Nationality and Hair Type?

[contradiction]

My father... I don't know his ancestry but he's just english, white etc.

"English, white, etc.?"
Thanks for being so callous and dismissive towards the heritage and history of hundreds of different nations and people.

[Coan-Teen]

My father's history I'm not too sure on, but I know it's primarily Irish/English. My mom's side is German/Czech. Those are just the majorities. My hair is straight, strawberry blonde and fine. Fairly typical of Nothern European descent from what I know and understand. I find things like this interesting. Wouldn't it be great if we could chart this somehow?

[kme81]

Well let's see...I'm German, Swedish, English, French, Dutch, Prussian, then some more German, and of course American. I know I'm forgetting a few nationalities but those are the main ones. Everyone in my family has straight/slightly wavy hair and mostly brown with a few blondies mixed in. :) I'm a straight haired blonde with a medium thickness and kind of fine hair strands.

[krissykins]

I got a mix of English/French/Polish from my dad and my mother is half African (dark skinned, 4a kinda hair)/half Filipino.

So... I'm that. :p

Both of my parents have really thick heads of hair, whereas I got the coarseness and a bit of wavy/curliness from my mom. My color is from my dad's side.

[Fufu]

I'm Chinese :) I may have some Japanese blood in me.

Both my parents are Chinese, dad's Malaysian Chinese, mum's Singaporean Chinese.

My hair is 1b and fine textured, similar hair texture to my dad.

My original hair colour is jet black, however I'm having ash brown hair color now, black looks washed out on my complexion.

My mum has coarser hair, however she usually keep her hair short.

[didrash]

I am Bulgarian, no other nationalities mixed in at least 4 generations on each side. According to History books Bulgarians are Slavic, but we don't really look anything like the Russians, Polish people, or any other Slavs, so I am not sure this is true. I am Caucasian, with pale skin but very dark hair and dark eyes. My hair is medium to coarse with a very slight wave, which only became obvious once it grew a bit. I have the same hair my father and mother have, but I am not typical for Bulgaria, we have people with all colors and types of hair, although shades of brown is the most common color.

[leandrahime]

I'm a total mutt: Czech, French, Polish, German, Dutch, Austro-Hungarian, Ukrainian, and 1/16 Mongolian(!).

Dad's side is Czech, Austro-Hungarian and that touch of Mongolian. Their hair is medium-dark ash brown, M/C, definitely iii, 2b/2c when long, strong, and is slow to gray. My sister Beth has this hair.

Mom's side is everything else. Their hair is medium blonde to light brown, i/ii, 1c/2a, F/M, and they go gray/bald prematurely (completely gray/bald by about 25). My sister Amy has this hair, except for the gray part.

I got in between. My natural color leans more towards mom's, but I got dad's gray protection. Hairline on everyone is peakless but slightly uneven along the front.

Aren't genetics terrific?

[elbow chic]

English on my mom's side, and supposedly Cherokee, too, which AFAIK is not documented but that doesn't mean it isn't there, either.

Mom's hair is dark blond/light brown, very thick, very coarse, and very wavy. Her temples are actually curly.

Dad's side: Irish and Swedish. Baby-fine straight thin blond flyaway hair.

I have very blonde hair like my dad but I think the texture is a bit coarser than his. And the volume is all Mom's doing. I'll take it!

[pixiedust]

My mom is 100% Ukrainian, and my dad is 75% austrian, 25% irish. Thus, I have very very very fine, medium thickness hair that in its natural state is really curly and silvery ash blonde.

I used to hate it, and now i'm mad at myself for destroying it :(

[Mrs. D]

I am a Yurok indian/trailer trash mix. My hair used to be black, straight and sleek. Now it is getting 'fluffier' and more red, especially when I spend time out in the sun. I used a dark brown ash dye to camoflauge the red and some greys.
My mom's hair is red and very straight. Dad had black hair that was thick and somewhat wavy.
It is true that everyone wants what they do not have. Growing up I always wanted blond curly hair like my half sister or red hair like my mom. Now I just long for the shiny, black hair of my past, sigh.

[kouran]

I have Portuguese nationality and my hair is very dark, 1b, with medium strands and ii. My mother's family has very dark hair as well, but very thick and wavy. My father's family is fairer, they have light hair, eyes and skin, like my younger sister, who has fine hair. She is also 1b.

[RedheadMistress]

- I am fully Iranian, my father has black very curly hair, my mother has dark brown wavy hair .

My own hair is very curly and lighter brown . Iranians have all kinds of hair, usually in my family it's rather dark and wavy, sometimes straight and sometimes curly .

[Shrew]

I'm mostly Polish, but my forefathers was of different ancestries.

My dad.. hmm, in his family almost anybody doesn't remember where their grandparents lived and that is something like their family tradition. I think that he might come from a Polish-German-Slavic background. His father had got fair hair, blue eyes - an Aryan type of beauty. But his mother had got brown eyes and really dark hair and all brothers and sisters of my father has her type.
My mum is about 25-50% Lithuanian by her father and 25% German by her mum's father. She has got dark blond hair and grey eyes.

So I 'm a national hybrid, but I'm supposedly my great-grandmother's look-alike. She was probably Polish, of medium height, quite slim and she had got light brown hair, black eyes, similiar face - completely like me.
My sister's hair is different from mine - it's darker and thicker, my brother's hair is light blond and more fine. I don't have the slightest idea how brothers and sisters can have so various types of beauty but in my family everything is possible.

[Avital88]

Well, my anchestry is very wide spread. It's a mix of South east Russian, middle eastern, West and eastern European..
My hair is a 2c sometimes 3a, medium brown.My hair is thick and strong and can become very long.

[hayesa]

English-Irish here- I have wavy to curly chestnut coloured hair with some definite Irish red in it (got the green eyes too!). My hair is on the fine side of medium, and hates heat of any type.

[TheBluffs]

I'm full blood Polish. :D
My mother: Dark hair, and pale green eyes. She is of the eastern polish decent.
My father Dark hair, and brown eyes. He is of the north-eastern polish decent.

I myself have blonde hair, and blue eyes. My brother has army green eyes, with chessnut hair. It made to both of us complete no sense were we were getting our genes from. We did some reserch and this is what we found.

My genes are from my grandmother's side, who had blonde hair. My eyes are from my grandfather's side, where blue eyes ran strong.
My brother's hair is from my father's side, and eyes are from my mother, though the colour is diffrent.

There's my bit!

[rena]

I am a concoction of Native American, African American, and European American heritage. My mom, who is of 100% European descent is where I get my finer, limp, soft hairs, color, and tendency to straighten with minimal effort. My dad on the other hand, is where I get my thicker courser hairs and texture. My dad has Native and African American in his background, not to mention whatever else we don't know about. His family name is German, and his dad had smokey grey eyes so he has some European heritage as well. Both my parents hair grows at a decent rate, so either my snail-rate growth comes from someone else in the family, or is the effect of stress/health problems I may have.

[nazzooyzo]

i'm half pakistani half english and my hair is very thick and straight. my mum who is english has thick hair too though. on my fathers side of the family all the women have such long healthy hair... my grandmother who is around 80 uses henna on her hair.

[Ligeia_13]

My father is Greek as far back as we know. My mother had a British father and her mum was half British half Dutch.
I got the English skin with dark Greek hair and eyes. -.-

[Finnenna]

I'm French, Welsh, and Scottish.

My mum's hair is flat, limp, and blonde. So is my grandmother's on my mum's side. I'm not sure about my father's side, but in the pictures he had dark, thick hair. However, my great grandmother on mum's side (whose genes I inherited to such a degree I could be her twin sister - very creepy) looks like she has brown, thickish hair. Which I also have. I have green-blue eyes, though, and naturally olive toned skin (no clue where that came from!), but since I limit my sun exposure, it is fish-belly white at the moment.

[estherbeth]

Oh, goodness. Between both sides of my family, I have so many different heritages in there...

On my mom's side: Irish (grandfather) and Jewish (maternal grandmother's parents were Ashkenazi, emigrated from Russia).

On my father's side: Scottish, Native American (great grandmother was full blood Cree), Italian, German, and Scandinavian.

My mom's hair was kind of a medium auburn and has always been very thin. Her mother's hair was very thick and jet black when she was younger - I only saw her black hair in photos. By the time I came along, my grandma's hair was all white, and the older she got, the thinner it got until you could see her scalp through it. My mom's father had red hair. My father's hair was reddish-brown and very fine (turned steel gray as he aged), his mother's hair was black, and his father's hair was brown.

My hair is very red (what you typically think of as the Scot/Irish red), not quite stick straight with a very slight S wave, and fairly thin. It doesn't grow extremely fast, just average. I most resemble my maternal grandfather's family - red hair, blue eyes, freckles. I got fat genes from both sides. :cheese:

[Neneka]

I am 100% Finnish. I have fine hair and ashy dark blonde/light brown colour just like almost everyone else in Finland.

[Aimskylove]

hello all. Im kind of new so I don't know the correct codes to explain my hair lol but I am 100% dominican and I naturally have very curly hair that is usually stubborn and takes ages to grow. Haha I now know know how to control it but while growing up I pulled, cut, styled, and burned my hair :/. Now my hair is no whee near as curly but I still have some soft curls/waves depending on what I put in my hair.

[Earelia]

I'm Irish, German, Welsh, Lithuanian. Pretty much everyone in my family on both sides has straight hair fine to medium. A few are blondies and most of us have dark hair. I got the best of both worlds, I have dark brown hair with ashy blond streaks mostly on my left side. They turn super light in the sun, sometimes it's ridiculous.

[PraiseCheeses]

Danish with a bit of North German on my mother's side, and mostly Irish with a bit of Welsh on my father's side. I'm your typical American mutt. :p

I inherited my mother's blonde-but-gradually-darkening fine hair and my father's curl. Both of my brothers have pin-straight fine, limp hair; I was the lucky one. (I also managed to get my dad's green eyes - yay!) Aside from the curliness, I have "typical Scandie hair" - ashy blonde and so fine that it floats up in the air if I'm standing over a radiator, just from the rising heat.

[Luna12345]

Although I was born in Canada, I have 100% Iraqi blood. My parents both came from the southern part of Iraq , Basra city. I'm not mixed in anyway at all.
My father has extremely curly hair (probably type 4) and my mom has wavy hair(probably 2 A).....I have very curly hair, I'm not even sure if I have the type correct but you can see it in my profile pic or album pics.:)
My moms sidde of the family mostly have straight hair, my fathers side mostly curly. 3 of my siblings have curly hair, one wavy, and one straight. All black/dark brown.
I forgot to mention we all have super thick hair which comes from my dads side, My mom has thin hair.

[ooo]

No one knows weather the people from the region I'm from where indogermanic or slavs. People have all kind of hait typs where I am from. Mine is 2cMiii.

[leslissocool]

I am glad I found this thread! I've been confused as to where my hair comes from. I am the only one in my family to have Asian-like coarse hair, very dark (midnight black almost, that is the hair dye I used to match my natural hair color since the dark brown showed a bit lighter than in my roots) hair with the ringlet. I haven't met anyone with textured hair like mine, here on LHC there is one other user who's the closest type as mine, but no one else really.

People have always commented on my hair and how weird it is... My mom is half Guatemalan and half Spanish, my father is German/Turkish/Italian (I think my grandmother is like a quarter Italian which is what the Italian comes from, but my great grandmother is full blooded German and grandma lived in Germany until her teens).

My mom has fine wavy hair, my father and father's side are all fine light haired (except for my grandfather, he has black hair) and so on looking back into the family I have no idea who could possibly have coarse hair. My hair gets super curly when short, more of a 3b-3c, and the longer it gets the straighter it gets, but it forms ringlets. I guess I got all the Italian genes in the family, since the only people I have met with this type of curls are my childhood friends from Italy :P but I really wouldn't know...

My daughter got the same kind of curls as me, and my husband is German/Hungarian/ Italian. His hair is fine, super soft and my son got that type too... But my daughter's hair is now curling just the way mine does, and her hair fell and it now mid-light brown, but super coarse. I think the curl has to be the Italian!

Genes are so interesting!

[TheMechaGinger]

I'm mostly german and a little french and cherokee. Everyone in my family has fine but relatively thick hair. Two of my aunts have very course/dark hair though (that's on my dad's side, probably due to the cherokee). I'm a redhead, but the color in my family ranges from blonde to a mousy brown. Most the women in my family have long hair, except for a few fanatics who think that older women can't have long hair haha. Most of use have a little bit of a wave to our hair or else it's perfectly straight

[NouvelleNymphe2]

Neat thread! Alright I'm quite the mix so here it goes in most to least order (like the ingredients on a shampoo bottle:))...On my mom's side I'm German, French Canadian, Armenian, Greek, Italian, and Iroquoian. My father's side isn't certain but we think Dutch and German.

My hair is soft, fine, and shiny. It is probably about a i.5 on the thickness scale. Since going all natural and no heat it has developed a slight S wave in the front. It is an ashy light brown with natural milky highlights. In the summer it turns more golden/copper with many highlight variations. My hair and skin really respond to sunlight. It takes a curl very well (with rags). It has a lot of natural slip, and hair things tend to slide right out if I don't use oils to give it some texture. It grows quite fast :).

[Naphthylamine]

I am Turkish but Turkey is a country that holds many different nationalities. My mother is of Bulgarian/Macedonian descent and she has medium blonde 1a/1b, F, i/ii hair. My father is a completely different story :D He is of Crimean Tatar/Mongolian descent with chestnut 1b/1c, M/C, ii hair.

