Neith
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Wanna bet on that? Nah, you are 4B just like me. All the pics you've seen so far of my coils are magnified big time. Plus any size that is too small to clump easily from a WNG falls into 4B category IMO. I minimized the original pic to try to bring it to life-size approximation, using my fingers as a guide:
And I just now took a pic of my coils against a measuring tape, which I will tell you is not the easiest thing to do on your own, especially when you don't have steady hands. Seems the average diameter of my coils is just a touch under 1/8 of an inch. If yours are smaller than that, then I take my hat off to you.
ETA: According to my observation, CNapp is a name given to manipulated 4B hair but I prefer just to call it 4B coz that's what it is. After all, when someone with type 1 hair curls her hair, we don't suddenly say it has a new name. It is just manipulated type 1 hair. Similarly when someone with wavy type 2 hair presses it straight. It's still type 2 hair worn in a straight do. 4B hair is 4B hair to me whether it looks all coily because it's not been manipulated or like it has no shape or form because it has been manipulated.
How can you tell 4a from 4b while manipulated?
The types can be REALLY close when it comes to coil diameter and can look very similar when the coil pattern is brushed or manipulated out. If you blowdried my hair out, it'd look a lot like this girl's hair.
but... I'm not claiming to be a hair typing expert It's just that kinky hair can look a million different ways (which I love) and I like to see the actual unmanipulated curl pattern to decide.