Curly hair is both a blessing and a curse. Beautiful as it is, it can also be difficult to style, frizz up in the summer, and require costly products — to say nothing of finding the right styling ...

Your hair is unique, and understanding your particular hair texture is key to caring for it effectively. The hair type chart, which you can use to find the natural pattern of your strands, is a good ...

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Identifying your curl pattern helps build a foundation for better care and styling. The best way to determine your true curl type is when hair is wet or damp, not stretched or blown out. Types 1–4 ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? Curls aren’t a one-type-fits-all. In reality, they are intricate and can't fit ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." There are additional subcategories (A, B, and C) for each hair type, based on more subtle variations ...

Most people have multiple types of curls in their hair rather than just one category. Finely textured curls can be smoothed out but often lack volume unless specifically treated. Most coarsely ...

Andre Walker, an Emmy award winning stylist best known for his work with Oprah, created a hair chart that would be a base for how most women of color identify their hair texture. Walker’s hair chart ...

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 ...