My hair is more like my mother's. She has silver strands all over, which blends nicely with her hair color. I wonder how will mine look when I start graying :)

[tigereye]

I am wholly from Scottish ascent. My family have lived in scotland for as long as anyone can tell. My individual hair are quite thin, but they are packed quite densely on my head. It grows quite quickly I think. My sister and me have very similar hair, with the exception of length, because mine is quite a bit longer. My mum and brother have very thick, dark hair, although mums has recently gone quite grey (in her 50's), so she started dyeing it.
On my dads side of the family there appears to be a slight phenomenon with regards to hair colour. My dad was born with silver hair, which turned brown during his childhood, and is now greying with age. Me and my sister were both born with medium brown hair, which grew to become blond in our early childhood, then went back to brunette (no dying at all involved) and stayed that way. I was so young I dont really remember being blond, but the videos and pictures prove it.
Our whole family has very soft hair too. My brother gets annoyed at the young girls on the bus who stroke his hair because it is so soft. Doesn't happen so often to me, except from my friends when I very occasionally wear it down. My sisters hair is not so soft anymore (although still softer than most) since she straightens it each morning, and mums has really gone downhill recently because of the dye damage.

Yeah, anyway. Thats my hair history.

[Sweetie]

I am 100% Italian and my hair is light brown (henna red, by now) - almost straight and of normal thickness....quite ordinary in Italy, I guess - even if most of the people I know have darker hair than mine....:)

[3azza]

I'm 100% lebanese.
My mum's hair is thin, 2a, i, born blonde and darkened to medium brown.My mum's family varies between straight and wavy, thin-coarse, i-iii, and includes all colours from golden blonde to dark black.
My father's family also ranges:1-3, thin-medium, i-iii, mostly dark with 1 platinum exceptionand 1 dark blonde.
Mine is like my father's, 3b,medium,iii, dark brown.

[hime_daruma_88]

My nationality is Finnish, although there's a chance I've got a bit of Russian heritage too. My hair is 2b, ii, F/M and dark blonde with a slight red hint. My mum has exactly the same color, but her hair is stick straight. My dad's hair was almost black and curly, something like 2c. By now he's gone completely silvery gray.
I grew up having stick staight hair, until the age of 14 when my hair suddenly started evolving curls and waves. It was confusing! Long, straight hair with wild curly virgin hair popping out here and there :D I never thought hair texture could change so dramatically.
So now it has been wavy for about 9 years and I like it :) but sometimes I miss how Easy straight hair was to take care of, no tangles, no frizz.

[didrash]

Hello, neighbor, nice to meet you :).


I am Turkish but Turkey is a country that holds many different nationalities. My mother is of Bulgarian/Macedonian descent and she has medium blonde 1a/1b, F, i/ii hair. My father is a completely different story :D He is of Crimean Tatar/Mongolian descent with chestnut 1b/1c, M/C, ii hair.

My hair is more like my mother's. She has silver strands all over, which blends nicely with her hair color. I wonder how will mine look when I start graying :)

[perkidanman]

Well my dad is White (I traced the family back to Switzerland and one of my ancestors was a founder of the Pensilvania Mennonites so probably a mix of whatever "white" ethnicities are in that area) as well as a TEENY bit of native amercian, I think Sioux. My grandpa told me his grandpa married a native american girl but I'm not sure and I can't find any proof of it. He has nice brown hair, medium thickness, that curles (into ringletts when he had a mullet). I think his eyes are just a regular brown color. My dad has the pastey, I-can-see-every-vein-and-artery-in-your-body type skin which burns really easy.

My mother is Filipino, which means she's a mix of asian and spanish ethnicity. Also, she said I had a chinese great grandmother or something, but again, can't prove it. I can't trace my mothers side of the family at all. When she was young her hair was thick and natural black and pin straight with dark brown eyes. My mother has pretty, golden skin.

Then there's me...>>;
I inhereted my mothers coloring and texture but my fathers curls along with some random copper-colored hair that's peppered around my entire growth. My sisters, while I let them style my hair, commented that it felt "just like mom's hair" and I "even had the same thinning spot" my mother does. My eyes are like my mothers and I got her skin tone as well (although I have a skin condition and I've always been self-concious that I have more body hair than other girls). Other than the curly hair (and my weight) I'm almost a little copy of my mother, down to the mole on my arm and breast, which my mother shares in the same spots. I guess curly is the dominant gene? Still, I have NO idea where those red hairs come from! XD

[Ashenputtel]

I'm canadian from Quebec with a typical mixed ancestry of French, Scottish and British.

My mother is only of french descent and my father has scottish, english and french descent.

My mom is a 1c dark brown fine hair and my father a 1a light brown fine hair.

I'm dark blonde (lots of blondes on my father's side) with 1a-b fine hair. I have a lot of hairs. I guess I'm more on the scottish side.

[quixoticjess]

I'm mestizo, so Mexican and Spanish.

My father's family is very Mexican and they all have thick, black, curly hair.

My mother's family is also Mexican but with some Spanish mixed in so the hair in my mother's family ranges a lot in color and texture. Some have fine hair some have thick, some have brown hair some have black. Most have straight or slightly wavy hair, but once in a while someone will have curly hair.

I definitely inherited my hair from my mother's side. Medium-fine hair, very soft, slightly wavy when it's long. The roots of my hair are black but they lighten gradually so that my tips are a nice brown color.

[eterea]

I am 100% Italian too, I'm ashblonde 1bnii.

My mothers' family where from naples and are mostly straight or wavy Blond/redhaired, my fathers' family have thick black curly hair.

[Aaroo]

I am 100% Persian (Iranian), although as said somewhere beyond 1000 years ago one of my grandma's ancestors has been from Arabic descent! My father's hair is black 1b/ii/iii/M and my mother's is dark brown 2a/b/iii/C. Mine is black 2a/b/iii/C!

In Iran dark-brown - black is the common color but about the texture there is huge variety, although you rarely find ones with straight hair type.

[Scarlet_Tear]

i'm italian too, with dark brown hair and reddish reflections :)

[hina87]

Hi, I'm of Indian heritage. My mom has wavy waist length hair. Her hair is very fine and it curls like crazy towards her waist but not poofy curly..My dad has straight jet black hair. I don't know but ppl tell me often that i took after my aunt's looks. (my dad's sisters). My hair is past BSL, it is jet black, very faintly wavy but gets nice waves when i braid my hair or do the rag rolls. My hair is volumous and thick. I know you are not supposed to thin out your hair but even when the stylist thinned out my hair like crazy..it still keeps its volume..i guess it's a good thing...
During my ignorant hair care days-I used to use the straightener on high setting like crazy, sometimes without a heat protectant (ouch).. to really straighten my hair. I had it colored on impulse trying to lighten my hair with drugstore dyes...felt lazy to slather conditioner on after shampooing...knock on wood...these were about a year ago..but i'm very sure my hair is damaged but i cannot find split ends..I try searching my hair to s&d but i can't find any..

[Mesmerise]

As far as I know, I'm mostly Scottish/English... but who knows if there's been anything else mixed in there really?? I had ancestors come to Australia on the first fleet, so it's quite possible that there was something else mixed in there somewhere along the way too :p.

When we were growing up a LOT of people told my sister she looked Italian, and would ask if she was half Italian (obviously they thought she wasn't my full blooded sister lol...) because she had nice olive skin that tanned really well in summer. On the other hand, I've got fair skin and freckles and lighter hair!

[CoilyCurlyME]

I'm mulatto. My dad is from west/central african country and my mother is danish with some southeren european in her longer back in her genes. :) My dads hair is blackish brown 4c hair, really thick full and the thightest curls. My moms hair is long completely straight fine dark brown. My hair is really really thick blackish brown with tight 4a curls-coils.

[CurlyCreature]

I'm English & Bahamian (with a tad bit of irish thrown in there too) My hair came out of NO WHERE according to my family, but i've seen picture of my Bahamian grandma when she was younger, and although she kept it short, I think she had the same thick strouborn curly locks as me

[saera]

I'm 100% pure East Indian and I have fine thin wavy hair that's impossible to style.

[louisemg82]

Born and raised in the UK but:
Mother = Irish - her hair is black 1b, F, i
Father = Cypriot - his hair is black 3b, C, iii

Cypriot is not straight Greek or Turkish as people believe now. Traditionally Greek and Turkish Cypriots mixed and married each other freely. Cypriot's are a mix of Greek, Turkish, Syrian/Middle Eastern, Scottish, Venetian and French. So me and Dad are real mutts! There is a village in the Cypriot mountains which has strong links to Scotland and they are pale with blue eyes.

I have black 1b, M, ii - so I'm right in the middle! Interestingly, all of my brothers have my father's 3b, C, iii

[wavyR]

I'm indian with jet black 2b/2c hair that has a little bit of 3a thrown in during the humid summer.

[psychobilly5]

This is a cool thread! Okay....I'm half S. Korean, the rest is Irish, English, and a bit of Blackfoot Native American. I believe I currently have 1b hair thought it might be in between 1b and 1c. My hair is naturally a dark brown color with it getting more auburn as time goes in the sunlight. I remember being around 13 and people thought I dyed my hair then because it was really auburn in color.

I don't know my mother (Korean) and pictures of her show wavy hair though that could've been artificial. My mom use to curl my long tresses when I was very small and my dad's family all thought I had naturally curly hair until I began living with them after my parents divorced. My dad had red hair but kept it very short so don't know the texture or type.

I'll be 38 on Thursday and so far I've only found 2 strands of silver on my new growth.

[Tefnut]

I'm English. My hair is: 2a - F/M - ii and dark brown with a redish glimmer in light
My mum is English, her father is australian (so who knows origions of that side) and her hair type is: 1b - M/C - iii naturaly her hair is dark brown / black
My fathers side is very much english, his hair was blonde/ginger.
I'd say his hair was: 3b - F - i

Two complete opposites, i'm either a throw back or have mixed genes of the 2.

[Freyariane]

I'm French.
Here in France we can divide the country into two parts (about the ethnicity types).
There are blondes with fair skin more in the north of the country. They have indeed their origins rather Nordic. While in the south there is much often dull skin and brown hair.
But hey it's a bit cartoonish, because everyone is mixed. ^^

For myself most of my family is from Brittany or Normandy. I have a few that come from Marseilles (a city in the South-East).
My mother is from Brittany. She is has (had) naturally wavy golden blond hair and green eyes (and also fair skin). My father has Marseilles roots (although he spent his childhood and adolescence in Germany). He is has black fine hair and hazel-brown eyes.

About me now :

I'm a natural dark-blond haired with golden (lighter) ends. I also have fair skin but have Hazel-green eyes (the perfect mix between my mother and my father as you can see!).

I'm most of the time 1b but sometimes 1c. My hair are very soft and become easily wavy thanks to my hairstyles. :)

I'm most M(edium) than F(ine) but have some Fine hair. (Unfortunately due to the frequent use that I had of lightener hair spray...).

Otherwise, my hair are ii-normal (7.5 cm / 3 in').

:)

Ow and I hope my English isn't too bad

[Aimskylove]

Hello! I am 100% Dominican. :) I have very tight curls that over the years have loosened up. My hair color is naturally a medium ash brown that always lightens up in the summer and brings out my natural highlights. Unfortunately I didn't know the value of my hair color and dyed it at a a young age and I have never had it natural since. One of my goals is to grow my hair color back out :)

[silverstars]

I'm half Italian (dad's side of the family originally from Sicily). I'm about a quarter Irish and about a quarter Hungarian. The rest is a bit of Welsh, Czech, Slavic (the region formerly known as Yugoslavia), and Pennsylvania dutch (German). My hair is a dark brown and wavy almost to the point of being curly. Its of M texture and ii in volume. My mom's hair is really curly and blonde whereas my my dad's is jet black and wavy (with really tan skin) so I'm somewhere in the middle with my light-ish blue eyes, olive toned but light skin, and dark brown hair :).

[metricfuture]

I'm mostly German, with bits of French thrown in here and there (before they came to the US, both sides of my family were from Alsace-Lorraine). I have baby fine hair, but considering how narrow each strand is, I do have a decent amount of it. I can't really feel each strand, and unless It's against a contrasting background, I can barely see it. My mother and sister are the same way, but they both have light brown hair, and they've never had it longer than shoulder length. I'm the only redhead in my enormous family, and everyone I meet just assumes my ancestry is Irish or Scottish.

[Emo~Flowers]

Uhm, I'm French-Canadian and American.
My hair is in between medium thickness and Thick.
It gets oily after three days of no washing, and it's extremely dry. I have a very bad Widows Peak, though my hair is white blonde at the roots so you can't see it. I have baby curls that I call my "Devil Horns" cause they curl up and its adorable.
I don't have sideburns, necessarily, but I have locks of hair that are in front of my hair that are growing like they are, though they aren't attached to my head .. it's really weird to explain.
I don't even know what I'm doing hair. I don't know half of the things about me Lol.

[fluffypuffy]

I'm south Indian on my mother's side and Caucasian (various strains of European) and Native American on my dad's side. My hair is curly like my father's and fine like my mother's. I also got her "wash and go" genes, which is nice. Medium/dark brown hair with loooots of copper and a little bit of blonde, light/medium yellow skin (thank you mommy) and hazel eyes. Not particularly exciting XD

[|Xei]

I'm Chinese, but I do have my suspicions as to whether I'm fully Chinese or not. Some people on my mom's side, especially my grandmother, do not look fully Chinese, and look like they could be part Southeast Asian.

With that said, my hair is definitely not typically Chinese (near-black, course, thick, super straight). Mine is very fine, very soft, thin-average thickness, slight wave, and my natural hair colour is a very dark brown, although not noticeably so since many people would probably say it's black. My hair is quite resilient for being what it is though, since I have put it through harsh bleachings before, and it's come out fine.

