Black Hair Media Hair Forum: My hair type chart, with pics

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   I have decided to try and replicate the hair type chart that www.blendedbeauty.net used to have. For some reason they replaced it with a different chart, but I thought the old one was good. So I've triedto work from memory and replicate it as best as possible. I welcome any constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement! 

Hair typing system by AfroGerman_girl (derived from the old hair typing system on www.blendedbeauty.net)

Type 1 – straight hair

Type 1 – Straight hair

Type 2a – big loose waves

Type 2b – smaller, tighter waves

Type 3a – big, loose curls

Type 3b – big cupid curls to small spiral curls

This group has up to 9 subtypes, categorized by size and tightness of curl

3b1

3b2

3b3 

3b4 

3b5  

3b6 

3b7 

3b8 

3b9 

3c – small, tight corkscrew curls 

4a – has a clearly visible curl and wave pattern that ranges from pen size curls to pen spring size coils 

4b - has a tighter wave pattern and kinks of various size 

Note: often you will find different curl types on the same head, so if your hair does not clearly fit into any of these categories, you have a combination of textures, which is common! 

Also note that each hair type can be ranging from highly textured (i.e. coarse) to lowly textured (i.e. fine/silky).  

This is a good example of a loose curl that is highly textured.                                              

Edited by AfroGerman_Girl - 31 Jul 2007 at 2:23pm