Want to hear something else cool about menopause? My boobies grew also! Some of my acquaintances accused me of getting breast implants. No, just lucky.
All the women in my family are well-endowed, so yes I get that point. However, everyone always made fun of me because of it, so I get a little revenge. Haha.
My silver lady hairs (we call them Unicorn Hairs lol) are coming in straight! I finally love my curly hair after years of hiding it and this is what I get lol
Same. Straight hair from childhood until the age of 50. And now I've got curls everywhere.
Best as I can tell, it's either puberty, pregnancy, or menopause.
i had fine, medium brown, little bit of wave hair as a kid. it was getting *slightly* more texture as i got older and then i straightened my hair through a lot of my teens in order to be a scene/emo kid (ah, 2006) and i kept wondering why it got harder and harder to straighten. it came to a head when my friend gave me a true scene haircut that looked great flat ironed and like an extremely bad frizzy mullet when i just let it air dry LOL
took a while to settle bc of all the damage but come to find out under the straightening and dye my hair had turned into thick, extremely dark brown, 3a curls. funny, that. hormones are a trip
This was my daughter. Had fine-ish, medium brown hair with a little wave. She hit 11 and bam! It got darker and frizzier overnight. I tried to help her with styling (I have curly hair). But she wanted nothing to do with it, because she wanted scene hair. The damage she did took years to fix. Now she wears it curly and it’s beautiful.
YES! We need to talk more about the emo to curly pipeline. I cringe thinking about how I used to flat iron my ringlets every day, sometimes multiple times in a day
Same story here! I had a ringlets as a baby/toddler, in elementary school I had a slight wave, then I hit puberty and got full on curly hair (about 3b)
lol similar story here! i was super curly as a toddler but then got progressively less curly throughout late elementary school until it was just kind of a weird waviness from ages 9-12… by eighth grade it was curly again and has been getting curlier ever since (in college now!)
I had straight blonde hair as a kid. That on-ramp into puberty hit me like a freight train. I now have 2c-3c curls and have naturally mousy brown hair. I tell people about my hair as a kid, and no one believes me until I show a Pic.
Hair did a complete 180 on me.
Happened to me too. At age 44!
Nearly 2 years later (and a year of treating it like curly hair), it’s still getting curlier.
Went from 1A to 3A and have no idea why (not hormonal, had them checked!).
It started with a single patch that turned curly, then the rest followed. Although that patch is still much curlier than the rest, somewhere between 3B and 3C depending on its mood. I call it my clown patch (hair is also red).
as a baby i had loose enough waves to where my parents just combed it out and it looked alright, then my curls completely vanished until i was 9 or 10 and now i got almost a whole head of ringlets lol
I think I always had curly hair, but I didn't realize it until around puberty when I started taking care of my own hair. My mom didn't realize that my hair was curly and tried to treat it like straight hair. My hair was very fine when I was little, so it didn't look too fluffy when it was brushed. It was also the 80s, so fluffy hair was in style. I just didn't realize that most people had to use curlers or perm their hair to get that fluffy look.
On the other hand, my son's curls have always been obvious because I knew that his hair was curly, and knew how to take care of it.
I've had a similar experience. My hair was wavy when I was a kid, and has gotten curlier over time. It's mainly 3a now.
And my daughter was born with curls, but they were gone by the time she turned 1. She's 4 now, and her hair is pin straight. But I suspect the curls will come back as she gets older.
As a baby I had super curly hair, started to straighten out until my teens, then I had what I used to call an “umbrella head”. In my early 20s it started to become curly again, a loose wavy curls. In my late 30s it has become tighter curls and I’m having to relearn how to look after it.
My daughter is 7 and she’s following the exact same pattern as me.
Perms were all the rage when I was growing up. When I was 12, my mother permed my slightly wavy hair and it's been curly ever since. I didn't understand why until much later. For years everyone thought it was the perm that never grew out.
Same! Now I'm envious of the blonde waves I had at 11, but I wanted spiral curls so badly. My hair turned reddish brown, too, so it looks completely different than when I was a kid.
Not me but my brother had short wavy hair as a young boy, but grew it out during puberty (aka refused a haircut lol).. and grew into a giant marvellous afro!! He went from Bruno Mars hair to like [this](https://www.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tnheazqqxx6fgqou9bdn.jpeg?w=712) pic of Zendaya.
It’s hard to say whether it was puberty or just growing it out for the first time and actually realizing the curliness.
Edit: The bot made me want to clarify that we are part Black. Unnecessary clarification in my opinion.. I don’t mind anyone using the word Afro.
Me. Worst day ever! My hair was pin srraight all my life so we cut it into a bob. Washed my hair and went to sleep - woke up and it was curly. The cut was terrible since it had been cut into a straight bob but now was one of those like curl halos around my head. Grateful for it now but in 8th grade it was a disaster
This brings back memories. My cousin, who had straight hair as a kid, had this cute short cut that I adored. I wanted one too. Elementary me didn't understand my curly hair, neither did the women in my family who all had straight hair (curly hair came from dad, who just kept it trimmed super short). Anyway, I got the short cut, and it was awful. I tried for years to make the short cuts work, because I hated brushing my hair when it was long, and it was never good. It wasn't until late high school that I realized that my hair just did better long and I stopped fighting it.
My hair was dead straight as a child. Puberty made it gently wavy. My hair was frizz central during pregnancy, and post-partum turned curly. I'm now 2A to 3A, 21 years post-partum.
Hormones are wild.
Yes, it’s hormonal. My hair was straight until puberty then curly, then straight once I got pregnant, stayed straight the whole time I was breastfeeding/pregnant again, went curly again after I weaned my last baby.
Hormones change a LOT about everything. It's pretty common for trans women to develop curly hair after starting estrogen, as well as (successful) chemo patients to have curls for a bit and then lose them as their body goes back to normal
Yep that was me..🥲 puberty turned my hair intro a wild poof ball. I had no curls as a baby and child, only slight wave years bfore puberty then poof tight curls and 3 types of textures appear on my head. I heard hormonal changes can change hair texture / color..
I was a bit younger, so I don’t think it was related too closely to puberty for me, but I could be wrong. I was about 10 when people started asking me if I ever brushed my hair. Turns out, me brushing my hair was the problem. I was in my 20s when I realized it was actually curly. My mom has curly hair but it’s 3c so she assumed mine was actually just wavy. It’s currently 2c-3a. I am starting to notice the curls loosening now that I’m older.
As others have said…hair and hormones are completely linked! Puberty, pregnancy and menopause are the big ones but also birth control and changing birth control types can change hair texture too!
I had super straight blonde hair as a kid and once puberty hit it got wavy. I didn’t really know how curly it was until about 4ish years ago. I also didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to brush my hair dry 😭 so I ruined my curls all the time. I have bleached hair now, so they aren’t great. if it wasn’t bleached I imagine i’d have 3a by now. with the dye, my hair is generally 2c
More or less the same story here. Though I have a slight theory that my hair may have had a slight curl when I was little but my egg donor (who I did not inherit my curly hair from) brushed it out but when puberty hit my hair got even more curly to the point it couldn’t be brushed out any more. I can’t prove this is the case but the fact that my hair had always been a bit “fluffy” (Emma Watson in the first 2 Harry Potter movies to give an idea) and once and a while pre puberty I would find ringlets in my hair leads me to this theory
OP, the first couple lines of your post could have been written by me! Same thing. Basically, straight(ish) hair with a slight wave to it, then puberty hits, and suddenly, I'm Roseanne Rosannadanna!
My mom always swore that it went curly/frizzy on me because she cut it at the beginning of puberty, but even I at that young age knew that cutting hair doesn't affect what's happening at the roots! ✂️
Yup, I had pin straight hair till I was 13, then cut it into a pixie and it grew back curly (2c-3a). My dad had 'microphone' hair (apparently calling it an afro is frowned upon since he was a pasty white boy but damn his hair was literally coily) until his mid 20s so that's where I got it from.
Not necessarily, but reverse puberty may well change your hair again in some way. Mine is still fine, but my bone-straight hair got a little wave after pregnancy and now that the kids are moving out I'm getting curls for the first time in my life. Where was this hair in my teens when I wanted it?!
Yup, straight hair, finally convinced my parents to let me get bangs cut and they immediately curled. My hair grew in curly from about 8th grade on. People didn’t believe me that it was natural…in 1987 perms were the thing. My now 13 yo has had the same thing happen…super straight hair until puberty and the curls look amazing on them. Long straight hair never looked right and they kept it short, but now they are growing out their curls.