[MissCoco]

I have French nationality, but I'm pretty mixed. A possible Indo-Caribbean or Brazilian Japanese/French mix from my mother's side (other than the French part, we don't know much from her side, sadly) and a diverse European mix from my dad's side (French, Italian, Catalan, Austrian, Polish, very diluted English, etc.) and maybe some other origins... I got super thick, frizzy, wurly and thick-stranded (not coarse) hair from my mom's side, but my dad's side kind of "straightened" my hair a little and prevented it from being more curly, coarse and/or black-colored like my mom's. Strangely, my hair was much more fine and straight as a child. But then, when puberty hit- BAM! The wild hair genes struck! :D :silly:

[Toad Squalor]

I'm Icelandic on one side, and Finnish and what we think is Ashkenazi Jewish on the other side. Genetically, Icelanders got around, but we're mainly Scandinavians with borrowed genetic material from the UK and further east. My genes are fairly dominantly Scandinavian, and I look fairly Icelandic, hair included. Ashy medium-dark brown, very fine (like spider silk), with natural waves on top that can be brushed straight and an underside of curls that can be brushed to a frizzy-wavy consistency; cones tend to weight my hair enough to straighten the top layer and smooth the underside. I henna my hair to rid myself of the ashy tone, but other than that, I don't do much to alter my hair from its natural state.

[Freyariane]

With that said, my hair is definitely not typically Chinese (near-black, course, thick, super straight). Mine is very fine, very soft, thin-average thickness, slight wave, and my natural hair colour is a very dark brown, although not noticeably so since many people would probably say it's black.

I've always thought that all Asian people had thick hair. I was totally wrong o_o !

[neon-dream]

I'm British :)! I have very thick, very wavy, very coarse bright red hair!
My Dad has very dark brown curly hair and my Mam has very light brown fine, straight hair.

[Shoga]

I’m a huge blend, but I have more Scottish and Cherokee than anything else. In smaller amounts there is also Canadian Indian, German, Italian, Irish and I think some English. Most of my family came to the United States about 150 years ago and all that mixing was done here.

I have NO idea where my thin brown hair came from but it certainly isn’t from my Native American side (but that part shows up in my face XD).

[CurlyNaomi]

I'm french canadian from Montreal. So yes english is not my first language ^^.
I used to hate my auburn superthick curly hair (black hair dye, straightening everyday) but now I growing it out, loving it!!

My mom has brown wavy normal thickness hair and my father crazy black curly hair.

[AshNight1214]

I'm half Japanese, 1/8 Greek, and an unknown mix of German, Scottish, Irish, French, Jew, and probably little bits of Turk.

I have black (very dark brown, if you're picky) hair that's very coarse and thick. My family's hair runs the who gambit. My great-grandmother (Japanese) had completely white hair, but her son (who is now 88) is still very much on the pepper side of salt and pepper. My German grandma has baby fine hair and she married a Greek and had my mom who has fine hair. My sister has hair much like my mom, but I have hair a lot like my dad. It's really interesting.

I'm really glad you posted this! My family background is interesting to say the least.

[Roscata]

I'm Romanian and my hair is 1c/2a - M - ii

My mom is 1a/f/ii, my dad has my hair down to the color.

[agoddess2die4]

My mother is full-blooded Scot, born and raised, and has fine, thin, wavy hair with a natural color of light-medium reddish-brown hair (all white now though).

My dad's heritage is a mix of English, French, Scottish, and Cherokee and he had thick, thick wavy almost black hair. Even in his mid-50s he's only starting to thin on top.

My hair is fine but average volume, dark brown and naturally wavy with curls (normally frizz) at my temples.

[silvermoon_76]

I'm South Indian (Indian=from India). Racially, as a Brahmin, I'm supposed to be Aryan but judging by the number of dark skinned and curly haired people in my family, I'd say I have a lot of Dravidian blood as well.
My mum has very fine, wavy hair. She grew it very long when she was young (below her bum), and though it's very thin, she's never had frizz, even in our humid climate.
My dad also has very fine hair, but it's ridiculously curly. I had the same hair when I was younger, but now it is straighter on top and begins curling halfway down. I inherited the dreadful frizz from him :|

Colourwise, we're all the same blah blah dark brown or black. I wish there was some variation to keep things interesting :P

[milagro]

I'm Russian with 1/4 Belorussian blood. Hair-wise I took mostly after my mother who had typical fine blond wavy hair. My hair is also rather fine and wavy but thicker and a couple of shades darker, thank to my father :)

[Kumiko033]

I'm half Dutch and half Kurd and there's also a lil'French and Chinese in me somewhere!
My mother has red her with slight curl and my dad had very thick black hair {He isn't around here anymore (:} and no one in my family, ever, ever got bald.
I do have the thickest hair of my family and always had the longest. Now it's even shorter then my grandmothers.

[hyettf16]

I'm 50% Italian, 25% Puerto Rican, 25% Spanish (Spain)
My hair is dark brown with a slight hint of red. I have some thin hairs, some thick hairs and some coarse hairs all with a little wave. I have brown eyes. my mom (Italian) has red hair, green eyes, she has had greys for as long as I can remember but she keeps her hair short and dyes it. My dad (Spanish/Puerto Rican) has black hair with tons of greys. My mom says I look just like her grandmother (Italian).

[Ligeia_13]

Well I'm part Greek. My mother is English and her mother is half Dutch. I have the greek kind of hair, pretty thick, tough and dark. But I think my mother's terminal length is somewhere in my genetic code cause it doesn't seem to grow. And my mums TL is very very short. Shoulder length I think.

[MomOf2Gremlins]

I'm a 100% German and have thin, fine, straight brown hair.

[spigette]

I am about 50% Scottish, 25% Irish, and the rest a mix of English, French and some M'ikmaw in there for good measure.

My hair is fairly straight, some wave as I get older. It used to be VERY thick when I was a teenager, but has thinned out.

[InnocentSword23]

LOl, Alright, check this out. I am 50% Hispanic, 25% German, 25% Jewish (race). I have lived in Scotland, Germany, Kuwait, (Seattle, Los Angeles, Texas) USA, and currently living in Japan. All within 21 years. I have long pony tail hair, which curls at the end. Yet, still.. manly.... shut up.... alright..

[karma0verdose]

All I know for sure is that I'm Norwegian, German, and Native American (Northern Cheyenne). My hair is either straight or has a pretty set wave. It's easily styled. And its very thick and heavy, usually a total pain in the butt. Its a medium ash brown I think. I have golden-y highlights though, and my skin is about 50/50 warm/cool.

When I got my last hair-cut, the hair dresser told me I have a German hair-line :smirk: I felt like I just had my palm read or something.

[Springlets]

I am mostly German from my dad and Irish from my mom. I get my ash blonde hair color from my dad's side (as well as his olive skin) but the curl from my mom's side (and her blue eyes). I think both of my father and mother have fine hair so I probably get it from either of them. My sister has more of a strawberry blonde from probably my father's side, but got my mother's white freckly skin. And my brother got my father's tan skin but my mother's dark hair. But neither sibling got curly hair like me. :/

[JellyBene]

I am half Italian, half Polish. Somehow I got dirty blonde, fine hair (but a ton of it) and stick straight. My mom has blonde, fine curly hair and my dad has thick black straight hair so I got her color and thickness, but his straightness.

[BroadwayBeauty]

I'm almost an even split between German, Irish, and Native American. I have fine, 1b/sometimes 1c hair that's a natural lightish brown color. When I dyed it darker, all my friends commented on how I no longer looked European (I have insanely high cheekbones and eyes that look gray in most light) but my pale skin and freckles made it quite clear that I'm also Irish.



I'm British (English to be technical) but I have Native American ancestry which is where my family gets our really dark hair from, and possibly the texture too - all of our hair is really thick (as in the individual strands are thick and we have a lot of it!).

I've always been told that Native Americans have fine, generally fairly straight hair strands but thick hair when it comes to the amount of it. That's definitely true in my family. I guess it depends on what tribe your heritage is.

[Amber_Maiden]

I'm 1/4 norwegian, 1/4 native, and the rest is scots and Irish.... And I have thick, red, heavy hair... lol

[Leoneska]

50% German, 50% Polish. I have wheat blonde, medium fine wavy hair.
I am very excited about how my child's hair is going to be (I am 3 months pregnant) - the father is Romanian with thick, darkdark brown - almost black curly, shiny hair :cool:

[Shrew]

I am half Italian, half Polish. Somehow I got dirty blonde, fine hair (but a ton of it) and stick straight. My mom has blonde, fine curly hair and my dad has thick black straight hair so I got her color and thickness, but his straightness.

50% German, 50% Polish. I have wheat blonde, medium fine wavy hair.
I am very excited about how my child's hair is going to be (I am 3 months pregnant) - the father is Romanian with thick, darkdark brown - almost black curly, shiny hair :cool:
It's nice to meet a few more Polish people there. All right, maybe half Polish. ;)

[LoversLullaby]

I'm almost all German, with a bit of Austrian and Native American thrown in there.
I have 2c brown hair that's really thick but fine.

[skara_brae]

I'm half-Danish and a 1b, I think. (The other half is Scotch, Irish, and English.) I have that mousy, dirty blonde, nondescript colour of hair...unless I get the right shampoo and conditioner in it and sun dry it. Then it turns a gorgeous blonde with reddish tinges underneath.

[Asequui]

I'm pretty much a typical American mutt, lol.
My heritage is English, Scots-Irish, German-Dutch, French, and Native American (Cherokee).
When I was a kid my hair was light "fairytale blonde", silky fine, lots of it, and with just a little bit of wave.
Now that I'm older it's darkened to a mousy not blonde/not brown color with a LOT more wave and poofyness, although that's likely due to all the damage I'm trying to grow out. The non damaged hair on top seems to lay down much better and seems a little silkier to the touch, though not like the same cornsilk feel it had as a kid. It's not overly course but it's not especially silky and fine anymore either. It's also much more porous now, but again I'm sure that's due to all the torture I've put it through. Although, even as a kid my hair was a little more porous than my friends. :shrug:

[Shrew]

My heritage is English, Scots-Irish, German-Dutch, French, and Native American (Cherokee).
It sounds like ingredients for a complicated mixture. :D

[Asequui]

It sounds like ingredients for a complicated mixture. :D

Lol doesn't it? A dash of this and a pinch of that...my ancestors got around lol. :p

[Aveyronnaise]

Well I don't think that I've responded to this yet ( but I could be forgetting...)
Okay I am half dutch and half mexican , my hair is very thick and sort of this weird magic texture that grabs onto any suggestion.What I mean is that it will grab on to curl or if I comb it with a finer tooth comb when wet that it will be straight.
It is very poly textured, I have some medium strands on the crowns, progressing to fine to the edges.I also have some little fine kinky hairs all through my hair they are so weird looking I don't know where they came from.
My color is a warm tiger stripe black but it is doing weird things since I seem to be going gray in a matter of months.

[PinkyCat]

I'm Polish, Puerto Rican & Italian.

Poli-Rican-WOP :cheese:

You should hear me when I talk to myself; it's like West Side Story.

[MoonlightShadow]

ummm...i have mixed ancestry, but i don't think i'm mixed o.o...if that makes any sense.
Mixed Ancestry= jamaican, french, irish, native american, african, creole (i'm not sure if i should include that) :)

[Pallas]

My dad is Israeli/Jewish, with the typical thick black curls.
My mom is Indonesian, with dark brown, kinda wavy, hair.
Then there's some very very 'diluted' French, English, Russian, Polish, and German. German is closest out of those and in both families.

My hair is dark brown, straight-wavy on top and gets curlier toward the ends, with quite prominent ringlet-type curls. That only lasts for a day or so after a wash, though. If I mess with it or brush it, it gets wavy/wurly. After a while it gets straighter and straighter.

In conclusion: yup, I think it's safe to say my ethnicity had quite some infuence on my hair ;) However, not my nationality; I'm Dutch but my blood isn't.

[QueenJoey]

I'm (takes deep breath) French, Native American, Vietnamese, Philippino, and Hawaiian. So my hair is somewhere between blonde (French) and dark brown (Vietnamese). Not quite wavy (Philippino) but not perfectly straight (Native American). My hair mostly looks Hawaiian, I guess, but all my races are kinda mixed into my hair.

My French aunt has these beautiful blonde, fine yet thick curls. My Vietnamese (and Philippino and Hawaiian) mother has shiny, corse, dark, and straight hair. I sometimes wish my hair was completely French or completely Vietnamese.

Oh, and my hair grows very slowly, but I'm not sure where that comes from.

[October]

I'm Cheerokee Indian/German/Irish/French. That's it as far as I know - though, some older gentleman once told me I looked like I was Greek (he stopped me in a store and asked me where I was from).

[October]

I'm pretty much a typical American mutt, lol.
My heritage is English, Scots-Irish, German-Dutch, French, and Native American (Cherokee).



Oh, I see we have a lot in common. ;)

[lilasianvixen77]

I'm full Filipino & have bone straight hair. I once tried a perm but my hair ended up frizzy & not really taking the perm since my hair is so stubbornly straight. I've dyed & highlighted my hair & it always seems to be okay but now I just try to keep it au natural!

[Curly Hermione]

Half english, half irish.
I have some Roma gypsy way back on my mums english side, and a tad of scottish on my dads irish side (I think).
On my mums side, nodody has long hair, but I think that's because they all damage it a lot, and try to keep it short anyway. My mums is really thin, and she's always kept it short. Her sisters is kind of blonde (like me!) and a bit wavy, but she brushes it straight and flat irons/blow drys it. She's also never had long hair.
They're both adamant that my hair won't get long, because theirs never has. :cry: My response was "have you ever tried to grow it long?" but they still insisted that their lack of growth was genetic (possibly to make themselves feel better about the brushing/blow frying/harsh shampooing/little care/colouring).
They basically laugh at me for trying to take care of my hair :rolleyes:.
I tried to give them advice when they where going to dye their hair at home the other day, but they just rolled their eyes and didn't listen :lala:, hence my aunt apparantly ended up looking like a Barbie doll.
Anyways, my maternal nan also keeps her hair short and dies it to hide the grey. I have no idea what it used to look like.
On my dad's irish side, lots of people have dark brown hair (but I don't know if it's wavy/straight etc because the only ones with any length are my female cousins, who i'm pretty sure straighten it and stuff).

