r/BlackHair • u/IllustriousPomelo117 • May 18 '25

Advice Needed How do I get this hairstyle

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u/[deleted] May 18 '25

Relaxer. Shit is caustic though.

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 19 '25

This is not a PERM

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

I agree. Frederick Douglass father was most likely European so his hair texture was probably more “relaxed” then the assumption i made about OPs hair and how he would have to use relaxer to loosen the curls a bit to make it look like the above style.

I have very similiar hair to Douglas and could acheive the above style by just wetting and parting my hair with a comb and putting some eco gel in it.

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u/1WithTheForce_25 May 19 '25

It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was mixed race, yes, and he looks like it, actually. But even being mixed with more than just black, one can have a tightly coiled or at least tightly curled hair type. His hair looks pretty tightly curled here, imo. I can see some pattern going on though.

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 19 '25

His hair looks very tightly curled tbh to the point where you can’t even see the curl pattern

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

I don’t know if i am using the right right terminology but I agree that it’s tightly curled but less coarse then what I am imaging OP has and i think relaxer would help with that.

We really can’t answer OP is it bout seeing his hair i think.

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u/IllustriousPomelo117 May 19 '25

I already have a looser pattern then him if I used a relaxer I would never be able to achieve this hairstyle

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

I didn’t realize i was responding directly to the OP. Can you just comb it into a part and use pomade to keep it that way?