By identifying your hair type, you can better tailor your hair care routine to enhance your strands' natural beauty and keep them healthy. We'll tell you all about the hair type chart and why it's ...

While sharing the history of the chart, which reportedly was conceptualized by Oprah’s hairstylist, Andre Walker (who has publicly shared very problematic views about “type 4 hair”), she ...

The natural hair movement, created in the 1960s, was fundamentally designed to be inclusive and to give Black women a space where they could celebrate their hair as it grew, sans manipulation.

Walker’s chart offers a vocabulary that can be used to start to describe hair, but experts note that you shouldn’t mistake your curl pattern for your overall hair type. Other factors, such as ...

Designed by Oprah Winfrey’s hairdresser Andre Walker in the 1990s, the 1a-4c hair chart has become a staple way for many Black women to categorise their natural curls.

It can feel like all the odds are stacked against you, but hair like Normani's really does flip the bird to the idea that afro hair, particularly type 4, can't grow long.