I've seen a lot of comments like this. I also have 3c at the back and 4b/4c for the rest of my head. Makes me wonder why we have looser textures at the back
I have a friend, Somalian, her hair texture was the EPITOME of different. As I was styling her hair i noticed the middle of her head resembles afro-textured hair: fluffy and quite dense. The perimeter of her hair however was silkier - as you’d often see in eastern or northern africans as well as caucasians with mixed black heritage. The silkier hair by the perimeters would elongated before curling and the centre of her head would get damp, get a little defined and shrink - just like afro textured hair. Both hair textures had similar curl patterns (3b-c)… i hope that makes sense but I just thought it was amazing! I mentioned this to her and she apologised for her ‘damaged hair’. She did use to chronically straighten it when she was a child so some of the ends and curls were straightened, but the actual hair texture surely couldn’t change that much because of her straightening her hair. It was honestly fascinating to see! I say that as someone with afro-textured hair myself!
@@diadiaa892 It probably has to do with horomones and follicle gene expression levels not being equal. Its probably has to do with genes and different parts of her head expressing differently (hence different textures).
Well this explains alot! I'm Black American and 90% West African. I have 3B-4B hair on my head. When I first went natural I cut the type 3 hair so many times, convinced that it was "scab hair" and that it would eventually coil like the rest of my hair. 13 years later I still have all of these textures on my head, it wasn't scab hair or heat damaged after all lol
Interesting. I cut my hair too thinking i had heat damage because one side of my hair is looser than the other side. But it grew back the same 3 times lol
This was a big AHA moment for me. Many people today think of America when it comes to multiculturalism, but modern day America is still a baby compared to the legacy of Africa
I used to envy people that had long hair or a naturally loose curl pattern. Now I envy people that have a single curl pattern, especially when they can comb their hair, see their scalp, and style their hair without significant pain and extreme caution or war on humidity. Going natural was supposed to be better for me than keeping relaxed hair. I can't even figure out what kind of locs would work for me. When I get my hair done I either don't like it because it isn't what I wanted or it just hurts too much. Then I have to find someone else to trust with my hair and pray they don't die or move far away or become too expensive or busy or unreliable or out of business. I can't have a barber cut it all off because I'd look even worse. Last time I went to an African Braid Shop, the lady made me cry while expressing her criticisms, doubts, and dissatisfaction of my hair texture, length, and desired hair style. I am just now realizing how much that hurt still affects me nearly a year later.
I’m 4a/b at the front and back and really most of my head except for the untameable 4c patch right at my crown. It also shrinks double the rest of my hair so unstretched it looks like I’m wearing some wide brimmed flat hat 😂
@@rahkeemthegreat360 blacks are native to the entire world. There's black people with blonde hair, red hair, green eyes and blue eyes, it's not common since those are traits of albinism.
Wrong! No one came from Africa no one came from apes we all come from Adam and Eve, the garden of Eden where they are from is literally ASIA. God created all of us and the world is not billions of years old it’s somewhere less than 10,000 years old all our history is false to keep many from believing in God. God Bless.
Yup 3c around my perimeter which is the softest and thinnest and holds no type of style, my crown is 4b and thicker it holds a ponytail without the ponytail holder, it holds all the styles and 4a is mixed in everywhere, each strand looks different from each other and occasionally I will find a straight 1A strand of hair just sticking out 🤷🏽♀️
Ive got 2-3 different textures on my head. the front and sides of my head with tighter curl pattern , while the back of my crown it’s looser curls with some S shaped waves.
I know I'm not part of your core demographic or target audience (male and have "mixed" hair/non-tightly coiled hair), but I honestly believe that your work is inspiring and beneficial for type 4a-c black girls/women in instilling pride and showing the beauty in their hair texture, truly showing that ALL natural hair textures are beautiful. Keep up the good work!
What is "mixed" hair. Mixed hair can't be tightly coiled???? Non tightly coiled hair automatically makes you mixed??? I just KNOW your mother was the pale af one
This is why I will never understand racism. Our earliest ancestors were from Africa, they were black. Both yours and mine. The only reason there are different skin tones today is because historically we became isolated from each other and adapted to different environments over thousands of years and developed new cultures. The idea of “blackness” lives within everyone because it’s a part of our genetic history even if you don’t want to accept it. We may be different colors today, but we all came from the same place and were once the same people.
Your right. We are the most genetically diverse ethnicity in the world in terms of our genetic makeup and that part of the reason why Europeans want to mate with us so bad because of their offspring
We’re not “improving” on what the Most High Yah already did and made perfect. We are merely sharing and diversifying the genetic 🧬 wealth. I promise I’m not trying to argue semantics nor be difficult. To say we’ve “improved” means Yah didn’t make us right the first time. Also to say we’ve “improved“ means whiter and lighter people are an improvement from the original dark human. Well, that’s not the case. Since we know white, light, and everything human comes from black. So again we are not improving. We are sharing and diversifying genetic wealth.
I have three texture hair straight in the back and the sides, and the middle is curly. And in the very front top, it's coily. My hair is very soft. I dont use heavy products in my hair.
I thought i had straight hair until i started finding hair that went from 2a - 4b (i find 4a and 4b VERY RARELY but i have found those hairs before) and ive always found it astonishing.
I have a combo of diff size cork screw curls and S curls that shrink up differently. Also have some very loose hair that doesn’t shrink at all. Some of the individual strands are very thick and coarse and the rest are “regular” and soft.
Wow that is really cool to know and it literally makes SO much sense since everyone comes from Africa!! That’s how different “types” of people in different parts of the world have such different hair textures!
For this current stage of human evolution anyway. Neanderthals along with many other previous evolutions came wayyy before us and were found in places like England, France, Germany. (Granted they weren’t countries back then)
Cus we have everyone's genetic code..if all humans came from East Africa, then every genetic expression including those that determine phenotype (physical features) will be present in our populations. This excludes features occurring from regional mutations of course since a mutation can occur anywhere not just in Africa. :)
That explains my daughter being born with lots of gray hair 😂. My husband, his father, and 6 aunts were born with gray hair. She has a mixture of 4b/4c curly hair. It’s beautiful! It’s changed as she gets older. Depending on the kind of oil I use it changes her gray hair black and when I stop it turns gray again. I’ve never seen that before. Some of her hair strands are white too! I thought they had did something to her hair when she was born 😂.
Yes, I have mostly 3c, then 4a, and a little bit of 4c (crown) and little bit of 3b (both sides). It’s all a silky texture so the curls blend together pretty well. 91% Sub-Saharan African here. The rest of my little bit of admixture is European, Native American (Chitimacha), and South East Asian (by way of Madagascar- 2% of those enslaved during Trans Atlantic Slave Trade came from there).
Mankind was derived from Africa ❤ "And HE made out of one man every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth" #Not my words. ~Acts 17:26
