CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
I reckon most natural hair is cottony. Quite literally when I find a shed hair and run my hand through it I can feel and see the difference in thickness. The old hair that benefited from all the deep conditioning and daily moisturising is visibly thicker at least twice or thrice as thick as the new hair at the root. Since I've been neglecting my hair and haven't DC'ed in months it's even more obvious.
My hair is naturally very thin and that thinness plus shrinkage and short length is what I think creates the fluffy effect.
Length makes a difference in that as your hair grows longer the weight of the hair pulls down the strands and makes the curl looser. That is of course assuming that by that time the strands are thicker because of all the beautiful things you've been doing to it.
I don't mean cottony as in frizz or range in thickness. I mean the it's natural texture and apperance. The actual size of my curls range from 2-4mm in diameter. They don't usually clump up into a big curl, instead they lay on top on each other and intertwined.
I guess a way to explain it would be... A lot of natural hair, when you pull or push it back will appear as waves. My hair doesn't.
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