My front is loose yet still kinky. My kitchen is a different texture all together, silky 3C/4A, I guess? The rest is 4A/B combo.
I'm torn on what to believe because most naturals I see who wear their hair out 90% of the time do have a more uniform pattern.
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I don't know about everybody, but most naturals I see are wearing their hair in twistout, twists, or picked out. I don't see too many wash n'gos, and that would be the least manipulated style. Also, for my hair at least, what products and how much I do and don't use on my hair will change the uniformity or lack there of. Snooty gels like KCCC and Darcy's Curling Custard made every different curl pattern on my head stand out so badly. Using the same amount of gel on the front and top of my hair as the tighter back can have that effect too. But if my hair isn't well moisturized and completely shrunken, it looks like a lumpy cotton ball with curls poking out here and there .
Many of us long term naturals have noticed it. The hair closest to our forehead or nape is easier to detangle, softer and the curl pattern appears little looser than the rest of our hair. We are quick to assume that we have multiple textures but somehow we don’t consider that manipulation may play a big role in why our textures vary so much throughout our head. Even though to all intents and purposes it may look like your texture is just naturally looser at the crown, there are actually some reasons other than nature that cause this phenomenon. Let’s look at a couple
Alicia James on YT wears a wash and gos allll the time and her hair looks pretty uniform... I have to look through my subscriptions to see who else she's the only one who comes to mind right away but Naptural85 did a wash and go this summer and he curls looked uniform as well... Denimpixie too
Denimpixie was a self-proclaimed multi-textured natural. She claimed 3C/4A on the board and, I believe, on her blog.
I think that we forget that you can't see a full 360 of someone's head. Unless you're all up in and through someone's hair, there's really no way of knowing for sure.
I know a lot of people that wear WNGs all the time and although the hair looks uniform all around, under some of the layers, the texture varies.
I haven't met anyone with textured hair that is the same all the way through.
Alicia James on YT wears a wash and gos allll the time and her hair looks pretty uniform... I have to look through my subscriptions to see who else she's the only one who comes to mind right away but Naptural85 did a wash and go this summer and he curls looked uniform as well... Denimpixie too
My hair is wiry, normal, straw sized coils around the perimeter and coarse, normal inkpen sized coils in the center. The very front...lord help it is random coarse fine waves about a half inch....I hate that part because it messes up my wng because it just hangs.
ProductJunkie: I think I'm confused... I never made the comment that most only wear twist outs so I don't know where that came from.
But in your original post, you proceed to give examples of curly ladies that wear WNGs all the time and have uniform curl patterns (I'm assuming to debunk what was said above).
My comment was that one or more of the people you mentioned do not, in fact, have a uniform curl pattern.
And then I just added in that sometimes it can look uniform until you get all up in it and realize that's not the case.
But that's just my experience.
ProductJunkie: gotcha. I thought that your WNG/uniform curl pattern comment was being applied to everyone in your post.
It's actually not even that serious. I just like knowing what is being said
Your hair sounds like mineSorry but this is quite inaccurate and I am a long term natural. the front of my hair is the driest and the hardest to detangle. My Hair becomes looser the further down my head having 3c at my nape and I am multi-textured.