What is Hair Porosity? | Low Porosity Curly/Wavy Help
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2019
- Porosity is a huge factor in figuring out your curls and waves. This video runs through the basics of what hair porosity is, three test to find your porosity and tips and tricks for low porosity hair.
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Do you know your hair porosity?
Curlmesweet low porosity..weird I color my hair too
no:(
Im low
I definitely have low porosity hair... literally air drying is NOT an option for me I have literally overnight plopped my hair and it was still soaking at the next morning 😂
ugh..i have the same issue. my hair is short but still takes damn near FOREVER to dry!! its really annoying and the products just sit on top! i will say tho henna did good. try it
This is literally me.😂😂😂😂
I'm not a hair expert. But, I heard sleeping with wet hair is not good.
I’ve heard that low porosity hair dries very fast as it repels water? Don’t know what to believe now
@@maryambukhari60 low porosity hair does repel a little water (like a drizzly Misty rain will just sit on top of my hair) but soaking hair like a bath or shower does penetrate the very tight hair follicles but then gets trapped in their meaning it takes a long time to dry
Thank you finally a better way of knowing my hair porosity. The spray test and showing the beads of water was very helpful. And thats what helped me the most to determining what I thought my hair type l along, low porosity.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I read about the float test everywhere... And I've seen the strand test... Never seen the spray test!! This helped me solidify what I was previously unsure of- I have low perosity hair too.
New subscriber! This video taught me so much! Thank you!! 💜 Can’t wait to watch more from you!
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Which one would be better and best the mousse or gel for wavy 2a 2b and very low porosity hair , what is difference between mousse and gel???
Is that why i feel i need a haircut a couple of weeks after I've just had one?
@Curlmesweet, do you have low porosity? And do you have fine, normal or thick hair? Thank you for the informations. I'am from germany. i don't have found so good videos in german language.
I’ve got the typical low porosity hair which is more wavy/ribbony than real deal curly, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to wash a treat my hair so it’s maintains its shin/bounce longer, I’ve tried leaving actual condition in it overnight with it in a bun and In the morning I’ll take it down and blow dry it to blow out any remaining damp spots....wasn’t sure if there are any other good spray products that could be utilized while the hair is still damp to help achieve a shine and soft look?
Is Olaplex bad for low porosity hair? It seemed to have changed my hair from high to low in one use.
I have low porosity 2A hair and it does take whole day to dry my hair. I also tried my wash routine with warm water at start and ended with cold water but No matter what I use it doesn't work well for me and now in winter it's getting more and more dry and tangled. I am also having hair loss problems too.I have been braiding my hair everyday. I want to know about low porosity 2A hair care routine and some drugstore product recommendations.... 😔😔
Yes on the information. I have low-high prosity. And hair loss due to PCOS 👍❤
Same!
My low porosity hair waves fall out very fast. Do you know what to do with this. Thankyou xxx
thank you this was a great video really helped me💕💕💕💕
Your hair is same as mine 😩 im lucky to find this
your gonna grow fast
I tried that glass test and.... it never sunk. So... I thought id leave it there... still didn't. My hair always felt like I was trying to dampen a towel when I let the water hit it... and now I guess I probably know why :/
I washed my hair around 11am yesterday and let it air dry. At 9pm it was still moist close to the roots. I gave it a little blow dry to help it be dry before bed.
This at least tells me I don't have low porosity hair because mine definitely dries faster! Not in an hour but.. maybe four?
Totally! You could be normal! I never wash my hair at night unless I give myself a blow out.
What if I have a mix of both? Some of my hair strands are curly/kinky, and some are smooth?
Oh yeah, everyone's hair is very different. You can have low, high, and medium all in your hair. And it can be mixed throughout.
When I don’t put product in my hair after a shower, even having used a hair mask & conditioners, my hair will dry puffy and frizzy (naturally blonde curly hair, 3A-3B, maybe even 3C depending on where it is ok my head). When I try to get my hair wet after doing this, let’s say the day after showering & not putting anything in it or styling, just combing back, it takes longer for it to get saturated compared to how quick it gets wet when my hair is more oily after not showering for a while. Also, while having put nothing in my hair, my hair strand is squeaking.
Is this low porosity hair? How do I help my hair’s porosity while not maintaining super natural curls? I’m trying to get wavey-er hair since it’s short.
That doesn't sound like lo-po, since the reason low-porosity doesn't get moisture is due to the hair cuticles being tighter or due to the hair having build-up. So if your hair is oily with build-up, then it should actually be harder for you to get it wet, not easier. Maybe you're high-po or medium-po. Or maybe the reason it gets wet faster is bc your hair was so dehydrated without being washed for so long, so the oily film is irrelevant. I think a better test is to spray clean hair to see if it beads up.
Everything makes sense now…only took me 35 years 🤣
It’s still damp right now and I showered this morning 🫠
oh man, this reminds me. I used to go to sleep after a shower and wake up with still damp hair. I found it so insane and annoying
Most people whose hair rejects water/water beads up on their head will eventually soak it in that means its medium porosity. Most people who think their hair is low is actually medium 🙅♀️
So if I have low porosity hair, should I not be putting oils on my hair after I shower? Are they just sitting on the outside rather than getting absorbed? What products should I use instead for my curls?
