If you haven’t quite found the right products to use or have trouble styling your hair day to day, you have come to the right place. This super speedy quiz will help identify your exact hair type so you can better manage your mane. Let’s get right to it.
• A PureWow Quiz •
The Ultimate Hair Type Quiz
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Published Feb 26, 2020
1.
Which Photo Most Resembles Your Hair Without Any Heat Styling?
Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Gwyneth Paltrow
David M. Benett/Getty Images
Alexa Chung
Gardiner Anderson/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Camila Alves
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Zendaya
Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images
Nathalie Emmanuel
Michael Tran/FilmMagic
Issa Rae
Aurora Rose/Getty Images
Solange Knowles
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Lupita Nyong’o
2.
Your Hair In One Word?
Flat
Beachy
Springy
Inconsistent
Thick
Coily
Shapely
Dense
3.
You Get Stuck In A Torrential Downpour On The Way To Work. Quick! What’s Your Game Plan For Your Hair?
Blot it dry with a towel or toss it up into a pony.
Reach for some sea salt spray.
Nothing a bit of gel and a quick scrunch can’t fix.
Something between a gel and a cream would be nice.
I’m going to need a curl cream, stat.
Does anyone have a diffuser I can borrow?
Time for a twist-out.
BRB. Need to grab my oils and creams.
4.
What Shape Most Resembles Your Hair?
Angel hair pasta
Ramen noodles
The letter S
Half S’s/Half L’s
A corkscrew
The spring inside a pen
A bunch of zig zags
Springs and zig zags
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