HAVE DIFFERENT HAIR TYPES AND TEXTURES ON YOUR HEAD? YES, IT'S COMMON. Do you find your hair is straighter and oilier on the crown of your head, and more wavy/curly yet drier in the lengths? What is your hair type?
Yep you do. It's completely normal to have multiple curl types around your head (and densities too).
Yes, it is possible to have straight, wavy, and curly hair at the same time. Hair texture can vary across different sections of the scalp due to a variety of factors, including genetics, hair care practices, and environmental influences. Some common reasons for having mixed textures include:
that we call incomplete dominance, meaning that genes for straight hair. aren't fully dominant over genes for curly hair. and vice versa. It's also a continuous trait, meaning that instead of having completely straight. or completely curly hair, our hair texture can actually fall in between, such as having wavy hair.
Yes, it is possible for one hair follicle to produce multiple hairs simultaneously. This usually happens when several hair strands grow from a single follicle, a condition known as pili multigemini. It's more common in certain areas of the body and varies from person to person.
Most people are born with one hair crown making the appearance of a double crown a relatively rare condition. Studies suggest a double crown may affect around 5% of white people, though the rate is far higher in the black population [1-3].
If you have straight hair, your hair may become slightly curlier as you age. This is because the shape of hair follicles changes over time.
Human hair comes with all sorts of colors, textures and shapes. Notably, African hair is more coiled and dry; Asian hair is straighter and thicker; and Caucasian hair is somewhere in between with around 45% having straight hair, 40% having wavy hair, and 15% having curly hair.
Type 1A: The rarest hair type, this one is very straight and fine with a “wispy” appearance. It's very difficult to get it to hold a curl. Type 1B: Though still straight, this type has a medium (rather than fine) texture and a little more volume.
Mixed porosity hair has different porosity levels throughout the hair shaft, often with more damaged or porous ends and healthier roots. This can be caused by heat or coloring damage, or from having long hair (the ends become more porous due to everyday wear and tear).
What Makes Hair Curly or Wavy? While you have your genes, humidity and a variety of other factors to thank for whether you have curly or straight hair, scientists have discovered that the shape of the follicle determines both the curvature of a strand and the angle in which it grows.
Most people with textured hair have more than one type of pattern on their heads and I'm one of them! Your curl pattern can be identified by the shape of the strands of hair, whether they kink, curve, or wind around themselves into spirals—but that doesn't mean they're all the same.
Genetics, hair habits, products, environment, and even lifestyle can all contribute to combination hair. If you aren't careful, using tons of products—especially the wrong products—and overexposing hair to chemical treatments might lead to symptoms of combination hair, as these can provoke dry or oily reactions.
During puberty, menopause and pregnancy, many people will find their will go from straight to curly or vice versa over a period of months. It's also interesting to note that even long periods of stress can be enough to change the texture of your hair.
A general observation across experiments was that straight hair was perceived as younger, healthier, and more attractive than wavy hair and darker shades (medium copper and brown) were perceived more positively than blonde hair.
Albinism is a recessively inherited trait in humans where both pigmented parents may be carriers of the gene and pass it down to their children. Each child has a 25% chance of being albino and a 75% chance of having normally pigmented skin.
Hair morphology is one of the more conspicuous features of human variation and is particularly diverse among people of European ancestry, for which around 45% of individuals have straight hair, 40% have wavy hair, and 15% have curly hair.
A single hair has a normal life between 2 and 7 years. That hair then falls out and is replaced with a new hair. How much hair you have on your body and head is also determined by your genes. Nearly everyone has some hair loss with aging.
Why does this happen? Curl patterns depend on genetics, hormones, and environmental factors and your hair care regimen. If that sounds like many factors — that's because it is! Folks with curly hair know that experimentation and technique are essential to getting your curl pattern to be its healthiest.
Based on these findings, we hypothesize that the thickened cuticle layer in pubic hair may have evolved as a defence mechanism against chemical damage from urine, urea and ammonia. Keywords: FT-IR imaging; cortex; curly hair; cuticle; hair; pubic hair; scalp hair; urine effects.
Moles, acne, and ingrown hairs
For hairs that are close to or directly on skin with moles or acne, more tweezing can lead to more inflammation. If the goal of tweezing or plucking facial hair is to make your face cleaner, tweezing can cause the opposite effect.
Pili multigemini is a rare but benign hair follicle abnormality characterized by the presence of two or more hair shafts emerging from a single hair follicle. This condition affects both men and women of all ages and can occur anywhere on the body where hair grows, including the scalp, face, arms, legs, and pubic area.