"...the modern curl-pattern chart indirectly favors looser, more Eurocentric textures, which can reinforce harmful and prejudiced ideas about beauty. By putting straight hair first, literally as type 1, and coily textures last at type 4, it subtly reinforces the idea that the tighter the texture, the further it is from what has been historically labeled as 'ideal' or the 'default.'"

https://www.allure.com/story/curl-pattern-chart

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