How-to: Find Out Your Hair Porosity Test

Ever wonder why curls are all so different? Well, it's mainly due to our hair porosity levels. This determines...

• How long your hair gets, or stays, wet
• How hard your hair is to detangle
• If your hair likes heavy/thick products or lightweight products 

Low Porosity Or High Porosity?

Now there's 2 ways to find out what your hair porosity is:

1. Hair Porosity: Strand Test
2. Hair Porosity: Characteristics Match

Hair Porosity: Strand Test

Here's how you can give yourself a hair porosity test at-home:

1. Get a cup of tap water
2. Choose a hair strand from your brush/comb (you don't need to pull a strand out of your head, please spare them 😂)
3. Place the strand in the cup and swirl around with a finger
4. Wait about a minute to see if your hair strand floats, or sinks
5. Determine if your have low or high porosity:

• If your hair FLOATS = You have LOW POROSITY
• If your hair SINKS = You have HIGH POROSITY

This video is an example of the Hair Porosity: Strand Test at-home (results: sink = high porosity hair)*

Hair Porosity: Characteristics Match

Use the below table to see what characteristics your hair matches (or needs) the most:

If you're in the middle of any of these 2 sides, you most likely have Medium Porosity hair (which is generally "happy hair"). You can use a mix of products to suit your needs (like if you want more definition or more volume). Have fun!