The secret to better hair days starts with knowing your hair type.

What Are the Different Hair Types? Hair comes in four main types: straight, wavy, curly, and coily. Each hair type has its own unique characteristics. The four types are broken down into subtypes (A, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Having curly hair is like waking up to a surprise every day. At least it is for me. Some days I’m lucky ...

Curly hair may have a reputation for being hard to manage, but that’s only if you don’t have the right information and tools in place to do so. With the right TLC, curls can be smooth, defined and ...

The history of the hair typing system is a complicated one. The original hair type system, the hair gauge, was developed in 1905 in present-day Namibia by Eugen Fischer — a German scientist whose ...