Play up Your Natural Tress Texture

It’s so easy to get dissatisfied with what you have, and seek ways to alter the natural state. But the truth is that you look best if you can enhance your natural assets, and play them up for timeless style. That goes for your hair as well. While you might try chemical treatments to straighten your curls or get waves put, but the maintenance can be a pain if you have a busy lifestyle. Unlike earlier years, the current crop of stylists and hair experts recommend working with you natural hair texture. It is healthier for the strands and easier for you to maintain. Says Manju Bijlani Stylist, Nalini and Yasmeen, Mumbai, “It is not practical for anybody to style their hair everyday and spend hours blow drying and setting their hair hence it is extremely important that we work with one's natural texture so that you are able to wash and wear the style and it still looks well kept.”

According to Trichologist, Dr. Apoorva Shah the texture, and structure of the hair plays a very important role in styling of the hair. “Actually it is your texture which decides how you should style your hair,” he adds. In fact most of us tend to just classify our hair as dry or oily, and curly or straight. That’s when the problem of bad styling comes up. Actually hair is determined by the structure, thickness and quality of the strands.

Hair structure can be curly or straight. Curly hair may be wavy or may have medium to tight coils. Curly hair has too much variation due to its curl pattern. “Curly hair is easy to work with. You have endless options to style them,” adds Bijlani. In fact the classification is based on the structure of your hair. The three main types include Straight, Wavy and Curly. Once your structure is determined, a stylist then checks for the thickness of the strands, and quality of your hair which can be coarse, dry or silky. Explains Bijlani, “Different hair types can be handled well with different kinds of styling products meant for that particular kind of hair, e.g. straight hair can be styled by blast drying the hair using a little bit of serum. Curly hair can be styled using curl saver mousse. Wavy hair can be styled with a little bit of control kind of products that weigh down the hair a bit and short hair using different kinds of hair wax.”