What Hair Type is This?

[BeetleBug]

I'm so confused. TIA. I'm thinking 4a.
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[MsSharee06]

I would say its 4a/4b, because of the z like pattern at your roots.

 

[SparkleDoll]

It looks like 4a.

 

[curlcomplexity]

I would say 4a b/c of the way it curls around itself.

 

[Barbara]

Looks like my hair.

 

[Healthb4Length]

Looks like 4a with a little 4b.

 

[aloof one]

Ooooh I've got me some of those!

 

[nappity]

Looks like 4a with a little 4b.

Yup what she said.

 

[dinaaike]

Okay...now you have me confused. First off, did you just have braids taken out? 'Cause I've never seen hair form coils that close to the root before.

Now I would've said 4b because of the curl dimension as compared to your finger, but with everyone else saying a 4a, maybe it is. erplexed

Then again, the typing only seems useful when you're trying to find your hair cousin or gauge how delicately your hair needs to be treated. For my purposes, 1 is straight, 2 is wavy, 3 is big curls, and 4 is little curls. If you know you're a 4 that's close enough.

 

[senimoni]

I think they are saying 4a b/c 4b does not have a defined curl pattern. It looks 4a to me as well.

OT - Your camera is the bomb, its all up in your head.

 

[LiveLoveLife]

My hair looks EXACTLY like this with some little coils right at the scalp ( well the new growth anyways) & I consider myself to be 4aish.

 

[TaraDyan]

OT - Your camera is the bomb, its all up in your head.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Her photos are so crisp.

 

[aloof one]

I didn't have braids and my hair grew out that way. It started as waves then turned into curls after a few months then a few more months later it coiled up just like that. They're pretty much like ringlets. I don't know what they look like without relaxed hair on the ends because I' still transitioning though.

I think hair typing is silly. I have some of those she has, and in my kitchen I probably have the nappiest hair known to man right next to a curl on my nape. I used to go on about how I was 4a or 4b or 3c but it really doesn't matter because people have fine, thick, medium, thin, thick, dense, coarse, soft, cottony, curly, kinky, coily, ringlet(y), 1, 2, 3, 4 textured... It's just like skin color, there are so many different combinations

Okay...now you have me confused. First off, did you just have braids taken out? 'Cause I've never seen hair form coils that close to the root before.

Now I would've said 4b because of the curl dimension as compared to your finger, but with everyone else saying a 4a, maybe it is. erplexed

Then again, the typing only seems useful when you're trying to find your hair cousin or gauge how delicately your hair needs to be treated. For my purposes, 1 is straight, 2 is wavy, 3 is big curls, and 4 is little curls. If you know you're a 4 that's close enough.

 

[BeetleBug]

Okay...now you have me confused. First off, did you just have braids taken out? 'Cause I've never seen hair form coils that close to the root before.

Now I would've said 4b because of the curl dimension as compared to your finger, but with everyone else saying a 4a, maybe it is. erplexed

Then again, the typing only seems useful when you're trying to find your hair cousin or gauge how delicately your hair needs to be treated. For my purposes, 1 is straight, 2 is wavy, 3 is big curls, and 4 is little curls. If you know you're a 4 that's close enough.

I took my braids out two weeks ago. Since then I have washed my hair a couple of times and flat- ironed my hair. Everybody keeps asking me, "are those twists in your hair". It just grows like that.

 

[BeetleBug]

I didn't have braids and my hair grew out that way. It started as waves then turned into curls after a few months then a few more months later it coiled up just like that. They're pretty much like ringlets. I don't know what they look like without relaxed hair on the ends because I' still transitioning though.

I think hair typing is silly. I have some of those she has, and in my kitchen I probably have the nappiest hair known to man right next to a curl on my nape. I used to go on about how I was 4a or 4b or 3c but it really doesn't matter because people have fine, thick, medium, thin, thick, dense, coarse, soft, cottony, curly, kinky, coily, ringlet(y), 1, 2, 3, 4 textured... It's just like skin color, there are so many different combinations

that's exactly how mine grows.

 

[BeetleBug]

I think they are saying 4a b/c 4b does not have a defined curl pattern. It looks 4a to me as well.

OT - Your camera is the bomb, its all up in your head.

It took me awhile to work it because the pictures were coming out fuzzy but once I switched it to superfine zoom, it was on and poppin.

 

[♦K.O♦]

I have some of those on the sides of my hair. They're ringlets and they only curl like that when I havent washed in a few days.

 

[lilamae]

hell...whatever you do..don't ask me

 

[dinaaike]

I didn't have braids and my hair grew out that way. It started as waves then turned into curls after a few months then a few more months later it coiled up just like that. They're pretty much like ringlets. I don't know what they look like without relaxed hair on the ends because I' still transitioning though.

I think hair typing is silly. I have some of those she has, and in my kitchen I probably have the nappiest hair known to man right next to a curl on my nape. I used to go on about how I was 4a or 4b or 3c but it really doesn't matter because people have fine, thick, medium, thin, thick, dense, coarse, soft, cottony, curly, kinky, coily, ringlet(y), 1, 2, 3, 4 textured... It's just like skin color, there are so many different combinations

I can see that they're ringlets. You've got corkscrew coils! That's so cute!
And yes, hair typing is kinda silly. Beyond what I mentioned it doesn't serve any real purpose. Can you imagine trying to categorize all the colors of black people under a specific shade? Typing just gives people an idea of what you're working with. Or in my case, gives hairdressers a heads-up to pretend to be busy or call in sick .

 

[dinaaike]

I took my braids out two weeks ago. Since then I have washed my hair a couple of times and flat- ironed my hair. Everybody keeps asking me, "are those twists in your hair". It just grows like that.

That's amazing! People pay to get their hair to do that all over.
Does is stay coiled at the tips or does it loosen out?

 

[tinkat]

I see small spirals...4a

 

[BeetleBug]

That's amazing! People pay to get their hair to do that all over.
Does is stay coiled at the tips or does it loosen out?

Do you mean at the ends? It looks like it stays coiled where the newgrowth meets with my relaxed hair. I won't know for sure until I cut it. I plan on transitioning to natural. I am currently 14 weeks post.

 

[glamazon386]

I'd say 4a. That's what my new growth looked like. It's going to shrink up once you cut the relaxed ends off though.

 

[*Muffin*]

You have a definite curl pattern, so it looks more like 4a than 4b to me.

 

[1QTPie]

I say don't judge it until you cut it and it's been without a relaxer for a long while. People always get the surprise os their lives when they haven't have chemicals and heavy hair on their heads for a few months. I have three different textures in my head.

 

[SerenavanderWoodsen]

those are so cute... what a wonderful clear image too!! im not great at telling hair types but im intrigued,, those little spirals so close to the roots,, theyre actual little curls and not kinks.... is this regular 4a? also does more 4a grow out this way or does some grow out straight at first?

 

[glamazon386]

those are so cute... what a wonderful clear image too!! im not great at telling hair types but im intrigued,, those little spirals so close to the roots,, theyre actual little curls and not kinks.... is this regular 4a? also does more 4a grow out this way or does some grow out straight at first?

Yeah... Mines looked like waves at first then about 3 months in it started to look like little curls like the OP's. But only in random places. Months 4 and 5 it all started looking like little spirals. Then it just continued to be spirals all the way down as it grew out.

 

[Muffinz05]

It looks like 4b.

 

[glamazon386]

It looks like 4b.

4B hair does not have a curl pattern.

 

[misscrystal]

This is like looking at my own head. Definitely 4a/b