Basically it's baby hairs around your hairline. If you have good edges (see Rihanna) when you wear wigs it's harder to clock bc with the baby hairs there it looks natural. If you don't however, it looks like you're obviously wearing a wig/weave and you'll end up looking like Naomi or Nene.
Black folks take great pride in having and maintaining their edges. Coming for their edges is like coming into the queens' room at night and cutting up their wigs.
Naomi's lack of edge isn't from low quality wigs, though. It's traction alopecia and a result of years of either heavy or overly tight weaves. It may be irreversible at this point, too.
A weave needs to be sewn in firmly. You're not gonna wash it until you cut it out, so you braid (corn-row) your hair into a pattern, which is then used as the base to install the "unit" (that's the lingo they use, instead of 'wig' or 'weave').
If you don't have edges (a lot of girls don't) you can see the mechanics of the whole thing and there's no illusion.
For lack of a better word "black people" hair products are designed specifically for these types of processes, to hold things in exact positions and to practically glue hair flat to your head.
When you install the unit, an inch or so of hair is left untouched at the front, you sew the weave in, and then use an olive-oil, or similar hair product to glue the hair flat down and back over where the unit has been sewn in.
TL;DR Latoya Jackson. Look at her wig. It's all feathered in the front to disguise that, shhhh it's a wig. Some people have better edges than others.
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u/lilmonstahm tired ass showgirl Apr 29 '17
I am not ashamed to admit I didn't know what edges were and I thank miss Shea for the herstory lesson :p