Michelle Breyer, co-founder of Naturally Curly, concedes that the hair type chart is a base to understanding your hair texture.
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Richelieu Dennis, founder of Shea Moisture, spoke to the outreach of their event as it “speaks strongly to the need for guidance, education and support for women with textured hair.” Shea Moisture in their consultations actually took into consideration “other aspects of the hair such as porosity, condition, chemical damage and scalp issues to create a customized hair care regimen.” That is the progressive thought that needs to apply to how to use the hair type chart. When Shea Moisture, the organic hair care company aimed at women of color, hosted an event offering consultations on hair type, more than 350 women showed up. I thought there had to be some magic product that I could put in my hair and snap my fingers to get some magic, but my hair was and is 4C. For the longest time I thought I was doing something wrong with my hair, and that everyone was suppose to have 3C/4A hair. Karen Tappin, founder of Karen’s Body Beautiful, best sums it up by pointing out that the hair type chart “helps naturals be realistic about their texture.” She adds, “If you’re a type 4 hair, your hair won’t behave like type 2 hair, no matter how you style it or which products you use.” Personally, having been natural off and on over the past eight years, the hair type chart has helped me to have realistic expectations of my hair and provide a base for how to treat it.
It definitely has its place in the grand scheme of educating yourself on your hair. This is not to say that one should just dismiss the hair type chart.
Ever wondered why you and your friend have the same exact hair texture, or dare I say, “hair type,” but you can’t achieve the same styles she does? There’s more to hair then just texture and pattern. The porosity of your hair, whether 3A or 4C can greatly sway how products impact it and what maintenance one needs in order to achieve healthy hair. Many female consumers who are uninformed (whether relaxed or natural) may simply associate their curl pattern as how to take care of their hair, while remaining ignorant to the key factors that really affect healthy hair care.
The hair chart as it exists today is a simply a chart of curl pattern. Curl pattern is the LEAST helpful in terms of caring for your natural hair, and figuring out which products work best.”ĭawson brings up several key points on the debate against the usefulness of hair type charts. Here are some important factors that the current hair system doesn’t take into account: porosity, strand size, and density. It also provides limited information just because your hair looks like someone else’s doesn’t mean it’ll respond to products similarly. “Hair typing as it exists today is divisive and ultimately destructive because it emphasizes one “type” of curl texture over another.
As Imani Dawson, founder of TribeCalledCurl notes: Some feel that hair typing and the chart that helps you do so is nothing but a divisive tool that provides little information and easily misguides women on hair care. How useful is the hair type chart? We’ve tried to break it down for readers on the site before, and many weren’t sold on it being a positive thing. How you apply heat or process your hair is impacted by the natural texture of your hair, therefore, it’s useful for all to be better informed.īack to the topic at hand. Hair typing is used to market products for both natural and relaxed hair. Let’s sidebar briefly, before you dismiss this solely as another article on natural hair.
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