“We basically took Andre Walker’s texture system but added the a, b, and c to better describe the texture’s tightness,” Breyer says. “A 3a curl pattern has a much looser curl than a 3c ...

The most popular was developed in the 1990s by celebrity hairstylist Andre Walker. This system categorizes 12 hair types using a numbering system (1 through 4) based on the natural curl pattern.

A range of natural curl patterns, colors and textures exist. Since Oprah’s personal hair stylist established the Andre Walker Hair Typing System or “The Hair Chart” in the ‘90s ...

Curly hair strands typically make a full turn in an S or spiral pattern, whereas wavy hair ... According to Andre Walker's hair typing system, type 1 is straight hair, type 2 is wavy, type 3 ...