00:00Hi Naturally Curly World! I'm Gerilyn and I'm Christina and today for our first
00:04episode we're gonna be talking about something you've probably never even
00:08thought about. Why is your hair curly? So if you have naturally curly hair then
00:15you probably already know if your hair is wavy, curly, coily, if your hair is
00:20high porosity or low porosity, but you might not know why any of this is the
00:27case with your specific hair type. So we're here to help you figure that out.
00:31First we have to start with the basics. Regardless of any curl pattern or any
00:36texture there are two main components you always have to remember and that's the
00:40hair shaft and the follicle. This is Rebecca and these are Rebecca's shafts.
00:49They're the strands that we all have coming out of our head and then the
00:53follicle is the little hole that's in your scalp. The shape of your hair
00:57follicle is a major factor when determining your hair texture. Curly hair
01:01has an oval follicle shape whereas straight hair has a round shape. So if
01:06you have a perfectly round follicle then your hair is going to be perfectly
01:11straight and then the flatter, the oval, the curlier or the coilier your hair is
01:17going to be. Another way your follicle affects your hair type is the way that it
01:21sits in the dermis which is your scalp. So the follicle of straight hair grows in a
01:27straight down tunnel whereas with curly hair it grows at an angle. So if you've
01:32ever wondered why is my hair growing out or up instead of down that's why.
01:37Curliness is also determined by the number of disulfide bonds that are actually on
01:42your hair strand. And also where they are on the shaft. So if you have straight hair
01:47and the disulfide bonds are evenly distributed all along the shaft and then
01:51if you have curly hair then the disulfide bonds bunch up on one side. I wish I knew
01:57this when I was growing up. I spent so many hours, so much of my life asking like why
02:03me? Why doesn't my hair look like my dad's side of the family's hair? They have
02:08straight fine hair. It looks like the hair in the magazines. Why was I cursed with this
02:13hair that grows out and it's so much thicker? And of course my hair has changed
02:17over time but I just I wish that I knew that no matter what I did or what I prayed
02:22for what my hair looked like was determined by things inside my scalp that I
02:27was never gonna change. Yeah absolutely I'm kind of in the same camp where when I
02:31was growing up I would use a relaxer right? But if I had just known like it's
02:35not really your hair it's your follicle and your hair is gonna grow out curly I
02:41probably would have been like I don't want to relax sir I want to see what my
02:45curly hair looks like so I'm glad that we have this information now. So those are
02:49the three reasons why your hair is curly or straight or coily and if you want to
02:54see more stay tuned for the next episode because we're gonna be talking about hair
02:58type. See you next time! Bye!
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