One of the many trends on TikTok last year showed videos of young women ‘discovering’ that they had curly hair after many years of brushing and drying it straight(ish).
The premise is that unless you learn how to work with your natural hair texture you may not actually know what it is. I discovered I had wavy hair when I was around 18, so this makes sense to me.
As a baby my hair had been curly, but as it grew longer and longer (my mother was obviously going for Rapunzel vibes) the weight of it pulled the curl out.