What is the spanish word for kinky hair?

Question

What is the word for the hair of afro-americans. I want to be able describe myself. Also, out of curiousity, what is the spainsh word for hair weave?

I know this dictionary has "rizado" for kiny hair. But they means curly too. Kinky hair is very tightly coiled hair. - CoCoBB214, Feb 10, 2010

Answer 1

This site has a glossary of hair terms in Spanish

They use the term "tejido de cabello" for hair weave

and for "kinky" hair the following are listed: - crespo, encrispado, chinito, grifo, churrusco, encaracolado

Answer 2

Well, kinky hair is word that's famaliar to the Afro-American community. We like saying "kinky" instead of nappy. There is also a braiding style called kinky twists. Kinky can also mean closely twisted or coiled (referring to Webster).

Answer 3

cabello o pelo motoso (african hair)

cabello o pelo ondulado (lightly weavy hair)

rulo (hair weave)

rulero (air rollers) hair

pelo crespo (heavily weavy hair)

"weavy" should be "wavy" - aloshek, Feb 10, 2010

Answer 4

I don't want to go off on a tangeant, but where I am from, the word "kinky" is not applicable to hair and is a very "adult" word. I am familair with the word "nappy", but is generally a very negative word, and rarely ever used by those who want to avoid the usage or racial slurs and allusions.

Sorry, I don't know what nappy is in Spanish.

Answer 5

How would i said my hair is naturally kinky? tengo el pelo crespo..I don't know how to say naturally en español.