One of my cousins has naturally light blonde, straight hair, down to her waist, I'm hoping I have her growth genes! :pray: But knowing my luck she got it from the other side of her family.
My dads hair is grey, and grows upwards (no joke!) it feels medium thickness but quite fuzzy, probably because he just uses tesco value, all in one shampoo and conditioner on it. (He insists I "abuse" my hair and should just do what he does!)
Mine is very curly (3b/c) and fine, but there's a decent amount of it. I honestly have no idea where the curls have come from, absolutely nobody I know of in our family has anything more than wavy hair.

This convinces me further that I must be the result of an alien experiment, in which they implanted one of their own offspring into a human uterus to test if their species could coexist with earthlings. When they come to take me home, I plan to inform the mothership that it has been, for the most part, successful :wacko:.

Sorry for the random digression. Basically, I hope I have the good growth genes from the blonde cousin, and the rest is a mystery!:)

Sorry this is so long!

[carmenvanessa]

I haven't really thought about there being a relation to my wavy/curls and my Mexican heritage...interesting. The other day I did notice that in a picture my hair texture/shape looks just like my grandmother's...I also happen to be named after her. My grandmother is beautiful so it's ok :-)

[tessatriskel]

I'm almost fully Italian, my greatgrandmother was Austrian (my father's mother's mother).

Everyone in my family has fine to normal straight (1a/1b/1c) dark hair (brown to coal black)

Of course I had to be the odd one out. I'm the only one in the family to have the genes of the Austrian relative: my hair is golden blonde and quite thin.

[SC]

I'm Finnish, but I'm also related to Sweden from my dads side (not so close though).

I have platinum blonde hair and it's naturally straight 1b and is already fine or medium or something between them. My mum had also light blonde hair when she was young, but then it grow to be soft medium blonde and I would freak out if same would happen to me. My sister has medium brown hair and my brothers have their have with different shades of blonde, mine hair is brightest among our family.

[ancientriver]

I’m mostly of Irish and Scottish decent. My grandmother was Spanish however, and that is the side I take my appearance from (which is not always a good thing since I don’t actually speak any Spanish). When in its natural state, my hair is dark brown and curly.

[aino]

I am colombian, we have so many mixtures that we cant really follow but the ones everybody know are indigenous, afroamerican and spanish. My real hair is dark blonde and very thin. Not so common in south america, now living in Finland I realized that the scandinavian hair is very similar than mine, it is like silky and hard to keep without knots.

Nowadays is red (hennaed) and is straight. Still fighting against damage made by the chemical dyers. Anyway is becoming better and better.:)

[Asequui]

Oh, I see we have a lot in common. ;)

I see that! I think we have a similar face shape as well. Neat :D

Aino, I have to add that your henna red in your avatar is gorgeous!

[blueygirls]

I'm asian (Indian). Its black, thick , not silky but not dry either. Straight to wavy

[discoisntdead]

I'm 7/8th Kinh Vietnamese and 1/8th Han Chinese, so I'm full Asian I guess. My hair is nothing like stereotypical Asian hair, I wish it was though.

The shape is straight with slight wave. The color is dark brown, almost black, with reddish tints in the light. Virgin hair is generally smooth and easy to manage. My scalp gets greasy fast, though I have been washing it everyday for the past few years. I'm interested in trying the WO method, but having greasy hair is annoying since I can't just put my hair up and forget about it.
Right now my hair is about chin length (with some layers) and I expect it to grow to shoulder length by the start of 2012.

[Boudicca]

I am Scottish, and am of entirely Scottish and Irish descent going back as far as 350 years. My hair is red (surprise! ;P ) I've been asked if I'm Irish a few times, or told I "must be Irish, with that hair"

ETA - Forgot about texture: fine, smooth - wavy curly. Can form ringlets if cut shorter. Insanely flyaway

[Ann Marie]

My father is Croatian/Polish descent and my Mom is Scottish/Irish descent....

My Mom has surprisingly coarse black hair....it is not curly at all...just straight and if you look at the hairs...they are zig zaggy...

My dad has fine dark ash blonde hair....mostly straight...

I have dark blonde hair that is straight on top...and fine..

The underneath is wavy....spirally...and a light brown..med texture..

If I have shoulder length hair I will look like a Christmas tree.....the curls on the bottom puff out the top and it looks like it could make a great skateboard ramp!

I have to keep it long! :D Fine by me!

Cheese anyone?:cheese:

[Melon Collie]

I'm non stereotypical Scot-Irish (i.e. not a red head) My hair is mousy medium brown and it has a fine texture, but it's thick.

[jastreb]

I am about 40% German, 10% Dutch, 25% Ukrainian & 25% Irish. The German/Dutch comes from my father, hair color med ash blonde, 1b,f,i.
My mother is the Ukrainian/Irish side, color very very dark warm brown, nearly black, 3b,c, iii.
My hair is a dark warm blond, 1c, m, ii.
My brother has med brown hair color, 3a, m, iii.

[TheCaityCat]

I'm from the USA and I have mostly Irish heritage. In fact, people who didn't know that have commented that I have very Celtic features.

I have fine but thick hair with a bit of wave to it, and it tends to grow quickly. It starts out as a dark honey blonde with reddish glints but lightens to medium blonde as it gets longer. I was born with red hair, so the reddish bits aren't surprising!

[Muntchka]

I'm a Portuguese and like many latin people my hair is dark brown, a bit coarse and with volume, which let me do things like this (http://www.technogypsie.com/photogallery/2010/may/051310/pippylongstocking.jpg) without hairspray (at least it used to).
As to its curliness it's difficult to say. At the back of my head the hair is straight and with just a few soft waves but at the front my hair have a tendency to curl and form 2 or 4 big curls. It's difficult to classify it right.

[eternalknot]

My nationality is American, but my ethnicity is East Asian and my hair is definitely indicative of that.

[Audrey Horne]

I'm Slavic and my hair is auburn... From what I've seen there's a great diversity in Slavic countries. Even my parents' hair couldn't be more opposite: mom 1a/f/i ash dark blonde, dad would have ringlets if his hair was long, quite coarse and thick, very neutral medium brown. Seriously, I don't see anything unifying in my ancestors... like texture or colour. There was enough of everything :-)

[AgnesONutter]

I'm half Swedish and half Danish, with a bit of Traveller thrown in on my mother's side.

My hair is a light auburn, more red and gold in the sunlight, more dark blonde/brown indoors. It is a hair that is neither one thing, nor another. There's tendency to ringlets after washing in the course parts of it, then there's this fine, straight blonde hair that refuses to be tempted to even curl a little, and then there's the in-between hair that is neither one thing nor the other. Just slightly wavy. Generally, the impression is slightly wavy with lots of flyways.

My dad had copper red hair growing up, that has darkened into true auburn, with real ringlets. My mum have straight, mousey hair. I am an inbetween.

[AlexiaBlue]

I'm born & raised in the US, but my family, on both sides, is all Polish for as far back as we know. Both sets of great-grandparents came over from Poland.

My hair is fine, but I have a lot of it, and it's curly/wurly and dark blonde. My dad has thick, course wavy hair, and my mom has very fine hair, so I think I have a blend of the two of them. :)

[Biedronka]

I'm half Polish,half Greek.I certainly got my pale skin and body type from my Polish side of the family..I also had my mom's blonde hair and greyish-blue eyes as a baby,but as i grew i became a brunette with brown honey eyes,just like my greek granny.I also got my 1b hair from her,i think,since almost everyone else in my family is in the 2 category.
My polish granny tho,had long thick raven-black 1b locks in her youth.I am so incredibly jealous,wish i had gotten my hair like hers!

[RockyChristine]

I'm Paraguayan and my hair kind of shows it. So straight and coarse that you couldn't pay it to curl, dark brown, and grows like a weed. In six months, it can go from ear-length to collarbone-length and just keep growing; I haven't tested my terminal length yet, but I think Classic is going to be my goal. I love how my normally very dark hair will go so red in the sun, though convincing myself to not dye it black again come winter is hard.

I just wish I'd kept the green eyes I had as a baby. Green eyes and really dark hair? That would have been awesome.

[okiku]

My family has German/French roots- my hair is brown and naturally a bit wavy.

[Diesel Tech]

I'm mostly German and Norwegian. I have very fine light brown hair, really wish it was thicker and stronger, 2a/2b, and kind of thin hair lines.

[Catty]

I'm German caucasian but my hair is very dark brown and 3b curly. Back when I had a tan people would confuse me for a latina :)

[Hairitic]

:poot:Hey Okiku; I, too am of German/French descent (with a little Canadian Indian thrown in). My mothers dad had black wavy/curly hair. Her mother had straight/slightly wavy strawberry blond fine textured hair. My mom got dark brown almost kinky curly, coarse hair. My Dads dad had Black wavy hair and his mother had straightish, darkish hair. My dad inherited his fathers black wavy hair. I was born with fine platinum blond, very curly hair (apparently from my maternal grandmother). The older I got,, the darker it got along with a little less fine and a little less curly. I am naturally a 2c/F-M/i-ii but currently have 2a curl because of chemical straightener I put in almost a year ago. Very intersting topic. :)

[AnnaJamila]

I am a mixture of German, Scottish, Irish, English, French, and Dutch in order of concentration. My hair is medium texture, medium-thick, straight, very shiny and pretty strong. I get maybe 4 or 5 split ends if I sleep on it down for a few nights but other wise I have very little damage at all. When I was small the color was a medium-dark mahogany with a little bit of reddish-gold shimmer, but I've hennaed my hair since I was 13 so it's anyone's guess what color it is under there now!

ETA: My father and his siblings had the same hair as I but lighter. His side of the family was permed and peroxided to the nth degree so I don't know about the ladies! Every one on my mothers side has thin, rigleted black hair. My gran is in her ealy 80's and still has a good bit of black at the back of her head and Mum is in her late 50's with almost no gray.

Dear hubby (middle eastern and Italian) his coarse, wavy jet black hair. Lol, he's so handsome! ;)

[ladonna]

My mother is white (Irish/English) and Native American from 4 generation's ago, on her side of the family they all have blond very soft, fine hair. My father is Native American and Latino. So my hair is pretty thick and coarse and more on the darker side. My husband is a of Russian Jewish English descent, his hair is very soft with tight curl's. So our kids turned out having beautiful hair. Strong and thick like mine, but soft and fine like their dad's.

[Velvet Dreamer]

I'm a mix of (mostly) African-American, with some Japanese-Filipino, Irish, Caucasian and Cherokee Native-American.
This is only on my mother's side- I've no idea what I am from my father's side, aside from African-American.

My hair is super thick 4a as far as I can tell right now. That could change once it grows out. It also grows pretty fast, I grow an inch maybe every three weeks if I actually take care of it. It's dark brown, but in the sunlight it has a reddish tint, and during the summer, it turns very orange.
My great-grandmother had long hair as well. I rarely saw it down, but when I did, it appeared to be in the 2 range. She normally kept it in a tailbone length braid.

[kellinaturalmom]

I'm more Czech than anything, (my dad is half) and after that English, Irish, Scottish, and German. My natural color is light ash brown, my hair is curly/very wavy, and very fine. Everyone in my family has gone grey at an early age. My mom has very thick coarse auburn hair (now completely grey at 53) and my dad has been bald forever! But pictures show a similar hair color to mine and waves, too. Am I wrong in saying that Czechs usually have light to med brown hair? Seems like it to me.

[battles]

I'm French, Norwegian, Irish, English.

My natural color is a mousy brown, but in the sunlight it kinda sparkles. I'm starting to go silver a little early. My hair is more medium than fine, and I think I may be a 2a rather than a 1c. When I was young, my hair was basically white and gradually darkened as I got older.

[Lady Malys]

My heritage is German from both my mother's side and my father's side (with the tiniest bit of Italian) ... my hair was a pretty golden blonde when I was little but has darkened to a dark-mousy-brown as I have gotten older. Medium thickness, but rather fine, with a bit of a wave that is coming out now that I am taking better care of it.

[TheLaughingGod]

I'm South African, my dad and his parents are too, but english from both sides for the most part

[Helix]

I won't give away where I'm from, but my tribal mixture is Ngoni (Zulu stock), Shona, and Yao, (The African Yao's. Not to be confused with the Chinese ones). I think there is some Chewa on my paternal grandmother's side as well.

My hair is mostly 4b with a little bit of 4a round my hairline. I have fine individual strands but my hair is thick. It's dark brown but the color is only visible under sunlight. I miss the jet black hair I had when I was born *pouts*

TIA

[Rusticular]

A Kiwi born and raised, but that doesn't really account much for genetics, haha. Irish and Danish on my fathers side(His hair's black, with a red tinge that shows up in the sun), and Scottish on my mothers(Her's is a dark blonde/light brown). Both have incredibly straight, fine hair. I ended up with a mix; light mousy-ish brown with a red tinge, that goes gold in the sunlight. Weirdly enough, I ended up with a mixture of both eye colours too(Green and blue, respectively). Feel a bit like a bit of kids playdough, mushed and mixed.

My younger sister has hair identical to mums; and woah, every woman in that family has the same. They all get together, and you can't tell them apart. xD

[Charybdis]

I'm an American mutt with genes hailing from a number of regions. A quarter German (Prussian / Alsatian / Bavarian), about 1/8 Native American (Choctaw), and the rest is English / Scottish / Irish, with a tiny smidge of Huguenot (French). My hair is dark brown with a lot of color and texture variation among strands, and was a golden blonde until I was 4 or 5. It was really thick when I was young (at one point I could make 2 braids each as thick as my wrists), but is more average thickness now. My parents both had thick black hair before going gray (also bald in my father's case), and were dark blonde as small children. My mother's is probably 3a, and my father's was probably 2c. My sister's hair is a slightly lighter brown than mine, and probably a 2b/2c wave with ii/iii thickness; she was also a blondie as a little girl. We all have very high foreheads.

