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Be Beautiful. Be Natural. Be You.

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Hair Porosity Guide: What Low and High Porosity Hair Really Mean

Close-up comparison of low vs high hair porosity showing wet glossy curls with water beads beside dry frizzy curly hair texture.

For years, many of us in the curly hair community treated porosity as one of the most important things we could learn about our hair. We took float tests, hunted for low-porosity routines, bought products marketed for high-porosity hair, and tried to explain nearly every problem through the lens of porosity. We were not completely […]