If you’re part of the curly-haired community, you may have heard of this thing called the “curl pattern chart” floating around online or from your fellow curly-haired friends. This curl typing system ...

Curl type is often lesson number one for someone getting to grips with their hair texture, It's all based on categorising hair by curl pattern. "It helps make it easier for people who are new to curls ...

Curl type is often lesson number one for someone getting to grips with their hair texture, It's all based on categorising hair by curl pattern. "It helps make it easier for people who are new to curls ...

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Ladies, let’s talk curls — whether you have a good handle on your voluminous mane or wake up each morning unsure what level of twirl you’ll face. From loose, beachy waves that scream, “I woke up like ...

Some natural hair girlies out here might hate me for saying this, but it might be time to move past our obsession with the classification of our curl type. The curl pattern chart was a decent starting ...

The history of the hair typing system is a complicated one. The original hair type system, the hair gauge, was developed in 1905 in present-day Namibia by Eugen Fischer — a German scientist whose ...

For as long as I can remember, my hair has been part of my identity and the way I show up in the world. My older sister placed plaits and barrettes in my hair when I was a child, and getting my hair ...