What is the texture of your hair? wavy, curly/kinky or straight?  |
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|  What is the texture of your hair?I am talking about the natural/undressed hair. Is it curly/kinky?straight or wavy? Mine is wavy. Our hair texture is determined by the proteins present in our hair shaft.
Curly hair has to do with the chemical bonds in the protein that makes up hair - a-keratin. Keratins, particularly a-keratin, have long sequences of amino acids (often more than 300) which forms a helical structure.
Pairs of these helical structures then coil about each other in a left-hand coiled-coil structure. These are then attracted to another coiled coil so two keratin helices will stick together. These four-chain structures then associates with another four-chain structure to form the hair filament. One of the amino acids which make up these chains, is cysteine which has a sulpher group which is able to make connections with other sulpher groups on other coiled coils.(http://ask.metafilter.com...)
The more interactions a filament has with another filament, the more tightly coiled the coiled-coil becomes. Hence, curly hair has more interactions than straight hair. The process of `perming' hair introduces more accessibility of the sulpher on the amino acid, cysteine, to make these connections. Finger and toe nails have many many bonds between filaments and are thus, very hard.
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1.  ngobis (175)
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5 years ago
| |  Naturally, i have kinky hair. Very difficult to manage. thank God for perming treatments, relax and rebonding. Some time i have it styled in braids, or i put in a weave. Most of the time, i just relax it and leave it like that.
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2.  Ariander (478)
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5 years ago
| |  When I was younger, my hair used to be REALLY curly, but it got straighter as I grew up. Now my hair is a nice wavy texture. I'm glad it became a little straighter, because I didn't really like having very curly hair. Still, I hope it stays this way, because I don't think I'd want extremely straight hair either. In between is good for me!
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| 3. rodelsky (64)
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5 years ago
| | I have a curly hair... | | | | | | |
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4.  vmks31 (7459)
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5 years ago
| | I donot know what is happening in your country i see more and more men everyday with the skin head look so i guess they would be shutout by this topic but my interest is in the female and personally i like long blond wavy hair but the hair is not what attracts my attention it is the legs and waist line that I check out ....hope my wife doesnot hear that i check out other women Oh well you only live once Good Luck | | | | | | |
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| 5. Rozie37 (7134)
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5 years ago
| |  I have mostly curly hair, but the back of my hair is a different texture than the front. My sister says this is normal. Boy, that was way more than I ever wanted to know about hair and most of it, I could not understand, but I guess it was a little interesting.
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6.  jmicy1029 (150)
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5 years ago
| | straight,and black.I dont know what it is determined.But I know that my father and mother have the same texture as me ... genetic ,must be | | | | | | |
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| 7. Cassy1976 (655)
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5 years ago
| |  I have dead straight hair that is really fine but there is heaps of it. All I can do with it is put it up in a pony tail as otherwise it just goes silly! I get lots of fly aways and have to hair spray it to get it to look ok in a pony tail. I really dont like my hair but there isnt much I can do about it
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| 8. hari120 (525)
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5 years ago
| |  My hair is very very curly, it also makes a lot my friends jealous of it. thanks a lot for enlightining me on curly hair.keep up the good work
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9.  reddevil1 (1132)
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5 years ago
| | as a black african i have a dark hard hair which i have been trying to soften but really dont kinow what to use,attimes i want to make it grow much more but after some 1 month i will be feeling like cutting it again and i wonder why | | | | | | |
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| 10. sr0415 (661)
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5 years ago
| |  Hi yammydudes! I got wavy hairs. I tried on going to salon to make my hair straight, but after a few months, it goes back to its natural wavy "character". hehe
Thanks for this post! =)
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