What's your hair's wavelength and/or curl diameter?

**Dovetail** · July 27th, 2012, 11:41 AM

Poor spidermom <3 your hair is so lovely though.

Ill try to measure later today after work

**domisimone** · July 27th, 2012, 11:33 PM

My wavelength is 1/8-1/4" and my diameter is 1/8 inch. I'm a 3c/4a.

**earthnut** · July 29th, 2012, 05:53 PM

Great info so far! Keep it coming!

**kitschy** · July 30th, 2012, 01:10 PM

Curl diameters are 1 to 2.5 cm or about 1/2" - pitch is about 3/4" of an inch or 2.5 cm. I call myself 3B.

**PinkyCat** · July 30th, 2012, 01:18 PM

Wavelength = 2"
Diameter = 1"
3a/3b

**lilliemer** · July 31st, 2012, 09:42 AM

My hairtyping came out as a 2c/3a. My hair is wavy at the roots then ends in spirals. The curl diameter in the spirals is about one to one-and-a-half inches (measuring the inside diameter of the curl).

I am not sure how to measure the wavelength, it is longer up top where the waves are, but the curls kind of stack up on the bottom where the spirals are (corkscrew style). What would I be measuring there?

By the second day after a wash, my hair forgets that it is 3a; the spirals usually are gone and I have deep waves, with a wavelength of 3-4 inches depending on what's in the hair and the humidity level. I lose progressively more and more wave the longer I go after washing. Not sure if this helps you?

**jojo** · July 31st, 2012, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by spidermom

I can't. My hair is all over the place, from the tightest ringlets and zig-zags to straight as a board.

Same here, I think my hair is combination hair, my right hand side is much tighter wave pattern than my left and my fringe is more in the 3 range in places, yet in others it's bone straight.

**cmg** · July 31st, 2012, 04:07 PM

Been trying to figure this out. If I put the hair flat on a piece of paper, the diameter seems similar on both top of the head and at the ends. But when I leave them alone the diameter seems bigger towards the head and smaller at the ends (spirals). The frequency differs depending on weight/length. My hair has very little "spunk" or springyness of its own

/ CMG

**RainbowHawk** · July 31st, 2012, 04:35 PM

Wavelength: 3 cm*
Diameter: 1-3.5 cm

3b

*Wavelength changes a lot; It can be as low as .5 cm or as high as 5 cm if I measure it at different places. I went with 3 cm as an average.