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What is your hair type? Everyone thinks it\u2019s an easy-to-answer question, but in fact, most are wrong. Natural hair types<\/strong> are not as simple as we always suppose.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not me and you but perhaps everyone has been asked this type of question several times. It might be just personal curiosity, but in some cases, it\u2019s a matter of science that needs clarifying.<\/p>\n

There have been so many things to care about our natural Remy human hair<\/a><\/strong> that we do not take hair typing into serious consideration. That said, no hair is the same. The differences in the texture of certain types of hair (for example, shades of straight hair) are not so clear but there are still \u201csome\u201d.<\/p>\n

Understanding these things is important, as it would decide how your hair will look like. Therefore, this article from VietWig would be dedicated to clarifying the natural hair types of humans. We will discuss the hair typing system of Andre Walker, which is the most popularly used worldwide.<\/p>\n

How to determine your natural hair types?<\/h2>\n

It is a truth universally that we, humans, understand too little about our bio hair. We bet that most people can\u2019t give an exact answer to the question \u201cwhat is your natural hair type\u201d. You might say \u201cNever Mind\u201d as ignorance of this matter.<\/p>\n

However, do you know that to gain strong and healthy hair, you should apply different care to different types of hair? It would never be a wise choice to choose a product made for normal straight hair to apply to your curly locks. Another case is, you are searching for a toupee<\/a><\/strong> to conceal your bald spot where your kinky hair doesn\u2019t grow, and you go for a loose curly hair system. Imagine what could happen? Believe us, you will never expect to experience that fake hair look!<\/p>\n

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natural human hair textures<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n

Realizing the importance of knowing the types of human hair, plenty of hair typing systems have been published these years. They include the 03 most popular systems: the one from Oprah Winfrey\u2019s hairstylist \u2013 Andre Walker, LOIS hair type chart, and FIA\u2019s Hair Typing System.<\/p>\n

These systems are all contributed to the natural black hair of the African American community \u2013 the one with the hugest interest in hair styling. In other words, they mostly work to clarify the differences in the texture of black hair.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Andre Walker Hair Typing System<\/h3>\n

As its name states, this black natural hair types chart is invented by Andre Walker \u2013 a famous hairstylist. This man has worked as a stylist for top stars in the United States, namely Oprah Winfrey \u2013 the world\u2019s top talk show host. Andre Walker, himself, is also a reputable name.<\/p>\n

His work at the Oprah Winfrey Show has helped him win the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for 07 times. He also works for other famous figures such as Michelle Obama \u2013 the very first African American First Lady of the US, Barbara Pierce Bush \u2013 the wife of President George Bush, and Halle Berry \u2013 the Best Actress in the Academy Awards in 2001.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s decade, Walker published his classification system to support his line of hair care products and serve his own professions. It was established in \u201cAndre Talks Hair\u201d. Despite its initial purposes, it soon bloomed and has been used globally as the most reliable hair classification system to identify natural hair types.<\/p>\n

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Andre Walker Hair Typing System<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n

In his chart, human hair consists of 4 types: straight, wavy, curly, and kinky hair. Each type also includes 3 sub-types that he labels A, B, C. Among these types, the 3C and 4C natural hair types are initially not included in this chart. The hair conscious-community later added them to form a complete chart.<\/p>\n

Andre Walker Hair Typing System:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Type 1 (1A, 1B, 1C)<\/td>\nStraight Hair (Fine & Fragile to Coarse & Thin)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Type 2 (2A, 2B, 2C)<\/td>\nWavy Hair (Fine & Thin to Coarse & Frizzy)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Type 3 (3A, 3B, 3C)<\/td>\nCurly Hair (Loose Curls to Corkscrew Curls)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Type 4 (4A, 4B, 4C)<\/td>\nKinky Hair (Tight Coils to Z-Angled Coils)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

<\/span>LOIS System For Natural Hair Types<\/h3>\n

When Andre Walker\u2019s way makes it somehow hard to differentiate the curly and kinky types, the LOIS system was born to tackle this problem. The 4 letters inside its name are the acronyms for the patterns of curls that your hair most resembles. To make the best use of this LOIS natural hair types chart, you will need to evaluate the size, shape, as well as texture of your strand.<\/p>\n

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LOIS Hair Typing System<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n

<\/span>FIA\u2019s Hair Typing System<\/h3>\n

Another system to determine natural hair types is the FIA system. This scheme is the most complicated among the three.<\/p>\n

Similar to the two systems above, Fia bases on the curliness of the hair strands to divide the types. 1 A-B-C types are for straight hair, while the 2\u2019s are for wavy, the 3\u2019s for curly, and the 4\u2019s for really curly one.<\/p>\n

This system also helps to classify the thickness of your hair, which it says could be fine, normal, or coarse.<\/p>\n

Each classification system has its own pros and cons, and none of them are perfect. Therefore, many people have chosen to combine the three when they want to know about their hair types. Which one is better is still a question to be answered.<\/p>\n

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