As I was in deep thought about curl behavior, I realized all the times that the little ladies in the nursing home would have their hair "teased" or backcombed was actually mimicking Ethnic hair. The backcombing compacts the length of the hair at the roots. It makes the head of hair look fuller. It gives it a fixed look. Hence, this technique was probably labelled "the tease" for its created fullness effect.
Many Black woman are born with hair that compacts at the scalp making it look fuller even when recovering from scalp damage.
The backcombing technique or finger tease technique are also used in dreadlocks and Sisterlocks formation for those with harder to lock curl patterns.
Well, I am definitely thankful to God for my "built-in backcombed" curls. They really work in my advantage with my loc styling.
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