How Can You Tell What Type of Hair You Have?

[CTBhair]

Ok, so I have had natural hair for a while, but I get confused about the do you have 4a, 1, etc? Can anyone tell me the how would identify my hair type?

 

[AllAboutMoi]

I'm no hair typing expert, don't even know my own, but if you want the ladies to identify your type I'm pretty sure you will need to post of pic of your dry natural hair or an inch or two of new growth.

 

[CTBhair]

I am new to the website. I thought that my pics would pop up with my post. However, I will put a pic of my natural hair dry. I only have one pic like that and I hope it is helpful to anyone who will try to help me identify my type of hair.

 

[CTBhair]

This is the best picture I have of my natural hair. This was a wash and go last year. I let it air dry and probably put some sort of mositurizer on it.

 

[Leeda.the.Paladin]

I get too confused by the hair typing system. Our hair is too different from person to person to accurately assign a hair type, in my opinion. I say that I am 4a with a bit of 3c and 4b, but really I have no clue.

I'll just stick to kinky curly and leave it at that

Your hair is beautiful BTW OP

 

[CTBhair]

Thanks KC Curly,

I was thinking that if I knew my hair type, it would help when I see advice written in that code. Some people say if you are a 3c or 4a, etc. that you should... I am just going to stick to what I know and experiment with things I am interested after doing some research. Thanks for responding to the post, I really appreciate it. I hope to get some great results in the upcoming year. I just started taking care of my hair around May of this year before that it was ponytails with gel....the worse!

 

[nikki2229]

It's kind of hard to tell from the picture posted but you appear to be a 4a to me.
Your hair is beautiful and it has grown a lot since last year(if your siggy picture is current).

 

[Desarae]

You can't so dont try.



You hair is beautiful, that's all you need to know.

 

[BlackMasterPiece]

I found Naturally Curly's Hair Typing Page incredibly helpful and identified my hairtype right away, I think a good measure is to take a look at the texture of your freshly washed damp hair with no product and measure it that way. It also helped that I started following RusticBeauty on youtube and she identified herself as 4a, I knew I had identical hair as her so that helped solidify it.

Also if you still feel confused can post a closup pic of a portion of your hair with no product or manipulation unstyled and I could give you my estimation its pretty hard to tell from your picture you posted though.....

Best of luck on your natural journey!!

 

[CTBhair]

Thanks for all the advice and compliments on my hair. I will get a better pic next time I do my hair of it with no product. Hopefully I can at least get an idea. However, my hair has grown so I will stick with what works for now. However, my PJism gets the best of me and I know I will be trying some new things and I would like to use products that work well with my hair type.

 

[Leeda.the.Paladin]

Thanks for all the advice and compliments on my hair. I will get a better pic next time I do my hair of it with no product. Hopefully I can at least get an idea. However, my hair has grown so I will stick with what works for now. However, my PJism gets the best of me and I know I will be trying some new things and I would like to use products that work well with my hair type.

I would just try to stay in the 3c-4b range since you know are probably at least that.

NC.com has great product review and the persons doing the reviews list their hair types. Here is a link. You can search for specific products, by brand, or type (conditioner, leave in, etc).

But I do have to say this. Some products that I love and work well for my hair get reviewed by people with a totally different hair type and guess what? They love it too. And then some people who have hair similar to mine hate those same products.

So I say all that to say, that although it can be a guide for choosing products, different people with different hair types can still like the same stuff.

 

[Nonie]

My advice is don't fix what isn't broke(n). If your products work for you, then use what you have and rather than change products, improve your technique. Like does you hair tangle much when you wash? Find out how to minimize that; what do others do that has helped with that. Do you protective style and if so, do you get bored with it? Find out how to make that journey fun and get creative. In other words, do not get caught in the bandwagon tornado...or you may undo whatever progress you've made. Only change your product/regimen if something isn't working. Otherwise just learn all you can about your hair and have fun.

 

[sowhut]

You can't so dont try.



You hair is beautiful, that's all you need to know.

Sorry I cant help you OP, i havent found out my type either i thought i knew but now im not so sure.

HHG