How To Analyse Your Hair Type

Hi, I'm Edward Hayes, I'm a hairstylist at Andrew Jose in London. This is how you would analyze your own hair type. What I would say is to go in preferably look in the mirror and just take out one or two strands of your hair.

This is just to check porosity in your hair. And just run your fingers up towards the root, running up the hair shaft and feeling how smooth the cuticle is. This will let you know if your hair is dry and damaged.

And also what you can gather is when you run your fingers on the single or two strands of hair you can feel the diameter of the hair and you can feel whether it's thick or fine. Finer hair you'll generally feel it's finer. And obviously if you have medium hair you'll understand when you're feeling an individual strand if you'll feel whether or not the texture and width of the hair is thicker or finer.

If you try fine hair with Afro hair, Afro hair the diameter is actually wider then European hair, so it would feel a lot more coarser and thicker. Same with feeling the density of the hair, you just run your hands through your hair and you'll feel, depending on how thick your hair is, how much hair you have. If you just had it cut, obviously it's bit more harder to determine.

Generally I would check two to three weeks after cutting your hair if you want to check out the density of the hair. Reason being because if you just had your hair cut, maybe or maybe not they've cut into the hair, so they've softened it quite a lot. So you can't really, generally feel the texture as much as when it's growing out.

So you get a bit more of a understanding of the texture when it's a bit later after the haircut. Earlier I was talking about the porosity of the hair, running up the hair shaft. If the cuticle, basically it lays on the hair flat, like so, if it's pointing upwards when you're running your fingers, that means your hair is quite porous and needs a treatment.

I would advise you to seek professional advice if anything like this happens. These are the things you should look out for. If you hair is dry, if you're using a heating appliance, just make sure you're always using heat protection sprays.

All these things help and they generally are how you, sort of, depict which is your hair. If it's damaged, if it's dry, if it's thick, if it's fine, all of these. And it's the general answers that we take into account on how you break down what sort of hair type you have.

So these are all general questions you should ask yourself when doing so.