I just went through this a few months ago…saw a picture of a gorgeous girl with curly hair and bangs… mine so did not look like I thought they would. Imma chalk it up to my face isn’t the right shape 😉 I have to tell you I am so happy I stumbled upon this website. Not so much for me who is 5’9, Mexican /black and who not until a few years ago decided to finally embrace my naturally curly hair… but for my 15 year old who is 5’7 and constantly flat-ironing because she hates her curly hair. I wish I had someone I could have identified with when I was her age. Hopefully you’ll make her feel that she’s not alone (because y’know– since I’m her mom I couldn’t possibly know what she’s going through and therefore I don’t count) lol
okay… I’m gonna show my straight haired card here and ask what might be a silly question! I KNOW that curlies have problems with salons, but is there a special taboo on straight razor cutting curly hair? Isn’t one sharp edge very much like another? (Oh no! Now I’m gonna have curlies and stylists coming after me with a pitchfork!)
So, I know it’s been a few years since your comment, but I just found this webpage and I’m in love, so of course i’m going back through the archives. 🙂
The issue with razoring curly hair is, well, there are two issues.
The first involves the structure of curly hair. Although a strand of hair seems tiny, it still has enough thickness that when you cut it with a razor, the blade cuts the hair at an angle, like the stem of a cut flower. Because the shaft of a curly hair is both flatter and (duh) curlier than a straight hair, it’s much more likely to pull itself apart when it has an uneven cut. This ends up causing split ends much quicker than a straight-across scissor cut.
The other issue is due to how hair lays. Straight hair all lays together, nice and smoothly. But curly hair fights against itself. Little groups of hairs all the same length bundle together, and lay against other bundles, and that’s why curly hair has so much volume.
Now, when you cut hair with a razor, it makes it so no two hairs are the same length, which means each hair curls differently and they no longer bundle together nicely. The overall effect of that is that your hair gets huge and frizzy and crisp-looking.
So the difference is honestly more due to the structure of the hair than it is to the cutting-surface used.
And no worries, there’s nothing wrong with not knowing something. 🙂 I hope I helped, even if it was several years in coming. 😀
Hahahahahaha! That’s so me!!!! I’m always fighting with my hair, but I still love it!! would never straight it… 🙂
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I just went through this a few months ago…saw a picture of a gorgeous girl with curly hair and bangs… mine so did not look like I thought they would. Imma chalk it up to my face isn’t the right shape 😉 I have to tell you I am so happy I stumbled upon this website. Not so much for me who is 5’9, Mexican /black and who not until a few years ago decided to finally embrace my naturally curly hair… but for my 15 year old who is 5’7 and constantly flat-ironing because she hates her curly hair. I wish I had someone I could have identified with when I was her age. Hopefully you’ll make her feel that she’s not alone (because y’know– since I’m her mom I couldn’t possibly know what she’s going through and therefore I don’t count) lol
ahaha excellent!!!! And when we have curly hair we want straight hair and vice versa! Always better than being a blondie like me….
okay… I’m gonna show my straight haired card here and ask what might be a silly question! I KNOW that curlies have problems with salons, but is there a special taboo on straight razor cutting curly hair? Isn’t one sharp edge very much like another? (Oh no! Now I’m gonna have curlies and stylists coming after me with a pitchfork!)
Lots of salons use the straight razor to thin/texturize curly hair. And it leaves it frizzy as hell and more prone to split ends. That’s why.
So, I know it’s been a few years since your comment, but I just found this webpage and I’m in love, so of course i’m going back through the archives. 🙂
The issue with razoring curly hair is, well, there are two issues.
The first involves the structure of curly hair. Although a strand of hair seems tiny, it still has enough thickness that when you cut it with a razor, the blade cuts the hair at an angle, like the stem of a cut flower. Because the shaft of a curly hair is both flatter and (duh) curlier than a straight hair, it’s much more likely to pull itself apart when it has an uneven cut. This ends up causing split ends much quicker than a straight-across scissor cut.
The other issue is due to how hair lays. Straight hair all lays together, nice and smoothly. But curly hair fights against itself. Little groups of hairs all the same length bundle together, and lay against other bundles, and that’s why curly hair has so much volume.
Now, when you cut hair with a razor, it makes it so no two hairs are the same length, which means each hair curls differently and they no longer bundle together nicely. The overall effect of that is that your hair gets huge and frizzy and crisp-looking.
So the difference is honestly more due to the structure of the hair than it is to the cutting-surface used.
And no worries, there’s nothing wrong with not knowing something. 🙂 I hope I helped, even if it was several years in coming. 😀
I have bangs an i’m trying to grow then out but i keep cutting them, (I straighten my bangs but have the rest of my hair curly)
Ha! This is so me! I cut bangs a couple weeks ago and now I’m itching to cut some more! Wish me luck…