I'm wondering if I'm the only one! Hair type

**brok3nwings** · October 15th, 2008, 04:13 AM

Ok so i always thought my hair was a bit wierd conserning if its straight or wavy. The truth is my hair is completly straight at the top and completly wavy at the bottom... i find this wierd but i dont know if it is,it has been like this for a long long time... i mean, i dont just have some wavyness in the bottom, it really is WAVY, and the top..is no way near from wavy. i look at my hair from the back and i see the straight ones "fighting" with the wavy ones... if i use a half updo everyone would say i have wavy hair, if i use everything loose... its just ... confusing ... lol
i always knew this but i cut a bit of my longest layer this week so it gives the ilusion that the straight ones are longer...i can notice them a lot more... and the wavy hair days will be more difficult for me now

Anyone has this type of hair?

**Katze** · October 15th, 2008, 04:46 AM

yep. Every. Single. Day.

Unless I have just washed, used no conditioner, and put a bunch of aloe in it...but over the week, the top flattens out into straight-but-frizzy, and the bottom curls into S shaped waves. If I have had my hair the "wrong way" this combination can look very unattractive. Sometimes updos ruin it, sometimes (like today) NOT sleeping with it up has given me half-flat, half-poofy hair, that I then "have to" wear up - but don't feel like taking the time to struggle to put it into an acceptable looking hairdo.

What you describe is the reality of our hair type. It is some days one thing, some days something else.

You can wash more to get more body at the roots, and scrunch, use pin curls or bendy foam rollers or braid waves, hair gel or aloe vera gel, to get waves that stay. There are many, many tricks to get hair wavier...and a few to get hair straighter, if that's what you want (I don't!).

However, for me, this is too much work on a daily basis, so I either wash my hair more so I can enjoy it down, or try to put it up and be OK with it. My hair lays in a pattern that does not look good up; its natural state is to want to be down. If I oil it, brush it, oil it again, mist it, oil it, and regularly comb it, I can get *dirty* hair (day 3 onwards) to lay sort-of flat. Sort of. The ends still wave, but tend to be stringy. They are thin, and look even thinner then.

I fight every day with my hair. I wish it looked like other peoples' - even my sister's hair hangs in a smooth curtain, and looks good taken down after she's had it up. (see pic in album - that was a "good" hair day for me - sister's hair looks like that Every Day). Mine gets poofy, wiry, frizzy, or parts on the scalp in weird ways. That is just what I was born with.

Honestly I am really hoping my baby (boy or girl, but especially for a girl) inherits its dad's hair, and not mine. I am happy with my natural color and the amount of wave, but I am not happy with the in-between, frizzy-straight, sometimes-poofy unmanageability of it.

**Sarahmoon** · October 15th, 2008, 04:55 AM

I don't your hair type, just wanted to say I think it looks really good in your signature picture. Nice colour and very shiny!

**NightDaemon** · October 15th, 2008, 05:40 AM

My hair does that too, straight then wavy... It only started having the straight bit when I went long, I'd always figured that the extra weight was pulling it straight...

**Marie99** · October 15th, 2008, 05:43 AM

Me too. I think the weight of the hair pulls the top straight, and the ends go wild. A little oil might control the fly away frizzy part. You have to experiment to find an oil good for you. From browsing the board, I can see people have wildly different reactions to different oils. I likc cheap coconut oil from WalMart, but that doesn't mean you will.

**FrannyG** · October 15th, 2008, 05:57 AM

Your hair looks like 1c or 2a to me, after looking at a few of your photos. I'm leaning toward 1c, but that's just me. It's very common to see 2a's with hair close to the scalp until it's free at the nape. There's nothing unusual about that at all.

**brok3nwings** · October 15th, 2008, 07:17 AM

well this thread reminded me of something i wanted to ask about...why do people with wavy, curly hair tend to deal more with frizz?? i actually think i dont have that problem at all... could it me the fact that my hair is M and not F ?Any one knows this?

**lora410** · October 15th, 2008, 07:26 AM

Same here. I never figured out why. Even when my hair was short the top was always stick straight

**Chromis** · October 15th, 2008, 07:38 AM

Mine is the same way. I personally rather like it.

**Periwinkle** · October 15th, 2008, 10:29 AM

If you wash your hair and then don't tie it back (just leave it down), is it still like that at the top?

My hair holds a shape incredibly well (if I twirl it round my finger, I'll have a curl there after a minute) and even the slightest bit of pull on the top part (like when tying it back) makes it go perfectly straight, but if I leave it alone while drying, it's wavier up there. Not as wavy as the rest (probably because there's my head in the way and the weight of the hair, plus no flicky ends), but definitely wavy.