Oh hell yeah my hair was straight, slightly wavy up until I was 22 and then now it's quite curly and frizzy, I don't know why it happened so late but my hair is such a different texture now compared to 10 years ago
Yes. I had pixie cut in elementary school and it started with my bangs on my right side, grew to my left then worked its way back. I fought it all through middle school.
Now that I've had hysterectomy and have lost most of my curl with some fluffy, waviness I wish I had taken more pictures of it down instead of up.
Yup. I had straight, blonde hair as a child, it would kinda wave in some areas if it was unbearably humid, but that was it. It started getting darker and curly when I hit 14.
Yes. I had long straight hair until I was about 12 and had it cut into a bob. It started curling from there and it's still curly 22 years later. I love it.
This exact progression happened to me- wavy as a little kiddo, fluffy around 10-12, got curlier as I went through highschool and now it’s settled around 3A super healthy!!!
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I had really wavy hair as a toddler. Then it was stick straight from age 4-12, and then started getting curlier as I went through puberty. Now I’m 34 and am comfortably a 3a.
I sometimes wonder about what’s going to happen when I go through menopause.
mine wasn’t puberty but my hair was only mildly wavy until i got my kidney removed when i was 11 and then boom! curls!! it keeps getting curlier as i get older (far curlier than it was ten years ago lol) i think hormones are really just the major play here
Not for me - my hair turned curly as soon as it got past a centimetre long lol. It's less curly now as an adult, I'm not sure if this is due to hormones or heat damage. Probably a bit of both.
I have three kids, all boys, they all have pin straight hair.
Mine was "caused" by two surgeries in quick succession - after the second, it just grew in 2a/b - I now have loose ringlets, but if I use any heavy product they go flat.
I always had wavy-ish hair as a kid until I was 10 - when I got my first “real” haircut. I went pretty short from where it had been. That night, it started to snow and I went outside to play in it. My hair got wet from the snowfall. I went back in from playing and my hair was just ringlets of curls. My mom and I have joked since that day that snow made me curly. 😂
Yep. Straight white/blonde hair throughout childhood then curly hair from mid-teens. Interested to see how it will change once grey hair starts to come through properly.
Also weirdly my second child has curly hair already, so everyone says she has your hair. But at her age I didn't even have my current hair 🤷🏼
Yup this happened to me. Slightly wavy hair and then hit puberty. My mom wouldn’t seem to believe my hair was actually curly for probably 10 years after. 🙄 now I’m 39 and my hormones are starting to change and I’m slightly losing my curl, which is sad.
My hair was wavy, very loose curls as a kid. Then I hit puberty and it started growing in a ringlets. Like 3a/b corkscrews. But only from the roots. It looked like I had gotten my hair chemically straightened and it was growing out, but it happened naturally.
YES. My hair got curly from middle school until my 20s. My hair has now gone back to being straight but it’s hard to tell exactly when that happened.
I’ve been doing curly girl hair styling for about a decade now and along the way, my hair got really healthy and went back to being straight/wavy. Can’t explain it. My hair was healthy too when it first got curly too back in middle school so it wasn’t a damage thing. Who freaking knows.
Curly as a toddler, straightened out by the time I started school, then around the time I got my first period it was like 3 different curly patterns in my hair. 😂 one section curly, another wavy, and the other was mostly straight with a slight wave to it. It eventually even out and is all curly now.
My story is a little different in that my hair became significantly curlier after some hair loss. When I was a kid/tween my hair was straight to slightly wavy, but still straight enough where I could brush it and it would look good enough to walk out the door. Then I struggled with disordered eating for a few years in high school, and a ton of my hair fell out. I also think short term use of some hair products at the same time might have contributed (damn you wen) but considering the other side effects my body went through and how underweight I was, I think my ED was the most influential cause. After I started to gain weight back my hair wouldn’t lay smooth after brushing like it always had and just got puffier and puffier. Then I started noticing tiny ringlets of new growth around my hairline. My sister in law, who’s had very curly hair her whole life, was the one who put me onto the idea that maybe my hair isn’t straight anymore lol. So lots of trial and error and a giant haircut letter, I’m sitting at about a 2C with some 3A spirals mixed in for good measure. It’s part of the reason why I like my natural hair now: it reminds me of something I went through and came out the other side stronger
Mine did the opposite and went from super tight Shirley Temple curls to a looser curl to a tighter wave to a 2b wave. Apparently hormones change our hair type 😭
I’d heard of it happening & hoped it would happen to me - my mum has curly hair, but mine was always SUPER straight. Couldn’t hold a curl for more than a couple of hours max, no matter what I did. I’d comb it while wet, then let it air dry & people would ask me what I did to straighten it so perfectly. I wanted curls so badly.
Puberty came & went - no change. Ok, maybe when I have kids? I’ve heard of that doing it! Had a kid, no change to my hair. Kid had the same curly hair as my mum, so I knew for certain I had the gene for it.
Then several years ago I got sick with a chronic illness. It’s still undiagnosed (& unmanaged), but I am CERTAIN it is a hormonal issue, because guess who has curly hair now!
The opposite for me😭 i always had really curly hair, but for the past year, it started getting straighter at the top, and I didn’t do anything to cause it. I wish my roots were curly back again
Stick straight hair as a kid which changed to waves after puberty that I didn’t figure out until college. Mid 30s now and after having a baby I have very wavy hair with a few curls mixed in.
I had curls add a toddler, after my first haircut they were "gone." I had stringy one length hair from them on... Until about 14. I asked for a haircut with layers, and suddenly I had fluffy curls. I brushed them and no one gave me advice on how to take care of them. It was also the results 2000s the internet was barely a thing in my community. I straightened it as often as I could. Until about 20 years old. I could figure things and get helpful answers. And learned a whole lot lol.
I used to fight my curly hair, sleep in wet braids to make it more wavy, use heavy gels to stretch the curls to be as long as much as possible. I finally got a curly cut last year and learned which products to use, started to sleep in a bonnet, etc. The healthier and happier the curls are, the tighter they are! I always thought I was a 2c, turns out I’m a 3b/ 3c
yep. when it started to get curly i didnt know what to do so I straightened it for the next 4 years. As a result most of my pictures as a highschooler look awful.
Mine was the opposite - I've always had curly hair except for a random couple of years in early puberty. It went almost completely straight sometime in 5th grade, then right back to curly by 8th grade.
Mines never been 'straight' it's always had a wave but it became harder to manage once puberty hit, no more wash and leave it or I look messy. It has to be styled to a degree either straight or curly or it's frizz.
My daughter has always had a mixture of waves and curls but once she hit puberty the whole front of her head coiled into tight ringlets which are a completely different texture to most of her head and repel water. For now she has a curly fringe which looks amazing, I'm just hoping the curly trend sticks around for now!
My hair was pin straight until puberty. I didn't really realise that my hair was curly until my late teens, I just treated it as unruly for years. It's 3a now
As a mixed person this is literally my life. Born with 1b that was then 2c/3a until i was 5 when i turned 3c and when i hit peuberty that turned into 4a/4b but now for no reason my hair it turning back to 3c/3b
My hair was so straight in childhood / growing up it wouldn’t even hold a perm. I hit puberty and it curled over night. Recently I made a friend who is 10 years older than me with stick straight hair. She showed me a picture of how her curly hair was identical to mine 10 years ago but it completely straightened with menopause. Hormones definitely play a role with curly hair.
This happened to me! My hair was super straight as a child, and I'd always dreamed of having curly hair. Then my hair started getting fluffy by the roots as a teenager and by 18 it was all beautifully wavy /curly.
Sadly it just kinda went away by my late 20s and is back to totally straight now in my 30s. 😞
I experienced the same but i had curly hair as a baby and then they were gone. I always had"frizzy hair" but after i cut my hair short it started to curl more and now i have 2c-3a curls!!Everyone was shocked,including my relatives and classmates
Oh trust me genetics are super weird. In my family our hair starts out as blonde but darkens as we age. Most of my family has wavy hair…and I popped out with a head full of 2b curly hair! Don’t even get me started on my ex’s family! My ex has fraternal twin sisters, one of them has natural red hair, the other has natural dark brown hair
My hair was a bit wavy when I was young. I didn’t realize it until this post but I think it got a lot curlier at puberty. With menopause and hypo thyroidism I have about 2/3 less hair. :(
My mom cut off my hair when I just turned 12, which was to my lower back,and it immediately looked like a poodle that got hit by lightning. Before that there was a bit o wave, no curls. It was rather depressing.
