S eriously, it’ll make your life so much easier.Īs for the exact combo of products to use? That’s going to require some trial and error. The quickest way to figure out your porosity? A hair-porosity quiz. Low-porosity curls need lightweight-yet still hydrating-formulas to stay defined and healthy. If your hair has low porosity (think: a dense sponge with no holes), it’ll repel moisture, so products tend to build up on the surface rather than being absorbed.So high-porosity curls need richer, thicker, more oil-filled products to keep them happy and hydrated. If your hair is highly porous (think: a sponge filled with holes), it’ll absorb moisture quickly…but it’ll also lose that moisture quickly, too.Porosity is your hair’s ability to absorb and retain moisture (like a sponge), based on its cuticle structure. Out of all the type-3 curls, your 3c hair is the most prone to dryness and breakage (woo! Congrats! You win no prizes! Sry!), which means the best products for your hair will be hella moisturizing and lightly defining, like leave-in conditioners, oils, gels, and curl creams.īut a very important note: It’s not about finding the absolute best curl product for your 3c hair-it’s about finding the best product for your specific porosity. 3c hair can be on the finer side or the coarser sider, or have a mix of both textures.
What does 3c hair look like?ģc hair tends to have tight curls the size of a straw or pencil-as in, you could just barely slip a straw or pencil through the curl-that are thickly packed together, which is what gives your hair such major volume. Sounds confusing, so just look at this hair chart we made, k? People with 3c hair have super-tight curls, just a step down from being actual coils (i.e., 4a hair), though most 3c textures will also have some looser 3b curls and/or tighter 4a coils. If you’re new to hair-typing, 3c hair is part of a classification system originally devised by hairstylist Andre Walker that breaks hair down into four categories: straight (type 1), wavy (type 2), curly (type 3), and coily/zigzag (type 4). Keep reading to find everything you’ve ever wanted to know about your 3c hair (JK-maybe like 30 percent of it, because honestly, you could get a PhD in curly hair and still not know All of The Things). Whether you’ve known your 3c curl type since you were in junior high- ahem, classified my own 3a curls in 7th grade, TYVM-or you’re just now discovering the whole hair-type system for the first time, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve got a few questions-or, at the very least, could do with some new product recommendations for 2021.Īnd that’s where we come in. Hi, hello, and welcome to your little corner of the internet devoted to all things 3c hair (wow, so warm and happy here).
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