who gets tangles more?

[lovely_locks]

I know, I know, another hair typing thread. I look at many if you ladies and maby of you can finger comb your hair, and even part your hair using only your fingers! I am jealous. Is because if hair type? Or hair thickness?
And how do you keep your hair frI'm tangling?

 

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Who gets tangles more? ME!

 

[hnntrr]

I am natural somewhere between 4a and 3c. I can usually finger detangle ONLY when I have conditioner on my hair after it has been under running water for a minute or two. I can not detangle my hair otherwise it breaks and tangles even more. It has to be soaking wet to do anything with.

I think it might have to do with hair type, and thickness both though. My hair is....I guess between normal and thin density? It doesn't look like it when its curly but all my braid/twist outs look sparse or even when I was relaxed it looked thin..I think the thinner density of my hair allows me to detangle easier cause I don't have like a lot but if you were to just look at your hair it would seem like I have a lot cause its so coarse and the strands are so big.

One thing that helps me is saturating my hair in conditioner, and then sectioning off my hair in 4 sections and finger combing that gently raking through my hair, and if I hit a snag I gently pull them apart. Depending on how long its been I use my modified denman to help eliminate SSK's (I do that about every week or two) just to make sure everything is cleared out good and not matting. Whenever I use my denman I always finger detangle in small sections first with conditioner and then follow with the denman on that section starting at the ends and working my way up the shaft (cause for some reason 1/4 of my ends feel harder than the length, I may just need a trim but).

Hope that helps!

 

[yuhlovevybz]

I don't know my hair type but it's coarse and rarely tangles. Unless I air dry and try to comb. I detangles mainly with water and my fingers. I do get crazy ssk tho so that counts as tangling. I notice it occurs more in the loser parts of my hair oddly enough

 

[sunnydaze]

I'm wondering if porosity also plays a role. I have mostly 3c normal/low porosity hair and can finger detangle, while my daughter has 4a high porosity hair that will tangle in a heartbeat unless I use light protein products.

 

[KittyMeowMeow]

I think fine hair gets the most tangles. Another factor is how you are wearing your hair (during the day and for bed). Shrinkage also likely plays a major role.

I have various hair types. I'll split them into two major groups:

A. Fine type 3a/b/c - tangles easily
B. Medium type 3c-4a/b (almost no shrinkage- "kinky straight") - barely any tangles

Things that reduce tangles:
- never WnGing. No wetbunning. I airdry in braids always.
- no "pineappling" or other ways of leaving hair loose overnight. Braids/bantu/twists/buns only.
- fingercombing is a bit of a misnomer imo. I do more of a 'pulling apart' method for loosening mats.
- the fine areas of my hair won't stand for more than 2 days without combing. I use the magic star jumbo rake which is v. gentle.
- Regular search & destroy- cutting out SSKs, splits, and damaged hairs. These create tangles and damage as they catch on other hairs.
- not combing hair that gets straight when wet while soaking wet (eg. type 3b & lower, relaxed hair (?)). I need to detangle dry w/ a small spritz of water before getting hair wet.
- Not letting hair blow around in the wind. Always PSing around the house or when nothing important is going on.

I very rarely get actual tangles that need to be worked with to loosen or even cut out. If I do, it's because I defied one of the above (usually forgetting to detangle before getting my hair wet or going too many days w/out detangling fine hair).

 

[Ari8]

I'm mostly 3c, extremely porous and don't tangle unless I use the wrong ingredient (e.g. glycerin in very low dews) or have bad build-up. I detangle under running water with no conditioner. I have very thick, fine/medium hair.

 

[faithVA]

I'm 4b but my hair hasn't been longer than SL as a natural. So not sure how it will be as it gets longer. My hair didn't tangle at all when relaxed. My hair doesn't really tangle as a natural. If my hair is tangling it means that I have split ends that need to be dusted or I failed to remove shed hairs. As long as I don't let my hair dry unstretched I'm pretty good, because my shrinkage is major.

Usually just letting water run on my hair or putting a mix of AVG/oil smooths my hair out.

Will see what the future holds.

 

[ezina]

I finger detangle only and I'm not sure how fine or thick my hair is. All I know is that since big chopping, my hair has been so much easier to detangle. I hardly get knots and I've only been wearing twist/braid outs and WnGs lately (with the occasional bun). I think I'm a 4ab with APL length natural hair. I detangle when my hair is at least somewhat damp, but most of my serious detangling sessions are when I'm deep conditioning my hair.

 

[kxlot79]

I cosign on fine hair tangling more.
The ONLY way to avoid tangles in my fair is to keep it bound. Ever since I started actively retaining length (because for the longest time, I maintained a cut to about shoulder length), it is very difficult for me to wear my hair loose/out WITHOUT tangles, SSKs, splits, or some combination of these three.
If I thoroughly detangle once a month, that one day is all the manipulation, breakage, shedding I will encounter for 30 whole days. I've learned the hard way that doing so less frequently, like every 4-5 months is not good for me. Lol
More than 2 months bound will lead to tangle city at the roots, and that's the last place anyone wants their tangles to be.

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[Amarilles]

Mine don't tangle much I think. I always keep the hair in braids while washing though and it's always stretched. I don't see a lot of SSKs, besides on my shed hair. I'm transitioning though, we'll see when I wear a WnG.

The strands are very thick, normal porosity, 4a/3c/3b in that order.