To the bolded, I don't agree. I have a looser texture and I couldn't get my hair past shoulder length for a long time, until I learned what my hair needed to get me past it.
I see what you mean thats a fair point.
I also understand why people would think she has mainly 3 texture hair. She keeps her hair straight 30 days out of the month and when she wets it, it will have a looser curl. With heavy conditioner, soaking wet hair and add that to the straight hair it will hang like 2c. Until it starts shrinking. If you look at her washing video her hair was past the camera's view but by the end it shrunk to her ends within view. I say she's a 4a maybe some 3's mixed in but mainly 4's that has been heat altered.
Thats a possibility I was a straightened natural for years there now the bottom half of my strands look like a tight 3c texture that could be whats happening with her but to me it seems like the consistent curl pattern from root to end but I could be wrong.
You're not in the Twilight Zone, things are changing. I think nowadays when you accuse a Black woman of having white or anything non-black in their family tree to be able to obtain beauty we don't like it. (Even if we are mixed.) Many of us are embracing the beauty of Blackness. You don't have to have a Native American grandmother to have long hair. Maybe that light skinned Great-Aunt with long hair was in fact a light skinned Black woman with long hair.
Notice all the, "are you mixed" questions on the Black women's videos with long hair on Youtube?
Yea its not just on youtube I got that in real life just by virtue of having long hair its as if they want an easy explanation for the length and health that would justify their hair complexes. I'm always quick to say nope my hair is coily kinky and natural! And thats usually when I get the really? and I can grab their attention and drop some fundamentals on em
This assumption is one of the main reasons I decided to rock my coils out more regularly this year because I wanted to show them that the most tightly coily hair can be versatile fly and better then good, it can be great!
us type 4s sure didn't hear that much from society growing up.
Because of the myth that 4 type hair can't grow to long lengths there is a defensiveness when someone with 4 type hair does grow long hair and someone is saying oh no you are a 3 type. Which many people view 3 type hair as the mixed people's "good" hair. 4 type hair is considered to be the hair type of Black people.
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking or implying that she was mixed I just said I thought she was in the 3 range just a neutral observation, nothing further then that.....man this is gonna take some getting used to I think I'm starting to understand lol
I'm starting to notice that some of you 4's resent the 3's. And 3's are la dee daa look at me 3's.
Some of you 4s? I don't think that's constructive language. I think we rise or we fall together.
If I came off as if I resented the ladies with curly hair I don't, I was just trying to correct a misrepresentation of a hair type so another young lady like me with tightly coily non silky dry type 4 hair doesnt try to do a slicked down puff like she did and end up dissapointed with her hair because it doesnt slick down like that or it doesnt make large ringlets naturally like that. I'm always looking to spare women going on their natural journey the pitfalls and blows to the psyche I and many others have faced.
When someone identifies their hair type and texture, I think its powerful. If you know you have silky 3a hair and you do all kinds of gelled down wavy looks or get the look in my straw set pic naturally but you call yourself cottony 4b, some 4b textured girl will look at that try it and end up dissapointed and frustrated because her hair can't even come close to doing that and feel her hair isn't pretty. People look to hair typing for a general (not perfect) but general idea of the possibilities for their hair and misrepresenting it, weather it was intentional or not can actually have unforeseen negative repercussions on some other young lady.
I come from that perspective because I've been through it.
That was a funny exchange and I think both of them have valid points
let's hope they change their own minds because we can't do it for 'em.
well thanks so much I'm like the national ambassador for pixie braids now
but its just the no-manipulation style my hair craved I think we could all benefit from not manipulating for a long while.
erplexed. Well, she said herself that her hair is heat stretched and that the new growth is not like the rest of the hair. Thus, her growth can't be credited to a (predominately) looser texture. Since we have the truth from her very mouth, I was a tad confused as to why hair type was still being doubted even after the video was posted. I think it's fair to assume that she knows her hair type and where she falls in that system better than people on this board or folks on youtube.
