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  2. Surfer hair - Wikipedia

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    Frazzled, sun-damaged surfer hair. Robert Plant.The longer, curlier style was particularly popular in the late 1960s and 1970s. Surfer hair is a tousled type of hairstyle, popularized by surfers from the 1950s onwards, traditionally long, thick and naturally bleached from high exposure to the sun and salt water of the sea.

  3. African-American hair - Wikipedia

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    African-American hair comes in a range of textures, but the most common hair type is curly with lots of volume. [5] This curly quality is the product of the shape of the hair follicles. [5] More circular-shaped follicles cause hair to grow straighter, while more curly hair is caused by more elongated, oval-shaped hair follicles. [5]

  4. Kinky hair - Wikipedia

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    Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.

  5. Jheri curl - Wikipedia

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    As the hair grows out, the wearer is required to touch up the new hair growth, further adding to the overall expense. To resolve the problems associated with the cost of the look, Comer Cottrell invented a cheap kit (which he called the "Curly Kit") that could be used at home, thereby enabling lower-income people to copy the style of their idols.

  6. Wikipedia:Vital articles/List of all articles - Wikipedia

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    · The Nutcracker · The Odd Couple (play) · The Office (American TV series) · The Old Man and the Sea · The Onion · The Open Championship · The Open Society and Its Enemies · The Oprah Winfrey Show · The Oregon Trail (1971 video game) · The Origins of Totalitarianism · The Passion of Joan of Arc · The Peacock Room · The Pearl Island ...

  7. Discrimination based on hair texture - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination based on hair texture, also known as textureism, is a form of social injustice, where afro-textured hair or coarse hair types, and their associated hair styles, are viewed negatively, often perceived as "unprofessional", "unattractive", or "unclean".

  8. Wig - Wikipedia

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    Powdering wigs and extensions was messy and inconvenient, and the development of the naturally white or off-white powderless wig (made of horsehair) for men made the retention of wigs in everyday court dress a practical possibility. By 1765, wig-wearing went out of fashion except for some occupational groups such as coachmen and lawyers.

  9. American Bashkir Curly - Wikipedia

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    The American Bashkir Curly or North American Curly Horse is a North American breed of horse, characterized by an unusual curly coat of hair. [4]: 248 It derives from American horses of Iberian origin, in which curly-coated individuals occasionally occur; it is unrelated to Asian horses such as the Bashkir and Lokai, which may also be curly-coated.