I love the natural hair community. I helped build it. But somewhere along the way, we started acting like knowing whether your hair is 4A, 4B, or 4C tells you everything you need to buy.
Your 4B curls are defined while you're standing in the shower. You can see every little coil. You apply your products, admire your work, and go about your business. Two hours later? An amazing, compact fro. Definition, gone.
You watched the video WHILE you tried it. Same gel as hers. Same brush. Same flick of the wrist. Same hope. Same hours-long process. And you couldn't even skip forward. But her curls formed little families. Yours are on their hermit. You got little monks. And I don't blame them. I, too, like to be alone lol, and often choose…
4B hair often forms densely packed coils with sharp bends and less obvious ringlet definition. It can produce gorgeous, full twist-outs, but softness, detangling, and styling technique can make or literally break your situation- hair and pocket.
4B hair is a Type 4 coily texture known for tight Z-shaped bends, high shrinkage, dense volume and less naturally visible curl definition than 4A hair. It can be fine, medium or coarse, and many people have a mix of 4A, 4B and 4C textures on one head. 4A tends to show clearer S-shaped coils; 4B commonly bends into a…