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Hair porosity describes how readily water crosses into the hair shaft and how long it stays there once inside. Low porosity resists water going in and, having taken it in, holds onto it. High porosity absorbs quickly and loses it just as quickly. What almost every guide on this subject leaves out is that porosity … Read more

Irish curls describe hair where the top layer sits straighter or looser than the layers underneath it. The canopy reads as straight or softly waved, while the sections at the nape, behind the ears and under the crown form tighter waves or curls. It is not a hair type, it is not rare, and the … Read more

Hair botox contains no botulinum toxin and involves no needle. It is a deep conditioning and smoothing treatment, usually built on proteins, amino acids and oils, sealed in with a flat iron. The name is marketing. The thing actually worth checking before you book is not the botox part, it is whether the formula releases … Read more

Three things damage hair overnight: friction against the pillow, tension from whatever is holding it, and moisture pulled out by dry air. A smooth pillowcase fixes the first, a loose style fixes the second, and covering the ends fixes the third. Which of the three matters most depends on your hair type, which is why … Read more

Wavy hair splits into three types. 2A is a loose, open S that only appears near the ends. 2B is a defined S that starts around the mid-length. 2C is a deep S that begins at the root and occasionally tips into a loose spiral. One measurement separates them, and it is not how wavy … Read more

Pick one of the hairs off your shoulder and look at the end. A shed hair is full length and has a small pale bulb on one end, because it came away at the root. A broken hair is shorter than the rest of your hair, has no bulb, and usually ends in a ragged … Read more

Sunlight does two separate jobs on your head. UVB breaks down the protein in the hair fiber, and UVA shifts its color. Neither reverses, because a strand of hair is not living tissue and cannot repair itself. The scalp underneath is living skin, so it burns, it heals, and it is the only one of … Read more

Straight hair is the usual answer, and for once the usual answer holds up. Type 1 is the most widespread curl pattern worldwide, mostly because the regions where straight hair predominates are also the regions holding the largest populations. What almost no page on this question does is show the measurement behind the claim. One … Read more

1A hair is the straightest code on the hair typing chart. It air dries flat from root to tip with no bend, no wave and no lift at the crown, and it stays flat when wet, which is the detail that separates it from everything else on the chart. Most guides to this type repeat … Read more

The curl chart runs from 2A to 4C, nine patterns in total. Straight hair sits outside it, since type 1 has no curl to classify, which is why curl charts start at 2A while hair type charts start at 1A. The number gives the family: 2 is wavy, 3 is curly, 4 is coily. The … Read more