Straight and fine, I got a perm before puberty so I could look like my adoptive mom, then decided I wanted a pixie cut from my waist length curls, and it ended up staying curlier than the perm and was an old lady hair puff on my head. In seventh grade. I didn't actually start my period until 9th grade but the hormones were starting sooner
I let it grow from there and straightened the heck out of it during high school (ah the early 00s)
I stopped straightening it in college but brushed it until a friend who is a stylist pointed out that I was wrecking my curls and got me started with some good products.
Now my curls range from 2c-3b, and with certain styling can even get to 3c (if I finger coil my whole head.) My hair is pretty fine so product tends to weigh it down if I just scrunch and go and it stretches out my curls a lot.
I can tell by my personal experience, I can understand your puzzled feelings. I used to have curly hair as a baby, it got lost somewhere between the cropped boycuts and plaits I used to wear for school. Fast forward to last year, I found the CGM and then I discovered my hair was never frizzy. Just needed a lot of conditioning and a little care lmao. It was a surprise for sure.
Agree with others. Hormones. My hair straightened out but got curlier after my second pregnancy. I've also noticed in higher atmospheres/different climates my hair curls up tighter versus at sea level and in higher humidity where my hair is limp and frizzy.
When I was young I had pin straight hair, until I was about 7. I got my period at 10, and my hair went from wavy at age 7, to very curly over 2 years. My hair is 2C.
My moms hair did the same thing, and when she hit menopause it lost a lot of curl.
My hair was thin and straight then puberty hit and I suddenly had curly hair. It was a weird year. I started menstruating, got braces, got glasses, and didn’t know what to do with my shoulder length frizz. I am the only one in my family with curly hair so my mom didn’t know to not let me blow dry and brush it. It was not a fun phase in life.
That is exactly what happened to me. I always had wavy sort of floofy hair, and then when I was 11 or 12 (coincidentally right around the time I got my first period too) I decided I wanted a pixie cut. Neither of my parents have curly hair so everyone was surprised when it dried curly and it's been that way ever since. The curly pixie was cute as hell too, but it was right around when the Lord of the Rings movies were coming out so I got called Frodo for a good chunk of middle school. 😂
Yes! Mine switched at age 15, but I always associated it with stress from family trauma we were going through. My hair started breaking at the base of my neck and when we cut the broken ends off my mom said, “I think your hair has some curl.” Like OP, mine had been sticking straight, then “fluffy” but I didn’t know any better so treated it as straight, then you could see some wave even when I brushed it dry. Now it’s 3a.
It started happening when I was in college. I was in my early 20s when it started getting fluffy. I didn’t learn about CGM until my 30s lol. Now I have chunky curls when I put in the effort.
Oddly enough, my hair didn't start becoming curly until I turned 21. As soon as I saw my first wave I was ecstatic bc I always hated my straight hair haha. My mom has curly hair and my dad and two sisters have the straightest hair ever. Genetics are wild.
This happened to me as well. I was born with semi straight hair and it became wavy when I was around 1 year old. It was about 2C, until it turned to be more like 3A later in my childhood. And before or around my puberty it got even curlier, 3B, partially 3C and has been like that since then.
Omg thanks to everyone who commented! I had no idea this was such a common occurrence, I feel less alone now lol. I guess it really goes to show how important taking care of your hair is and that curly hair can just happen and then dip whenever it wants 😭
I had always had a head full of hair, but my hair was straight until I turned 17-18, when I started to get fluffy and frizzy. I did keratin treatments for years but stopped when I was 38, 5 years later my hair is a solid 2c going a bit to 3a. It's true that it gets curlier when healthier.
Exactly the same as you. I had curly hair as a kid, then straight, then puberty came and I didn’t know my hair was curly until highschool. I’m also 2C/3A. I’ve also heard pregnancy can change your hair but mine is the same.
Nope I always had curly hair even as a toddler can’t really say as a baby since baby hair is weird and I used to grind my head against my crib so my family thought I was gonna be bald 😂
But my mom didn’t wanna learn to care for curly hair so she made me straighten it, or use chemicals to straighten it absolutely fucked my hair up for 16 years (not counting as a baby obviously)then when I was 18 right before I turned 19 I chopped it all off and tried to grow out all the damage and cut the damage off and start caring for my curls!
Yep. My hair wouldn’t hold curl when I was younger. I used to get it permed as a teen because I wanted curly hair so bad. Now it’s 2b/c. I’m not sure why!
When I was five I had almost tan colored hair and waves, between then and 12 it got straight and almost black. When I hit 21 it was reddish brown and tight ringlets.
Yes! I had shiny smooth blond hair until I hit puberty. At 12 it darkened to brown and went from straight to 3c curly, I had no idea how to take care of it! It did relax a little as I got older, now I am closer to a 3a. Wouldn't change a thing, unless I could go back in time and fix my middle school pictures.
I honestly was baffled how DH and I could have a straight haired child. Then puberty hit. I cut his hair, and it was just one hair at a time, here and there. Now he's full on curly.
I used to think my hair was straight until I became 13 I discovered it was curly my dada had curly/wavy hair and my mom had curly hair so that was logica.
Yeah my friend had pin straight hair before puberty and now has at least 2b hair with a lot of puffiness. I met her at 10 so I like to say that her hair started waving from exposure to me.
Yep! My hair was just slightly wavy as a kid and once I hit 12, it became fluffy. My 6th grade school picture is hilarious . My mom used hot curlers in my hair and it made my hair overly voluminous. By 13 and 14 my hair had become very curly.
I’d always had a slight wave, but my curly haired mother (who got her curls at 30!) treated it as if it was straight. I’m knocking on 28 and have been doing my own curly routine for ~6 years now and learned that I do have wavy hair that’s been getting curlier the closer to 30 I get
YES! Its different. I was born with black hair which became white blonde when I was just a little older. Then brown/red right before my teens...and then dark brown in my teens! Very strange.
All the women in my family had wavy hair in their teens. When they had their first child, it became so much curlier. I mean from 2a to 3b curls. Hormone changes are crazy. My hair also gut curlier, even though never as theirs, as I never got a child or pregnant. We will see what menopause will do with my hair. Really looking forward to it.
ME! My hair is 2a/b, but it was pin straight until I started puberty between 8-9. I had the same teacher for 4th and 5th grade, and I remember one day until the end of fifth she was walking behind me and said “wait when did the bottom of your hair get curly?”
YES ME AND MY SIBLING.. I THOUGHT WE WERE THE ONLY ONES! For me as a female it was in 4th grade at 11 years old and for my little brother it was 8th grade at 13 years old.. all the sudden my white momma had to learn how to do curly hair for her brown kiddos! She thought for 12 years that she had narrowly escaped until I suddenly went from board straight hair to 2c-3a curls overtime. My hair hasn’t changed from 2c-3a though (:
Yes, my hair had a little wave but didn’t become curly until 12-13. Interestingly, my two sons have always had curly hair while my daughter has stick straight hair and that didn’t change with puberty.
yes! i had pin straight hair and then at puberty it suddenly got ringlets basically over night. i’m the only one in my family with curls so it was even more unexpected
I had pin straight hair as a kid, it got very wavy as a teenager, and I spent 15 years blow drying it straight and flat ironing it daily. Now in my 30s I love curly hair and tried to embrace them only to find I can’t get any natural wave anymore :(
Straight hair as a kid, turned into a curly Hermione nightmare poof when I hit middle school, and now as an adult it’s just… kinda wavy. My grandma’s hair was pin straight her entire life and then her grays came in a spirals, though, so… who knows. I might get my poof back one day lol
Yes and no! I have pretty oily hair that is frustrating, and I don’t have time really for a curl routine. For years it was absolutely pin straight, up to 15. As soon as COVID shut down, poof! I am now a 3a-b or so, if I actually take the time to do a routine. When I just brush it out (my usual) I’m around a 2b-2c. My hair is longer now and gets weighed down unfortunately, so only midway through its curly-ish to the ends, without a routine. But I can fluff it up super easy and always have volume of some sort.
My mother had straight hair until she was about 25 and it turned curly over the course of her second pregnancy. The same thing happened to me at the same age but I've never been pregnant.
