As with anything in life, if we first understand the natural behavior of something, we can fully grasp the essence of assisting nature in maintaining great health, strength and longevity.
Understanding Hair growth, and nature’s construction of our types and textures, will assist in our growing and enjoying natural beautiful hair.
Hair types or textures are divided into four categories.
Type One, refers to the straight, no curl pattern seen naturally in the majority of European and Asian hair. Due to its straight surface, Type One textures reflect light easily, radiating a brilliant shine.
The lack of curls or kinks within this texture allows the natural oil to work from the scalp to the tips without much interference, making Type One hair textures the oiliest of them all.
This texture is mimicked often by getting perms, or straight ironing of the hair with a more defined curl pattern. Sadly, with too much heat being used to accomplish this straight look, the hair follicles are often damaged. This results in the hair never being able to retain its natural state.
Type Two is broken down into three categories (type 2a, type 2b, and type 2c), with the curl pattern tightening with each progression. It’s a wavy texture, directly between straight and curly hair.
As you go down the spectrum, the less light will be reflected from the surface of some textures. The looser the hair’s curl pattern, the more it is prone to becoming frizzy. The wavy textures type 2a, 2b, and 2c reflects more light than curly hair, but isn’t as radiant as type 1.
This look was often mimicked with finger waves, and some conks. Depending on the length of time a perm stayed in the hair, determined whether the wavy, curly, or straight look was accomplished.
Type Three textures are also broken down into three subcategories (3a, 3b, and 3c). This texture has a very pronounced S shape curly texture, with that “S” getting noticeably tighter with each subsequent category.
These textures are not as moist as the Type One and Two textures, but not as dry as type four. As with Type two, this texture’s curls tighten with each subsequent category, with 3a being the loosest of the three.
S-Curls and Jheri curls was made popular with people with coily kinky hair trying to achieve a curlier look to their hair.
Type Four textures are the curly, coily, kinky hair grades that are seen mostly in people of African descent. Type Four is broken down into the three subcategories (4a, 4b, 4c), again gradually tightening the curl pattern until the coily look resembles more of a zig zag than a curve.
This texture is the driest of all the textures therefore making it more prone to breakage. The tight coil pattern makes the reflection of light very difficult. It absorbs light, serving as a natural protector from the sun’s ultra violet rays.
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