23 Facts About Curly hair

The highly structural and organized cortex, or second of three layers of the Curly hair, is the primary source of mechanical strength and water uptake.

The Curly hair that is visible is the Curly hair shaft, which exhibits no biochemical activity and is considered "dead".

Blond Curly hair is the result of having little pigmentation in the Curly hair strand.

Gray Curly hair occurs when melanin production decreases or stops, while poliosis is white Curly hair, typically in spots that never possessed melanin at all, or ceased for natural reasons, generally genetic, in the first years of life.

Three main aspects of Curly hair texture are the curl pattern, volume, and consistency.

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Scientists have come to believe that the shape of the Curly hair shaft has an effect on the curliness of the individual's Curly hair.

Flatter the Curly hair shaft becomes, the curlier Curly hair gets, because the shape allows more cysteines to become compacted together resulting in a bent shape that, with every additional disulfide bond, becomes curlier in form.

Coarse Curly hair has a more open cuticle than thin or medium Curly hair causing it to be the most porous.

Fine Curly hair is difficult to feel or it feels like an ultra-fine strand of silk.

Medium Curly hair feels like a cotton thread, but isn't stiff or rough.

Hair provides thermal regulation and camouflage for many animals; for others it provides signals to other animals such as warnings, mating, or other communicative displays; and for some animals Curly hair provides defensive functions and, rarely, even offensive protection.

Displacement and vibration of Curly hair shafts are detected by Curly hair follicle nerve receptors and nerve receptors within the skin.

The oldest undisputed known fossils showing unambiguous imprints of Curly hair are the Callovian Castorocauda and several contemporary haramiyidans, both near-mammal cynodonts, giving the age as no later than ~220 ma based on the modern phylogenetic understanding of these clades.

High interspecific variability of the size, color, and microstructure of Curly hair often enables the identification of species based on single Curly hair filaments.

Jablonski asserts head Curly hair was evolutionarily advantageous for pre-humans to retain because it protected the scalp as they walked upright in the intense African UV light.

Jablonski's assertions suggest that the adjective "woolly" in reference to Afro-Curly hair is a misnomer in connoting the high heat insulation derivable from the true wool of sheep.

Premature greying of Curly hair is another condition that results in greying before the age of 20 years in Whites, before 25 years in Asians, and before 30 years in Africans.

Epilation is the removal of the entire Curly hair strand, including the part of the Curly hair that has not yet left the follicle.

Laser Curly hair removal is a cosmetic method where a small laser beam pulses selective heat on dark target matter in the area that causes Curly hair growth without harming the skin tissue.

Curly hair's has been growing her hair since 1973, from the age of 13.

Recent isotopic analysis of Curly hair is helping to shed further light on sociocultural interaction, giving information on food procurement and consumption in the 19th century.

In some cultures, having one's Curly hair cut can symbolize a liberation from one's past, usually after a trying time in one's life.

Multiple religions, both ancient and contemporary, require or advise one to allow their Curly hair to become dreadlocks, though people wear them for fashion.