What Shape Is Your Natural Hair? Terms Related to Shape

Shape- how each individual hair naturally bends and twists creating coils, curls, kinks or waves
Coily-kinky – locks of hair are curled very tightly into an “o” shape with a diameter of 1/8” 1/4’’.
Coily-curly – locks of hair have a defined “o” shape” looped into a corkscrew affect with curly diameter approximately 3/8” and larger

Kinky – locks of hair have a zig-zag “z” pattern without ever creating the “o” of Coily hair. The bends are very small and frequent.
Wavy – locks of hair have loose “s” shape without ever creating the shape of an “o”. The bends tend to infrequent, only occurring about every 1 inch or greater.