The Comparison Trap 👯‍♀️🪞 · Rinoure Natural Hair Education

The Comparison Trap 👯‍♀️🪞

My friend Jasmine has Type 4c hair. 💁🏾‍♀️

Her best friend? Type 3b. 👱🏽‍♀️

Guess whose routine Jasmine was following? 🤔

YUP. 🎯

She'd watch her friend's wash days and think, "Okay, if I just do exactly what she does, my hair will look like that too." ✨

Spoiler: It did not. ❌😂

Her friend's hair would dry soft and defined. Jasmine's hair would dry like a crunchy science experiment. 🥨🔬

Her friend could air-dry and go. 🌬️ Jasmine looked like she'd been electrocuted. ⚡😱

Her friend used three products. Jasmine used those same three products plus seven more trying to make it make sense. 🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴🧴

After MONTHS of this 📆, I finally said: "Jas... y'all don't have the same hair. Why are you surprised that her routine doesn't work for you?"

She got defensive. 😤 "But we're both natural! We both have curly hair!"

"Yeah, but her curls and YOUR coils are not operating on the same system, babe. It's like trying to run Android apps on an iPhone." 📱🤖🍎

The lightbulb FINALLY clicked. 💡

Melaninaires, can we talk about this? ☕

We see someone with healthy hair or glowing skin 🌟, and we immediately think: "If I do what THEY do, I'll get what THEY have."

But that's not how biology works. 🧬

Your Type 4 hair doesn't respond the same way as Type 3 hair. Your melanin-rich skin doesn't react the same way as lighter skin tones. 🤎 Your porosity, your scalp, your hormones, your environment—it's ALL different. 🌍

You can't copy-paste someone else's results and expect them to work for YOUR specific biology. 🚫📋

And that's exactly why so many of us stay frustrated. 😤 We're out here following advice that was never designed for us in the first place.

The Rinoure Method helps you understand YOUR hair texture, YOUR skin's needs, YOUR unique patterns 🧩—so you stop trying to fit into someone else's routine and start building one that actually makes sense for you.

Because clarity isn't about doing what works for everyone else. It's about understanding what works for YOU. 🎯

If you've been following someone else's routine and wondering why it's not clicking... now you know. 🔓

Drop a 👯‍♀️ if you've been trying to copy someone else's hair or skin routine AND drop their hair type below! Let's see how many of us have been trying to follow Type 3 routines with Type 4 hair! 😂

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