Rachel Dolezal just got asked the single question that many people have been dying to ask.
"So, everybody wants to know. Your hair - how do you do your hair? Is it a perm? Is it a weave? Everybody's asking," NBC News' Amber Payne asked the former NAACP leader. "Everybody wants to know, Rachel," the persistent managing editor of NBCBLK said in a video covering the interview.
And she is right. People who have been following the news about Dolezal, a white woman who faked her identity and said she was black, are curious to know how she does her hair. It is, after all, the hair that completes her almost authentic African American look.
"This is a weave," Dolezal revealed. "I do it myself."
Dolezal has been seen sporting curly bobbed weaves and long braids. She once wore an updo hairstyle of her dreadlocks similar to Beyonce's style in Cuba two years ago.
Having worked as a part-time hairdresser, it is no surprise that Dolezal can do her own hair. She told Payne she can also do dreads and braids, not just for herself but for others, too.
In a 2014 interview, she said she would do hairdressing and ethnic hairstyling when she needed extra money. Her clients were usually just friends or younger girls she was mentoring. Styling her friends' hair is something Dolezal enjoyed doing.
"We get to know each other well, especially when I'm doing a six- to eight-hour braid job," she said, according to the New York Post.
In an interview with Savannah Guthrie of NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, Dolezal maintained that she identifies as black, and said she definitely is not white.
When asked about how she maintains the color of her skin, Dolezal simply answered, "I definitely don't stay out of the sun." But, she said, she has never had surgery to make her skin darker.