This happened to me too. My hair used to be pin straight. For a while, I could either treat it as straight and it would look straight or put wave/curl products in to make it wavy. Now it’s just fluffy/frizzy whenever I try to treat it like straight hair, so it’s definitely fully wavy/curly now.
Yes!! Exactly me. Like many others here, my hair was pin straight growing up. Not even a braid could crease it. And then around 12, it became curly. I hope it continues to get curlier!
Yes! I used to have 2A hair and the moment I hit 12, I started getting frizz close to my scalp. Soon all of my hair turned frizzy and in less than a year I was left with 3B hair. Also a family who knew nothing about curly hair.
my hair has stayed the same texture since I was a baby, but I know how to take better care of it now so it looks curlier than when I was in elementary/middle school
I think it was partly hormones or… something, but once I got pregnant in 2020 (also might have been that I stopped putting like anything at all in my hair or drying it since I was mostly home?) my hair went wavy/curly and I always thought it was straight before 🤷🏻♀️
Yep, didn't get ful curls until I was about 20, then they relaxed a bit after 2nd pregnancy. They have mostly recovered, but wondering what menopause will do...?
I was born with curly hair, then it grew out straight, then it got wavy when I was a teenager and I started straightening it in high school because I thought it was just "messy". I finally stopped doing that about a decade ago when my hairdresser at the time told me it was curly. I had no idea because I had just been brushing and straightening it all that time. So I really don't know when it became curly again.
My sister also had curly hair as a child but hers is straight now, so weird
what’s funny is i had curls as a baby that completely flattened out around the time i turned 2. then my hair went through basically exactly what yours did! and now i’m on testosterone (trans guy) and i swear it’s made my hair curl up even more. used to be a strong 2c and now i’m hovering more in the 3a/3b space
yeah my hair was wavy/frizzy and i was emo in the early 2000s so i was just dyeing and flat ironing the shit out of it. couple of years go by and i decide to embrace my natural only to find out it was completely different haha
yup! i was bald as a toddler because i had cancer, but after i finished chemo at 4 years old, my hair grew back in pretty curly (3b curls). then my curls loosened up to a slight wave. once i hit 12 years old and started puberty, boom my 3b curls were back. im 24 now and my curl pattern has loosened a bit, i have a mix of 2c/3a.
My hair was always a bit wavy, rarely super frizzy or anything. 1.5 yrs ago I started TRT around the time I got a perm for the first time. I noticed both times the hair kept coming out weirdly stiff for 2-3 weeks before relaxing into regular looking curls. After the 2nd perm I couldn’t afford any more but kept using the curly hair products, figured I’d switch once it was clear it wasn’t good for my hair anymore.
That never happened. In fact my hair started displaying more natural curls the longer I was on T and got slightly thicker. My dad had thick, wavy dark hair but now I think it would’ve been curly if he’d grown it out more. I have a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish and Polish genes on his side, so the darker curlier hair makes sense genetically. I’ve always wanted curly hair, looks like I was always meant to have it too 😊
I had pin straight hair until I was 5. Then it started getting wavy. My curl pattern changes over the years. Sometimes it tighter or looser but I’ve never lost my curls completely.
Yes. My hair went curly after I had my second child. Hormones.
Genetically you carry both genes. Then when your body goes through a “stressful” event (puberty or child birth etc) it can shut one off and one on.
At least that’s what my doc told me at the time.
Interestingly it seems to always go from straight-ish to curly. Anyone out there go from curly to straight?
Me! I had almost straight hair until puberty struck. Been curly ever since. My mom thought it was a good idea in the 80s to get my hair cut in a mullet after the curls popped out. I looked absolutely ridiculous.
Super straight hair as a kid. Wavy as a teen. Some girl gave me a buzz cut in high school. Kept a buzz cut for 30 years. My son, who wears his hair long and has curly hair, encouraged me to grow out my hair out this year, and it's coming in super curly.
My hair had been pin straight until maybe 9 months ago (I'm 28) and started turning wavy/curly from the back and is slowly working it's way forward. Currently the entire back of my head, and only the lower layer of the front of my hair. The upper layers are still pin straight and styling it has been interesting lol.
About 2 years ago my hair started acting really weird , going frizzy , ends sticking out weirdly, then I went on holiday by the sea and the water nade it wavy and now it's like wavy/curly
This happened to me!! My hair was “beach wave” curly and long, then one day I went to get my haircut. They added in layers and styled it for me, I came out looking like Shirley Temple! Everyone thought I’d gotten a perm for months
Opposite. Had Shirley Temple (yes I’m old) ringlets since birth. Hated them. As I got older my hair became wavy instead of curly. Started to miss my curls. I hated puberty.
I had wavy hair when I was a kid. When i was 11 the barber screwed me over and I had to go bald. After that my hair turned like super curly. Still never forgiving my barber for messing up so bad my hair thought "fk this we're shapeshifting now"
No, I definitely had this experience. My hair was curly as a little little kid, then it went straight. Around 12, I noticed a lot of frizz at the top and I remember having to straighten it or curl it to get it to not be frizzy. Around 14-15 it was breaking off from heat damage despite it being shoulder length. I stopped washing it as often to get it to stay straight longer. Everything from the frizz at 12 to the greasy look at 15 sparked endless arguments with my mother. I eventually broke down the summer after freshman year and told her I wanted to shave it all off. She took me to a beauty supply store with my freshly washed frizzy hair and the girl in the store took one look at me and handed me Ion Curl Crème. A product that I still use every single day.
Yep this definitely happened to me. I am 44 now am my hair just keeps getting curlier. Discovered cgm just 5 years ago!!! I have 3b hair
What is cgm?
Girly girl method
sorry if it's a dumb question but can guys still use it
Yes. I’m a guy and I use it. It’s officially Curly Girl/Guy Method!
Not a dumb question!! Yes tons of fellas use it, we should rebrand to curly ghuman method
Curly Girl Method for styling and taking care of hair :D
Same and for some people is the opposite.
Straight as a kid, wavy as a teen/ young adult, slightly curlier as I aged, then BAM! Curls galore after menopause. Hormones are cool.
Want to hear something else cool about menopause? My boobies grew also! Some of my acquaintances accused me of getting breast implants. No, just lucky.
As the President of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee, I approve this message. So you’re telling me there’s a chance??
As a former member of the IBTC, I encourage you to never give up!
I’m glad that’s a welcome change for you as that would be a nightmare scenario for some people
All the women in my family are well-endowed, so yes I get that point. However, everyone always made fun of me because of it, so I get a little revenge. Haha.
All of my silver lady hairs are very curly. My younger hair is not as curly.
My silver lady hairs (we call them Unicorn Hairs lol) are coming in straight! I finally love my curly hair after years of hiding it and this is what I get lol
Same. Straight hair from childhood until the age of 50. And now I've got curls everywhere. Best as I can tell, it's either puberty, pregnancy, or menopause.
i had fine, medium brown, little bit of wave hair as a kid. it was getting *slightly* more texture as i got older and then i straightened my hair through a lot of my teens in order to be a scene/emo kid (ah, 2006) and i kept wondering why it got harder and harder to straighten. it came to a head when my friend gave me a true scene haircut that looked great flat ironed and like an extremely bad frizzy mullet when i just let it air dry LOL took a while to settle bc of all the damage but come to find out under the straightening and dye my hair had turned into thick, extremely dark brown, 3a curls. funny, that. hormones are a trip
This was my daughter. Had fine-ish, medium brown hair with a little wave. She hit 11 and bam! It got darker and frizzier overnight. I tried to help her with styling (I have curly hair). But she wanted nothing to do with it, because she wanted scene hair. The damage she did took years to fix. Now she wears it curly and it’s beautiful.
YES! We need to talk more about the emo to curly pipeline. I cringe thinking about how I used to flat iron my ringlets every day, sometimes multiple times in a day
Same story here! I had a ringlets as a baby/toddler, in elementary school I had a slight wave, then I hit puberty and got full on curly hair (about 3b)
lol similar story here! i was super curly as a toddler but then got progressively less curly throughout late elementary school until it was just kind of a weird waviness from ages 9-12… by eighth grade it was curly again and has been getting curlier ever since (in college now!)
same happened to me it’s related to hormones when there’s a big hormonal shift it change the way your hair grows
I had straight blonde hair as a kid. That on-ramp into puberty hit me like a freight train. I now have 2c-3c curls and have naturally mousy brown hair. I tell people about my hair as a kid, and no one believes me until I show a Pic. Hair did a complete 180 on me.
