Anonymous wrote:I don't thing hair changes that much in puberty, except some start to lose it. If a kid kept is short and then grew it out, you might suddenly see the natural texture.

The only guy I knew who's straight hair became curly had lost all of it in chemo, and it grew back curly, but then it eventually went back to his usual straight hair.

Puberty can change the texture of hair. My son had that silky smooth pale blonde hair and puberty it went curly/wavy and dark blonde. My youngest’s hair is changing like crazy, it doesn’t know which way to go and my older daughter never had any changes, her hair is perfect.

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up I don’t remember so many boys with curly hair. Now that my son is 16 his hair went from straight to curly in the last couple of years. So many of his friends also had straight hair that turned curly. My 13 year old son lives his hair and said he hopes it doesn’t turn curly. Did I just not notice it in high school all the boys with curly hair?

Some have gotten perms (I know several) to get that curly mop of hair that they're all sporting. Not a fan. But it's better than the mullets boys sported in my HS days. So there's that.

Mullets are back too. Tons of permed mullets.

I got a perm once. Never again.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.menshealth.com/grooming/a43622858/how-to-get-tiktok-hair/

To be clear this is messy straight hair not curly hair.

According to my DS, it's called having the flow. He showed me entire social media accounts dedicated to obtaining and maintaining the perfect flow.

Anonymous wrote:Tell me that you didn't hang out with Black people and Latino People without telling me you didn't hang out with Black people and Latino people.

This.

Wavy hair is easy to coax into curls with the right hair products. Hair products are way better now than in the 90s and 00s.

Also lots of boys are getting perms. It’s a trend that started with the k pop stars.

https://www.menshealth.com/grooming/a43622858/how-to-get-tiktok-hair/

It’s called tik tok hair. It’s a thing.

They all want to look like Patrick Mahomes. That’s the latest trend.

Anonymous wrote:My kids have thick straight hair. The younger one, 14, uses sea salt spray and crimps the end with a flat iron so it looks curly. It’s not.

But, yeah the messy mop head is all the rage at my sons’ high school.

+1 Same with my 16 y/o. Straight blonde thick hair and fusses with it to get that wavy/curly look.

It's a cute look but I would not want him to get a perm, which he has mentioned briefly a few times.

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Anonymous wrote:My stylist told me a lot of boys are getting perms now. Trendy.

Lol, fr?

I saw a video (promo from the salon, I think) of a couple of young guys getting $295 “curl enhancement treatments.”

The comments were all some variation of “Dudes just paid $300 for a PERM? Bet their grandmas would have whipped out the Ogilvy and done it for free!”

Liberal Media. 😂😂😂😂
What do you mean “blame”
Their curly hair is beautiful natural or not. One Race or the other. Natural of self expression.
Fool is right.

Anonymous wrote:Did you grow up in Iowa and now you are in DC around people more likely to have curly hair (jews, middle easterners, etc)?

This is a weird thing to say. As someone who lived in the Middle East there are more Europeans with curly hair than Middle Easterners. Iowa has no particular shortage of people with curly hair.

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Anonymous wrote:Style is longer now, so more noticeable. Also more BIPOC than before.

Another theory here, is that since it’s more stylish now, people embrace it and use hair product to emphasize and style curly hair instead of hair products to straighten hair as much as possible.

This.

My son has his dads hair — his dad has always clipped it very short and won’t use any product. My son leaves it fairly long and he was actually pretty infamous for his big hair at his school until he recently cut it back a bit. His sisters and I try to educate him on products but it’s an uphill battle. He just isn’t k terrier in putting in the time on curl maintenance like his sisters so he has a lot more frizz. At least I’ve convinced him to take a couple extra minutes for conditioner.