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With over 300,000 TikTok posts under the hashtag #4Chair, controversy is stirring over who actually has the hair type. From wash routines to shrinkage and growth checks, anyone with an undefined textured has begun to label it as “4C”, while comments argue whether or not their hair matches into the kind. But with porosity, length, volume and other aspects weighed into how our texture looks, what defines who has 4C hair and who doesn’t?
Below, a curl expert settles the controversy.
What's the hair typing system?
The primary known hair typing system was developed within the early 1900s by Eugen Fischer, a German Nazi “scientist” who created the hair gauge, to find out “mixed race” people’s proximity to whiteness...
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