From what I have found you should do an oil mask before you shower that way you can give it enough time to absorb into the hair. There are specific oils that are good for low porosity hair, if you google it you should find a good list of them.
For deep conditioning, I'm going to try oil mask with a bonnet on cuz apparently heat opens the cuticles, and then wash it.
I would think that hot water would open the cuticles?? So then if I sprayed it like I started to do, it would go in?
I have a bonnet that attaches to a blow dryer, but if you get one, you need to be careful not to melt your hairdryer
Hey I have a question. My hair is 2b but I have strands that are ringlets.. help?
I am in the same boat. Some time we have a lot of different curl patterns on our head. I have 2a strands mixed in with 3a strands. Some days are curlier than others depending on application and if I diffuse or not. It could just be your hair pattern or it could be your new growth and damaged hair intermingling.
How did you find out your hair type ?
I looked up the curl hair type charts. It’s basically type 1 is straight hair and 2-4 is wavy/curly. Then there are A, B and C types within each number to signify levels. Based on the chart I have pieces that range from 2a-3a. Just google search the chart and it should pop-up.
Nice video. New subscriber =)
The strand test actually has people thinking they have low porosity when they don't. If you dunk your head in a tub of water and it comes out mostly wet, you're NOT low porosity. It takes forever for my hair to get wet in the shower
some people just have less hair meaning it'll get wet faster but still takes longer then normal or high porosity hair
It takes my hair about 45 seconds to become wet (Bob cut) and 6+hrs to air dry. It's always still wet when I wake up in the morning
Hi. I have done the floating test. when I put my hair into the water it floats. but if I push it down one time it stays under the water. My hair is really dry and frizzy, I also face a lot of tangles after washing my hair. I have fine and wavy hair. My hair gets wet fast ( if I use my hands it took 7-10 seconds to get wet in the shower). it also dries very fast. I mean after washing my hair it dries within 2 and a half hours. what type of porosity I have? please help me.
Your hair sounds like mine. I have no idea what porosity mine is either.
Omg that’s exactly how my hair is, but i also don’t know what my hair porosity is. Hopefully somebody can help us
Have you guys figured it out yet? That sound like my hair except it takes way longer to dry. BUT, I can’t figure out if it takes a long time to dry because it could be low porosity, or if it’s just that there is a lot of hair there so the air just can’t touch the underneath easily. If that makes sense
@@kierasaurusfrost I used to have high porosity hair but now my hair has become medium to low porosity.
I have the same hair and have no idea what porosity my hair is!! 😩
Which styling products do you use?
I switch it up every wash. I have a ton of videos showing what I used and how I applied products. For this wash I used the Not Your Mother' Curl Talk Line. Shampoo, Conditioner, Cream and Mousse. :) (I Also have a video on that)
Curlmesweet bing watched thank you very informative..only Deva I like now is the light conditioner
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That’s so weird my hair dries quickly ... and my hair floats 🤔 I can’t be 2 ...which one I could be ?!
Your hair can totally be both! Even if your hair is natural or colored. Some people have the top layer be one and the bottom be another. You may just have to treat different parts of your hair differently.
Doesn’t low porosity hair repel water? So dries faster?
it doesn't dry faster because the cuticles are flatter, so when it finally gets wet, and the water finally gets into the hair it also takes a long time to get out and dry
either my air never drys or drys way too fast!
Interesting! Do different parts of your hair dry differently? Or as you using different methods?
All the videos on YT are for curly hair. My hair is straight and HELLA low porosity :’(
I swear mine too and I'm just finding out about all of this, idk what to do and what to use. I'm overwhelmed with information.
I feel so stupid, ignorant me used to think that mostly coloured people or anyone with coarse, thick hair had low porosity. I always ran my head under the shower head with a filter and it soaked instantly, so i assumed based off of that that it was high porosity. But after doing all of these tests, i think i am low porosity. My hair strand floats, it beads if i spray it and if i pull the strand, it feels sort of hard. Maybe i'm mixed? i never dyed my hair and i've stopped straightening it 4 years ago.
I thought low porosity hair dries fast and high porosity hair dries slowly
Yes that’s correct
Owain H it’s the other way around
@@jullianajimenez8981 only just seeing this, that is incorrect, low porosity hair is hydrophobic so it doesn’t absorb water properly and sits on top so it dries quicker and high porosity hair (which is all colour treated hair and sometimes natural) takes all the water and holds onto it and takes longer to dry it’s a common misconception that it is the other way around I encourage you to research more into this as it is very interesting :)
@@owainh1347 I have low porosity and this makes sense if I get moisture into my hair it never dries but whenever I do t it flash dries if I give it too much protein water literally can’t get into my hair
@@owainh1347 however my mother with high porosity hair ( does it every month and straightens it every week) her hair dries instantly ?
4c hair types are born with low porosity hair no matter the hair density. 4 or 5 hours time to dry hair is not low porosity ...it's barely medium. Low porosity hair take DAYS to dry ... not hours. Your ancestors had to come from environments that experienced zero cold, not much rain, and people could die from serious heat stroke. Low porosity is from a racial genotype that needed hair to grow up to trap water when it rained to keep them hydrated.