If you’re part of the curly-haired community, you may have heard of this thing called the “curl pattern chart” floating around online or from your fellow curly-haired friends. This curl typing system ...

Curly hair is both a blessing and a curse. Beautiful as it is, it can also be difficult to style, frizz up in the summer, and require costly products — to say nothing of finding the right styling ...

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Identifying your curl pattern helps build a foundation for better care and styling. The best way to determine your true curl type is when hair is wet or damp, not stretched or blown out. Types 1–4 ...

What Are the Different Hair Types? Hair comes in four main types: straight, wavy, curly, and coily. Each hair type has its own unique characteristics. The four types are broken down into subtypes (A, ...

Your hair is unique, and understanding your particular hair texture is key to caring for it effectively. The hair type chart, which you can use to find the natural pattern of your strands, is a good ...

Some natural hair girlies out here might hate me for saying this, but it might be time to move past our obsession with the classification of our curl type. The curl pattern chart was a decent starting ...