Iluvsmuhgrass
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Next week I will be 4 months post BC and 40 weeks post relaxer. 
I wasn't surprised when I did my BC but I was when it started to grow out.
I have various textures, thicknesses, and curl patterns. I am 4a/b I say 4a because I do have alot of coily goodness going on.... I think my crown is 4b because there's no curl pattern, it's just coarser and dry with a weird wave.
My nape is what surprised me most. I always thought it was difficult because it would break with relaxers no matter how hard I tried to hold onto it. It broke because it was an entirely different texture than the rest of my hair. It's more 3c-ish with bigger curls and VERY soft/fine in comparison. If I put a heavier product on it, it will be stick straight as are other parts of my hair.... but they are coarse. That's why I was telling some of the ladies NOT to cut their hair just because of the fact that they might be mistaking a texture for heat damage. I don't use heat but with heavier products some portions of my hair will straighten out completely.
I understand everyone's position and opinion, but this is what I've experienced with my grass. It's a bit odd but I love it just the same. I've finally found a happy medium for it so yay.
I wasn't surprised when I did my BC but I was when it started to grow out. I have various textures, thicknesses, and curl patterns. I am 4a/b I say 4a because I do have alot of coily goodness going on.... I think my crown is 4b because there's no curl pattern, it's just coarser and dry with a weird wave.
My nape is what surprised me most. I always thought it was difficult because it would break with relaxers no matter how hard I tried to hold onto it. It broke because it was an entirely different texture than the rest of my hair. It's more 3c-ish with bigger curls and VERY soft/fine in comparison. If I put a heavier product on it, it will be stick straight as are other parts of my hair.... but they are coarse. That's why I was telling some of the ladies NOT to cut their hair just because of the fact that they might be mistaking a texture for heat damage. I don't use heat but with heavier products some portions of my hair will straighten out completely.
I understand everyone's position and opinion, but this is what I've experienced with my grass. It's a bit odd but I love it just the same. I've finally found a happy medium for it so yay.
erplexed I thought it was hair that did not have a distinct curl pattern. 
If you think of a #2 pencil, my coils are significantly smaller in diameter than the pencil. They would actually coil comfortably around a toothpick. 
perplexed! When I first went natural and discovered this hair typing system (which BTW, I find extremely inadequate in describing the many variations of afro textured hair) I was left with the impression that some of us have hair that, while not like Caucasian hair, was relatively straight, does not coil or clump and in fact does not have any distinctive shape at all. I also believed that some hairs could have a 'Z' pattern. These, I believed, fell into the category of 4b, whereas any curl pattern with coils ranging from the size of a pen spring to the size of a pencil, was 4a. 
