First of all, you sound like a great friend to her, and I love hearing how much support and positivity she gets for you and her friends. It’s amazing
As for the hair, if you explain to her how it was an accident, and how sorry you were hopefully she will understand. From there, help her to figure out how she would like to tell them about this topic. Ask her if she would like you to clear it up, or if she wants to do it on her own.
Other than that, continue being your supportive self.
A pretty good explanation would be or say 1. She can’t grow her hair out well and 2. She doesn’t want to damage anything with hair dye. Just likes to switch things up and have fun with different hair types. that puts her in the spot to own it as a stylistic choice
>we’ll call her Lola
Either you’re really cheeky or I’m really old.
You sound like a really great friend and I’m glad she has somebody so supportive as you.
As far as giving your friends a reason as to why she wears a wig she can always just say something like “I just like to wear them.” She doesn’t need to have some reason other than the basic truth. She doesn’t have to go on with a further explanation on why she likes to wear wigs. She can keep it as vague and nonchalant as she wants to. Also your friend group aren’t exactly entitled to an explanation, they should respect her privacy even if she never addresses it.
There’s a third option: Tell them she doesn’t like her natural hair and wigs make her feel more confident without having to dye and process her natural hair. Tell them that her hair is thin, brittle, damaged, hard to grow, whatever you want, and that the wigs make her feel pretty, but she doesn’t want to talk about it because it’s a sore spot. Hell, she can even tell them “because I like to” and if they ask for more information she just can say “it saves me so much time” or “you know that feeling when you take your bra off after a long day? I get that with my wig too” or “because I think it’s cool.” I’ve had tones of friends do “weird” things that when asked, just say something along the lines “I like to, it’s cool” and that’s that. She doesn’t HAVE to tell people the truth, and she might feel better being reminded it’s not just trans girls and cancer patients that wear wigs anymore. Look up Glam & Gore. A completely normal girl who in pretty much all of her videos wears wigs. Most celebrities wear wigs too: most of the Kardashian-Jenners, Rihanna, Cardi B…. I’m sure there’s dozens more, but that’s who I can think of off hand.