My hair type chart, with pics

Good work AfroGerman girl! I really liked the old hair chart from Blended Beauty as well. It was the most useful I'd ever seen for my hairtype.

Some minor comments would be that many of the 3b's look like they should be 3c's. My hair resembles some of the 3b's according to your chart, but I really consider myself a 3c. But I do really understand that you had to work with the photos available to you.

Thanks for the suggestions, morenae! Looking at your picture, your lovely curls actually look like 3b to me, not 3c! My daughter definitely has 3c hair (I had stacey from Blended Beauty define her hair type for me), and her curls are tighter and smaller than yours. In my opinion - at least looking at your pic - your curls are not small or tight enough to be 3c...you would definitely go in the 3b category, probably 3b7...just my opinion though! As for the diversity of type 4 hair, I totally agree with you! I think some type 4 members should chime in with pics etc. because I don't have much experience with this type of hair.

Kimiche wrote: AfroGerman_Girl wrote: sanja wrote: what's this hair type?   http://www.veer.com/products/detail.aspx?image=ISP0592060   my hair looked mostly like that as a child.  i had very loose s-waves in the back (was it my nape?  i don't remember).  i know my hair type has changed over the years, but i'm still curious.   also -- you cannot type your hair when it's dry?   This hair in the picture you posted looks like a type 3b or 3c where the curls have been combed out. As a child, my mum used to comb my curls out too, so you couldn't see them. I can achieve this look by dry-combing my hair (which is bad for your hair!!). I'm not sure what you mean by not typing your hair when it's dry? Where did you read that?   As a child, my hair sorta looked like the hair in that pic too, but a little more coarse.  Boy I hated getting my hair combed, because it hurt.  Would that be classified as a 4 since it's a little more coarse?  I don't have any pics to show.  I have to get relaxers now, going natural just wouldn't work for me.

sanja wrote: Kimiche wrote: AfroGerman_Girl wrote: sanja wrote: what's this hair type?   http://www.veer.com/products/detail.aspx?image=ISP0592060   my hair looked mostly like that as a child.  i had very loose s-waves in the back (was it my nape?  i don't remember).  i know my hair type has changed over the years, but i'm still curious.   also -- you cannot type your hair when it's dry?   This hair in the picture you posted looks like a type 3b or 3c where the curls have been combed out. As a child, my mum used to comb my curls out too, so you couldn't see them. I can achieve this look by dry-combing my hair (which is bad for your hair!!). I'm not sure what you mean by not typing your hair when it's dry? Where did you read that?   As a child, my hair sorta looked like the hair in that pic too, but a little more coarse.  Boy I hated getting my hair combed, because it hurt.  Would that be classified as a 4 since it's a little more coarse?  I don't have any pics to show.  I have to get relaxers now, going natural just wouldn't work for me.   exactly!  it was coarse (it wasn't at first, but as i got a little older it started getting coarse) and i couldn't stand to have my hair combed.   i thought this was maybe 4b hair or something, but i don't know.

LOL@ identity crisis!