torker
09-13-2007, 12:01 PM
Flying in the face of intuition, scientists now find that curly hair gets less tangled than straight hair.
To learn which kind of hair truly is the snarliest, biophysicist Jean-Baptiste Masson at the Ecole Polytechnique in France had hairdressers count tangles for a week in the hair of 212 people — 123 with straight hair and 89 with curls. Counting was conducted between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., so that hair had a chance to snag during the day.
Masson found straight hair got tangled nearly twice as much as curly hair — the average number of tangles was 5.3 per head of straight hair and 2.9 per head of curly hair.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20759101/from/RS.5/
I would have never believed this to be true, but there's the evidence. I've got Jackson Browne straight hair and it doesn't tangle.
http://www.poemhunter.com/i/lyrics/singers/63/2963_k_2945.jpg
Next...The cure for cancer.
To learn which kind of hair truly is the snarliest, biophysicist Jean-Baptiste Masson at the Ecole Polytechnique in France had hairdressers count tangles for a week in the hair of 212 people — 123 with straight hair and 89 with curls. Counting was conducted between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., so that hair had a chance to snag during the day.
Masson found straight hair got tangled nearly twice as much as curly hair — the average number of tangles was 5.3 per head of straight hair and 2.9 per head of curly hair.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20759101/from/RS.5/
I would have never believed this to be true, but there's the evidence. I've got Jackson Browne straight hair and it doesn't tangle.
http://www.poemhunter.com/i/lyrics/singers/63/2963_k_2945.jpg
Next...The cure for cancer.