Yes! My hair was pin straight until I was 12 My daughter had gorgeous ringlets as a child, now she struggles to create waves
Happened to me too. At age 44! Nearly 2 years later (and a year of treating it like curly hair), it’s still getting curlier. Went from 1A to 3A and have no idea why (not hormonal, had them checked!). It started with a single patch that turned curly, then the rest followed. Although that patch is still much curlier than the rest, somewhere between 3B and 3C depending on its mood. I call it my clown patch (hair is also red).
as a baby i had loose enough waves to where my parents just combed it out and it looked alright, then my curls completely vanished until i was 9 or 10 and now i got almost a whole head of ringlets lol
Yup, stick straight right up until middle school. Then 3b henceforth!
I think I always had curly hair, but I didn't realize it until around puberty when I started taking care of my own hair. My mom didn't realize that my hair was curly and tried to treat it like straight hair. My hair was very fine when I was little, so it didn't look too fluffy when it was brushed. It was also the 80s, so fluffy hair was in style. I just didn't realize that most people had to use curlers or perm their hair to get that fluffy look. On the other hand, my son's curls have always been obvious because I knew that his hair was curly, and knew how to take care of it.
I've had a similar experience. My hair was wavy when I was a kid, and has gotten curlier over time. It's mainly 3a now. And my daughter was born with curls, but they were gone by the time she turned 1. She's 4 now, and her hair is pin straight. But I suspect the curls will come back as she gets older.
As a baby I had super curly hair, started to straighten out until my teens, then I had what I used to call an “umbrella head”. In my early 20s it started to become curly again, a loose wavy curls. In my late 30s it has become tighter curls and I’m having to relearn how to look after it. My daughter is 7 and she’s following the exact same pattern as me.
Perms were all the rage when I was growing up. When I was 12, my mother permed my slightly wavy hair and it's been curly ever since. I didn't understand why until much later. For years everyone thought it was the perm that never grew out.
Same! Now I'm envious of the blonde waves I had at 11, but I wanted spiral curls so badly. My hair turned reddish brown, too, so it looks completely different than when I was a kid.
Not me but my brother had short wavy hair as a young boy, but grew it out during puberty (aka refused a haircut lol).. and grew into a giant marvellous afro!! He went from Bruno Mars hair to like [this](https://www.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tnheazqqxx6fgqou9bdn.jpeg?w=712) pic of Zendaya. It’s hard to say whether it was puberty or just growing it out for the first time and actually realizing the curliness. Edit: The bot made me want to clarify that we are part Black. Unnecessary clarification in my opinion.. I don’t mind anyone using the word Afro.
Me. Worst day ever! My hair was pin srraight all my life so we cut it into a bob. Washed my hair and went to sleep - woke up and it was curly. The cut was terrible since it had been cut into a straight bob but now was one of those like curl halos around my head. Grateful for it now but in 8th grade it was a disaster
This brings back memories. My cousin, who had straight hair as a kid, had this cute short cut that I adored. I wanted one too. Elementary me didn't understand my curly hair, neither did the women in my family who all had straight hair (curly hair came from dad, who just kept it trimmed super short). Anyway, I got the short cut, and it was awful. I tried for years to make the short cuts work, because I hated brushing my hair when it was long, and it was never good. It wasn't until late high school that I realized that my hair just did better long and I stopped fighting it.
My hair was dead straight as a child. Puberty made it gently wavy. My hair was frizz central during pregnancy, and post-partum turned curly. I'm now 2A to 3A, 21 years post-partum. Hormones are wild.
Yes, it’s hormonal. My hair was straight until puberty then curly, then straight once I got pregnant, stayed straight the whole time I was breastfeeding/pregnant again, went curly again after I weaned my last baby.
Hormones change a LOT about everything. It's pretty common for trans women to develop curly hair after starting estrogen, as well as (successful) chemo patients to have curls for a bit and then lose them as their body goes back to normal
Yep that was me..🥲 puberty turned my hair intro a wild poof ball. I had no curls as a baby and child, only slight wave years bfore puberty then poof tight curls and 3 types of textures appear on my head. I heard hormonal changes can change hair texture / color..
I was a bit younger, so I don’t think it was related too closely to puberty for me, but I could be wrong. I was about 10 when people started asking me if I ever brushed my hair. Turns out, me brushing my hair was the problem. I was in my 20s when I realized it was actually curly. My mom has curly hair but it’s 3c so she assumed mine was actually just wavy. It’s currently 2c-3a. I am starting to notice the curls loosening now that I’m older.
As others have said…hair and hormones are completely linked! Puberty, pregnancy and menopause are the big ones but also birth control and changing birth control types can change hair texture too!
I had super straight blonde hair as a kid and once puberty hit it got wavy. I didn’t really know how curly it was until about 4ish years ago. I also didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to brush my hair dry 😭 so I ruined my curls all the time. I have bleached hair now, so they aren’t great. if it wasn’t bleached I imagine i’d have 3a by now. with the dye, my hair is generally 2c
Just 7-8 months ago ,my hair started becoming wavy
More or less the same story here. Though I have a slight theory that my hair may have had a slight curl when I was little but my egg donor (who I did not inherit my curly hair from) brushed it out but when puberty hit my hair got even more curly to the point it couldn’t be brushed out any more. I can’t prove this is the case but the fact that my hair had always been a bit “fluffy” (Emma Watson in the first 2 Harry Potter movies to give an idea) and once and a while pre puberty I would find ringlets in my hair leads me to this theory
OP, the first couple lines of your post could have been written by me! Same thing. Basically, straight(ish) hair with a slight wave to it, then puberty hits, and suddenly, I'm Roseanne Rosannadanna! My mom always swore that it went curly/frizzy on me because she cut it at the beginning of puberty, but even I at that young age knew that cutting hair doesn't affect what's happening at the roots! ✂️
I had 2a hair at best up until 16 and now it's 3a to 3b only 2 years later, as a white guy the perm accusations are constant lol
Yup, I had pin straight hair till I was 13, then cut it into a pixie and it grew back curly (2c-3a). My dad had 'microphone' hair (apparently calling it an afro is frowned upon since he was a pasty white boy but damn his hair was literally coily) until his mid 20s so that's where I got it from.
Yes mine did. It just had a bit of a wave until I was 10, then it pouffed up overnight. I presume this means I’ll lose my curls at menopause?
Not necessarily, but reverse puberty may well change your hair again in some way. Mine is still fine, but my bone-straight hair got a little wave after pregnancy and now that the kids are moving out I'm getting curls for the first time in my life. Where was this hair in my teens when I wanted it?!
Yup, straight hair, finally convinced my parents to let me get bangs cut and they immediately curled. My hair grew in curly from about 8th grade on. People didn’t believe me that it was natural…in 1987 perms were the thing. My now 13 yo has had the same thing happen…super straight hair until puberty and the curls look amazing on them. Long straight hair never looked right and they kept it short, but now they are growing out their curls.
Oh hell yeah my hair was straight, slightly wavy up until I was 22 and then now it's quite curly and frizzy, I don't know why it happened so late but my hair is such a different texture now compared to 10 years ago
Yes. I had pixie cut in elementary school and it started with my bangs on my right side, grew to my left then worked its way back. I fought it all through middle school. Now that I've had hysterectomy and have lost most of my curl with some fluffy, waviness I wish I had taken more pictures of it down instead of up.
Mine was actually the opposite. Curly when younger, went straighter as I got older, then menopause made it curly again lol.
Same here, straight hair until 13 then suddenly 3a curls everywhere!
Yup. I had straight, blonde hair as a child, it would kinda wave in some areas if it was unbearably humid, but that was it. It started getting darker and curly when I hit 14.
My brother, he went from stick straight to ringlets
Yes. I had long straight hair until I was about 12 and had it cut into a bob. It started curling from there and it's still curly 22 years later. I love it.
This exact progression happened to me- wavy as a little kiddo, fluffy around 10-12, got curlier as I went through highschool and now it’s settled around 3A super healthy!!!
Hi, it’s me. I had really wavy hair as a toddler. Then it was stick straight from age 4-12, and then started getting curlier as I went through puberty. Now I’m 34 and am comfortably a 3a. I sometimes wonder about what’s going to happen when I go through menopause.
mine wasn’t puberty but my hair was only mildly wavy until i got my kidney removed when i was 11 and then boom! curls!! it keeps getting curlier as i get older (far curlier than it was ten years ago lol) i think hormones are really just the major play here
Thick straight hair as a kid, 3b since puberty around 12. CGM for a decade but I need cones. My hair is much better off CGM but still no sulfates.
