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EbonyF said:
Out of curiousity (please don't harm me
)
But how do the majority of you guys know what your hair type is, if majority (I'm assuming) asking these questions are relaxed?
When I was transitioning, I had no idea what my hair type was, even when wet and comparing relaxed versus my natural. And actually when I did the chop, my hair was straightish (2a?) for a day, then turn 4a'ish after a good healthy wash.
In other words, maybe what I'm trying to say is: you really don't know your hairtype unless you was recently natural and then relaxed
(usually after your prime teen years being that your hair changes), or if you are currently natural.
Plus, it might be false texture from scab hair that you may be seeing. I have seen people who have cut off their relaxer and go from 3a/3c to 4a or 4b within days or months, so go fig. So really, I think we should take these hairtypings (especially with relaxers), with a grain of salt.
***runs and crawls back into her hole***
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That was the exact thing I was trying to say....I thought my hair type was 3c/4a when I first went natural(based on my roots)..but as the scab hair passed...it felt more type 3 with a lot less 4a than originally thiught. The longer my hair gets the looser the curls. For a while there I didn't even post my type...cause I really couldn't tell. My hair changes from season to season....in the summer my hair seems more like type 4/a 4/b...but in the winter it's more type 3. I think that's why I'll try products and routines that are posted for other types...cause I don't really think it matters....it may or may not work.....