Hair texture generally refers to the natural shape or pattern of your strands. If it dries straight without a bend or curl, then your hair is straight (or type 1, as it is commonly referred to). If it dries with a slight curve or “S” shape, then it is considered wavy (type 2).

Well, Charlotte, this is an easy one. Curling shampoos do NOT make your hair curly. In fact, if you read the labels carefully, some of them don’t even SAY they’ll make your hair curly!

In short, yes the Curly Girl Method can work for straight hair. Although you won’t be able to magically get ringlet curls overnight, the method can certainly make your hair healthier and shinier and perhaps even add some waves.

Scrunching does not damage your hair, especially the most common methods of doing this. If you use a hairdryer, it may dry out the hair and cause damage. But using your hands, a towel, some clips, and a little gel will not harm your hair while still giving you the natural curls and waves you want.

While you can get natural waves with straight hair and you don’t have to be black to make your hair wavy with a wave brush or durag, guys who have straight hair do need to have some type of curl pattern. Or at least the ability to create a wavy pattern in their hair.

Type 3 hair ranges from tight, curly tendrils to light curls. It generally has a combination of different textures. Type 3 hair types are also defined as springy curls. They have more volume as well as height at roots than type 2 hair types, which are wavy. Type 3A: Your curls are big and loose.

Your hair may become curly with age if you inherited both straight and curly hair genes from your parents. Some of these genes can be inactive at birth but then become turned on by hormones, aging, or other factors including medication, nutrition, stress, illness, or pollution.

Hormones, stress and ageing as seen as the common causes for changes to your hair texture and quality. The most likely theory, in my opinion, is to do with your hormones. Hormones are a possible trigger for the curly hair gene. As well as affecting the quality of your hair, hormones can change your muscle tone too.

Your hair can most certainly change from straight to wavy or even wavy to straight, all without a stylist. Genes can be dormant until switched on but researchers aren’t completely sure how that happens yet. Hormones seem to be a major factor in how hair behaves though.

The molecules in your hair are held together by strong chemical bonds, some of which are sensitive to water and can temporarily change their shape. The shape of your hair reflects the shape of the molecules of which it is made.

5 Hints That You Might Have Curly Hair

1. You have some wave or an occasional curl.
2. You have out-of-control hairs all around your hair line.
3. You have volume in all the wrong places.
4. You don’t control your part – your part controls you.
5. Your hair frizzes out when it dries naturally or when it’s humid.

Afro hair is a symbol of such power and fierceness but due to it’s shape it’s the weakest of all hair types. Under a microscope each strand is actually an oval shape unlike Asian and European hair which is circular.