The Andre Walker Hair Typing System, also known as The Hair Chart is classification system for hair types created in the 1990s by
Oprah Winfrey
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's stylist
Andre Walker Andre Walker (born August 19, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is a hairstylist from the United States who has won seven Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for his work on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''. He is best known for being ...
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It was originally created to market Walker's line of hair care products but has since been widely adopted as a hair type classification system. Walker's system includes images of each hair type to aid classification. The system has been criticised for an apparent hierarchy which values caucasian hair over other hair types. In 2018 the system was the subject of episodes of the
podcasts ''
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'' and ''The Stoop''.
Types
The system is split into four types with subtypes labeled A, B and C for some of the types, the system has added new subtypes since its original version to Type 1.
See also
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Afro-textured hair
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References
External links
Official website
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Classification systems