Hair Type Hair Type What's My Hair Type?

Hello to all of my lovely naturals (yes I decided to change my greeting)

How many of you are fixated on your hair type? How many of you just want a label for your hair? I personally believe that hair type is not important but I do understand where you all are coming from. So I have decided to dedicate this post to hair types. Please keep in mind that we are mixed with a variety of ethnicity's and our hair types can not (in most cases) be assigned to one type, more than likely you will have a mixture of hair types. Not to mention that years of chemically straightening you hair could have changed your hair's curl pattern. What I am trying to get at is that lets not get to fixated on our hair types because it can easily be turned into a good hair vs. bad hair (although neither exsists) type of thing. I can fully understand wanting to know your type for the purpose of identifying products that work best for your hair, but don't limit yourself because something is not for your hair type try all products and hairstyles. You might be pleasently surprised and find yourself rocking a new doo that a type 3a introduced you to! Okay with that said and done I have done a lot of research on finding what hair types exsists and what my hair type is. There is a ton of different information out there some is extensive and some is general. As of now there are two ways to catagorize your hair the numbering system and the LOIS system, the number system focuses on coil pattern and the LOIS system focuses on hair shape. I choose to go with the numbering system which goes from 1-4 with A,B,or C after the numbers. The lettering is to determine the thinckness of the hair strand. Now on to hair types.....oh my hair type is 3c.


Hair Type 1-Straight no curl pattern
Hair Type 2-S shaped waves no curl pattern
Hair Type 3-Has a S curl pattern to it might turn straight when wet but will go back to its S curl pattern once dry does not hold a sheen and is soft to the touch
Hair Type 4-Has a L shape,Z shape, or coils that form O shapes. When wet it will appear the same as being dry. This hair type will not hold a sheen might appear wiry and is fragile.


And there you have it the hair types lets not get hung up on these lets focus on our natural hair. Please let me know how you feel about labeling our hair as "types"




Always,


Verano