Both my aunts (one on father's side, one on mother's side) had auburn hair as young women. My cousins on my mom's side both have very thick, coarse hair; one has medium brown wavy hair that is going gray at about 40, and the other has naturally blonde curly hair (3a/3b). The thick, coarse hair seems to come from the German side.

My husband, who is Scottish with a bit of Irish, has beautiful curly medium brown hair (3b, medium texture, ii thickness) that he keeps between APL and mid-back. It makes quite the "boom" (you curly heads know what I'm talking about) if you comb it out dry to detangle it.

[grape]

The majority of my family's heritage (I'm an American mutt pretty much) is English and Puerto Rican, but the English is way back. Historically, my dad's side of the family came to America with the Mayflower, so who knows what's been mixed in over the years. His has thin, strawberry blonde hair as does my sister. My mother is half Puerto Rican, half vague American and she has very dark, thick hair. My hair is dirty blonde with my mom's thickness (though not as thick, since my strands are pretty fair). From the people I've met in my family, there isn't a curly head in the bunch. We all have pretty straight to wavy hair.

[Seeshami]

Caucasian mutt.
Straight straight-can't curl it for more the 5 minutes to save my life.
Normal to thick by LHC standards my pony tail is 4 inches around.
Oh and naughty, very very naughty.

[longcurlygirl<3]

iI'm Hispanic descent, my mom is Salvadorian and my dad is Guatemalan. I have medium thick chestnut-dark brown 3a/3b curls. My color is from my dad but the curls are from my maternal grandmother's side and She has a solid 3b curls like me. But they loosen a bit into 3a because straighten before :[

[longcurlygirl<3]

I'm German caucasian but my hair is very dark brown and 3b curly. Back when I had a tan people would confuse me for a latina :)
Awww :) hehe your hair sounds like mine, and figure, I am Latina :p but I have white skin which makes people think I am half white/spanish or russian :|

[kidari]

Both of my parents are Korean but my father has wavy hair and my mother has fine thin hair. My brother got thick wavy hair- if he grows it out it turns into an afro. My hair is a mixture of my parents, mine didn't come out very wavy and it has a finer texture than traditional Asian hair. When I was little it was actually dirty blonde that grew in different colors. It was darker towards the nape of the neck and very light around the temples.

[Arya]

Nationality....how does being Canadian affect my hair type...OMG will my hair change when I become an Australian citizen?!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nationality
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethnicity

[kidari]

I guess this thread would be better if it were titled "ethnicity and hair type."

[Arya]

I guess this thread would be better if it were titled "ethnicity and hair type."

Sorry!! I'm a giant nitpicky jerk >__>. It's just one of my pet-peeves, substituting nationality for ethnicity. Also people who say 'weekand' instead of 'weekend' (WEEK AND WHAT????) and Irregardless. Also mango in everything and apple pie. They're my top things that needlessly irritate me.

[emelnd]

I am Turkish. The way my grandparents thought of people, it is hard to say exactly what my lineage is. My grandparents on my father's side immigrated to Turkey from Greece, but they are supposed to be Turkish, except there is about 50&#37; converted Europeans who are their ancestors. My grandmother on my mom's side is from Bulgaria, same story with her and my grandfather's father. My grandfather's grandfather on my mom's side is supposed to have been an "arab". Which may mean anything, really, but I think it means he was African, i.e. black. This is how my grandmother used to use the word somehow.

I get many of my characteristics from him. Turkish people often disown me as not looking Turkish enough because I have darker skin. Also my eyes are dark brown, and all but one of my grandparents have gray or blue eyes. I am also really short, which my great grandmother apparently was too.

The thing is I get my hair from my father. My mom has coarse and really straight hair!

[kidari]

Sorry!! I'm a giant nitpicky jerk >__>. It's just one of my pet-peeves, substituting nationality for ethnicity. Also people who say 'weekand' instead of 'weekend' (WEEK AND WHAT????) and Irregardless. Also mango in everything and apple pie. They're my top things that needlessly irritate me.

I am the same way, I hate when people say "mines" instead of just saying "mine." It irritates me for no reason, but I make mistakes too sometimes, heh. I misspelled definitely for the longest time without realizing it for example :p.

[grape]

I am the same way, I hate when people say "mines" instead of just saying "mine."

Same! Except when they're talking about mining or explosives.

[PinkyCat]

My dad is Puerto Rican,
my mom was Polish and Italian.

I have dark, curly, fine hair and VERY pale skin.

But hey, I throw down in the kitchen!! :yumm:

Oh, and my left brain is a Jet and my right brain is a Shark! (a little West Side Story humor...)

[Arya]

I am the same way, I hate when people say "mines" instead of just saying "mine." It irritates me for no reason, but I make mistakes too sometimes, heh. I misspelled definitely for the longest time without realizing it for example :p.

What? I've never heard that. Can you give me a sentence in which it would be used?

[lunalesca]

My parents are both Austrian. I have fine 1b hair, the color is dark ash blond.

[Bass]

I&#180;m Finnish, but I really doesn't got the typical hair :) My hair is dark brown, thick, coarse and curly. I have 4 different kind of hairs in my head : hairs that are REALLY curly, black, coarse and thick, hair that are less curly, still thick and dark brown, hair that are almost strait, not so thick, brown and hair that is super coarse, very brittle and curls (?) are like this : z (if You know how thickhaired dogs... underfur? Heh, I don't know the english word for it, that fur that keeps them warm, are that is my hair! ). My hair is odd... :D

[emelnd]

I´m Finnish, but I really doesn't got the typical hair :) My hair is dark brown, thick, coarse and curly. I have 4 different kind of hairs in my head : hairs that are REALLY curly, black, coarse and thick, hair that are less curly, still thick and dark brown, hair that are almost strait, not so thick, brown and hair that is super coarse, very brittle and curls (?) are like this : z (if You know how thickhaired dogs... underfur? Heh, I don't know the english word for it, that fur that keeps them warm, are that is my hair! ). My hair is odd... :D
Undercoat?

[Bass]

Yes! That&#180;s it! Thank you :)

[Nordlilja]

I am 100% swedish, but you wouldn't think so... I have hazelnut-brown hair (and some henna thrown into that) with crazy curls. 3b/3c? I really don't know. My eyes are also hazelbrown. Both my parents have curly hair, and at least one of my aunts have 3b curls. My sisters hair and colours are very much like mine. But I am very tall, even for a scandinavian.

[Pixie0763]

Dad is Irish & Scottish - pale skin, light brown wavy hair, hazel eyes.
Mom is German & Czech - olive skin, dark brown, thin, straight hair, brown eyes.
I have relatively light skin with a slight olive undertone, dark brown, thick, course, wazy hair.

[bluJ]

Dad Irish/French Canadian w/brown hair - Mom Serbian/Caucasian English or Irish? not sure w/brown hair

I have Red hair like both of my grandmothers, M strands, very thick iii 1c/2a wave,

[Ermine]

So far as I know, I'm mostly swedish and english. I have fine blond semi-wavy hair with medium thickness. Sounds like I have the stereotypical scandinavian hair.

[minaa]

I'm half norwegian, a quarter italian and a quarter german. I'm not quite sure where it comes from, as my family claims it comes from different sides. Fine-medium strands, 1b/1c and iii+, so... *shrug* o.o

[rbooh]

Interesting topic :)

What's your heritage?
3/4 German and a smidge of Native American

Your hairtype?
Most strands are super fine and thin, but I have a few thick ones in there. Stick straight thanks to Native American blood, thin and mousy brown thanks to Mom.

Your family's?
I have 4 brothers, blonde to dark brown, and all balding. Which does not bode well for me lol

My dad was half Native American and had a full head of soot black hair all his life.

[Orangerthanred]

I'm European- Like, literally. My ancestors are from every place in Europe- from Norway to Greece, Ireland to Spain, etc. Every single place you can name in Europe, they can trace me to. My mom's sister got some sort of blood/whatever test a year ago, and she found out this.

My hair's orange/ginger, curly, SUPER thick. My skin is pale with pink undertones, and I have green eyes.

My mom has very wavy/ slightly curly hair that is thick, yet fine. She has very pale, pinkish skin and red hair. Her eyes are light blue.

My dad, who we don't know the nationalities of, has average white skin that tans VERY dark, very thick blonde hair that is pin straight, and bright green eyes.

All of my grandparents have brown or black hair, two of my grandparents have dark brown eyes, the others have blue.

[Soniasonia]

Great post! I'm Mexican with thick, wavy, naturally black hair that grows very very fast. About 5 inches a month. Got that from my dad's side of the family.:)

[CurlyGirly]

I'm African-American, Jewish (from Eastern Europe) and have a little Seminole mixed in there. My grandma's family is all dark olive with dark hair (they are the ones from Eastern Europe) and she is the only blond. I was born with platnium blond hair that only got dark as I got older. My hair is still sandy brown with blond highlights. People think I dye it.

My hair is now a 3b, but I didn't know I even had curly hair the first 28 years of my life. No lie. I was so clueless about my hair. It was only once I went CG that I discovered that I could get ringlettes and spirals.

My mom is a 3a/3b and my dad is in the 4c range. My brother is probably a 2c/3b and my daughter is a 2c/3a. My son is a 3b/c. They all have almost black hair. Most of my family on the mixed side has hair from 2a-3b range.

[wooliswonderful]

I'm a mix of Swedish & Norwegian on my Dad's side, Swiss, German, & Scottish I think on my Mom's.

I have chestnut brown hair that is medium thick and fairly straight. It's growing at about .5 inches per month.

My siblings range from very dark brown to blonde. I was auburn as a baby as is our youngest daughter. Our kids that take after my side have darker hair and those that take after hubby's have blonde that darkens as they approach adolescence. Some have curly hair like their dad, in varying degrees. Our 8 yo is the only one with my features & straight hair. :)

[ya-ya C]

wow, that's one long thread!!! :bigeyes:

It's amazing though to read through and see the hair tendencies in diff. nations

I'm a mostly Slavic mix (Russian, Ukranian, Polish) with some Gypsy and Jewish added!

My hair is naturally ashy-mousy-sandy brown, medium, with plenty natural curls (when I treat it right)

[Savvyhorsez]

I'm Polish, Russian, German, a wee bit of Irish, and Dutch as far as I know. Lol. My hair is very fine and thin, with it being a darker brown to black on top fading to a lighter brown at the bottom from the sunlight.:)

[JuliaDancer]

I'm half Chinese, a quarter Polish, and a quarter English. My mom is Chinese, with coarse, black hair with a slight wave, not pin straight hair. My dad had blonde hair that turned jet black as he grew up, with waves. I've seen pics of him with APL hair, and it looked almost like braid waves. My hair is a combo of both. It's very dark brown with a reddish tinge when backlit by the sun. I have very slight waves when air dried, and my mom's hair when blow dried. I have her hair strength without being as coarse. My twin sister has my same exact hair although we're not identical. My little sister has finer hair, same color, but much straighter. She has a slight wave by her forehead and that's it.

[anka.ch]

I'm Polish with straight, very fine, ii (7cm, which I find thin), brownish hair. I think it is very common type of hair for my nation, althauh I know people who are 100% Polish and have very thick and coarse hair - my husband for example :)

[wallflower]

I've always wondered where my long hair genes came from. My grandparents on my dad's side were almost full Italian, so that's most likely where I got it (though no one in my family, to my knowledge, has ever allowed their hair to grow this long).

Another possibility is my Cherokee heritage. But since that's so far back in my family history it seems less likely.

What I want to know is how many people (especially those like me, with dark hair) are mistaken for another ethnicity. I don't think I look Mexican or Indian, or exotic at all really, but a lot of people assume I am when they see my hair. I'm fair-skinned and have Caucasian facial features.

[DancingQueen]

Very interesting thread. I am from Denmark, and my hair is characterized as blondette, even though I wash platin blond when I was born, and until I was around 8 or 10.

My family usually starts greying around 40, and it goes pretty fast. Me and my brother are the only ones in my family who have curly blondette hair, and his is darker than mine, closer to light brown. Other than that we have one blonde, but mostly dark brown, all with thick straight hair.

My hair grows extremely slowly (probably less than 1/2 an inch a month. But maybe LHC will be able to change that. :D

[Cecalv]

I'm norwegian on both sides of the family dating back several generations, and it might have had some swedish and danish blood mixed in a hundred years or so ago. Typical 1a/1b hair with small curls around the hairline which I hate. Its medium thick and I've allways had it long. I'm very typically scandinavian; pale skin with some freckles and blond hair with natural stripes of both ash and honey. I henna it bright red/orange, just got of the commercial hair dye which I had been using since I was about 16.

The haircolors in my family range from platina blond to strawberry blond and the darkest is plain brown but it is rare (only my uncle)
And if my genes are anything like my mother I'll end up with bright white hair with some silver streaks when I grow old, and just loving the idea of that :D

[Maraz]

Thanks to the unlovely history of my country, there's no way to know, but looking at the various hair types and features of my family members, I'd say I'm a little bit of darn near everything. We know we have Cherokee and Creek ancestry, and we know we have Irish and English ancestry.

On my Dad's side the term Black Irish is still used by some of our family, and until very recently *cough*yesterday while I was aimlessly googling images of Irish immigrants*cough*, I didn't know the term was used in the US by people trying to hide the fact that they were of mixed race. And they had very good reasons for hiding it, too.

But that means I'm never going to know for sure, and of course it also means I never got to be part of any culture outside the 'mainstream' one. In my case it doesn't matter, as I came to the conclusion long ago that I'm just naturally an outsider, but I guess it still bothers me, because I associate the mainstream culture I grew up in with shopping malls, working until you keel over dead for someone else's profit, hypocrisy, and greed. Nothing much to be proud of.

