currently working on a fluffy fic to post tonight, as well as one with autistic reader!! pretty excited! :)
so black/blasian won the poll!! i did a bit of research (still planning to do more tbh), and i saw that curly hair is the most popular in places such as Africa (especially sub-saharan Africa) and the Mediterranean area, so i was thinking of giving reader a Nigerian mom and a Korean dad? i wanted to go with Nigeria because i went on both tiktok and ecosia and it says Nigeria has quite a bit of people with curly hair (but that may be wrong! im not sure!!)
i was thinking of giving reader 3c hair, kinda like this (all images from Pinterest)
ik tiktok isn't always true, but i found like 5 videos that said the exact same thing about how to care for 1 or 2B to 3C curly hair, so i was going to go off of those
but i still want you guys' input! i really wanna make sure this is accurate since im legit just a white girl with straight hair. i don't know much about other hair types or cultures despite trying to learn, especially for requests that require different physical and/or cultural differences. my mom has permed curly hair, but her hair is naturally straight just like mine, and i don't think anyone in my immediate family or aunts/uncles/grandparents have curly hair, so i can't really ask anyone.......
if anyone who stumbles across this has curly hair, i would really appreciate any tips/info!!!
same with anyone who knows more about genetics, culture, and geography than me!
thank you so much! mwah!!! 🫶🏻 <3