The ultimate guide to hair porosity and taking hair porosity test

If you want to know what kind of hair products are gonna work for your hair, you’re gonna have to understand your hair porosity or it’s gonna be frizzy your choice porosity is usually determined by your genetics, but heating chemical damage can increase the porosity and change your levels. The following content is the ultimate guide to hair porosity and taking hair porosity test, you should know.

What Is Hair Porosity? And types of porosity levels

In the simplest terms, porosity is your hair’s ability to soak up and hold in moisture and products. There are three different types of porosity levels. there’s low normal and high. 

Normal porosity

Normal porosity means your hair is just working out fine, you don’t really notice any problems with it, it’s just kind of doing its thing, it’s norma.

l but I’m gonna really focus on high and low today because that’s where the problems lie,

Low porosity

Low porosity hair that means that your hair strands looks like all the cuticles are extremely sealed and closed shut, it’s really hard to allow moisture to come in.

– One products are really absorbed into your hair, they kind of just feel like they sit on your hair and you often get a lot of product build-up.

– Your hair does not absorb hair color very easy, takes a long time to actually change the color of your hair and to do any type of treatment.

– You might notice water beads on your hair, when you leave your hair what you actually see the water droplets, just sitting on your hair or it takes a very long time for your hair to get completely wet waiter in the shower.

– Your hair takes hours it’s not days to dry

– If you use a lot of products that are like butters and it’s just too thick and leaves your hair oily it might be too much for your hair because of its low Porosity.

High porosity

High porosity hair thymine your hair strands look like the cuticle is way more open, it can absorb moisture really easily, but it does not retain the moisture easy in easy out.

– High porosity hair is also referred to damaged or highly processed hair, because now the cuticles are damaged so they are torn making them more open.

– Your hair tangles extremely easy, because all the cuticles are getting cut onto each other

– If you have high porosity hair then your hair dries extremely fast, you put in the moisture and the next thing you know it’s sucked it all up.

– Your hair continuously always tends to get frizzy could because of high porosity

– If you use products like lotions and milk and they just seem like they just don’t work for you, might not be enough for your high porosity hair.

Low porosity hair is also known as protein sensitive hair and high porosity hair actually likes the protein, if you can use product with protein or do like a DIY wash using eggs your hair will love it.

How to test your hair porosity?

You should try to figure out what kind of process you have, because you might be thinking well my hair does pick along comes dry, but it is often dry and frizzy, what do I have well there are a couple tests we can do.

Cup test

The cup test means you take a glass of water and a strand of your hair, then place it in the water. if your hair is floating that means that you have low porosity hair, means the cuticles are sealed it’s not letting any moisture in so it’s not sinking to the bottom.

If it’s normal hair it’s kind of just in the middle floating just words supposed to be and if your hair has sunk all the way down to the bottom of the cup, that means it took in the moisture and was able to sink really easy, because it’s able to absorb the moisture really easy. 

When I did the cup test I took a strand of my hair dropped it in the water, my hair was just floating and you’re supposed to let it sit there for like two to four minutes see how long it takes to float, my cups been sitting there for like two days and it still is floating, guess my cuticles are extremely closed, so this is something that it’s really easy you definitely can try.

But I’ve also heard mixed reviews about this, because technically speaking our hair does have natural oils and oils float in water so some say that even no matter what kind of strand you put in there, your hair has oil that’s gonna float no matter what.

Some people say that depends on the temperature of the water, because hot water will open up the cuticles, so then it could sink or Cold water could close the cuticles so it’ll float and some say that has to be on clean hair, so if your hair house product in it, it might just float because of the product. 

Spray test

Another porosity test you could try is the spray test, you get a water bottle with a spray top and you spray your hair, if you notice there are beads of water just sitting on your hair, then you have low porosity hair, it’s not letting the moisture in it’s just kind of sitting there, it’s really hard to moisturize your curls, if you spray your hair and the water instantly absorbs, then your cuticles are open and just ready to take in the moisture, so you might have high porosity hair.

Strand test

The last test you could do is be strand test, you take one strand of your hair and then when you move your fingers up and down, if it feels like smooth and straight then you might have low porosity hair, but if you go like this and you feel like small little like ridges or bumps, then that means your cuticles are open and you have high porosity hair.

Low hair porosity tips

There are some tips to keep in mind that are very important when buying hair products for low porosity hair.

First of all when it comes to deep auditioning your hair, you can use some heat to open up the cuticles, this is why you see a lot of deep conditioning products, it says to use like a heat cap or let the product sit under a dryer for a little bit, because you need to open up your hair shafts.

Another way to use heat without using like a blow dryer is to wash your hair with hot water, then you’re getting your cuticles to open up, then you can also heat up through deep conditioning treatments before you put them on your hair, no this does not mean to bring out the flatiron, don’t get crazy.

Product wise it is important to use lighter products for low porosity hair, our hair likes things like argan oil almond oil and grapeseed oil, because our hair does get a lot of product build-up, it is good to use an apple cider vinegar rinse every so often to really cleanse the scalp.

And last but not least would be to apply the product to damp not extremely wet hair.

High hair porosity tips

Keep your hair soaking wet, because it’s gonna suck it up in a couple seconds anyways and apply the product while your hair is soaking wet .

It’s also good to layer your products, you’re probably going to want to use a leave-in conditioner a cream and a butter using all 3 of those is really gonna give your hair the moisture that it needs, but every hair type is different, so if all three is too much narrow it down the two, the best thing you could do is just experiment.

Air dry is better for high processing hair, you don’t need any extra help with the drying your hair by using a dryer, because it dries super fast and opposite of low processor, if you have high porosity hair you’re in the shower you want to rinse your hair with cold water, you just put all this moisturizing conditioner in your hair and you want it to stay in there, so if you close the cuticles we seal them with cold water it’ll last a lot longer 

product-wise for high porosity hair, you’re gonna want to use heavier products like butters cream, you also want to use oils like coconut oil jojoba oil and aloe vera gel.

CONCLUSION – The ultimate guide to hair porosity and taking hair porosity test

Thanks for your reading the article – The ultimate guide to hair porosity and taking hair porosity test , I hope you enjoyed these tips and I hope that they work for you as well as they work for me. Leave me a note in the comments. So let me know how it turns out, thanks you very much! Besides the areticle BEST 7 TIPS FOR CULRY NATURAL HUMAN HAIR MAINTENANCE ROUTINE for more elementary knowledge about natual hair.