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There are times when I'm washing my hair when I find several strands of straight hair--sometimes in clumps (mind you, I have tight curls). Other times I find more loosely curled hairs. I used to have straight hair as a baby as did the rest of us (I'm the youngest of 6 children :P) and it's alot like the youngest girl (who later developed more loosely curled hair by the time she was in her 20's too.
I realize that some people develop different grades of hair as they get older...but is it possible/normal for hair to continue changing by the time they're in their 20's?
My nephew, who had straight hair as a boy up until about age 14 or 15, rather suddenly developed very curly hair by 16 and 17. It was so curly, in fact, that it looked like an Afro in one of his vacation pics! He decided to grow it long, and made the additional decision along the way to turn it into dreads.
He's in his last year of college now, and I just found out he cut off his dreads. I'll see him for the first time in over 6 years with short hair on this coming Sunday; but my guess is that his hair is still curly.
He's never permed nor has he ever tried to professionally straighten his hair, --- the change happened naturally on its own, for whatever reason.
Does that answer your question?
- Ken in San Francisco
That would be kind of weird if you've been growing straight/wavy hair and you start growing curly hair. The other way around wouldn't look weird though.
The complete opposite happened to me. When i was a toddler , My hair was blond and very curly. As i got older , It seems to have darkened into a light brownish color and the curls have loosened making my hair wavy instead of curly. It sure is odd.. I am going to try to find a picture so i can post it.
Interesting. I saw some pictures on your photobucket page from when your hair was very wavy. now it's almost straight lol
Well I can't deal with this bc my hair just looks horrible in this state lol I'll cut it and start over when I'm sure it's done changing--I figure in the next 6 months it'll be noticeably more loosely curled and look better.
I had straight blond hair as a baby (once I was past a prolonged bald stage, that is) which only very slightly curled up at the back a la 'duck tails'. The hair colour darked over the years to brown with subtle red-tones. Once I hit pueberty, my hair went wavy and then to curly within a year. My extended family who only saw me a few times a year thought I had gotten a perm (as was fashionable in some circles).
It is an odd and almost funny coincidence, though, that I deeloped such curly hair:
While I never knew my biological father, I was raised by a Black Man; a Trinidadian with tight afro-curls. As a boy growing up, Dad (as I've always called him) was the only black person I knew. I thought he did something to make himself black -- if only my mother taught me some basic genetics! There was, as far as my three year old self could tell, only thing Dad did differently than all the other white males I knew: AFROSHEEN. (For those who don't know, it is a greasy pomade taht many Afro-haired males would apply back in the 70's to add moisture, shine and manageabilty to their hair with a texture like vaseline, but a bit less viscous.)
Well...
in my desire to emulate all things Dad, including a desire to be black myself, I decided to attempt his routine. However, noting that he used only a small bit in his palms and had probably done so for his whole life, I thought I could speed things up by increasing the quantity used. For about a week my parents would come into the living room in the morning to see a skinny white boy sitting on the couch in his briefs, with his whole body slicked over with Afrosheen.
As you can see, I am not quite black (yet), but my hair seems to have cooperated with my childhood wish.
Shawn (Mr.Crow)