What race has the thickest hair?

The 3 ethno-hair profiles

There are 3 “original” ethno-hair profiles, each with their own characteristics: color, texture, structure and even implantation in the scalp…

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What race has the densest hair?
What race has best hair?
What ethnicity has thick black hair?
What race has the most hair strands?

Due to these differences, hair does not grow in the same way or at the same speed in people of different ethnic origins.

Asian hair

Asian hair is usually straight and either dark brown or black in color. It grows perpendicularly to the scalp. This hair type has the fastest growth rate at approximately 1.4 centimeters per month.
A strand of Asian hair has a somewhat round, even shape.
Nonetheless, Asian hair has the lowest density of the three ethnicities.

Caucasian hair

Caucasian hair can be straight, wavy or curly. Its color can vary from blond to dark brown. This hair type grows diagonally and at a rate of about 1.2 centimeters per month.

Caucasian hair strands are oval in shape.
Caucasian hair density is the highest of the three ethnic categories and is therefore the fullest.

African hair

African hair is generally characterized by tight curls and kinks, and grows almost parallel to the scalp. This hair type has the slowest growth rate, 0.9 centimeters per month, due to its spiral structure that causes it to curl upon itself during growth. An African hair strand has a flattened shape.

African hair has a much higher density than Asian hair.

What race has the densest hair?

Caucasian hair strands are oval in shape. Caucasian hair density is the highest of the three ethnic categories and is therefore the fullest.

What race has best hair?

Caucasian, Asian and Indian hair samples were put to the test for the World's Best Hair study. Their results put an end to any splitting of hairs over the issue: in terms of health, the Indian hair is the best, topping other ethnic groups on all four counts.

What ethnicity has thick black hair?

Genetics. Amerindian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, Southwest Asian, Middle Eastern, Far East Russian, South Asian and Himalayan black-haired people have thicker and straighter hair due to the derived EDAR gene allele that is linked to thicker and straighter hair and shovel-shaped incisors.

What race has the most hair strands?

It is regarded as the most dominant hair type in the world. An Asian can have as many as 80,000 to 140,000 hair strands in the scalp, growing at approximately 1.3 cm per month, the fastest growing among the three races. However, it is the least dense among them.