davisbr88
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Based on my personal observations, out of me and my friends in elementary school , the girls with the longest hair (WL+) were all dark skinned and garden variety black (myself included) with coils in the 2c-3c/4a range, whereas who were more phenotypically mixed looking had slight shorter 4b APL-BSB hair. Therefore, it struck me as odd that many people do not associate looser hair types with 100% black people, especially dark skinned black people. Nor did I associate light skin or other phenotypically mixed features with looser hair textures, because I had seen almost the exact opposite all my life.
I won't comment on the rest of this thread, but I found this very interesting. It's definitely the complete opposite where I'm from. Most of the girls in my class with looser curls and longer hair were light-skinned, and usually mixed, although I do know plenty of light-skinned, mixed women with type 4 hair. But the majority with the 2c-3c were definitely light or mixed. I knew one dark-skinned black girl with hair about 3a/3b, and EVERYONE assumed she was mixed (even though we knew and had met her black parents and black grandparents in person).
Maybe it has to do with regionalism as well?