Texture Types Of African Hair
Type 2a hair has several loose natural beachy waves all over the head unlike type 1c hair that features a few slight bends.
Texture types of african hair. Did you know that not all afro hair is the same. Straight coarse hard to curl. 3c hair as a defined corkscrew shape and has the smallest space between the bends in the hair strand of all the type 3 hair. The texture may be coarse and dense.
This is kinky hair rather than it being straight or with light curls. Wavy fine thin can accomplish. Even black hair can have a mixed combination of hair types. Depending on the lo feel and texture their are various groups your hair type can fall into.
We as black women generally have what is called type 4 hair. Each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny angle like helix shape. The alphanumeric chart lists hair types based on texture from numbers 1 to 4 with subcategories of a b and c meaning someone can be a 2b while another is a 4c. 3b hair curls are well defined with less space between each bend and curve than 3a hair.
In this article we ll further explore the different kinds of type 4 hair. Bone straight most asian women fall into this category. African americans are different compared to any other hair textures. Type hair texture hair description.
Straight fine thin very soft shiny hard to hold a curl hair tends to be oily hard to damage. The overall effect is such that compared to straight wavy or curly hair afro textured hair appears denser. Type 2 hair is not as oily as type 1 hair due to the texture pattern of the individual hair strand but type 2 hair isn t dry either within the type 2 category there are type 2a type 2b and type 2c hair categories. The hair can be either straight wavy curly or coiled.
With this knowledge you ll be able to make. Afro textured hair or kinky hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in africa and the african diaspora despite its name this hair texture is also found in some parts of oceania and southeast asia. Having the understanding and knowing your hair type is helpful. 1 is the straightest.