Oh wait, this was supposed to be about hair! *Guiltily shoves soapbox back under her chair*

It's a light brown/dark blonde, frizzy, curly disaster during the Spring and Summer. I shed like a long haired cat in the Fall, and during the Winter, my hair behaves okay. But it does tangle and break easily. I don't just get knots, I get knots in single hairs! (I cut them off along with my split ends). The only time I really like my hair is outside, I like the highlights.

[dili]

i am brazillian with gypsy( rom) jewish (sephardic) portuguese, and problably some african and native american heritage
i have medium curly brown hairs, but in my family have all kinds of hairs, blonde, black, red,brown curly, straight, wavy, thick, thin
:p

[maria_tasha]

I'm Romanian and here we have almost all types of hair but the majority I think has medium brown slightly wavy hair. I have straight 1a black hair that does not hold curls and although shinny and nice it's a pain in the butt due to being really slippery. Both of my parents have wavy dark hair as almost everybody in my family.

[PriscillaCherel]

I'm Dutch and I got wavy between curly hair with a normal thickness. My natural haircolour is Darkblond ash->light ash brown =).

In my moms family are -> spanish and indonesian blood, but far away till me..

[VikingVampChick]

Hi :) Half Irish, half Dominican. 2b/ m/c / ii dk brown naturally .

[Nera]

I'm Dutch, with dark brown/black very thick curly hair.

[Amber_Maiden]

1/4 norwegian, 1/2 scot/irish, and the rest is english and greek (not sure about that, but I have olive skin), and part native.

I have very very thick auburn hair. Born blonde, it then went close to black/dark dark brown. Then it went reddish/auburn with blonde highlights. I believe my natural colour is a medium brown/auburn, but I haven't seen it in 5 years. I have very wavy hair.

[LadieRyrie]

I'm 50% Chinese, 25% Irish, and 25% German, Spanish, and French. I have an average amount of dark reddish brown hair that was once curly but is now on the straighter side of wurly.
My sister and two brothers have the same type of hair, but straighter and in varying amounts. My oldest brother and I both have "stiff" hair, which I can only explain by saying if I sleep on it wrong, not even dunking my head in water will fix it, or if I put it up in a pony tail bun, the hair will stick straight out from my head, not fall gracefully earthward. That last one annoys me so very much. XP

[Shuan]

What I want to know is how many people (especially those like me, with dark hair) are mistaken for another ethnicity. I don't think I look Mexican or Indian, or exotic at all really, but a lot of people assume I am when they see my hair. I'm fair-skinned and have Caucasian facial features.
Both my parents are Chinese, my grandmother (father's side) might have some mixed blood (perhaps Portugese or something), which I apparently have inherited, I don't really look like a 100% Chinese person. :D
I've been mistaken for quite a few different ethnicities, like Korean/Japanese/Nepalese/Mexican and Native American. I don't think I look like most of that either, but I find it kind of funny and don't really mind about it. Sometimes it results in funny situations when I'm on vacation in Hong Kong visiting my family. I've been spoken to a few times in English by salespeople in stores and then they are surprised when I reply in pretty fluent Cantonese.
As for my hair, it is straight'ish and has some waves and it quite sturdy, which I think is quite common Asian hair. One of my cousins has frizzy hair though.

[yelu]

My parents and grandparents are turkish, i dont remember anyone in my family being not turkish :) my hair is black with a dark brown glow and a bit curly in the ends. but most of the people in my family has brown hair, only my dad and his fathes have black hair. :)

[wallflower]

On my Dad's side the term Black Irish is still used by some of our family

On my mom's side, we have records indicating that we have "Black Dutch" heritage, but none of us know exactly what that means.

[Pippin]

I'm almost entirely English (with a tiny bit of Scottish heritage somewhere way up the line) and I have straight (1b/c), m, II/III naturally mid-brown/auburn but blonde up to four. Most of my family are dark brunettes save a couple of lighter brunettes and a pair of red-heads.

[Diamond.Eyes]

I'm American with Norwegian/Scandinavian, Northern European, and Native American Ancestry. I have natural red hair that is very thick and some-what straight. I get the red from my great-grandfather on my mothers side and my great grand-mother on my fathers side. My father has auburn hair, my mother has natural blonde hair, my sister has natural blonde hair, one brother has strawberry blonde hair, and my other brother has blonette hair. :) Me and one of my brothers are the gingers of the family :p.

[candycandace]

I'm Eurasian (1/2 Dutch, 1/4 Singaporean, and 1/4 French.) My dad had curly light auburn hair and my mother has straight dark brown hair. I have naturally dark auburn hair with slight waves, but I dye it black with henndigo.

[Lostsoule77]

I'm a mutt! :) I'm 1/4 Hungarian & 1/4 Romanian, 1/8 Native American, plus Irish, English, & Scottish with more Irish than the other two. My hair & two of my siblings take after my father who was 50/50 Hungarian & Romanian. We have thick hair that is med - md. dk. brown. My brother's (when it was long) was probably 1c, I'm 2c, & my sister is 3a (I think). My other sister takes after my mother who had thin, straight, lt. brown hair. The Native American is through my mother, but I'm pretty sure none of us got any of my Great Grandmothers hair traits.

[raehysteric]

Utter European Mutt. I'm a blend of Slavic (adopted in south Austria? something like that, i think.. hard to say grandpa was adopted WWI era so details are scarce), Irish, German, and English.. i think there's some Scottish/French in there but I'm not entirely sure who or how much. For Me, I can say I'm 1/4 German, 1/4ish Slavic.

My hair color and texture is EXACTLY like my English paternal grandmother's.. in fact I have a set of pictures where I would look like her sister. That being said, its dark brown with red highlights in the sun.. wavy/curly and coarse. Hairlines are about the same, but I definitely see some of the irish/slavic nature in my hair but I can't say which one it looks like more.

I'm told I also l look a lot like my maternal grandmother, but I never saw the familiarity aside from pale skin/dark hair.

ETA: I also look like my great-great & great grandmother in my paternal lineage, hair wise anyway. We all seem to be dark haired. medium thickness, and coarse with at least wavy texture, that I can tell from the picture.

My Mother however, who is 1/2 German and Irish (and maybe partly something else), has always had much less texture/thickness.. although the same color patterns.

I have a redheaded 1st cousin that I'm always jealous of. As far as I know neither her mother (my aunt) or her dad are remotely redheaded.

[honeydippedxo]

I'm Hawaiian, Chinese and Black. My mom Hawaiian and Chinese and my dad Hawaiian and Black. Most of my generation of the family is the same mix. My hair is wurly, thick and black with hints of red and brown. My older sister has curly, thick dark brown hair with hints of light brown. My younger sister has stick straight reddish brown hair with natural light brown highlights but she was born with dark blond curly hair and had it until she was about 5. My little brother was also born with blonde hair but it's now brown and straight.

The hair in my family ranges from stick straight - tight curls, from blackest of blacks to blonde.
I'm pretty sure everyone has thick hair.

[KwaveT]

I'm Caucasian American. My decent traces back to 1700s Ireland (Cork, Ireland). My ancestors were horse thieves and they ran them out of the country. I had an Irish customer come through my checkout line one day and she guessed the city on first try because I forgot name of city. Apparently a lot of Americans come from this particular place. I have jet black wavy hair which I got from my late grandfather. He had died when my dad was 16. My hair is coarse. It definitely has no trouble keeping wave.

[Helenae]

I am Italian-Polish-Argentinian.

I have inherited my hair genes from the Italian side - very voluminous brown 2c hair (waves and loose curls) prone to frizz and split ends.

The odd thing is (!!) ....
When I was a child I had 2b hair (just waves) - then in my early teenage years it turned into very tight 3b curls... then since 17, they relaxed into 2c waves and odd curls.

Anyone with more hair expertise than me have any idea why?

[Albiryo]

This is such an interesting thread!

Okay... So Iam German and my family has lived here like forever.
But I know that my mum´s ancestors are Swedish (like 3 or 4 generations ago) and the village my father is from was founded by Romans, so Italian background as well.

I think my siblings and I got all the same hair type.
We all have dark brown hair (Italian), but very fine and super straight (1a, not even the slightest chance of a wave)...

So, nothing really exciting! :D

[Racquel831]

I am african american( we just say black) and no, I'm not offended by your remarks. I think you pose valid questions. It is widely believed that we have very coarse hair by nature. untrue. while some do, most blacks have delicate hair that needs lots of moisture. when moisture is lacking black hair appears rough, but what it really is, is dry and tightly coiled. I have long, past my bra strap curly hair. the texture is between a 3 and 3c. I am the only one in my family who has hair like this. there is irish and native american a couple generations back, but my parents are both black. people assume that i am of mixed heritage when they see my hair, but they are wrong. in my opinion, ethnicity has a lot to do with hair texture, but its not the whole picture. I also think care has something to do with it. i do not use hair grease(ick!), which is a traditional african american practice, and around the time other girls were getting relaxers to straighten their hair, my mother wouldn't even discuss it with me. I've seen many little black girls with very long, curly or wavy hair, but not that many adult black women. I think the introduction of chemicals and poor hair care practices have a lot to do with it.

[PinkyCat]

I am Italian-Polish-Argentinian.

I have inherited my hair genes from the Italian side - very voluminous brown 2c hair (waves and loose curls) prone to frizz and split ends.

The odd thing is (!!) ....
When I was a child I had 2b hair (just waves) - then in my early teenage years it turned into very tight 3b curls... then since 17, they relaxed into 2c waves and odd curls.

Anyone with more hair expertise than me have any idea why?

YES! Helenae, we are only one nationality different! I am Italian - Polish - Puerto Rican. When I was a child I was 2b, then turned 3b/c, now loosened to 3a/b. The hair shaft is also extremely fine - but there is a ton of it. :p

[Racquel831]

i am black with irish and native american( blackfoot) hertitage a couple generations back ( great grandparents and beyond) The native american heritage is especially prevalent on my father's side of the family. Very dark hair, high cheekbones, strong nose, slanted eyes. I have all but the slanted eyes. I am often mistaken for hispanic by other hispanics( they speak spanish to me when they see me). I am some times mitaken my middle eastern. I had never thought of this before it happened. but most often i get confused for a person who is black/caucasian, or "mixed"

[Rowan1980]

I'm a bit of a mutt. My mother's side has Irish, French (including French-Canadian), and English ancestry. She has short, fine, dark brown (almost black), 3b to 3c hair. (She took up cowashing recently, so I'll have to check again once her hair is more stable, so to speak.)

My dad's background is primarily English and possibly German. When he was younger, his hair was pretty thick and between light and medium brown. I'm guessing I got the 2a from him, though I'll have to root through some old photo albums to verify this.

My brothers and I all inherited my dad's hair. The funny part is that my older brother was born was blond hair that darkened to light brown as he grew older. Yes, the 'mailman's baby' jokes have been made. I guess my dad's was the same way when he was born.

[Orangerthanred]

YES! Helenae, we are only one nationality different! I am Italian - Polish - Puerto Rican. When I was a child I was 2b, then turned 3b/c, now loosened to 3a/b. The hair shaft is also extremely fine - but there is a ton of it. :p

I've experienced the hair changes too. When I was a little kid my hair was 1c, then at puberty it was 3b, and it's 2c now.

[Automne]

My mother is from Mali with 4s hair. My father is European with straight hair. Im in the middle, with 2c/3a hair.

[holothuroidea]

Another mutt, here, with more mutt hair. :D

My mom (1/2 British, 1/2 German) has very thick, medium, strawberry blonde 2c hair. My dad (1/2 British, 1/2 Greek) has thin, fine, light golden brown 1a hair.

So that makes me 1/2 British, 1/4 German and 1/4 Greek. My hair is much more like my Dad's, thin, fine and light ash brown. It was stick-straight until I had my first baby and now it is fairly wavy. I do sometimes wish that I had inherited some beautiful thick Greek curls but instead I just got the long beaky Greek nose. :D

My DH is 1/2 Sicilian and 1/2 Norwegian/Swedish. His hair is 100&#37; Italian and those Scandinavian genes don't come through at all. He has very dark brown, very thick medium 3c curls. He also has black eyes and olive skin.

[Lissandria]

Im Aussie and Scots/Irish. Although there are alot of olive skinned/black haired members of my family. Im white-as with light brown, curly hair naturally.

[Helix]

Great post! I'm Mexican with thick, wavy, naturally black hair that grows very very fast. About 5 inches a month. Got that from my dad's side of the family.:)


5 inches a month??? Wow! That's like...60 inches a year!

Impressive! :thumbsup:

[papera]

Wow, I'm impressed about all the different nationalities and heritages here, it's great!
Well, I'm plain-boring German and therefore plain-boring Caucasian with plain-boring dark blonde hair, 2 a/b/ii :p (I hope nobody gets offended with my little sarcasm ..) Apparently, the great-grandmother of my mother had Slawik roots but I think that's as exotic as it gets for my heritage ...
The mother of my father has had bright-blonde hair (now grey) and blue eyes, but because everybody else in my family, including my mother's side, has rather dark blondish/ brown hair and brown eyes, her genes couldn't get through ... but the waviness!

I love to hear from people with mixed heritage, it's just so interesting! I've lived the past 7 years in Dublin, Ireland (with an Italian boyfriend, now that's my exotic side!;)) and I've met so many people from around the world here and I just LOVE the diversity of cultures, minds, appearances, etc ... and that includes also hair and hair styles!

[missdelarocha]

Hello!

I'm half Australian and Macedonian, I have naturally dark blonde hair, as far as I can tell it's just a little wavy, i/ii thickness.

I have quite light skin and hazel eyes.

[Inching Along]

What an interesting thread! I am a Caucasian mix: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, possibly Danish, German, and Swiss. My hair is a medium brown (with a silver streak I found at 7 years old and now a sprinkling of silvers throughout), normal thickness of strands, thin volume, and curly. When I was little, my hair was curly, and then it seemed to straighten out and be a lot straighter with the odd wave hanging on. Every few years, the curls would reemerge. About five years ago, I noticed it was wanting to be curly again; I'm very thankful for the curl because of health-related shedding; that's why it's thin volume-wise. Anyway...

