What does curly hair?

Curly hair is when your hair strands twist around each other instead of being straight.

Imagine you have a piece of string. If it’s straight, it looks like a regular rope. But if you twist it into a spiral, like the string on a birthday gift, that's what curly hair looks like up close!

Every strand of your hair starts as a tiny thread made of protein called keratin. When this thread grows out, sometimes it twists or coils because of how it’s shaped inside your head.

Think of it like making a pretzel: if the dough is soft and squishy, it can bend and curl easily. Your hair works the same way, if it's more flexible, it can twist into fun shapes!

Sometimes people have curly hair because their parents had curly hair too, just like how some kids get freckles or blue eyes from their family.

So next time you see someone with curly hair, imagine they're wearing tiny spirals made of string, all growing out of their head!