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How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
I've read a bit about how to tell the thickness of the hair strand but I still don't really know what mine is. Either F or M, but I don't know what to compare it with.
Basically, it's almost translucent if I hold a hair in the light. And hair dye and flat irons used to really damage it. So maybe F?
But then, I never get tangles. I only use a tangle teaser after washing my hair usually, and I don't need to brush it for the 3/4 days afterwards. Does F usually tangle easy?
I just don't know. Maybe F/M?
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Re: How can you tell the thickness of hair strand?
My superfine hair rarely tangles, but it is not WL yet.
Re: How can you tell the thickness of hair strand?
Oh does it start tangling a lot more past a certain length?
Maybe mine is fine too and will start tangling then...
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Re: How can you tell the thickness of hair strand?
Well, the more hair, the more chance it has to get into mischief. In wind or from being careless, yes, longer hair tangles more readily than short.
Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
Well, I have some digital calipers, which are rather fun to play with... But generally, it's probably easiest if you just see how you compare to a bunch of other people.
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Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
My mom, dad and me all have F hair. My dad has baby fine hair compared to mom. I have a bit of both worlds. I can tell because I have normal strands in between my F hair, so I can tell how F the bulk is. Coarse is a league of its own, I mean, that is *thick* hair.
If you can hardly feel it when rolling it between thumb and finger, then it's F. If you can feel it it is normal.
Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
I used this "book" method to measure mine (for details, check out An easy method for measuring hair strand thickness: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/...d.php?t=136858), and I have a bunch of F hair (temple area, mostly), and lots of M and C hair (especially in the underlayers).
It's interesting that there isn't even an exact definition of F/M/C hair, and different sources provide different ranges of strand thickness in microns (e.g. here or here or here ). And I agree with Anje: the easiest and most practical approach, if you don't have special tools, is probably to simply compare strand to other strands.
Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
Sounds like F to me. Is it a huge pain in the butt to find the shed hair tickling your arm?
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Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
If it's hard to see I would say F.
Yes, the longer the hair the more lovely knots you may get. I'm M maybe a bit thinner on some hairs but when my hair is above armpit rarely do I get knots. Now it's just part of hair life. Had one so bad yesterday there was no choice but to trim it off.
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Re: How can you tell the thickness of a hair strand?
I liked the "rolling the strand between your thumb and forefinger" approach. I could barely feel my stands so I put myself down as F, and I think there's no denying it, based on photos of my hair twins' hair. I have a few (can count them on one hand) coarser hairs that grow towards the back of my head. When I roll them between my thumb and finger, I can definitely feel it.
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