Fil A?
…
Took my braids out and used that damn olive oil cholesterol con dish last night?
It was my first month here and I ain’t really know her like that plus I thought cause she was Korean that maybe she ain’t fully appreciate sweets….
Lmaooo I would have yelped
That’s races lol.
Lesson learned.. We communicate with our eyes now. She went to get a big piece of pie I said no ma’am I need to see you about something…She put the knife down quickly.
I understand, but that knowing look…….Asian women don’t play a lot either LOL
It was…. then I found out her husband is Nigra so she got inside scoop.
She don’t play at all.. That’s my bish!. She throw shade faster than me.
Mayo! If you in the south, you know Duke’s…
Yeah I don’t play about my food. I don’t even eat half my family food. They the type to only wash the inside of a dish and not the outside. Hell, I’ll only eat at specific fast food places. Go straight across town to go to the 1 I can trust.
See those be the real MVP’s.!!! I dance every time I see my boss pulling up with bags.
say that! and that long greasy hair smells just like fish oil and salmonella
I’m with you on that and MR is worse than me. We will be at gatherings and they insist you take a plate, he always say oh we ate but we will take it to go… 3 blocks down the road they go to the trash..
**Stomach turns**…why Betty?!?! She probably got cats.
I just brought a jar Saturday lol
She got something and she 50+ and stay with her mama. She say they ain’t got central air or heat. But her azz stay online shopping for ish. She get a package delivered every other day.
Forgot the hair beads and some tin foil for the tips.
Pickled pig foot
Cabinet full of fast food cups
Ampra gel
Number to a dude who hooks up cable
Please
Blackberry jam is my ONLY love.
Rachel’s Whig Closet
Haven’t tried that, I’ll go to the farmer’s market Saturday & try some different jars
Yep. I’m not in the south. But I got south roots so that makes me southern, right? LOL
And it’s always the muhhfukkas who don’t wash they hands when they use the toilet that want to organize the pot luck. Damn near every pot luck, I have a Dr’s appointment. They probably think I got Ebola with a touch of meningitis by now.
hangs head and giggles….. You ain’t lying though..
I am kinda glad that Rachel got out-ed, It’s given me the strength to come out as well. For the last 20 years I have been living as a Clydesdale-Unicorn, and will be stepping down from my position on the Jedi council.
Transsouthern
FLATLINE———–
JL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BYE WHIG!!!!
ROFL!!!!
Y’all know that ain’t nothing but a sew-in…
BAURELY..lol..Nah, we will claim you.
Just musty, germy, and smelling like lost hope…
I thought it was a wig or perm. Lol!
GUHL my MAMA’S SWEET HOME is in (Birm’ham) Alabama. We all up in through Clanton, Jemison, Alabastah…..
Alright now, you are deep.
Hey Cali!
OMG lol
She didn’t even fully commit, she just got a wig.
Ha!
somebody need to straight snatch it off her head….
I identify as a woodland elf. Treat me accordingly bishes.
The numbers from yesterday…
Let’s JAM gel…
The weed man’s phone number….
A burned copy of In Living Color….
This whole thing makes me sad. We are not going to make it on this earth so I hope the next species to take over has purple skin with green polkadots. To avoid wars, same amount of dots and same skin hue.
a hair pick with a ?? on the end of it
A “do the right thing” and “Malcolm x” VHS tape
A tennis skirt
A nehi drank
Got a 2-liter PEACH Nehi in the fridge RAT NAH!
Of course it was a kinky weave….Stevie Wonder could see that….the coils were too perfect with no frizz. Any real sister peeped that long ago.
Miss you hunti CHILE, boy….only thing messing this up you it’s hard to keep up.
This tickled me to death hahahahaha
Transracial better not become a thing because whites can inject, tan and sew-in, etc. to be like our beautiful race. But, when they are followed around a store, or denied a job that’s given to a single token black person, they’ll hurry up and switch back. They may be able to steal a few of our physical features, but they’ll NEVER understand the uphill battle we face if we’re trying to be successful.
Neither can I. The sight of her makes me sick.
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I’m hollen!!!!
I’m hollen!!!!
Us, 100 percenters? Lmao…that’s hilarious