I took that one sentence out of context, it would have made more sense if you saw the entire conversation. I don't usually dig for shade but I gave a side eye to that when I saw it. It wasn't on here though. Shrug.This is funny to me. I'm a pretty concrete person. I read this as the individual is stating a fact rather than implying their hair is better.
I think her hair is 4B.
Wow! Can't believe that fro-puff! "Say it loud..!" Too cute!It's the products we used - not moisturizing or curl defining. My hair was uber thick then too. I has thinned out. My edges were always smooth and "silky" but we picked out the curls for afros.
I don't pick it out like we did then, my hair is thinner, and I use better products. I wouldn't do that today because I had a lot of tangles and combing my hair hurt.
This is my current version of an afro puff (I don't have one with no product sorry)
But I can do the same thing with my 5 year old who is my hair twin. Her texture looks silky with product but can be poofy too. Her puff can go from this:
to this when picked out:
And just to add to what I was saying before.
When someone comes in here and starts complaining about how a certain curl defining product didn't work for them and didn't define, people are always quick to say things like, "It will only define what's already there," and "It doesn't CREATE curls, just enhances them." and stuff like that.
But when someone shows a picture of their hair with a curl defining product in it and asks to be typed it's like, "Oh, you have to take a pic of your hair freshly washed with no product." and "We can't accurately type you if you've got product in your hair."
Lol... so... which is it?
And, in fact, I think (and hair typing to me, like I said in the other thread, is only useful when it comes to styling so this is not that serious) that it is EASIER to type someone when their curl pattern is defined with product, because when without product, a lot of people's curl pattern's are frizzy, and the curl pattern is hidden in the frizz, therefore making it harder to see.
And in regards to what @iri9109 and @Kurlee were saying, I agree with both of your points. With @iri9109 I agree that dry hair should be the most accurate way to type hair, but I also agree with @Kurlee that the problem with dry hair typing is it's harder to see the curl pattern.
So, the solution to both of these?
Type hair dry, and WITH curl defining products! The hair will be dry so it is not being weighed down by water, and the hair will retain the curl pattern that shows up when it's wet. win/win
(sorry for the long post)
that's what i'm sayinIf her wash-n-gos are 4a/b, then mine must be 6a/b...
Pic of my wash-n-go...no product...
but I came back in after seeing more people thinking HairCrush has Type 4 hair.
That's what I am saying too. The last time I checked, 4a was coffee stirrer size coils. Every year, what constitutes 4a coils has been getting bigger and bigger. Next someone is going to tell me Cree Summer is 4a
i was told by 2 different people via PM my hair looks like hers and she is def not a 3 according to them so yeaaaahh
I'm a 4a/4b mix, being more 4b than 4a and here is a pic of an old puff of mine. You can see some of my coffee stirrer sized coils peaking through in the back:
That's what I am saying too. The last time I checked, 4a was coffee stirrer size coils. Every year, what constitutes 4a coils has been getting bigger and bigger. Next someone is going to tell me Cree Summer is 4a
on here yes she is
Wow! Cree Summer is definitely a Type 3. Her spiral curls are bigger than tight springs of a Type 4. Here's a pic of her hair:
I consider myself mostly type 4, yet Cree's hair looks a lot like mine in that photo in the bulk of it. Gaaaah! I give up on this hair typing business!
Guh you finna get kicked outta the type 4 club like me...
LMAO that's what I said!!! I GIVE UP!
Embrya That's really funny because I always thought that the tighter part of my hair looked like Cree's and that was the type 4 part...