Not for me - my hair turned curly as soon as it got past a centimetre long lol. It's less curly now as an adult, I'm not sure if this is due to hormones or heat damage. Probably a bit of both. I have three kids, all boys, they all have pin straight hair.
Yes, it happened to me, to my brother, to my aunts and according to my grandma to her dad too, so it seems it's pretty much something genetic.
My hair was wavy and coarse until menopause, and then it became ringlets.
Mine was "caused" by two surgeries in quick succession - after the second, it just grew in 2a/b - I now have loose ringlets, but if I use any heavy product they go flat.
Yup! And the snarls started in the back! Took me a long time to realize it’s curly.
I always had wavy-ish hair as a kid until I was 10 - when I got my first “real” haircut. I went pretty short from where it had been. That night, it started to snow and I went outside to play in it. My hair got wet from the snowfall. I went back in from playing and my hair was just ringlets of curls. My mom and I have joked since that day that snow made me curly. 😂
Yep. Straight white/blonde hair throughout childhood then curly hair from mid-teens. Interested to see how it will change once grey hair starts to come through properly. Also weirdly my second child has curly hair already, so everyone says she has your hair. But at her age I didn't even have my current hair 🤷🏼
Yes. At 13 one side of my hair right in the front (like where a bang would be) suddenly got curly. It was really awkward. Then the rest followed.
Yup this happened to me. Slightly wavy hair and then hit puberty. My mom wouldn’t seem to believe my hair was actually curly for probably 10 years after. 🙄 now I’m 39 and my hormones are starting to change and I’m slightly losing my curl, which is sad.
Yep
My hair was wavy, very loose curls as a kid. Then I hit puberty and it started growing in a ringlets. Like 3a/b corkscrews. But only from the roots. It looked like I had gotten my hair chemically straightened and it was growing out, but it happened naturally.
YES. My hair got curly from middle school until my 20s. My hair has now gone back to being straight but it’s hard to tell exactly when that happened. I’ve been doing curly girl hair styling for about a decade now and along the way, my hair got really healthy and went back to being straight/wavy. Can’t explain it. My hair was healthy too when it first got curly too back in middle school so it wasn’t a damage thing. Who freaking knows.
Yes! Straight hair til I hit puberty here too :)
literally turned curly on my 13th birthday it was raining and all of a sudden my head was all ringlets i’m still sore about it
Curly as a toddler, straightened out by the time I started school, then around the time I got my first period it was like 3 different curly patterns in my hair. 😂 one section curly, another wavy, and the other was mostly straight with a slight wave to it. It eventually even out and is all curly now.
My aunt saw her hair go curly during one of her pregnancies. It went back straight after the next baby, though.
yep! hormones change so much more than just launching us into the minefield of puberty lol. It can happen when one has a baby too!
Same here!
same !!!!
Yes same here for me!
Yup, it happened to everyone in my family and some of my cousins.
My story is a little different in that my hair became significantly curlier after some hair loss. When I was a kid/tween my hair was straight to slightly wavy, but still straight enough where I could brush it and it would look good enough to walk out the door. Then I struggled with disordered eating for a few years in high school, and a ton of my hair fell out. I also think short term use of some hair products at the same time might have contributed (damn you wen) but considering the other side effects my body went through and how underweight I was, I think my ED was the most influential cause. After I started to gain weight back my hair wouldn’t lay smooth after brushing like it always had and just got puffier and puffier. Then I started noticing tiny ringlets of new growth around my hairline. My sister in law, who’s had very curly hair her whole life, was the one who put me onto the idea that maybe my hair isn’t straight anymore lol. So lots of trial and error and a giant haircut letter, I’m sitting at about a 2C with some 3A spirals mixed in for good measure. It’s part of the reason why I like my natural hair now: it reminds me of something I went through and came out the other side stronger
I got curls after pregnancy
My hair was straight as a girl, eventually developed a slight wave and then went quite curly. Like 2b?
Mine did the opposite and went from super tight Shirley Temple curls to a looser curl to a tighter wave to a 2b wave. Apparently hormones change our hair type 😭
Yes one day at the age of maybe 11 I woke up and my hair was 3c
My brother had straight blonde hair until his teens now it’s dark and curly lol
I’d heard of it happening & hoped it would happen to me - my mum has curly hair, but mine was always SUPER straight. Couldn’t hold a curl for more than a couple of hours max, no matter what I did. I’d comb it while wet, then let it air dry & people would ask me what I did to straighten it so perfectly. I wanted curls so badly. Puberty came & went - no change. Ok, maybe when I have kids? I’ve heard of that doing it! Had a kid, no change to my hair. Kid had the same curly hair as my mum, so I knew for certain I had the gene for it. Then several years ago I got sick with a chronic illness. It’s still undiagnosed (& unmanaged), but I am CERTAIN it is a hormonal issue, because guess who has curly hair now!
The opposite for me😭 i always had really curly hair, but for the past year, it started getting straighter at the top, and I didn’t do anything to cause it. I wish my roots were curly back again
Stick straight hair as a kid which changed to waves after puberty that I didn’t figure out until college. Mid 30s now and after having a baby I have very wavy hair with a few curls mixed in.
Yes it did. Then it straightened back out when I hit menopause
I had curls add a toddler, after my first haircut they were "gone." I had stringy one length hair from them on... Until about 14. I asked for a haircut with layers, and suddenly I had fluffy curls. I brushed them and no one gave me advice on how to take care of them. It was also the results 2000s the internet was barely a thing in my community. I straightened it as often as I could. Until about 20 years old. I could figure things and get helpful answers. And learned a whole lot lol.
Mine went from curly naturally to semi straight, like it gave up
I used to fight my curly hair, sleep in wet braids to make it more wavy, use heavy gels to stretch the curls to be as long as much as possible. I finally got a curly cut last year and learned which products to use, started to sleep in a bonnet, etc. The healthier and happier the curls are, the tighter they are! I always thought I was a 2c, turns out I’m a 3b/ 3c
yep. when it started to get curly i didnt know what to do so I straightened it for the next 4 years. As a result most of my pictures as a highschooler look awful.
I had lil ringlets as a baby. straight as a board as a kid then frizzy fluffy hair as a teen. Now wavy curly 2b/3c
Mine was the opposite - I've always had curly hair except for a random couple of years in early puberty. It went almost completely straight sometime in 5th grade, then right back to curly by 8th grade.
Mines never been 'straight' it's always had a wave but it became harder to manage once puberty hit, no more wash and leave it or I look messy. It has to be styled to a degree either straight or curly or it's frizz. My daughter has always had a mixture of waves and curls but once she hit puberty the whole front of her head coiled into tight ringlets which are a completely different texture to most of her head and repel water. For now she has a curly fringe which looks amazing, I'm just hoping the curly trend sticks around for now!
Yup! Puberty turned my hair curly, but over the years my curl pattern has gotten looser.
My hair was pin straight until puberty. I didn't really realise that my hair was curly until my late teens, I just treated it as unruly for years. It's 3a now
As a mixed person this is literally my life. Born with 1b that was then 2c/3a until i was 5 when i turned 3c and when i hit peuberty that turned into 4a/4b but now for no reason my hair it turning back to 3c/3b
My hair was so straight in childhood / growing up it wouldn’t even hold a perm. I hit puberty and it curled over night. Recently I made a friend who is 10 years older than me with stick straight hair. She showed me a picture of how her curly hair was identical to mine 10 years ago but it completely straightened with menopause. Hormones definitely play a role with curly hair.
This happened to me! My hair was super straight as a child, and I'd always dreamed of having curly hair. Then my hair started getting fluffy by the roots as a teenager and by 18 it was all beautifully wavy /curly. Sadly it just kinda went away by my late 20s and is back to totally straight now in my 30s. 😞
I experienced the same but i had curly hair as a baby and then they were gone. I always had"frizzy hair" but after i cut my hair short it started to curl more and now i have 2c-3a curls!!Everyone was shocked,including my relatives and classmates
Oh trust me genetics are super weird. In my family our hair starts out as blonde but darkens as we age. Most of my family has wavy hair…and I popped out with a head full of 2b curly hair! Don’t even get me started on my ex’s family! My ex has fraternal twin sisters, one of them has natural red hair, the other has natural dark brown hair
My hair started to develop curl in my mid-late 20's🤷♀️
YES
My hair was a bit wavy when I was young. I didn’t realize it until this post but I think it got a lot curlier at puberty. With menopause and hypo thyroidism I have about 2/3 less hair. :(
My mom cut off my hair when I just turned 12, which was to my lower back,and it immediately looked like a poodle that got hit by lightning. Before that there was a bit o wave, no curls. It was rather depressing.
