Black women need to get real about hair weaves. At any given time, 50 percent of black women are hiding their real hair with fake hair. One of the options for managing our hair is to sew another woman’s hair into our own. This process is clinically proven to cause permanent hair loss, yet as a community, we have spent decades minimizing the effects of this particular hair practice to seem inclusive and not self-pathologize what we’re doing to meet white beauty standards. Every woman partakes in activities to look and feel beautiful, from plumping her lashes to shaving her armpits to painting her toenails.