Now that you know how the shape of the follicle and the angle at which your hair grows can give you curly hair, let’s find out how the system of classifying curls came about. Celebrity hairstylist Andre Walker is the genius who created “a basic system of curl classification,” which was later expanded into what it is today, per Allure. According to Allure, Type 4 is the curliest hair, often called coily. This hair type tends to have a dry texture, and each individual strand forms “very tight, small curls of zig-zags” from the root. 4B curly is a subcategory where your hair strands are tightly wrapped and turn into “sharp angles like the letter Z.”
People tend to confuse 4B with 4A and 4C as they are similar, but an easy way to differentiate 4B, according to celebrity hairstylist Michelle Sultan, is the curls are “less defined than” 4A and more “fluffy looking,” per mindbodygreen. 4B curly hair can also be much longer than it actually looks. That’s due to the shrinkage that can happen when your hair is dry (via Get Good Head). While these are general traits of 4B hair, the individual strands can be thick, thin, or coarse, depending on the individual. Once you have identified whether or not you actually have 4B hair, you can take care of it much better.
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