So if you changed your diet significantly before the onset of curly hair, that may be the cause. Just as aging makes hair thinner, so can a poor diet. And thinner hair can be more wavy and curly than thicker hair. In addition, copper has been linked to curly hair in some studies.
Have you been eating a lot of high copper foods like lobsters, oysters, or liver? Or perhaps you started a multivitamin high in this mineral? That may have something to do with your change in hair texture. Medications for seizures and bipolar disorder, on rare occasions, can cause curly hair. The reason for this is still unknown, but some researchers have speculated that it has to do with how metals are processed in the body.
Changes in the concentration of metals like copper are seen in the hairs of these patients. Sometimes hair becomes straight again after they stop using these medications, but there have been reports of patients continuing to have curly hair even after discontinuing their medication.
Some medications used to treat cancer, called epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors, can also affect hair texture. This can result in hair becoming straight or curly. And just as hormones may impact hair texture, any medications that affect hormones, such as glucocorticoids or thyroxine, could also potentially make hair become wavy or curly.
Both illness and stress can take a toll on the body. Hormone levels are often altered by illness or stress. This is why people who are chronically ill or under a lot of stress often have thinning hair or hair loss. These changes in your body could possibly affect gene expression, which could change your hair texture.
In addition, some specific illnesses, like hyperthyroidism, are linked to changes in hair texture. Pollution has been linked to hair loss in some studies. There are no studies linking curly hair to pollution. However, pollution can affect our hormone levels.
And as we have learned, hormones may have an effect on hair texture. Did you move to a different climate? Just as curly hairs typically curl the most when wet, humidity in the air brings out waves or curls in hair. We know from genetic studies that people with African ethnicity are most likely to hair curly hair at birth.
However, it could become more curly with age. In contrast, most people with East Asian ethnicity are likely to have very straight hair. Not long ago, I cut my hair very short and shaved the lower back. Now the virgin hair at the nape of my neck are around a 3C pattern. I am still not having hormonal changes.
I am wondering if, as my hair grows out, the new growth on the rest of my head will be 3C. One can hope. I had curly hair when I was born. It went straight during puberty.
Then curly after my first child. Fingers crossed it stays this way. I love it!! I agree with your assessment that hormones can cause changes in hair growth. My hair color is now a blend of silver, brown and black. The most disturbing feature, however, is the ringlets and curls underneath the somewhat straight layer hair on top. Your comment was so interesting!! I was born with lose curls. I had hair down to my butt and it was in ringlets.
I had to have both if my knees operated on, and I had to wear a body cast for 8 weeks when I was 5 years old. So my mom cut my hair very short. After that,my hair was poker straight. My hair always was straight. I LOVE the waves! What do you think? I can really empathize with you on this one. My hair has decided to go wavy, but only in the back of my head. MSM is very bitter so she mixed it with a strong flavored juice.
I think I will be putting it inside capsules myself. I can already confirm that MSM shampoo and conditioner worked wonders for my hair while it was falling out. Check it out! I also read another tip that a woman took zinc after a friend had recommended it and she said her hair doubled in volume! My hair has gone from straight to curly during the past 15 months of the Covid 19 epidemic.
I had quite curly hair as a young child but it straightened out as I grew older. It has taken me a while to realise that I need a completely different approach now. I am still adapting to this new concept of me!! I have developed the same problem as Trish in the last 15 months.. My hair become messy in no time. My husband died 4 years ago, and I found myself under a tremendous amount of stress and worry.
My straight hair started growing in kinky on the top half of my head. I hate it, so I cut it off, about an inch long, and wear wigs full time. I will never wear my natural hair again. Am 88 years old. Suddenly my hair became curly on the right side only. Does anyone have an answer? I add m 53 years old and for the past two years, my hair has slowly changed from pin straight to crazy curly.
I worked my way through nursing school as a licensed cosmetologist, so I know about follicles. However, I did notice my hair was wavier than normal. Thanks so much for sharing your curly girl experience with us.
Thank you for helping out those of us who needed this! Glad you found my site! Though it sounds like you may just have experienced overall changes in your hair at once so the texture and curl pattern both changed at the same time.
My main advice would be to try a gel or a mousse. So using something specifically designed to help hold your hairs form can make a really dramatic difference. Thanks so much, Emily. That is interesting about hair thickness.
I just tried my first wavy girl hair day. I did do a lot of scrunching in the shower with conditioner then right out of the shower.
The Moroccanoil cream seems to work. Think I might need a protein treatment, too. Thanks for such a great article! I so envied the pictures of long straight hair. Maybe now I can finally figure out how to really enjoy the type of hair I have. Now if I can just figure out how to tolerate day 3 or 4 hair…. My mom is a few years younger than you but had ringlets when she was little so she knew her hair was curly.
She was still taught to brush it, though — which made it much more poofy than anything else. Yet her own mom and her other sisters all had curly hair, too. So, it seems like there was just really a lack of information available on how to best care for curly hair. She talked about how they used clothes iron I think with a towel over top? I only realized mine was wavy a few years ago, and only because of the internet. Anyway, glad you found my blog.
Best of luck with embracing your waves! I am thinking of doing CGR routine but am not sure if my hair is even wavy. My hair was really curly in my early 30s to my mids.
I often see people talking about how their hair has changed since pregnancy or menopause. Hormone changes seem to really create dramatic changes for hair sometimes! Their blood orange line is also really light. I suspect that density may also be a factor when it comes to mousse? You might like my blog post about how to get more volume, many of the tips will apply to root volume to get rid of that flat on top look.
Thank you for your post — your journey is so much like mine! I always thought I had slightly wavy hair growing up but I was living in a dry climate so it never really frizzed much nor curled. Just kicked out unpredictably. I was always envious of girls with smooth blunt haircuts that I could never really achieve.
I also noticed that it appeared curly when it was wet and I wished I could make it hold the curl when it dried — but I generally got that unpredictable kinkiness. Finally, I moved to a humid climate as an adult and stopped battling my hair and let it kick out in any direction it wanted to and I just kept it cut fairly short.
When I was about forty I started to just let it airdry with some product on it and realised it was actually curly, a lot like yours! Now I can do either — let it curl generally in summer or smooth it out a bit in winter it is too cold to leave the house with wet curls! I generally use a good leave in conditioner and a spray gel for curly days now and that helps a lot with avoiding frizz.
For smooth days I use my rotating brush dryer to send the curls in a more predictable direction and good old fashioned hairspray to keep the humidity at bay. It is good to know I am not alone with the late discovery of my curls ;o. I always thought I had super straight hair. But was always annoyed because if exposed to any amount of humidity it became poofy and would flip out on one side. I literally have ringlets… like HOW??
I am 30 and am just realizing my hair is wavy. Thanks for all the tips and tricks! When it air dries, I have inconsistent waves and straight pieces. No worries. This prevents the spam comments from being public which is important because they often try to include harmful links and I want to protect my readers from those.
The downside though is that it also blocks real comments, but only the first time someone comments. Did you get layers cut in? I have a blog post about that which may be helpful. I have a blog post called how to test if your hair is wavy that gives an example routine that you can use to get a rough idea of what your hair is capable of. Hi Emily! It gets a little frizzy sometimes if I skipped using conditioner. I wash my hair every night because it gets oily easily.
It gets matted very very easily when slightly wet and I lose a lot of hair. If I skip conditioner, my hair holds curl and wave really well.
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