One of the biggest hurdles in the natural hair journey is figuring out your hair type or texture. Your hair texture seems like the biggest puzzle piece when you begin to think about your natural. Especially, when you muster up the courage to do some "research" and turn to google to search "hair type". What usually pops up is a million charts of the same generic shots of hair and the usual textures you would see in magazines. The chart (as posted below) first displays the "w a v y " textures: 2A, 2B, and 2C in which the hair for this texture usually shapes like a loose "S" shaped curve. Then you transition into the "c u r l y" textures in which the curl pattern would mostly resemble an "S", in which the coordinating numbers for this section would be 3A,3B, and 3C. As you go further along, you will come across the "c o i l y" texture that usually have a distinct springy coil that holds closer to the scalp. The corresponding numbers are 4A, 4B ,and 4C.
Now listen, A lot of people come reference these charts like they have found the HOLY GRAIL of informative infographics (me all day) but HONEY BOO BOO CHILE! You will be checking these charts every waking minute trying to do comparisons. To be the barrier of bad news, everyone's hair texture is unique and frankly, you can have a mixture of a good two textures on one head (like myself...again). So what I suggest for you naturally lost girls is to use these charts very loosely and come up with your own observations about your hair and DO NOT conform so soon to a hair type and their regimes because at the end of the day ... NATURAL HAIR IS YOUR NATURAL BOO!
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