Why Do People Have Curly Hair. Curl your straightened hair using curling irons. That is why curly haired people may find they don t have to wash their hair as often as straight haired counterparts.
Curly hair is thought to be better at keeping mammals warmer than just straight hair alone. Kinky hair is especially in. Afro textured hair or kinky hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in africa and the african diaspora despite its name this hair texture is also found in some parts of oceania and southeast asia each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny angle like helix shape.
So you get genes of both types but the dominant curly hair gene trumps the straight hair gene and expresses itself in the offspring i e yourself.
In fact straight hairs interwoven with curls creates the last line of defense against heat loss. That is why curly haired people may find they don t have to wash their hair as often as straight haired counterparts. Hair texture has always interested me because even though hair is made of the same stuff hair can still come in many textures and sizes. In fact straight hairs interwoven with curls creates the last line of defense against heat loss.