Textured hair is found among many races all over the world. It is well-known that slightly wavy and wavy hair is quite prevalent among the Caucasian race in Central American countries, the Middle East, Southern Europe and Southeast Asia. Super curly hair is found in the United States among African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Caribbean Americans, including inhabitants of the Dominican Republic. Surprisingly, even 47% of Japanese women have wavy to frizzy hair.¹

There appears to be no uniform or easy way to describe somewhat curly hair, as compared with super curly hair, other than through racial descriptions. Racial descriptions, however, can be cumbersome, lead to socially embarrassing situations and even cause offense among certain groups. It is therefore with the intent of finding unobjectionable descriptions that some attempts have been made to categorize hair into various types and to subcategorize these types with numbers, rather than to describe them by alluding to nationalities or the ethnic background of individuals

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