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What do you think this kid's hair type is?

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It looks like a 3b/c when it's brushed out and left to curl a little again...
The curl pattern breaks up when you brush it and leaves the hair fluffy and straightish.

You were very cute! :)
 
I agree with Flowerhair. Cute pic. But you know most adults don't have the exact same hair texture that they had when they were 4 or 5. It changes to a certain extent over the years.
 
Yea it was pretty much the same to the age of 9, my dad gave me a relaxer one summer when his asian wife didn't know how to do my hair. Pissed my mom off but i digress...I'm thinking I'm a 3c/4a right now.

Right now my minds made up on transitioning but I'm getting some serious tangles in certain spots of my head. I remember being able to brush my hair straight when I was younger but it would just be really frizzy. I wouldn't call my hair silky at all but its def. fine. So maybe I'm just a fine 3c/4a?


Idk it's just really confusing especially when I feel certain parts of my hair that's just puffy with no real curl pattern. Now that I think about it, i can't be a 4b because my younger sister is def. a 4b or 4c and our hair is VERY different. Her hair shrinks up like it's nobodies business when it's wet and my hair puffs out. Hopefully in a few more months I'll be able to tell my texture more. Until then I'll look at the 3b to 4a threads and see what products those ladies using.

FlowerHair what's your hair type?
 
JusMarieJolie said:
Yea it was pretty much the same to the age of 9, my dad gave me a relaxer one summer when his asian wife didn't know how to do my hair. Pissed my mom off but i digress...I'm thinking I'm a 3c/4a right now.

Right now my minds made up on transitioning but I'm getting some serious tangles in certain spots of my head. I remember being able to brush my hair straight when I was younger but it would just be really frizzy. I wouldn't call my hair silky at all but its def. fine. So maybe I'm just a fine 3c/4a?


Idk it's just really confusing especially when I feel certain parts of my hair that's just puffy with no real curl pattern. Now that I think about it, i can't be a 4b because my younger sister is def. a 4b or 4c and our hair is VERY different. Her hair shrinks up like it's nobodies business when it's wet and my hair puffs out. Hopefully in a few more months I'll be able to tell my texture more. Until then I'll look at the 3b to 4a threads and see what products those ladies using.

FlowerHair what's your hair type?
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Even after having been here for 7 years, I'm still not 100% sure of my hair type! I think it's somewhere between a 3b and a 3c... It looks different every day, but for you I think your hair might very well be the same as when you were a child. My hair changed a little in puberty, but went back to normal afterwards.

When you have 6-7 months of new growth it might be easier to type it, but the reality usually doesn't show until you cut off the relaxed ends. No matter what type it is, I'm sure it will be beautiful with all the great advice on this board! :)
 
FlowerHair said:
Even after having been here for 7 years, I'm still not 100% sure of my hair type! I think it's somewhere between a 3b and a 3c... It looks different every day, but for you I think your hair might very well be the same as when you were a child. My hair changed a little in puberty, but went back to normal afterwards.

When you have 6-7 months of new growth it might be easier to type it, but the reality usually doesn't show until you cut off the relaxed ends. No matter what type it is, I'm sure it will be beautiful with all the great advice on this board! :)
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Thanks for the kind words :)
 
Very cute pic :) but you can't really determine what your hair type will be from when you were a little kid (if that is what you were not asking, my apologies). Your hair type can change with age, and a lot of our hair looks different due to the techniques used by our parents. When I was a kid my mom brushed and combed my hair dry and basically got rid of any curl pattern I had, so my pics look like a straight up fro! When I went home after chopping my hair she thought I had done something to my hair to make it curl.
 
^^ IA. My mom thought I did a straw set on mine when she saw me after the chop.
Because she constantly brushed, combed, and pressed, I was heat damaged for years. A stylist I had for years said that I could never wash-n-go because I didn't have curly hair....
:look:
We know how accurate THAT was.
Not saying your hair won't be the same because it could be, but you really won't know until you chop. Around 9 months into my transition, though, I knew what my hair type would be.
 
EllePixie said:
Very cute pic :) but you can't really determine what your hair type will be from when you were a little kid (if that is what you were not asking, my apologies). Your hair type can change with age, and a lot of our hair looks different due to the techniques used by our parents. When I was a kid my mom brushed and combed my hair dry and basically got rid of any curl pattern I had, so my pics look like a straight up fro! When I went home after chopping my hair she thought I had done something to my hair to make it curl.
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It was the same for me. My mother had no idea how to care for my hair, so she didn't even use conditioner. :lol:

My childhood hair looks like a totally different hair type, but it's been the same all along. It's just that I found out the best way to keep my hair conditioned and moisturized as the years went by...

It can only get more beautiful with age and proper knowledge! :)
 
I thought I said it earlier, but I know your hair type changes as you get older. I dont think my hair will be the same texture today as it was back then. I used this picture because my mom rarely let me wear my hair out except on special occasions and when she did she usually hot combed it. I was relaxer free until I was 10 years old. When I talked to the women that did my hair when I was younger they all told me they put either baby lotion or lusters pink on it and put it in pony tails or they put baby lotion on my hair because lusters pink was too heavy and just picked it out.

