Usually when
people discuss hair types, they only talk about curl pattern. I personally
don't talk about hair typing without talking about hair texture. Knowing your
hair type won’t change anything in your hair journey expect putting you in a
box and depress you especially if you are type 4? One thing I learn during my
journey is that, the next girl may have the same curl pattern as me, but still
our hair does not react the same to products or tools. To build up a proper hair
routine or regimen we have to also consider our hair volume and consistency
beside curl pattern.
Pattern:

1 = Straight
Hair
2 = Wavy
Hair
3 = Curly
Hair
A = Curl diameter of sidewalk chalk
B = Curl diameter of a sharpie
C = Curl diameter of a pencil
*4 = Kinky
Hair
A = Curl diameter of a needle
B = Zigzag curl pattern
C = No curl pattern
Volume: thin,
normal, thick
Consistency: fine, medium, and coarse.
Porosity: Low, medium, high
Density: Low, medium, high
More about hair porosity and density read more
My thoughts on hair typing:
According the hair typing system; black people are categorised to have type
3 and 4 hair texture which I totally agree with. Most of people may disagree with me in this
one; according to what I have noticed- I have seen that our hair texture have
something to do with our ethnics back ground if you go back to the history or
to the ethnics groups of Africa, You will see that majority of People with type 3 hair texture are people
from the Horn of Africa( Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Eritrea etc.) and people with
type 4 hair texture are from central-, Southeast-, southern- and west
Africa. So now if you have type 3 hair texture and you are not mixt, then you
have 99% possibility of having some root from the Horn of Africa. If you have
type 4 hair texture then you are probably a ‘’Zulu or Bantu’’ or any other
ethnic from the rest of Africa . Ask your parents (grandparents), do some research you‘ll see that
I’m almost right if not right.
But hey let concentrate on type 4 hair textures…
All head have several hair textures, it’s almost impossible to have one
single texture. Even though I say my hair is 4 c I still believe that have 4a/b
strands here and there, but in general my hair looks like ''4c'' all over.
Here’s
in short the description of 4 hair types
Click Photos!
I have type 4 hair
What about your hair type?
Jesus Bless you!
Love, Kizola