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Hair and Styles To ensure a great hairstyle for your
wedding, you'll need to decide what you want, which means you need to understand the type of hair you have. Here's what we say:Straight hair
You're lucky. You can put your hair up, leave
it down, curl it, wave it – whatever! Wavy hair
Somewhere between straight and curly hair. Your hair is wavy if it curves in an "S" shape while laying flat against the scalp, instead of
being away from the head the way curly hair does. If you have fine and thin wavy hair, you can quite easily make it curl or blow dry it into a straight style. Even if you cut it in layers, it
won't bounce up. Wavy hair with a medium or coarse texture is harder to style and has a tendency to frizz. Curly hair
Pluck a hair and stretch it out. Notice how it curves.
Curly hair is usually soft and very fine in texture – there's just a lot of it. Since the hair doesn't have a very smooth surface, it doesn't reflect as much light, which reduces the shine.
Humidity or dampness makes curly hair even curlier, or frizzier. If you have curly hair, it has a lot of body and can be styled in its natural state, or it can be easily straightened with a
blow-dryer. There are two subtypes of curly hair; the first is shiny and with big curls. The shorter the hair, the straighter it gets. The second is hair with a medium amount of curl,
ranging from ringlets to tight corkscrews. Both subtypes often coexist on the same head. Kinky hair
Kinky, or very tightly curled hair is actually very fragile and fine, although it seems
to be coarse – there's just a lot of hair. Healthy kinky hair won't shine, but it will have a sheen to it. Because kinky hair has thin cuticle layers, it cannot take as much abuse as other hair
types, so you'll need to cut down on combing, brushing, curling, blow-drying and straightening it. This hair doesn't grow very long because every time you comb it, it breaks. |