My mom's hair is about the same brown as mine (though it's a lot more silver now) and curly. I think she got her curl from her dad, because grandma's hair was straight, and she always permed it. My dad's straight hair was always so dark brown that it seemed black. He also has an olive cast to his skin, which my sister and I inherited. We are a little baffled by that! My sister's hair was always very curly when she was younger, but now it seems to be mimicking what mine did: straighter with some wave. I have brown eyes, and my sister does, too, though hers are very dark brown, and mine seem to be a little greenish around the edges. Dad and Mom both have brown eyes. I think our grandpas had blue eyes, though.

[RiotPrrl]

I'm Finnish, so I guess Scandinavian/Slavic descent? (I have no idea to be honest)

My hair is slightly wavy, it has a lot of volume (1c/2a?) and about medium thickness (though it looks thicker because of the wavyness/volume). It's light/medium brown, though it was more golden brown when I was younger.

Looking at my mom's old pictures, I'd say her hairtype is the same as mine, though a bit darker (a warm medium brown, bordering on auburn). She's permed and colored her hair for as long as I can remember so it's hard to determine the type in "real life" :D

My dad's hairtype has either fine or medium thickness, it's difficult to judge because it's thinner than it used to be. I'd say his hair is straight, but it's hard to say with short hair. He's dark blond (I think) but it used to get very blond in the summer. Now it's mostly gray-blond :)

[shump76]

Another mutt here!

My mom has 3a-3b coarse red hair. She is an American born Italian/Polish mix.

My dad was born blonde but ended up with medium brown 1a fine hair. He is an American born Puerto Rican/Irish mix.

I have black hair (like my Nana who was born in Puerto Rico). It spans the 2's and is medium to coarse in texture, so I guess my hair is as much of a mutt as I am.

[Soltimus]

I'm Scandinavian (Danish) and my hair is a wavy auburn. Thickness is normal leaning on fine, I believe. On my mom's side this is the most typical kind of hair, on my dad's side they all have black thick hair, so, of course, I feel a bit cheated, ha ha. Black hair is very rare here. Very rare indeed.

[EleanorD]

I'm just boring British, probably mostly English with some Scottish and Welsh thrown in for good measure.
I have wavy ginger hair, not a carrot-top but definitely in the orange-red spectrum, it's fine but I have a lot of it. My mum (the English/Scottish side) has fine dark curly/wavy hair and my dad (the English/Welsh side) has light-brown/slightly auburn fine/straight hair.
My brother is ginger too and has super-curly bright red hair; so curly he was able to grow a very impressive afro as a teenager!

[Schrei777]

I'm mostly German, 25% Native American and some Finnish.

My grandmother was a full blood Apache Indian, but you would never know by looking at me (pale as a ghost, med/light brown hair, light blue eyes). But whenever I go to get a hair cut they always comment on how thick my hair is and ask if I have any Native American in me. It always surprises me because I never think my hair is that thick, or that they would relate it to Native American heritage.

[dwell_in_safety]

I don't know 25% of my heritage because my maternal grandfather was adopted. What I do know is Scottish, English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Spanish, in roughly that order though the first five are pretty equal percentages while I have very little Spanish in me.

I have an olive skin tone and have never in my life had sunburn more substantial than a slightly pink nose despite very rare use of sunblock. Outside of summer months I have the darkest skin of my Caucasian/European friends. My eyes are black-brown, and my natural hair (which I am growing out again) is dark brown indoors and a more golden brown outside in the sunlight or comparable light. I've been told by multiple people that I look very Argentine/Argentinian.

I recently measured the circumference of my hair, and it's 5" despite an eleven-year trichotillomania habit that has only in the past few months subsided completely. I'm very happy about that. :D The back half of my part is still twice as wide as the front half, but baby hairs are everywhere.

I'm a bit unsure about the texture of my hair. I have it as M because that's just right in the middle, but it's probably more M/C. I have very few fine hairs on my head, and many are extremely thick, crunchy, and wiry. Some of them tightly curl and kink; they hide within the rest of my hair. Overall I just put M, though, because I do have all types of hair on my head.

The 2a classification is only right when it's at this length, too. The longer my hair gets, the more curl it develops. When it's BSL and beyond, it has a tendency to form ringlets, which is definitely not 2a. :p I will probably change that when it gets longer.

I love my hair. :cheese:

[ludwig20]

I'm latina (Salvadoran, to be exact) and my ponytail is about 5 inches. I inherited my mother's hair: thick, dry, and frizzy. Like hers, it was curly in my childhood but gradually became more straight.

When I visit El Salvador, I have noticed most people have thick, medium/coarse hair. So mine is nothing special over there... Not the same case here lol. I've had a few people come up to me and ask if they can touch my hair.

[Curly_jas]

I can't remember if i already posted here, i think i was just reading all the different posts though :) But i am mainly mixed with Black, Chinese and English-caucasian. Both of my parents are mixed raced. My hair is not like my mums, i definitely seem to have gotten my hair from the Chinese and English side, my hair is fine and straight but curly, grows fairly quick and my natural hair colour is jet black. My mums hair is nothing like mine, it is much more coarse and is very difficult to style. Whereas I've recently discovered, I can get my hair really straight with just a blow dryer and brush.

People seem to always be interested in my hair, and i am often mistaken for being from different countries. People say i look "exotic" i guess mainly because of my skin tone and hair type (i never wear my curls out as i am growing out damage, i mainly do up-dos or blow my hair out). Actually when i was born my hair was apparently stick straight with blue eyes and my mum always says my eyes look blue in the summer...I've never seen this, but other people have mentioned it to me :)

[Libbylou]

Ancestors are English and German. I have medium brown very fine hair. I think it is on the thin side. Just like my mothers, Only mine is very straight. All the other relatives have thick curly hair.
My skin tone is light with blue-green eyes.

[constructamane]

Hi...I am half German, and half British (quarter English & quarter Scottish). My hair is fine,straight, and an ash dark blonde to light ash brown. Dad had dark brown hair, but my mother had platinum blonde hair at birth and beyond, as did all of her father's side of the family (her German side).My mother's hair was fine, as was my paternal Grandmother. My sister had beautiful chestnut brown hair, BUT she colored it blonde!

[vampodrama]

I am very much estonian with a bit of finnish thrown in (my grandfather was born in Karelia, but I have no clue if his actual nationality/heritage was finnish or russian or something completely else). Being an estonian also means there is a very high possibility of all sorts of mixed genes of germans, russians, swedes and lord knows what else (as Estonia was under different foreign rules for centuries). Anyway - northern european :D

My hair is also pretty standard - fine, almost straight, soft and pretty thin. It's natural colour is light brown/dark blonde with a slight red overtone. I am also extremely pale (a lot paler than most people here), with green eyes and freckles.

Both my parents have dark blonde, very fine, soft and thin hair. But my paternal grandfather (the finnish/ingrian one) had coarse, thick hair, a full head of thick hair until the day he died - and my sister seems to have inherited his hairtype, very thick and coarser than mine.

[Astraea]

Interesting thread!:)

I'm American Black as are my parents with English/Irish ancestry on my mother's side and English/Welsh ancestry on my father's side (not uncommon in the south), the extent of which I had no idea until an ancestral land dispute reared its litigious head but almost everyone in my family identifies as Black.

My hair is black with gold undertones and reddish-orange highlights and ranges from small to medium coils at the back and sides to loose waves on top. My sister has jet black coarse/iii loose waves, my mom has brown-black medium/ii coils and my dad has jet black fine/iii wurlies.

On my mother's side, dark brown to reddish-orange medium/ii hair ranging from soft coils to slippery straight strands is common. On my dad's side jet black, fine-coarse/iii slippery coils and straight hair is common. Strangely enough both sides grow hair very quickly and everyone goes a lovely silver as opposed to gray. It's been so fun reading about everyone!

[NativeGirl]

What's your heritage? I am a full blooded Seminole. :)

Your hairtype? Individual strands are fine. Though they unite and give me a very full and heavy head of hair. It's dark brown and wavy.

Your family's? Both Mom and Dad have wavy hair. Mom's is course and Black, and not as thick as mine. Dad's is fine and dark brown, also not as thick as mine. All of my siblings have hair exactly like mine. Mom's side has hair similar to hers, which came from my grandmother. My grandfather has fine, straight hair. My Dad's side all has the same type of hair.

[auburntressed]

My heritage is fairly mixed. On one side of my family, it is a mixture of mostly Irish and Cherokee (at least 1/8 Cherokee). Though I suspect the "Irish" part of that side of the family is fairly diluted, as the line is pretty far removed from Ireland. We can trace ourselves back to pre-1700, so who really knows what else has bred into our line since then on that front? It is part of the Jesse James family line, which is usually considered "Irish," but we all know they're as mongrel as any of us here in the US.

Other side of my family is much easier: Sweden and Dalmatian. That side of the family is recent enough that I can say with certainty one grandparent is 100% Swedish, and the other is 100% Dalmatian (mostly Croat with a small dash of Serb).

I honestly don't know where I get my thickness from. My Croat grandmother has thicker hair than my Irish/Cherokee redhead mother. I have thicker hair than both of them. As for texture - again, not sure which side of the family I inherit. My hair is straight now, but before henna it was pretty wurly. Possibly as much as a 2c. Probably not into the 3's. That is about how I estimate my mom's curl pattern to be, but she has heat styled her wurls away for as long as I've known her. The other side of the family seems to have stick straight hair. But again... they style heavily. So I can't be sure.

As for F/M/C - I'd say the Swedish/Dalmatian side has mostly medium. My mom's mother has baby fine hair. My mom's is about the same as mine, which I THINK is a M/C. It is coarser than most people I know who are white. My mom is always told by the hairdresser that she has "very coarse" hair. I take that with a grain of salt, though, because hairdressers, from my observations, tend to be a bit off when it comes to hair typing. Most draw from a clientele that is roughly the same demographic, so their pool of comparison is narrow.

[DarkCurls]

I'm 1/4 Cambodian (Asian) and 3/4 French ("white", Caucasian).

Hair type: Medium thickness, dark brown hair that waves/curls but why? :confused:

Family's: straight, dark brown hair for my mother & brother / straight, black hair for my father and anyone on his side of the family. Everyone seems to be medium thickness, except maybe my grandmother (the one from Cambodia) who has a real head of hair Oo.
I am constantly puzzled as to where I got my curls from.

[ariesfairies]

Reading these posts I'm finding an interesting lack of Mediterranean sorts here! :P

Full Macedonian heritage, with some Bulgarian I think but I hardly notice the difference :P
Hair in most my family is medium brown to dark, curly or wavy. One of my sister's is the strange "blonde sheep" with 1c-ish hair.

[SwordWomanRiona]

Heritage is central and northern Spain...with possible Celtiberian roots from the past :D? My hair is medium auburn with coppery-golden highlights, very fine, very straight, medium thickness in the thick side of ii (but compresses so much it doesn't look like it). It's nearly the same as my dad's hair (straight, fine, same thickness, even the same colour-wise, I think). My mum has coarser, wavier, more voluminous hair (probably 2b M/C ii or ii/iii). Her hair is auburn too, but with true red highlights rather than copper-golden. My grandmother (mum's mother) was from the North, she had straight-ish golden hair.

[Lucky_Lucy]

What's your heritage?
I'm Romanian, but I guess I have some Asian(Mongolian&Turkish/Armenian) + some Italian&maybe even Russian roots.
Your hairtype?
My hair is straight, but it does have a tendency to get wavy. I guess I'm 1c/2a. My hair is medium and my ponytail circumference is 11 cm/4.3 in(without bangs, and after a major shed:( ), so I'm an iii. I have very dark brown coloured hair.
Your family's?[/b]
My mother has 2c/3a hair, dark brown and M/C. Her hair was really straight, maybe 1b when she was young, but in her teenage years, it turned wurly. My father has 1c/2a hair(I guess) and a very dark brown, I'd say almost black(darker than mine), which is F/M. My grandmother(and her sisters) also have/had very dark, almost black, F/M and wavy hair(combined with the greatest icy blue eyes, which unfortunately I didn't inherit). My uncle has 3a, almost black hair.
I wish my hair were more wavy. :o3

[alexandros22]

I'm of 100&#37; Greek herritage (at least as far as I can trace back my routes). I have 2c red/bronze hair just like my mother and grandmother and the funny thing is that they were the second kid in their family too just like me. Maybe my second kid will have red hair too! My father has 1b dark blonde hair and my brother 1b dark brown hair.

[coastalnicole]

Lebanese dad, and my mom's family is Polish...I have dark brown 3b type ii hair of medium thickness.

My dad's side of the family all has black hair, and my mom's side is light browns, chestnuts, and probably some blondes...no one that we know of has curly hair like mine, but I suppose it's possible that women on my dad's side have been straightening theirs.

[Arden]

I'm a mixture of various european (scotish, irsh, french, polish, etc) and north american (canada / US) innuate / natives.. my hair is full, fine and stright to wavy... From birth to about 6 years old I was pretty much blond.. from 6 to 12 it turned light brown to dark brown... but rather than blonding in the sun it would redden in the sun... I got my first gray hair as 21... Now at 31 my hair is salt and pepper but predominatly dark brown.... some days it looks almost black... others reddish...

[Singinghoneybee]

Heritage wise, my family is mostly Scottish with a bit of Irish, English, Welsh, and German. My hair is rather curly (3b with a bit of 3a on the underside) and a dark brown with red and blonde tints. It is exactly like my father's mother. I have seen a photo of her father and he has the same hair as well (it is rather wild in the photo). The strands are mostly m's but every once in a while I find a c strand. Heat turns it to straw very quickly, but it bounces back quickly as well. On my mother's side, everyone's hair falls somewhere in the 2's. They are all brunettes except her sister, who is blonde.

