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DanceOnTheSkylines I said your hair looks 4b/4c because you really don't have a defined curl patten like most 4a naturals have. Regardless of it being stretched or not, you don't have one. Your hair has a curl/kink size of a coffee stirrer. It looks like Nonie hair that she posts up all over the place. Check out naturallycurly.com. Saying your hair looks 4c/4b isn't an insult and obsessing over hair typing isn't necessary. But if you want to be 4a, then go on right ahead. You still have nice hair and great growth.

I have no problem with being a 4bc or z, and I honestly don't obsess over curl pattern simply because I don't wear my hair in it's natural curl pattern. I've also seen pictures of Nonie's adorable hair, and her hair is a lot like a cloud 4c texture and I don't see any curl pattern at all (correct me if I'm wrong). I don't take being called any other hair type to offense, natural is natural to me and as long as it's healthy it doesn't matter either way. However, only I know what my hair looks like after it's been washed, before it's stretched, with conditioner, without conditioner, air dried, blow dried, in a braid out, etc. Really, the curl pattern doesn't matter to me so much as the thickness, density, and porosity of the strands themselves. The only reason I mention hair types at all is because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about.