Lowkey, with Z

Lowkey, we have GOT to stop trying to make our hair fit into the box that is the curl chart. Today, we’re going on a full deep dive, working from the surface to the core, into why it should be tossed aside forever. Even the curl pattern chart’s surface level flaws are ginormous. To start, it just gives broad types of hair, categorizing into “straight, wavy, curly, and coily,” which we’ll get into later. This simplifies hair into just the way that it falls, discounting factors that matter just as much and even more. Porosity, density, local weather, etc. have huge effects on what your hair needs. Personally, I have to alter my hair routine whenever I get a haircut! Another problem is that it doesn’t offer any explanations for individuals with several different curl types. I was once told that I have a mixture between 4a and 4b, but it looks kind of like there’s some 3c when it’s wet and so on…what good does that do me? I don’t want to do something different to each individual curl; I do...