Why is my hair curly?

[Footie chick]

And no I haven't had a perm? I know it's because of deformed folicals or something??

[Bianco]

Amazing isn't it, some ladies with curly hair want it straight and some with straight hair spends fortunes getting it curly. I'm glad I'm a bloke and just happy to have ANY hair at all. It is a bit grey, (silver) though!

[Footie chick]

I know WOMEN aye.... we are never happy!!!!

[e-basingstoke]

The reason you have curly hair is because you ate your crusts when you were a child. My Mum always told me that it would make your hair curl.

[Footie chick]

LOL but I ate my carrots and I'm completely blind??? Night and day!

[Girliebob]

My hair isn't curly, but that's because I've just spent half an hour with a set of hair straighteners making it that way - good job it's not raining!

[Footie chick]

Originally Posted by Girliebob

My hair isn't curly, but that's because I've just spent half an hour with a set of hair straighteners making it that way - good job it's not raining!

LOL - Can you recommend some good ones?

[Bianco]

I know it's strange coming from a bloke who isn't really interested in this subject, but my daughter had been after a pair of 'ghd' straightening tongs for years and this Christmas finally got her wish. She reckons they are the best and still does after continous use since.

They don't look much different to me but the price certainly is! At possibly over £100, but maybe £89 if you shop around, they are the dearest by far.

I've seen many others at car boot sales going for just a couple of quid, but never found any 'ghd's.

[Girliebob]

As Bianco said, GHD are supposed to be the bee's knees of hair straighteners.

I guess it depends how often you want to fight the forces of nature and have straight hair. I've got a pair of GHD straighteners (probably a marketing ploy to make people think they're buying the posh ones!) and they work fine for the odd times I use them - and they were under £30.

[Footie chick]

Thank you both.

[Girliebob]

Hang on - how come my post was edited by Bianco and now doesn't say what I'm sure I wrote on there?!

I really DID mean ghS and not ghD

[Bianco]

Sorry Girliebob I thought you made a genuine mistake as we all do somtimes. I can now see what you're on about. I thought I was doing you a favour.

[rednwhite]

I like these sort of things - try this:

Hair is curly or straight, depending upon the number of disulfide bonds between hair proteins found in the hair shaft.

The greater the number of links, the curlier the hair, and the fewer the number of links, the straighter the hair.

Hair is primarily composed of keratin, a protein, which grows from a sac called the follicle. Cells in the hair follicle generate keratin, and various other proteins, which become a part of the hair shaft. These proteins contain sulfur atoms, and when two of these sulfur atoms pair up and bond, they form a disulfide bond. If the two sulfur atoms in the same protein are at a distance, and join to form the disulfide bond, the protein will bend.

The amount of humidity in the air not only makes for what some label a "bad hair day," but alters the degree of curliness or of straightness of hair. This occurs when high humidity forces water back into the hair fiber, acts on its protein structure, and forces the hair shaft to return to its original structure.

People can temporarily alter their hair to force it into a straight state, or a curly state, but only on a temporary, not on a permanent, basis. When a straight-haired person gets a "permanent wave," known as a "perm," he or she is chemically forcing the making of strong disulfide bonds. The wave does not stay permanently, because new hair, which is straight, grows in as the "perm" grows out. People with curly hair may chemically alter their hair to give it a straighter appearance, but this, too, is also a temporary solution to a permanent "problem," with the same end result.

And there you go!

[Footie chick]

Lovin' your work rednwhite.

[rednwhite]

I was a quiz master at my local pub in a former life so I vast reserve of information on my bookshelf and know a couple of good web-sites too.

[Sanisa]

You know, i really dont know why it does that, but it could be to please the passengers and keep it from descending.