almond eyes
Well-Known Member
My grandmother had low shrinkage natural hair which means that it would dry fast, had little shrinkage and short stranded knots and her hair was naturally long like mid back and she could comb her hair without little breakage. My hair on the other hand is the complete opposite, takes forever to dry, shrinks up to 90% and has to be moisturized or else will get SSKs and I have to be very careful when combing my hair.
I used to wonder, why some women with my hair texture's hair seemed to 'grow' faster or looked longer when stretched out. Now I realize that your hair is either low or high shrinkage. Sometimes, when I see these natural youtube videos and I see women with this low shrinkage hair, they think it's so easy to have this long stretched natural hair but now I finally understand there is a big difference and why sometimes, some women tend to say, my 4b is not your 4b. For women with hair that is high shrinkage, I am not sure if that is what is referred to as low porosity, it's a lot harder for length to show as easily.
Best,
Almond Eyes
I used to wonder, why some women with my hair texture's hair seemed to 'grow' faster or looked longer when stretched out. Now I realize that your hair is either low or high shrinkage. Sometimes, when I see these natural youtube videos and I see women with this low shrinkage hair, they think it's so easy to have this long stretched natural hair but now I finally understand there is a big difference and why sometimes, some women tend to say, my 4b is not your 4b. For women with hair that is high shrinkage, I am not sure if that is what is referred to as low porosity, it's a lot harder for length to show as easily.
Best,
Almond Eyes
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