Has Anyone Ever Experienced

diamondlady

Active Member
a change in the texture of your hair? When my sister was about 35 her hair texture changed completely. She went from like a 4B to 2C. I kid you not. Her hair went from very thick, course, hard to manage to thin, soft with a lot of ringlets of curls. Easy to manage, wash and go and no chemicals what so ever. I know your texture could change but I thought that happened when you are 70 or 80.

I'm beginning to see that same transformation in my hair. I'm not sure I like this. I know I don't like the thin aspect but I don't think I know how to handle the soft, 2C type hair. I'm not at 2C yet but it's changing. I have been 4B and kinda want to stay that way because that is what I am comfortable with. I use to tease my sister and say I wanted her hair but now that my hair is changing, I really don't want it.

My mother said, "Baby, you don't have a choice"

Anyone ever have this happen or know anyone that changed textures? How do you handle it? Do you learn as you go? I'm afraid I'm gonna have a jacked head of hair all the time.
 

Amarilles

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That's really interesting... I don't think it's very common in adults though.

Did you and your sis both lose a lot of hair and it grew back this way? I read a case study of a black boy who lost a patch of hair due to alopecia and that patch grew back straight. Even this was rare, with the boy. In general follicles cannot change their shape (shape determines how kinky/straight/etc. our hair is) and if they do, it'll more commonly be because of a DNA mutation...chemo can do that, for example. The hair would also have to shed/come out completely before a new strand with a different shape can grow. You girls must have lost a lot of hair? You mention thinning...do you know the source of this thinning?

I would probably see a doc just to make sure all is okay.

Here's the pic of the boy from the case study.

http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1105175
 

MsSanz92

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I think your hair texture can change, but I haven't seen as drastic as 4b to 2c. I know someone whose hair changed from like a 3B to a 2B/C. I've seen this a lot with cancer patients whose hair grows back after Chemo it tends to grow back looser textured and thinner.
 

krissyhair

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My little biracial cousin had fine, wavy curly blonde hair until her preteens. When she turned 12 those AA genes kicked in. Now it's much darker, thicker, and kinky textured. No more baby curls.
 

curlicarib

Lovin'' All of Me
Yes, it's happening to me. I've always had a 4-5 inch 2B/C section that ran from my forehead to my nape. The rest of my hair has always been 3B. Now my entire head is changing over to 2B/C. I think my length may be the cause - as it gets longer the curls are elongating - but it's still disconcerting. I suppose it would be nice to have to have one texture overall, but if I had a choice it would have been the 3B all around. I really don't like the straighter texture. It's too darn flat.
 

overtherainbow

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It's happening to me right now! My hair loosened up from a z curl to uniform 4a coils during puberty. Now I am in my mid 20s and i feel like I'm going through a second puberty (hormones all out of whack and my body is changing again -____-). My coils are turning into curls and I don't know what's going on up there lol.
My changes are hereditary too. My mom said she went through the same thing at my age too.
@diamondlady, if you don't mind me asking, do you come from a mixed family? My family is very mixed with multiple races on both sides. Maybe that's part of the culprit because like @krissyhair 's cousin, I've heard of this happening to a lot of multi racial people during puberty.
 

yardyspice

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I don't think this is possible after 2 or chemo as someone mentioned above. Your hair loosens as it gets longer or more moisturized but the basic texture doesn't change.
 

diamondlady

Active Member
That's really interesting... I don't think it's very common in adults though.


No it's very common in adults but usually older adults. It happened to my grandfather but he was in his late 70s. Lots of older people have a hair texture change. This I have seen with my own eyes. It is unusual for it to happen in younger people.
 

diamondlady

Active Member
@diamondlady, if you don't mind me asking, do you come from a mixed family? My family is very mixed with multiple races on both sides. Maybe that's part of the culprit because like @krissyhair 's cousin, I've heard of this happening to a lot of multi racial people during puberty.[/QUOTE]

You know, I didn't think of that. I did a DNA and we are very mixed and there were some real surprises. I didn't think it would create a change in hair texture. That is a very interesting concept
 
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Prettymetty

Natural/4b/medium-coarse
My hair went from thick coarse 4b strands with high shrinkage to fine stretched type 4 after my pregnancies. My curl size didn't change, but the strand size and overall texture changed.
 

diamondlady

Active Member
That's sort of bizarre. Do you have any pics of the hair before and after? Maybe block the faces?

I don't think it's bizarre because I see it all the time in older people or, like some have said, when people go through chemo or loss their hair for some reason and it grows back a different texture, like babies. My son was born with straight very black hair and it came out, he was bald in spots and when it all came back it was very, very kinky and more of a reddish brown color.

I have seen numerous older people in which their hair texture and thickness change. My grandfather always had kinky hair but before he died it was like baby hair.

I have never seen such a drastic change before in someone so young without any reason for the change.
 
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