Types Of Black Hair Texture

Straight medium has lots of body.

Types of black hair texture. This is the most textured hair type out of all the black types. This pretty much gives you an idea of which category your hair type s falls under so that you can get a better idea of which products and methods work best for your hair. The alphanumeric chart lists hair types based on texture from numbers 1 to 4 with subcategories of a b and c meaning someone can be a 2b while another is a 4c.

Straight fine thin very soft shiny hard to hold a curl hair tends to be oily hard to damage. I usually say 4ab. This kind of hair is kinky extremely wiry has tight coils and is very fragile.

With all this hair moodiness the fact that black women have a myriad of textures within each type i refuse to get hung up on whether it s 4a or 4b. Type hair texture hair description. Even black hair can have a mixed combination of hair types.

There are three different hair textures and four different hair types. Some coils are looser than the others. I just look for products that work with my hair whether they re for white or black hair.

Once you understand the different hair types and hair textures you ll understand what your hair is naturally capable of when it comes to things like having body or holding a curl. Type 4 hair usually looks coarse but is actually very fine and the hair strands are normally thickly packed together. Afro textured hair or kinky hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in africa and the african diaspora despite its name this hair texture is also found in some parts of oceania and southeast asia each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny angle like helix shape.

Type 4 hair is the hair type that most black women have. This hair type experiences the greatest amount of shrinkage about 75 percent or more than the other textures. More volume more full 1c.