[IvanaGil]

I am half Mayan, half Spanish, which makes me full-blooded Guatemalan. I definitely think my long hair genes are from my Mayan side because they have all had super long hair, but my color, shape and texture are definitely from the Spanish side since my hair is light brown, fine and wavy. I blame my Spanish side for the weak fine hair.

[EyeFuzz]

My nationality is Guatemalan. My father has straight hair as does most of his family. My mother is the one who helped promote my wavy/curly hair because she has an insane amounts of curls. Sometimes I'm jealous of her curls but I'm really happy with my hair overall.

[NoRush]

My heritage is from all over the place but I'm mostly italian with some austrian and slovenian and turkish thrown in. My hair is medium thickness, 1c wavy, dark brown but it lightens easily in the sun (a few days at the beach and I get all over highlights+ombre tips :rolleyes: ). I got the texture and color from my austrian and slovenian bits (I have hair like my great grandmother) both my parents have thick pinstraight brown-black hair... :bunny:

[nobeltonya]

I'm a "caucasian blend" as well [borrowed from a previous poster]. :D I know we have Welsch and Cherokee on my mother's side, English [and maybe Irish somewhere] on my father's side.. my hair is chestnut: darker brown with natural red [and a few blonde] highlights. Sort of wavy, mainly on the ends. When it's short, it does this weird thing where one side of my hair will flip out and one side flips under.. relatively coarse, which I'd only recently noticed.. also at the upper end of ii thickness [about 3.5"].

[jellycatty]

I'm Azeri-Persian and a quarter Mongolian!
Persians have hair that are all sorts of textures, colours and thickness, so you can't tell what "most of us" have. :)

My hair is dark brown, almost black. It's curly 2a/2b hair, and I don't know if other people have this, but some of my hair is fine, some of it is medium and some of it is coarse. lol

My mother has thick black hair that's gotten a bit wavy over the years, my brother has thick straight black hair, my dad has thick straight black hair (but it used to be dark blond when he was a kid and got darker over time). lol I got my curly hair from my great grandfather. Why meeee? lol

[Zindell]

I'm from Sweden and I have typical scandinavian blonde fine hair.

[Correa]

Ooo I like 'caucasian blend' much better than mutt. :D

My mum has really thick curly hair, ok mostly curly not like some of you ladies here. But my hair is really meh, a bit wavey but mostly straight, and kinda fine. Its a mid-dark brown and just very boring.

I also have brown eyes while my mum has bright blue ones, she has all the pretty things. :D

[Navi]

I'm part-Indian (as in subcontinent of India) and the other part is English. My Indian mother has the usual thick, wavy Indian hair. My hair was baby-fine as a kid, then it briefly thickened up during puberty...then it fined out again. Now its fine, not very thick. Basically my hair is Indian in colour (black with reddish highlights in the sun, pretty shiny) but Anglo in texture.

[Lisabunny]

I am northern Italian and was born with flaming red hair. As I grew older it darkened to brownish reddish. It has always been fairly straight till I hit 35 then it when very curly. Both my parents had thin brown hair, however, my brother had thick curly black hair.

[Vampyria]

I'm Slovenian, Croatian, Hungarian and I think Slovakian mix. My hair is medium thick, medium to coarse and medium to dark brown and a bit wavy. During puberty my hair was very curly, 3b or 3c, very coarse and very thick.

My mother also has medium thick hair, medium brown or lighter (well mostly grey now) and totally straight. My brother has my mother's hair and my father barely has some hair which is black and grey. :p My grandmother still has really thick, straight hair and her color was also medium brown.

[shirohane]

I'm east Asian; Chinese as far I know (but probably have some Mongolian as well). I have dark brown hair (almost black) with natural highlights (lighter brown) which are more visible during the summer. The males in my family have darker hair than mine which is a similar color as my mother's though my highlights are more visible than hers. (To the point where I've been asked if I dyed them.)

My hair is pretty thick (short blunt cuts look horrible on me) and rather coarse as well, straight and impossible to style... Though it takes braid waves, I've found that curling irons are pretty useless. (I tried curling and using hair spray a few years back and it held for 2 hours...)

Unlike me, my brother gets curls in his hair if he grows it out.

[leilasahhar]

I am Iranian, German mix. I have Dark Thick hair that likes to curl/wave. I took after my dad. My mom has finer blonde hair. :)

[battles]

I've been doing some genealogy research and also hopefully had my hair properly typed, so here's my updated response.

I'm another Caucasian blend, mostly French (about 3/4) with a bit of Russian, Norwegian, and there may be English or Irish in there as well, but we haven't found it within the family tree yet.

My hair is mostly medium strands, with very fine at the nape, temples and ears. My natural color was very light blonde as a child, but gradually darkened to a light ash brown with natural highlights as an adult. I'm around a 2a/2b. My hair is higher end of average thickness.

[ohmygackt]

I'm Native American, Irish, French, Portuguese, and Mexican.
I do not look Mexican or Native American at all though. I'm really pale with curly light brown/dirty blonde hair.

[ladylowtide]

In order of greatest content: Mexican (spanish/native american), German, Irish, English.

I ended up with mix of delicate fine hairs, and resilient straight damage proof ones. I have a lot of individual hairs on my head. 3.5" pony cirumference. I also have a widow's peak.

My natural hair color is a very ashy medium brown... but..

I was born with black straight hair, it all fell out, then blonde curly hair grew in, then when I got older it grew out. :confused: My father who was born in Mexico was also born with blonde curly hair that later turned black and straight so I think the message I have is that you really can't assume anything about hair from heritage, cause most of the time I think you will be dead wrong.

[riceball]

In order of greatest content: Mexican (spanish/native american), German, Irish, English.

I ended up with mix of delicate fine hairs, and resilient straight damage proof ones. I have a lot of individual hairs on my head. 3.5" pony cirumference. I also have a widow's peak.

My natural hair color is a very ashy medium brown... but..

I was born with black straight hair, it all fell out, then blonde curly hair grew in, then when I got older it grew out. :confused: My father who was born in Mexico was also born with blonde curly hair that later turned black and straight so I think the message I have is that you really can't assume anything about hair from heritage, cause most of the time I think you will be dead wrong.

Agree! You never know when/how your hair can change. And of course there are always exceptions within a race/ethnicity.
I am mixed race of Japanese and white (German) descent. Strangely, my mom who is asian has naturally curly, maybe 3a, coarse and incredibly thick hair. I think it's pretty but she started getting i relaxed 2 or 3 years ago. My dad has straight, fine hair. As a kid I had beautiful straight silky hair, but after puberty it got more like my mom's hair but less curly. It is big and frizzy and obnoxious. It has always been a dark brown color, almost black.

[HintOfMint]

I'm of Indian descent, Bengali to be exact.

My hair is pretty coarse except for the underlayer which is medium-ish.
I have waves that can be brushed out (Indians are big on brushing, no maintaining a wave pattern here!)
It is reasonably thick and very close to black.
And it takes well to coconut oil :)

[johnnystiletto]

My mother is full-blooded Japanese, and I get MOST of my physical traits from her. My father is SUPER white; pale, extremely light blond hair (curly and SUPER fine) and with blue eyes - his side of the family is all Anglo & German.

I'm sure the fact that I have a slight wave to my hair comes from Dad; oddly enough, up until I was about 5, I had SUPER curly hair. My hair is a mixture of M & C, and I have a LOT of it.

[johnnystiletto]

Agree! You never know when/how your hair can change. And of course there are always exceptions within a race/ethnicity.
I am mixed race of Japanese and white (German) descent. Strangely, my mom who is asian has naturally curly, maybe 3a, coarse and incredibly thick hair. I think it's pretty but she started getting i relaxed 2 or 3 years ago. My dad has straight, fine hair. As a kid I had beautiful straight silky hair, but after puberty it got more like my mom's hair but less curly. It is big and frizzy and obnoxious. It has always been a dark brown color, almost black.

nationality twins!!!

[blaketob]

I'm half Russian and half Romanian. I also have like 10&#37; Italian in me. My hair is dark blonde, light feeling, and wavy. My sisters hair is a lot thicker than mine but over the years it thinned out a bunch (i think thats from her using the hot iron so much though). My brother has similar coloring to mine and has a little wave to his hair as well.

[FrannyG]

Well, by blood, I am 50% Ukrainian on my dad's side, and my mother's family (on both sides) has been in Canada since the pioneer days, so my best guess is that she is predominantly of English ancestry with some Western European thrown in.

My hair is very fine, but I have a lot of it, and it's pin straight.

[Tristania]

100&#37; Norwegian. I think my natural hair color is some sort of auburn, and although it's not wavy, it's got some body to it. The thickness is about medium.

[spirals]

I'm Irish, German, English, Welsh, Cherokee, another tribe not specified (we think possibly Seminole if not Cherokee). I think the only thing that expresses the native is my bone structure, since my hair is curly and looks like that of my dad's family, who are the German/Irish. As far as my face, I have been asked numerous times if I have mediterranean/middle eastern/eastern european ancestry. But the hair is European.

[dragaica]

I'm Romanian + Russian and Nordic blood.
My hair is dark, dark brown with red highlights, dense and course, with some waves and medium curls. In fact the red (and blonde) hair+white skin was characteristic of the geto-Dacs and Thracian (according to some historians). The very dark , almost black hair is the roman/latin legacy.
I look very much alike my gran grandmother...Not surprizingly I find my hair frequently in the Balkans and Mediterranean area: Greeks, Turks (mostly), and from today apparently Hungarians. My hair is almost impossible to bleach proprely without beeing destroyed - I've tried in professional salons... the pigment is just to strong, and the red, is the cherry on top of the cake.
My brother is the opposite - fine hair, medium ash blonde... (there is the Nordic side) p.s. my brother has the red in his beard :).

[Arden]

I had responded to this thread earlier but was acctually lacking in some of my knowledge of heatiage....

I am - Cree, French, Dane, Swede, Scot, Irish, English.......

Possibly some other "natives" in there as well but some of my genes I dont have the whole scoop on

My hair is wavy (2A) Fine (F) and thick (iii)

[evieisocoolike]

Just popped in to say that nationality is where you're living in/you grew up in. I'm not sure if someone mentioned this, but my OCD was getting the better of me! What you're asking is the ethnicity/heritage (?)/country of descent. Not trying to be rude, just wanted to clear that up! :flower:

[Arden]

Hi everyone!

I was thinking today about how nationality/genetics may affect our hair texture, rate of growth, etc.

I thought it might be interesting to talk about our nationality/ethnicity and what our hairtypes are, beyond the normal Caucasian/Asian/African American/Canadian/etc.

I'm half Norwegian, a quarter Polish and a quarter Hungarian. I have 1b/1c hair and it's medium, and a mousey dark brown. My hair will hold waves fine but curls usually don't stay for more than an hour or so before they stretch out into waves. My Mom who is half Polish and half Hungarian has very fine hair now that she's almost 60, not very much greys though. My grandmother is 78 and is still only 40% grey. My girl cousins all have BSL length hair that varies from dark blonde to almost black, but no one in my family has overly curly hair except for one of my uncles.

I hope this is PC and doesn't offend anyone (and that I put it in the right section!), I'm not trying to pry, I just think it would be interesting!! :D

What's your heritage? Your hairtype? Your family's?

OCD or not the origional post was ^^^

[evieisocoolike]

@Arden I saw that, but nationality is a different thing. A lot of people use it this way, so to each their own!

[Miss Maisie]

I'm 1/4 Croatian, and 3/4 Irish/Scottish/German blend!

My dad (half Croatian, half German mix) has lovely dark (well, it was dark. Now it's about 50% white) 2c wurls. My mom (Irish/Scottish/German mix) has thin, dark, pin straight hair (at 60 she's probably about 40% white - she has the "steely gray" look)

My brother gets his hair from my dad - thick, coarse, dark waves. My sister has my mom's hair, albeit thick, and the older she gets the more auburn it is. I'd say she's a medium/dark chestnut brown.

Me? I have sort of a mix of both my parents' hair. It's very dark (dad), very fine (mom), and somewhere between straight and wavy. When I was little I had ringlets, but those sadly went away. It also used to be twice as thick as it is now, but I guess I have years of heat abuse and dye to thank for that. I've got a decent amount of white, too. All 3 of my grandparents (that I knew) had thick heads of white hair, so I suppose I'll inherit that. My mom's grandpa had black/gray hair into his 80s though, so who knows?

[CoilyCurlyME]

i'm half african and half european, i find many mixed persons like me with the same texture, but also african americans and north africans(fx. from egypt and tunisia). :)

[gillybeanxo3921]

1/2 italian, and then 1/8 irish, 1/8 german, 1/8 french-canadian, and an 1/8 british

[AineMuirne]

I am fully European, but a bit of a mutt. To keep it simple I tell people I'm entirely British Isles and Germanic. My father is 1/2 Irish, 1/2 German, which is pretty simple. My mother is Irish, British, Welsh, Austrian, Czechoslovakian, and Hungarian.

My hair is very fine, sleek, and stick straight. It falls extremely securely into the 1a, F category. My mother and father both have 1a, F hair. My sister's hair is 1c, F. My mother has two sisters with 2a, M hair and a sister with 3a, F/M hair. I don't know about my father's 5 siblings or my mother's brother, since I've never seen their hair unadulterated or long enough (or in the case of some of my father's family- I've never seen the people at all, lol). And I don't know about my grandparents because I didn't really know any of them.

My father has very dark brown hair, which sometimes looks raven. He's 69 and just starting to go gray. My mother's hair has changed colors a few times. When she was a child/preteen it was platinum blonde, when she reached teens/20s it was strawberry blonde, when she got into her 30s it darkened like CRAZY to my natural hair color with less red and more blonde. She started to go gray in her late 40s/early 50s. My sister's natural color is a very ashy brown, which almost looks green. She dyes it red. I need to tell her to use henna because she's ruining her hair with chemical dye.