I dont think i had heat damage as a child considering that my hair was only pressed maybe 5 times a year.

I said earlier I think I'm probably a 3c/4a right now but I was wondering what that hair type was for when I was younger. I've never really seen a little kids hair like mine was. Personally i'd rather have a more defined curl/pattern/kink/coil/watchamahcallit but if my hair goes back to how it was when I was 9 I'd like to at least know what I'm working with lol.

I thought the fact that my hair was so puffy and devoid of a definite curl pattern meant that it was a 4b or 4c. And apparently I'm dead wrong with that lol

In short, I'm just trying to figure out this whole hair typing thing. :)

Thanks 2 every1 for their input!!
 
You may be disappointed if you go natural just for that hair type.....

My hair type as a child was a very loose curl. I couldn't even get an afro like my older sisters and brothers. I don't what techniques my mom was using to get my hair like that. lol

I just BC'ed, and i'm a 4a with a drop ofsome other types thrown in.....and I love it!

Just wait and see. Don't try to figure it out, or go by childhood pictures, because you might end up feeling disappointed that way.
 
BTW-maybe we should start a thread and show pics of our hair back in the day and compare it to now. I always find it interesting how our elders used to do our hair. I've seen some ladies on this board with hair that makes me wonder why anyone ever gave them a relaxer. I guess it was just the mentality of the times.

There was this girl I used to babysit that had long thick beautiful hair down her back that was always worn in big two-stranded twists. When she reached the age of 8 she got a relaxer and within that year her hair went from MBL to SL. I asked her mom why she got a relaxer and she just said because it was time for her to get one and complained about the thickness of her daughter's hair. That's child's hair broke smooth the hell off within 5 months. So sad.
 
EllePixie said:
Very cute pic :) but you can't really determine what your hair type will be from when you were a little kid (if that is what you were not asking, my apologies). Your hair type can change with age, and a lot of our hair looks different due to the techniques used by our parents. When I was a kid my mom brushed and combed my hair dry and basically got rid of any curl pattern I had, so my pics look like a straight up fro! When I went home after chopping my hair she thought I had done something to my hair to make it curl.
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this was my experience as well:yep:
 
*CherryPie* said:
You may be disappointed if you go natural just for that hair type.....

My hair type as a child was a very loose curl. I couldn't even get an afro like my older sisters and brothers. I don't what techniques my mom was using to get my hair like that. lol

I just BC'ed, and i'm a 4a with a drop ofsome other types thrown in.....and I love it!

Just wait and see. Don't try to figure it out, or go by childhood pictures, because you might end up feeling disappointed that way.
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I'm going natural because my eczema won't allow me to have anymore relaxers. I got my last touch up in October and they couldn't even finish applying it to my whole head because my scalp started turning red and heat was radiating from it. My head hurt like hell on and off for about a month after. :perplexed

You prolly didn't see my post earlier, but I'd actually be disappointed if I went natural and had that hair type. On my first post I said I think I'm a 3c/4a/4b. I'm def not a 4b so I'll have to edit it, but I'm really just trying to understand the hair typing system. I thought the hair I had as a kid, shown in the above pic, would be considered a 4b/4c. But I'm seeing now that that's obviously not the case. So yea, my dream texture would actually be more of a 3c/4a so I'm crossing my fingers it ends up that way lol. My mom's a 3b/3c and I really like the big textured hair look so I don't think a 3b is for me,lol.
 
virtuenow said:
3c, looks really easy to comb and handle...why did you ever get a relaxer in the first place?
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My parents divorced and I would go visit my father in Atlanta. He started shacking up with this Korean woman who he had my younger sister with a year after I was born (long story short daddy was a mini tiger woods) and they kept comparing my hair to hers. I never did my hair by myself so I didn't really know what to do and the whole summer I would go swimming in the pool and sometimes I'd wash my hair sometimes i wouldn't. i was really lazy and I would just shampoo it and not condition it or just rinse it out. So basically all summer my hair was looking ham. She had some black friends who came over and decided that I needed a relaxer. So I got a relaxer...came home my mom flipped and was like wtf and then she didn't know about transitioning so she asked me if I wanted to cut it all off and start over or keep up with the relaxers. I was 10 at the time so i was like uhh you're not making me bald, that's not cool, so from then on I was relaxed.

Funny thing is, when I was a child my dad kinda pushed for a relaxer but now that I'm an adult he was the main one telling me i shouldn't get them because they were toxic. :nono:
 
IMHO I would say 3c/4a but I'm still clueless about the whole hairtyping thing as I think there is a very thinline between 3c-4b. Most people have more than one texture.

BTW - you are very pretty.
 
ITA with EllePixie, I don't even remember my hair type as a child! But I asked my mom (I actually called her after reading this) and she said I had manageable, curly hair...she just didn't know how to do it, since she has 3-something hair ans got it relaxed every 6 weeks on schedule at a salon, she took me and my sister as well, and that was that. I have pictures of myself with little puffy twists...but that couldn't be from my mom, she doesn't even know how to part in a straight line. I love her though!
 
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