How To Tell What Kind Of Hair You Have

Now you can see from this hair classification system that you may have 3a hair in the back 2c hair in the front i ve even seen women with a combination of all three curl patterns on one head of hair.

The best way to tell your curl pattern is by wetting your hair first. This quick quiz will reveal what type of hair you really have. Study the curl pattern or lack there of take a good look at the thickness of the strand. Hold a single strand of your hair between your thumb and index fingers.

Looking in the mirror and deciding the type of hair you have alone won t do the trick. Hair with a small diameter or fine hair has a typical diameter of about 50 microns and hair with a larger diameter or coarse hair has a typical diameter of about 120 microns. And from eye level to the ends you have a loose undefined wave. From the roots to around eye level your hair is fairly straight.

Next cut a piece of sewing thread about six inches long choose a similar color to your hair if you can and place it next to your strand of hair. Do the strand test to understand if your hair is fine medium or thick. This is the most accurate way to determine your hair type. If you can barely feel the strand between your fingers you have thin hair.

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An easy way to tell which category your hair falls into is to take a single strand from your hairbrush and lay it down on a plain flat surface. If there was no oil from one spot but a lot of oil from another spot on your scalp then you have combination hair. This quick quiz will reveal what type of hair you really have. You can get much more specific than straight or curly thick or thin when describing your hair type.

If there is nothing at all on the tissue then you have dry hair. You may think you have medium thick hair because you see soooooo much hair when you look in the mirror but if. By contrast the typical copy paper is about 70 microns. The natural state of type 2 hair is a gentle tousled texture.

In order to find out what your hair type is according to either system you must pluck a single strand of your freshly washed hair and use the rubrics provided.