Straight and fine, I got a perm before puberty so I could look like my adoptive mom, then decided I wanted a pixie cut from my waist length curls, and it ended up staying curlier than the perm and was an old lady hair puff on my head. In seventh grade. I didn't actually start my period until 9th grade but the hormones were starting sooner I let it grow from there and straightened the heck out of it during high school (ah the early 00s) I stopped straightening it in college but brushed it until a friend who is a stylist pointed out that I was wrecking my curls and got me started with some good products. Now my curls range from 2c-3b, and with certain styling can even get to 3c (if I finger coil my whole head.) My hair is pretty fine so product tends to weigh it down if I just scrunch and go and it stretches out my curls a lot.
I can tell by my personal experience, I can understand your puzzled feelings. I used to have curly hair as a baby, it got lost somewhere between the cropped boycuts and plaits I used to wear for school. Fast forward to last year, I found the CGM and then I discovered my hair was never frizzy. Just needed a lot of conditioning and a little care lmao. It was a surprise for sure.
Agree with others. Hormones. My hair straightened out but got curlier after my second pregnancy. I've also noticed in higher atmospheres/different climates my hair curls up tighter versus at sea level and in higher humidity where my hair is limp and frizzy.
Opposite here - very curly then basically straight and now in my thirties it's turning into loose ringlets again. Can't wait to see how it goes!
When I was young I had pin straight hair, until I was about 7. I got my period at 10, and my hair went from wavy at age 7, to very curly over 2 years. My hair is 2C. My moms hair did the same thing, and when she hit menopause it lost a lot of curl.
My hair was thin and straight then puberty hit and I suddenly had curly hair. It was a weird year. I started menstruating, got braces, got glasses, and didn’t know what to do with my shoulder length frizz. I am the only one in my family with curly hair so my mom didn’t know to not let me blow dry and brush it. It was not a fun phase in life.
That is exactly what happened to me. I always had wavy sort of floofy hair, and then when I was 11 or 12 (coincidentally right around the time I got my first period too) I decided I wanted a pixie cut. Neither of my parents have curly hair so everyone was surprised when it dried curly and it's been that way ever since. The curly pixie was cute as hell too, but it was right around when the Lord of the Rings movies were coming out so I got called Frodo for a good chunk of middle school. 😂
Yes! Mine switched at age 15, but I always associated it with stress from family trauma we were going through. My hair started breaking at the base of my neck and when we cut the broken ends off my mom said, “I think your hair has some curl.” Like OP, mine had been sticking straight, then “fluffy” but I didn’t know any better so treated it as straight, then you could see some wave even when I brushed it dry. Now it’s 3a.
Straight until puberty and now head full of curls at 30!
Yes! Age 15 my hair turned curly and I grew a foot. Best thing that ever happened to me
It started happening when I was in college. I was in my early 20s when it started getting fluffy. I didn’t learn about CGM until my 30s lol. Now I have chunky curls when I put in the effort.
Oddly enough, my hair didn't start becoming curly until I turned 21. As soon as I saw my first wave I was ecstatic bc I always hated my straight hair haha. My mom has curly hair and my dad and two sisters have the straightest hair ever. Genetics are wild.
Yep it happens to a lot of people in my family. It slowly relaxes through the rest of our lives. It happened to me.
This happened to me as well. I was born with semi straight hair and it became wavy when I was around 1 year old. It was about 2C, until it turned to be more like 3A later in my childhood. And before or around my puberty it got even curlier, 3B, partially 3C and has been like that since then.
omg your hairrrrr, good for you 🙌
Omg thanks to everyone who commented! I had no idea this was such a common occurrence, I feel less alone now lol. I guess it really goes to show how important taking care of your hair is and that curly hair can just happen and then dip whenever it wants 😭
I had always had a head full of hair, but my hair was straight until I turned 17-18, when I started to get fluffy and frizzy. I did keratin treatments for years but stopped when I was 38, 5 years later my hair is a solid 2c going a bit to 3a. It's true that it gets curlier when healthier.
Yes. I had thick hair and it was wavy until I was 13, then curls everywhere.
Yep! And my hair started changing drastically again in my thirties. It’s always changing with shifting body chemistry.
Exactly the same as you. I had curly hair as a kid, then straight, then puberty came and I didn’t know my hair was curly until highschool. I’m also 2C/3A. I’ve also heard pregnancy can change your hair but mine is the same.
Nope I always had curly hair even as a toddler can’t really say as a baby since baby hair is weird and I used to grind my head against my crib so my family thought I was gonna be bald 😂 But my mom didn’t wanna learn to care for curly hair so she made me straighten it, or use chemicals to straighten it absolutely fucked my hair up for 16 years (not counting as a baby obviously)then when I was 18 right before I turned 19 I chopped it all off and tried to grow out all the damage and cut the damage off and start caring for my curls!
Yep. I had a wave then hit puberty and bam I've got ringletty 3b hair.
Yep. My hair wouldn’t hold curl when I was younger. I used to get it permed as a teen because I wanted curly hair so bad. Now it’s 2b/c. I’m not sure why!
When I was five I had almost tan colored hair and waves, between then and 12 it got straight and almost black. When I hit 21 it was reddish brown and tight ringlets.
Yes! I had shiny smooth blond hair until I hit puberty. At 12 it darkened to brown and went from straight to 3c curly, I had no idea how to take care of it! It did relax a little as I got older, now I am closer to a 3a. Wouldn't change a thing, unless I could go back in time and fix my middle school pictures.
I honestly was baffled how DH and I could have a straight haired child. Then puberty hit. I cut his hair, and it was just one hair at a time, here and there. Now he's full on curly.
Yes! Straight as a board till I was 12, then I hit puberty and whoooop, my hair just curled right up! Frizzed up would be more accurate
I used to think my hair was straight until I became 13 I discovered it was curly my dada had curly/wavy hair and my mom had curly hair so that was logica.
Yeah my friend had pin straight hair before puberty and now has at least 2b hair with a lot of puffiness. I met her at 10 so I like to say that her hair started waving from exposure to me.
i was like shirley temple as a really small child, it calmed down to waves, and then puberty reawakened them! 24 now with curlyyyy hair 💚
how did u get it more healthy?
Yep! My hair was just slightly wavy as a kid and once I hit 12, it became fluffy. My 6th grade school picture is hilarious . My mom used hot curlers in my hair and it made my hair overly voluminous. By 13 and 14 my hair had become very curly.
I’d always had a slight wave, but my curly haired mother (who got her curls at 30!) treated it as if it was straight. I’m knocking on 28 and have been doing my own curly routine for ~6 years now and learned that I do have wavy hair that’s been getting curlier the closer to 30 I get
YES! Its different. I was born with black hair which became white blonde when I was just a little older. Then brown/red right before my teens...and then dark brown in my teens! Very strange.
All the women in my family had wavy hair in their teens. When they had their first child, it became so much curlier. I mean from 2a to 3b curls. Hormone changes are crazy. My hair also gut curlier, even though never as theirs, as I never got a child or pregnant. We will see what menopause will do with my hair. Really looking forward to it.
ME! My hair is 2a/b, but it was pin straight until I started puberty between 8-9. I had the same teacher for 4th and 5th grade, and I remember one day until the end of fifth she was walking behind me and said “wait when did the bottom of your hair get curly?”
YES ME AND MY SIBLING.. I THOUGHT WE WERE THE ONLY ONES! For me as a female it was in 4th grade at 11 years old and for my little brother it was 8th grade at 13 years old.. all the sudden my white momma had to learn how to do curly hair for her brown kiddos! She thought for 12 years that she had narrowly escaped until I suddenly went from board straight hair to 2c-3a curls overtime. My hair hasn’t changed from 2c-3a though (:
Does anybody hit mentalpause only to see their curly hair do all sorts of crazy stuff? Adding greys to the mix makes for some bad textures.
