Curly Hair: How to Take Care of Your Curls

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• Why Was My Hair Curly When I Was Younger and Now It’s Straight?
• An Indiana court ruled that Jews have a religious liberty right to abortion. Here’s why that matters.
• NaturallyCurly:
• Embrace the curl: My journey with the Jewfro
• One Jewish Woman’s Personal Journey With Her Hair
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• Readers share how they turn Saturday into Shabbat

We’ve found that the most comprehensive way of identifying curl pattern is to use the Texture Typing system, but I get that you feel your hair type isn’t included in the Texture Typing system. And hair discrimination is not limited to the workplace; heartbreaking stories were cropping up in schools, too. Students were being told they can’t participate in school sports, go to prom, walk in graduation, or even start the school year with their peers because of their hair. If one or both parents has curly hair, then there is a strong likelihood that the child will have curly hair. However, not all Jewish people have curly hair because curly hair depends on the shape and orientation of hair follicles and how hair proteins reproduce.

Why Was My Hair Curly When I Was Younger and Now It’s Straight?

I continued to wear my hair curly throughout college. By my mid-20s, however, as a young lawyer, I chopped my hair off, seeking a more grown-up and androgynous look. I made no effort to encourage my curls, nor did I attempt to straighten them. This latest act of defiance was an effort to reject the feminine ideals of long hair entirely, and I stopped thinking much about curly hair at all. Of course, in my suburb, there was no shortage of salons offering blowouts as well as semi-permanent to permanent chemical straightening — all of varying and questionable levels of safety. There were also countless, expensive at-home contraptions promising to transform naturally curly hair into a glossy, swingy, run-your-fingers-through-it mane.

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After 15 years in the industry my insight would be that there’s no such thing as Jewish hair. Some Jews, depending upon their background, have kinky or curly hair. I am astonished at the number of women who have never had natural hair, but have instead opted to straighten it for most of their adult lives and some since they were little girls.

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Beauty rituals are important in Jewish culture; a show of defiance. Judaism is actually an ethnoreligion – meaning we’re a people, a tribe, as well as a faith system. So although Jews are a hugely diverse group – both in terms of appearance and customs – there are some physical characteristics (such as the infamous ‘Jewish nose’) which some of us share. The entire notion of "Jewish hair" is completely made up, a social construction. There is no one particular hair type that is more "Jewish" than others. Hope this helps someone out as they experiment in finding ways to love their curls.

We are highly skilled in the worlds of chemistry, geometry and physics. Like afro hair (which Jewish hair is often equated with), Jewish hair does not conform to Western beauty standards (straight, smooth, shiny), which can, understandably, be hard if it's what you were blessed with. At a time when newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall. That means for the first time in our 126-year history, Forward journalism is free to everyone, everywhere.

Many Jewish people have curly or wavy hair because of their middle eastern ancestry, but hairstyle or type does not dictate ethnicity or religious beliefs. Of course, my experience as a white curly-haired Jewish woman is nothing like that of so many Black people, including, of course, Black Jews and biracial Jews. For example, I never feared being suspended from school or losing a job because of my hair texture. Nonetheless, when I was young, I spent so much time, energy, and money to conform — and then, when I chose not to, I felt like I needed to explain my decision to keep my hair in its natural state. But the natural hair movement — which has been bolstered considerably in recent years, on platforms like YouTube and Instagram —  has helped empower me to celebrate my curly texture again. Wavy hair falls between straight and curly with an S pattern.

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Curly hair comes in many shapes, lengths and textures, but identifying your curl pattern can be a bit challenging. The beauty lexicon has a limiting amount of words to identify the different curl types and textures commonly found in human hair. But in reality, there are numerous hair types based on scalp health, hair porosity, width and density. Knowing your curly hair patterns can help you take care of it and style it. Your curl pattern is what your hair looks like after it dries naturally without heat.

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How a Jew decides to style their payots depends on what sect of Judaism they follow. Belz Hasidic Jews wrap their payots around their ears, while Breslov Hasidic Jews may style their payots however they wish. As a woman striving to become Mexico’s first female president, Sheinbaum must excel professionally and defy stereotypes about women’s “proper place” as warm nurturers of the private realm. But when she does so, she is labelled an untrustworthy ice queen. The texture of your hair refers to the size of your hair follicle.

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I have what is referred to as the "jew-fro", and it has definitely been a defining and often divisive part of my life. I grew up in Hawaii as a minority, and was bullied mercilessly in large part because of my white skin and my frizzy-curly hair. I was called the n-word by the kids in my school because of my hair. I often considered straightening my hair to fit in better. Now as an adult, however, I embrace my hair and actually love it, for better or for worse. Other women my age have told me how lucky I am to have such thick, curly hair.

Plus, due to the lack of cuticle layers, coily hair also requires extra moisture. These hair types tend to shrink in a more compact style and appear shorter than they are. If you have dry and damaged curly hair, is time to hydrate your strands with this conditioner. This product has exotic ingredients like argan oil, Babassu seed oil sourced from Brazil and mango butter sourced from India. Mouneu recommends this defining cream from Amika for wavy to curly hair. If your waves have become unmanageable, this product will provide frizz control and add more bounce to your waves.

My mother never knew what to do with my hair so she would put it in a bun or straighten it. I never thought about it until I was 9 years old and my mom's family said I could "pass"... I didnt know what that meant only that my mom was very upset by the comment and didnt talk to them for years. I didn’t grow up immersed into Jewish cultures and didnt have a lot of Jewish friends. I struggled with my hair for a very long time, my mom often struggled with what to do with it, and I often felt in this wierd in between.

My girlfriend is very proud of her Jewish heritage but despises her "Jewish hair" which is a frizzy, unmanagable, self-knotting mop; Ilana Glazer on a bad hair day. That Sephardic trait, unique in her immediate family, emerged suddenly when she reached her mid 20s. I think it's cute but I understand her frustration. Strangely enough, a time in Northern Africa gave me the tools I needed to go from frizz-central to beautiful, lovely, and yes— still crazy curls.

The closer your hair’s cuticles are, the lower the curly hair porosity. If water is curly hair’s best friend, then box-dye is its arch-enemy. Our hair does not absorb dye well — you’ll never end up with the advertised colour.

So far I am not so sanguine about this phenomenon, but hope with time I will learn to also embrace this change. Jewish or not, big, kinky and dark hair is something that has always been seen as an aesthetic accessory needing to be tamed in order to heed the societal standard of short, straight and light hair. In the more specific context of the Jewfro, the unkemptness of curly Jewish hair on men can often be seen as unattractive, asexual, awkward and out-of-fashion. This, of course, is not to say that I’m ashamed of my Jewish heritage (far from it). But like anyone who comes from a marginalized background, I had trouble reconciling with the inextricable tie between my identity as a Jew and the hair on my head.

But let's just say that I finally got the opportunity to have my DNA tested to find out if I had any black ancestors in my DNA because I was positive there had to be a great great great grandmother or father who was black. This would make sense as to why my hair was so similar to the black woman I knew but did not explain my pale white skin. The high percent of my DNA was 27% European Jew all the other percentages was in locations where the Jewish population magrated too. Though it was a resolve to me, my result also showed that I was 10% Afican. Not sure if that's why my hair seemed so out if place?

Inevitably, those same people would corner me later in the ladies’ room for a free impromptu hair consultation. Naming those women illuminated me with an instant reflected legitimacy that was irrelevant, but one that I still welcomed as social tender. I managed to slip Brandeis into every conversation with someone new. I brushed off this collective obsession with hair as an eccentric family quirk.