Curly hair tangles LESS than straight hair

[rdm]

So they say.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070913/sc_livescience/studycurlyhairtanglesless

 

[Neala21]

I don't agree...

Before texalaxing after 2 years of being natural my 3c/4a endured many tangles. It took me anywhere from 15 minutes or more per wash to detangle my hair depended if I was in a rush to just get it done.

Didn't help the fact i was a bit tenderheaded.

But now that I am texalaxed the tangles have lessen. I wonder exactly what race these women were and what hair type of curls...

Plus i think if the study had these women using products on their hair then the study was a bit tampered. It should be done with no products than they would see who really has tangles and a time with their hair.

 

[glamazon386]

I think it depends on your hair. My hair now that it's natural tangles less than it did straight. But I think I had a lot of split ends that were causing tangles then. But some people experience a lot of tangles both ways so how do they explain that?

 

[adw425]

I just saw this on Yahoo News...I was like, what???

 

[hothair]

I'm natural and have been straight. Yeah right!

ETA: I'm beginning to wonder if there's a Curly Haired revolution, we want to brainwash all the "Straights" into joining our ranks and so have infiltrated the media with "doctored" reports and studies...[I'm sorry smack dab in the middle of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows ] The truth is out there...

 

[dlewis]

I don't agree. I can't get a comb through my texlaxed curly hair without it being soaking wet. But when my hair is straight, no problems.

This morning I was in a rush and didn't detangle before getting out the tub. So my hair looks like, as my co worker said, I didn't comb it.

 

[Sistaslick]

I'm sure there is a study out there that says just the opposite.


I'd be interested to see the full body of research and the limitations and conditions of this study. Studies are studies, and it's not uncommon for different studies reach very different conclusions about the same phenomenon. I do lots of reading on peer reviewed research/studies for my classes and in my leisure time and I've definitely learned to take "findings" with a grain of salt. Confounding variables and test conditions can turn the entire thing upside down

This one takes the cake though.

 

[LayneJ]

I think it depends on your hair.

I agree.

Personally, my hair tangles more now that I'm natural. I was relaxed for the longest, and I had no problem with tangles. Weave it up, braid it up, twist it, straigten it, etc. No problems.

Natural....it's a different story. I don't mind it though, because I figure that's the nature of hair as tightly coiled as mine.

 

[JustKiya]

I suspect they compared naturally straight hair against naturally curly. My nappy hair, as MUCH as it tangles, tangles a whole lot less than some of the white girls I know well enough to talk about hair with - both straight and wavy. And they get some HORRORS of tangles too - I can't even call them tangles, more like instant dreadlocks. *shudder*
Curly hair, on the other hand, tends to whirl around the other - single strand knots, and looser tangles - at least in my experience.
Relaxed hair has been chemically altered, so I suspect it would act differently than naturally straight hair - just as I suspect a curly perm in a straight person's hair acts differently than my naps do.....

 

[Sistaslick]

I suspect they compared naturally straight hair against naturally curly. My nappy hair, as MUCH as it tangles, tangles a whole lot less than some of the white girls I know well enough to talk about hair with - both straight and wavy. And they get some HORRORS of tangles too - I can't even call them tangles, more like instant dreadlocks. *shudder*
Curly hair, on the other hand, tends to whirl around the other - single strand knots, and looser tangles - at least in my experience.
Relaxed hair has been chemically altered, so I suspect it would act differently than naturally straight hair - just as I suspect a curly perm in a straight person's hair acts differently than my naps do.....

But see, if anything, relaxed hair would tangle more. Relaxing damages the cuticle so that it no longer lies as flat and tight as it once did. When relaxed hairs interact there is much more friction and much more tangling than naturally straight hair with flat, intact cuticles.

 

[Miss*Tress]

On me, my twist-outs tangle less than my hair smooth roller sets. Go figure, eh.

 

[Quest4healthyhair]

I think curly hair tangles more.

 

[FlowerHair]

I actually believe the study!

I grew up with my straight haired sister and most of my friends in school and elsewhere have straight, Scandinavian hair.
When they have washed their hair it is fullllllll of tangles! When I detangle my hair it takes maybe 5 minutes at the most. Straight hair looks literally like a rat's nest when it is tangled up like that.

I had a hair stylist fix my hair once (I never go to the hair dresser's but this was a special occasion) and she was shocked how easily detangled my hair was even though it is so bushy/coily.

I also think the study was made mainly with white women with curly and straight hair that isn't permed or relaxed etc. I think that makes a little difference. Hair without chemicals that is handled gently on a regular basis is pretty easy to detangle IMO.

 

[Bublin]

Don't talk to me about tangles erplexed

 

[sareca]

Maybe if you had longer hair straight and shorter hair curly.