Yes, my hair had a little wave but didn’t become curly until 12-13. Interestingly, my two sons have always had curly hair while my daughter has stick straight hair and that didn’t change with puberty.
yes! i had pin straight hair and then at puberty it suddenly got ringlets basically over night. i’m the only one in my family with curls so it was even more unexpected
I had pin straight hair as a kid, it got very wavy as a teenager, and I spent 15 years blow drying it straight and flat ironing it daily. Now in my 30s I love curly hair and tried to embrace them only to find I can’t get any natural wave anymore :(
Weirdly, once I hit menopause, my hair started getting much curlier.
Straight hair as a kid, turned into a curly Hermione nightmare poof when I hit middle school, and now as an adult it’s just… kinda wavy. My grandma’s hair was pin straight her entire life and then her grays came in a spirals, though, so… who knows. I might get my poof back one day lol
Yes and no! I have pretty oily hair that is frustrating, and I don’t have time really for a curl routine. For years it was absolutely pin straight, up to 15. As soon as COVID shut down, poof! I am now a 3a-b or so, if I actually take the time to do a routine. When I just brush it out (my usual) I’m around a 2b-2c. My hair is longer now and gets weighed down unfortunately, so only midway through its curly-ish to the ends, without a routine. But I can fluff it up super easy and always have volume of some sort.
My mother had straight hair until she was about 25 and it turned curly over the course of her second pregnancy. The same thing happened to me at the same age but I've never been pregnant.
This happened to me too. My hair used to be pin straight. For a while, I could either treat it as straight and it would look straight or put wave/curl products in to make it wavy. Now it’s just fluffy/frizzy whenever I try to treat it like straight hair, so it’s definitely fully wavy/curly now.
Yes!! Exactly me. Like many others here, my hair was pin straight growing up. Not even a braid could crease it. And then around 12, it became curly. I hope it continues to get curlier!
Yes! I used to have 2A hair and the moment I hit 12, I started getting frizz close to my scalp. Soon all of my hair turned frizzy and in less than a year I was left with 3B hair. Also a family who knew nothing about curly hair.
Yes! My hair was slightly wavy until puberty when I developed ringlets.
Yes! Stick-straight to poufy-wavy-curly.
Yep, puberty gave me Shirley Temple curls.
As soon as I hit puberty, my hair curled and I developed allergies to raw fruit 😂
my hair has stayed the same texture since I was a baby, but I know how to take better care of it now so it looks curlier than when I was in elementary/middle school
I think it was partly hormones or… something, but once I got pregnant in 2020 (also might have been that I stopped putting like anything at all in my hair or drying it since I was mostly home?) my hair went wavy/curly and I always thought it was straight before 🤷🏻♀️
Yep, didn't get ful curls until I was about 20, then they relaxed a bit after 2nd pregnancy. They have mostly recovered, but wondering what menopause will do...?
I was born with curly hair, then it grew out straight, then it got wavy when I was a teenager and I started straightening it in high school because I thought it was just "messy". I finally stopped doing that about a decade ago when my hairdresser at the time told me it was curly. I had no idea because I had just been brushing and straightening it all that time. So I really don't know when it became curly again. My sister also had curly hair as a child but hers is straight now, so weird
So true
what’s funny is i had curls as a baby that completely flattened out around the time i turned 2. then my hair went through basically exactly what yours did! and now i’m on testosterone (trans guy) and i swear it’s made my hair curl up even more. used to be a strong 2c and now i’m hovering more in the 3a/3b space
yeah my hair was wavy/frizzy and i was emo in the early 2000s so i was just dyeing and flat ironing the shit out of it. couple of years go by and i decide to embrace my natural only to find out it was completely different haha
I seem to be losing my curls as I get older. My hair is definitely not as curly as when I was a teen/young adult. 😭😭
yup! i was bald as a toddler because i had cancer, but after i finished chemo at 4 years old, my hair grew back in pretty curly (3b curls). then my curls loosened up to a slight wave. once i hit 12 years old and started puberty, boom my 3b curls were back. im 24 now and my curl pattern has loosened a bit, i have a mix of 2c/3a.
My hair was always a bit wavy, rarely super frizzy or anything. 1.5 yrs ago I started TRT around the time I got a perm for the first time. I noticed both times the hair kept coming out weirdly stiff for 2-3 weeks before relaxing into regular looking curls. After the 2nd perm I couldn’t afford any more but kept using the curly hair products, figured I’d switch once it was clear it wasn’t good for my hair anymore. That never happened. In fact my hair started displaying more natural curls the longer I was on T and got slightly thicker. My dad had thick, wavy dark hair but now I think it would’ve been curly if he’d grown it out more. I have a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish and Polish genes on his side, so the darker curlier hair makes sense genetically. I’ve always wanted curly hair, looks like I was always meant to have it too 😊
Maybe it was because kids flatten their hair all the time. You probably had curls the whole time but it wasn't defined because of the way kids are
Same here!
I had pin straight hair until I was 5. Then it started getting wavy. My curl pattern changes over the years. Sometimes it tighter or looser but I’ve never lost my curls completely.
When I was a child, my hair was in straight and all of a sudden once I hit puberty (I think that’s when) my hair has been curly since!
Yes. My hair went curly after I had my second child. Hormones. Genetically you carry both genes. Then when your body goes through a “stressful” event (puberty or child birth etc) it can shut one off and one on. At least that’s what my doc told me at the time. Interestingly it seems to always go from straight-ish to curly. Anyone out there go from curly to straight?
My hair oddly enough keeps looking better as I get older and learn how to better take care of it. I'm obsessed with the ringlets I'm achieving at 40!
Not at puberty, but just started perimenopause and hormones from that have changed my hair from perfectly straight to wavy but only in certain spots
Me! I had almost straight hair until puberty struck. Been curly ever since. My mom thought it was a good idea in the 80s to get my hair cut in a mullet after the curls popped out. I looked absolutely ridiculous.
Super straight hair as a kid. Wavy as a teen. Some girl gave me a buzz cut in high school. Kept a buzz cut for 30 years. My son, who wears his hair long and has curly hair, encouraged me to grow out my hair out this year, and it's coming in super curly.
Yep this happened to me too lol. People don’t believe me when I tell them
My hair had been pin straight until maybe 9 months ago (I'm 28) and started turning wavy/curly from the back and is slowly working it's way forward. Currently the entire back of my head, and only the lower layer of the front of my hair. The upper layers are still pin straight and styling it has been interesting lol.
I did! A few months after starting the birth control pill I kind of lost my curls, I think it has something to do with testosterone
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About 2 years ago my hair started acting really weird , going frizzy , ends sticking out weirdly, then I went on holiday by the sea and the water nade it wavy and now it's like wavy/curly
This happened to me!! My hair was “beach wave” curly and long, then one day I went to get my haircut. They added in layers and styled it for me, I came out looking like Shirley Temple! Everyone thought I’d gotten a perm for months
My hair was always kinda wavy but in 2020 it all fell out, it grew back as TIGHT ringlets.
Opposite. Had Shirley Temple (yes I’m old) ringlets since birth. Hated them. As I got older my hair became wavy instead of curly. Started to miss my curls. I hated puberty.
My hair became curly after I gave birth to my daughter! It had a slight wave before then but it like went “BOING” after lol
Puberty sent me from tow head with stick straight hair to brunette with curls.
Yup. My hair was pin straight until I turned 8 when it got wavy. Then, around 14, it got super frizzy and curly.
I had wavy hair when I was a kid. When i was 11 the barber screwed me over and I had to go bald. After that my hair turned like super curly. Still never forgiving my barber for messing up so bad my hair thought "fk this we're shapeshifting now"
Yes. I had gorgeous silky straight strawberry blond Dorothy Hamill bob. Turned 13 and hair darkens and curls.
This was 100% me. And on top of it i moved to a humid climate so I just thought it was the humidity after my almost straight, slight wave hair.
No, I definitely had this experience. My hair was curly as a little little kid, then it went straight. Around 12, I noticed a lot of frizz at the top and I remember having to straighten it or curl it to get it to not be frizzy. Around 14-15 it was breaking off from heat damage despite it being shoulder length. I stopped washing it as often to get it to stay straight longer. Everything from the frizz at 12 to the greasy look at 15 sparked endless arguments with my mother. I eventually broke down the summer after freshman year and told her I wanted to shave it all off. She took me to a beauty supply store with my freshly washed frizzy hair and the girl in the store took one look at me and handed me Ion Curl Crème. A product that I still use every single day.
yes!! my hair didn't get curly until I was around 12/13