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If you really make the most of your hairstyle you can't ignore your texture. Learning what texture you have and choosing the right hairstyle that suits your texture will ensure you more attractiveness. It will not only do that but will also make it easier to look after and style your hair.
Fine Hair Type
Hair of this texture is very, very small in diameter, and tends to be weightless and flyaway. Mostly, it's quite straight and won't hold a curl easily. Fine hair generally takes chemical processes easily, but care must be taken in using treatments like perms. Due to its delicate nature, this hair type is easily over-processed. Hence careful timing is essential to avoid over-processed, damaged hair.
Medium Type
If your hair is not neither flyaway, nor thick and coarse, it is a medium hair texture. This is sometimes known as "normal" texture. If this describes your hair, you should deem yourself lucky, as your hair texture is the most common and most manageable. This hair type is also the easiest to process for any treatment.
Coarse Texture
If you hair is coarse, it means you have thick hair. It would be ideal to look for hairstyles that lessen the bulk and weight that coarse hair produces. You should start by looking at layer cuts, razor cuts, and hairstyles that tend to lessen the thickness of your hair, and in the process, make life easier for you.
Sparse Density
There are many hairstyles that are perfect for low density hair texture or sparse density. For example, all hairstyles that are longer and heavier on top are ideal, making your hair look thicker, hold its shape longer.
Now that you have an idea about which styles will work well with your hair type and texture, go try out some new hairstyles.
As we age, we see changes in our texture. The hair of a newborn is very soft, smooth and very fine. The diameter of the hair thickens as we enter childhood or early teens. As we move into adulthood and then older, it again changes, becoming finer again in our 40s and 50s. All of these changes are genetically programmed but sometimes people's texture can dramatically change for example from straight hair to curly hair.
But even though we might know what affects hair texture, it still is unclear exactly how and why this happens. People with curly hair tend to have a flatter follicle. On the other hand, straight hairs tend to have a rounder follicle. But how a flat follicle turns round, and vice versa, is still a mystery. Nevertheless, remember because hair texture changes you should also learn to change your hairstyle with it.
