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Learning Your Hair Type.By: Elizacoe What is Your Hair type? Knowing the different hair types and where yours fall is vital to your hair care regime. A stylist and author of "Andre Talks Hair" has created a classification system that many people have adopted to describe their own hair type. Andre's classification system ranks from types 1-4. Andre Walker, who has won five Emmys for his work on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Learn Your Hair Type Type 1
Type 2 It tends to be coarse and stays clings to the scalp in long S shaped curves. there are three types of type 2 sub types. A-fine/thin B- medium-textured, C-thick and coarse. Type 2A is very easy to manage, blowing styles into straighter looks with ease. Types 2B and 2C are a little for resistant to styling Type 3
Type 3a and 3b hair has a definite "S" pattern to it which is usually fine textured and soft. It does not have as much shine as Type 1 or 2 hair, but it does have a lot of natural body. When this hair type is wet, it straightens out, but then draws up into a curlier state as it dries Type 4 Andre classifies Type 4 hair as kinky textured hair which he defines as being tightly curled. Type 4 hair can be wiry and very fragile. It is also drier than other hair types because the twists in the hair make it harder for the scalp's sebum to reach the ends. Type 4a's hair strand has an "S" shape like spirals. Type 4b has the characteristics of Type 4a, but the hair strand has a zig zag shape like "Z". This makes it more fragile than all of the other hair types and it should be handled accordingly.
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Type 1a and 1b hair is straight with no curl or wave. This hair type has a lot of shine and tends to be oily.
Hair that Andre classifies as type 2 has some soft waves but little or no curl. 
