Nope, that's her real hair, to which she admits it takes a lot everyday to look straightened.
That's her when she was young, as herself.
As an Italian in an Italian neighborhood in Queens when she grew up, dressing as so-called "black" was not an option, unless getting color view bruises she'd recieve en route to the casket was her thing.
You wanna focus on her hypocrisy? Then catch her when she complained that the Jersey Shore was all bogus negative streotypes of Italians and how one wasn't even Italian (actually Foley isn't an Italian name either, but half Irish is ok in her book it seems).
Months later she hosted an interview with Jersey Housewives, because stereoptypical loudmoth crass spouses of convicted mobsters in prison aren't a negative thing for her.
Now THAT'S hypocrisy.