The 1A-4C hair chart is now embedded into our collective hair care psyche. On TikTok, videos about type 4 hair have a combined total of 2.9 billion views on the platform, consisting of how-tos, product recommendations, and styles ‘suited’ to that hair type, and in the main, has been a helpful resource. However, increasingly, Black women online have been asking “what exactly is my hair type?” after feeling like their hair doesn’t quite fit in the confines of Walker’s hair scale. In a recent video, beauty influencer Taina Pudwill, who says she has 4C hair, claimed “hair type soldiers” made her question her hair type because of its ability to be “slicked back” and was now confused whether she had 4C hair at all. “I think I have a mixture of 4C and 4B but with the hair charts I see online, my hair is leaning more towards 4C,” she wrote in the caption.