People always seem to equate the combo of kinky and dense with coarse. If the natural hair community is confused about the term, they only have the rest of the hair community to thank for their confusion. How could you when your healthy naturally dry hair is equated to damaged hair that … Read more ».
Thank you very much for clearing this up. I am going to use this page as a reference. I wanted to write about this but I can just direct people here. Last week I walked into a black hair salon hoping they could take me as a walk in but they were booked. They had me speak to their braider to make an appointment and she said something about my hair being coarse. Mind you this woman has never even touched my hair before, how would she know my hair is coarse or Not?
I was highly offended because I had just conditioned and moisturized my hair that same morning. My hair at the time was super soft and detangled and was still damp. Then after she prejudicially claimed my hair … Read more ». Orders Process in 1 Business Day. My Wishlist Login. Building a Hair Regimen. Honey, her hair is so coarse and knotted it looks crazy.
Because I have coarse hair, it takes so long to style. What do you define as coarse hair? Is your hair naturally coarse? It grows perpendicularly to the scalp. This hair type has the fastest growth rate at approximately 1. A strand of Asian hair has a somewhat round, even shape. Nonetheless, Asian hair has the lowest density of the three ethnicities. Caucasian hair can be straight, wavy or curly. Its color can vary from blond to dark brown. They help to form and contour our hair as it grows.
Our hair thickness results from a combination of both the size of the follicles themselves and how many of them line our scalp. The size of the follicles determines if the individual hair strands are thick or thin. Large follicles produce thick hairs. Small follicles produce thin hairs. It is that simple! Equally important to our hair thickness, the number of follicles on our scalp determines the actual number of hairs crowning our head.
Lots of hairs equal thick hair. Sparse hair equals thin hair. On average, our heads are covered with over , follicles! Our hair texture can range anywhere from pin-straight to extremely curly.
Follicles that are round in cross-section give rise to straight hair. Those out of which curly hair grows are oval. Very tightly coiled hair is due to the nearly flat, ribbon-like structure of the follicles. This hair texture is very common in people of African ancestry. African hair produces plenty of protective oils, called sebum. In fact, African hair actually produces more oils than Caucasian and Asian hair. However, due to the tight curls, the oil fails to spread evenly along the hair fiber.
Without lubrication, the fibers become very dry. This causes the brittle strands to flake and roughen, resulting in hair that is coarse to the touch. Very curly hair from all ethnic groups often lacks the silky smoothness of straight hair. This may due to the same reason, but to a lesser extent.
The brittleness of African hair adds to the illusion that it cannot be grown long. The tight curls create stresses at each turn in the hair fiber. The hair strands become weak and fragile, making them prone to breakage. As a result, tightly coiled hair tends to stay quite short. So is this hair quality genetic? There are two strong reasons why we would expect African hair texture to be genetic. Firstly, the texture is universal in Africans, while nearly absent from other ethnic groups.
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