At some point, the algorithm decided I should see many videos in which women with luscious waves discuss how a handy survey from the custom hair care company Prose revealed to them their true hair type. I’m not typically one for online quizzes, but I was intrigued by the notion of a secret hair type—was it possible I, too, lacked this particular form of self-knowledge?

“I see it all the time,” Jae-Manuel Cardenas , a senior stylist at Ollin NYC, says of people thinking their hair is one thing when it’s actually another. Why all the confusion? Sometimes clients are conflating overall thickness with the texture of individual strands. “They might have the density, but the hair is fine. Or vice versa,” he says. Another reason: it’s possible to lose touch with your natural hair type, inten

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