This hair type has the fastest growth rate at approximately 1. A strand of Asian hair has a somewhat round, even shape. Nonetheless, Asian hair has the lowest density of the three ethnicities. Caucasian hair can be straight, wavy or curly. Its color can vary from blond to dark brown. This hair type grows diagonally and at a rate of about 1. Moisturising products are applied after shampooing and conditioning. Some are used daily and others intermittently. Natural hair refers to hair that has not been chemically treated to alter the natural curl pattern.
Hairstyles in women of African descent include thermally straightened hair, afros, locks, braids, weaves, and twists. Thermally straightened hair is hair straightened with the use of heat, such as blow drying, flat ironing and pressing the hair with a pressing comb hot comb.
The hair reverts to its natural curl pattern when wet. If heat is used too frequently or at very high temperature, the hair will break. Natural hair in women of African descent Natural hair in woman of African descent. Chemically treated hair refers to hair that has been treated to alter the natural curl pattern permanently.
Chemical treatments include relaxers, Jeri curls, S-curls and texturisers. The most common chemical treatment for African American women is the relaxer. Relaxers are made of sodium, potassium or guanidine hydroxide. They break the cystine disulfide bonds in the hair, resulting in permanently straight hair. As the hair grows out, the new curly hair must also be chemically treated so that it is straight.
Relaxers are typically applied every weeks. Relaxers make the hair more fragile and more susceptible to breakage, so they should not be applied more frequently than every six weeks. Damage is increased when relaxers are applied in combination with hair colour or with styles that create increased tension on the hair, such as tight braids.
Relaxers may also cause chemical burns , irritant contact dermatitis and partial fractures of the hair shaft trichorrhexis nodosa. Relaxer used to straighten hair Relaxer used to striaghten hair in woman of African descent.
S-curls, Jeri Curls and texturisers reset the natural curl pattern in a looser curl. These products are made of thioglycolate , which may cause irritant or rarely allergic contact dermatitis. Hairstyling is a significant part of the lives of Black women. Hair is an outward expression of the person and a great deal of time and money are spent on maintaining hairstyles. Many women visit the hair salon weekly to biweekly to keep their hairstyle. Some standard styling practices are described below.
It is also about conformity. Notice that I have generalised the issue to people in general rather than writing about white people, because misconceptions about what black hair is are also propagated by black people.
In fact, I would argue that most white people get the majority of their misconceptions about what black hair from black people. There are two main misconceptions that are urgent for understanding what the governing body and headmistress of Pretoria Girls High may have been thinking — or not.
The second is about the extent to which natural hair grows — hence the obsession with hair length, extensions and dreadlocks. This is one of the most enduring stereotypes about black hair. But these are urban legends of the worst kind because they perpetuate the stereotype that only black hair attracts lice, and other vermin, which is scientifically untrue.
This war, from , popularised the image of the wild Afros that people now imagine when they think of black hair. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Across the African continent, techniques for dressing hair were as varied as the hairstyles that they produced. It is just one of several hundred ways of growing and maintaining curly hair. Our hair as does all hair locks naturally when it is left uncombed or unbrushed.
The association of locks with dirt partly comes from the Caribbean where Rastafarianism emerged as a subculture. However, even in this instance, the misconception is that dreadlocks equal Rastafarianism. The reality is that the Rastas got their locks from Africa. To be exact, matted African hair was transported to the Caribbean by images of Ethiopian soldiers who were fighting the Italian invasion which began in These fighters vowed — using the example of Samson in the bible — that they would not cut their hair until their country and emperor Ras Tafari Makonnnen aka Haile Selassie were liberated and the emperor returned from exile.
The misconception partly comes out of the concept of measurement.
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