What Is My Hair Texture? Here’s How You Can Find Out, According to an Expert

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Finding products that work for your hair can feel like a never ending process of trail and error.

Everybody's hair is unique, of course, which can make the search for the perfect hair product difficult.

By determining your hair texture, you'll be able to add products into hair care routine designed to target your specific hair needs.

So, we talked to an expert to find out how you can identify your hair texture and asked which products work best for each texture.

How to Identify Your Hair Texture

Your texture is defined by the thickness of each individual hair strand. 

"The best way to identify your own texture is to run one strand of hair between your index and thumb," says trichologist Shab Caspara.

“Fine hair will be super smooth and slide through without barely being felt. Medium hair will still be smooth but felt much more and coarse hair will have a rougher texture,” says Caspara.

It’s important to note that hair texture and hair type are two different things.

According to Caspara, “Any hair texture be it fine, medium, or coarse can range from straight to kinky hair; every possibility of textures and curl patterns exists.”

Basically, straight hair doesn't equate to fine hair, and curly hair doesn't equate to coarse hair.

Choosing the Best Products for Your Hair Texture

Depending on your hair texture, you may want to include specific hair care products in your routine. According to Caspara, here's what each hair texture can benefit from:

• "Fine hair can benefit from products with thickening or hold power that can help preserve a hairstyle or boost density to appear more full." You'll want something that adds lift, body, and volume, like Virtue's Flourish Density Booster spray.

• “Medium hair can benefit from products that add slight texture with hold.” The fan favorite Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray is a great option.

• “Coarse hair types tend to require more moisturizing and smoothing ingredients." This will ensure your hairstyle stays in tact and helps to strengthen hair strands.

Caspara says there is one thing that everybody can benefit from, regardless of your hair texture, and that's a leave-in good conditioner. Not only does it add extra moisture, it also aids in styling, reducing frizz, and enhancing body when air drying. 

One thing to note is that, your hair texture can change over time. Factors like pregnancy, stress, and other hormonal changes may result in larger, curlier and darker strands.

Ready to find the best products for your hair texture? Keep reading to find out what you should be adding to your hair care routine.

If you have coarse hair, you'll love this smoothing balm to prevent frizz.

It's infused with vitamins A, C, and E to moisturize hair and help keep it looking and feeling sleek and smooth.

Regardless of your hair texture, this conditioner will help keep your hair healthy and hydrated.

It's made with strand strengthening amino acids, nourishing argan oil, and breakage reapirting algae extract.

If it's glass hair you're after, look no further than this lightweight serum that transforms dull, lifeless hair into shiny, silky strands.

Even better, it helps protect your hair against heat damage.

Beloved by many, this texturizing spray is a personal favorite. 

Ideal for those with medium hair, this spray creates that lived in texture and maximizes volume while locking your style into place.

Coarse hair, don't care! This conditioner contains kertain proteins that minimize frizz by coating by locking in moisture and smoothing damaged ends.

One E! editor raved, "My hair even stayed fairly smooth through two Pilates workouts until my next wash day!"

To make fine hair look thicker and fuller, try adding this density boosting spray to your routine.

The scalp-nourishing peptides and keratin combo create volume and help promote hair growth.

Thanks to saw palmetto extract, this conditioner not only adds thickness and volume to fine hair, but it also hydrates and stretngthens your locks.

This serum leaves coarse hair shiny and smooth while taming frizz and flyays.

Plus, the fast-absorbing formula won't weight down hair or make it look greasy.

No matter your hair texture, this treatment will make it look so healthy.

It's designed to repair heat damage, breakage, and split ends so hair looks stronger.

This ultra-hydrating hair mask is infused with fortified rice amino acids to improve curl definition, leaving them soft and bouncy.

Need an added boost of hydration? Try this cur definiing conditioner, which locks in moisturie and keeps out humidity for frizz-free tresses.

Your curls will thank you.

This E! reader loved set from Oribe includes a shampoo and conditioner that restores and repairs damaged hair as well as a mini version of the dry texutrizing spray we mentioned 

One E! editor swears by it for smoothing out frizz.