What is your hair type?

[nightglow]

Do you know your hair type?

Spoiler: Visual Chart

Type: 1 Straight | 2 Wavey | 3 Curly | 4 Coily

Texture: A Fine | B Medium | C Course

( I have hair type 1B.)

Spoiler: How to observe hair

The next time you wash your hair, allow it to air-dry without any products in it. This will help you to define the natural shape or pattern (hair texture) of your strands.

You can use the following as a guideline:

If your hair dries straight without a bend or curl, then you have straight hair (type 1).
If your hair dries with a slight curve or “S” shape, then you have wavy hair (type 2).
If your hair dries with a defined curl, then you have curly hair (type 3).
If your hair dries to form tight curls or spirals, then you have coily hair (type 4).

Each of these hair textures will need special care and attention to enhance the best characteristics.
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Hair density refers to the thickness of your hair strands, which generally falls into 3 categories:

Thin (fine)
Medium
Thick (coarse)

The density of your hair will affect how well it will hold styles and react to certain products.

A quick and easy way to see which category your hair falls into is to take a strand of your hair and lay it next to a piece of sewing thread. If your strand is thinner than the sewing thread, then you have thin (fine) hair. If it’s thicker than the thread, your hair will fall into the thick (coarse) category. Anything in between them would be medium.

You will also find that fine hair can’t hold curls very well whereas medium hair is relatively easy to style and can hold curls for a longer period (thin/medium hair can easily be volumized when you apply the right products) Thicker strands are super easy to curl, but because they are less supple, it can be tricky to style them or get them to hold their shape.

"How to" credit: Rossano Ferretti parma

Some facts from helpful Google:
Wavy Hair is the most common globally.
The color black is the most common globally.
Medium texture is the most common globally.
Each strand of hair can contain traces of 14 different elements (including gold).
Human hair is used by groups of eco-friendly volunteers to clean up oil spills because it can absorb oil out of water.
100,000 hairs can be found on the average adult scalp.
Nearly nine in ten men feel their hair is a big part of their identity.
A 2019 survey by Dove revealed that a large majority (8 out of 10) of women feel pressure to wear their hair a certain way to fit in with societal beauty standards.


Have other thoughts about hair?

 

[Snek]

Thoughts on hair....nothing comes to mind. I don't actually have any hair. Snakes are lucky and have scales

 

[Mairmalade]

I feel like I fall between a 3B and 3C, but I voted for 3C since my hair has more defined coils/curls.

I'm sure there's a lot I could/should be doing for my hair type.

Moroccanoil Curl Defining Cream has worked well for me (scrunch in post-shower):

I don't use anything fancy for shampoo/conditioner, but I do want to try a leave-in conditioner soon for the mornings!

 

[Snowesque]

Like the post above I'm between 3B and 3C, usually leaning more 3B. For shampoo I use Kerastase Curl Manifesto, then for conditioner I use Garnier Ultimate Blends Banana Hair Food. I started using these pretty recently and they're awesome. For my brush I use a Mason Pearson Sensitive type and only brush my hair when it's dry.

 

[oak]

I think my hair is 1A or 1B cause my hair dries completely straight.

 

[VernalLapin]

I probably have 2A hair. it’s definitely wavy and the hairs seem thin.

 

[rrenaa]

I would say my hair is a mix of 3A and 3B, it’s very curly and hard to manage. I usually just straighten it but if I do leave it curly, I use a leave in conditioner and curling gel/mousse

 

[S.J.]

I'm not entirely sure how to tell the difference between fine and medium diameter hair, so I'd say somewhere between 2A and 2B? I've voted 2A, since I have a feeling that's the closer of the two!

 

[thatawkwardkid]

1C.

 

[Crash]

i have super fine wavy hair that's somewhere in between 2b-2c without product in it, but with my favorite gel (LA looks blue gel is the goat) it gets to 3a! i love curly hair so much and i wish mine was curlier

 

[Doo]

2A? I think. It’s very fine and it’s not curly but it doesn’t dry straight

 

[Croconaw]

I’m 3A, but I keep it short that nobody would ever know.

 

[Neb]

I am 1A most likely. My hair is as straight as it gets. I’d love to have curly hair, but the thought of curling it sounds like too much effort.

 

[pottercrossing]

Either 3A or 3B, I'm not entirely sure. I love my curls but they are hell to manage sometimes, even with my short hair.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I have Type 1A hair.. wish I had wavy hair though

 

[Ravenkitty22]

I have 1C hair, which is both awesome and annoying, because it feels like my hair has an identity crisis- straight on top, attempting to wave at the bottom.

 

[digimon]

i think i fall somewhere between 2C and 3B range, different sections of my hair kinda curled differently. i find that the top part of my hair always has the least defined curls and then everything else under kinda just does it's own thing. the 2C sections might just be from me frying my hair off with heat tools and destroying my curl pattern rip....

 

[Aniko]

It used to be 1A, very straight hair impossible to curl but now they are slightly wavy. So 2B

 

[Iris_T]

I'm mostly a straight type but its gets wavey at the end when I got longer hair.. no idea about the texture I think maybe is fine so I'm like 1AB?

 

[Aerith]

I have 1A, but the women on my Mom's side of the family have a weird gene where one generation is wavy, the next is straight, then wavy, and so on. My Mom has 2B hair and so did my great-grandmother, but my grandmother's is like mine. I imagine if I ever have a daughter, she'll have wavy, too.

I think wavy hair is quite pretty, but my mother hates it, and my niece dislikes hers as well, but I'm not a fan of my hair type, either. I haven't met anyone who genuinely likes their hair, lol.