Read the head.
Four taps.
Pattern, frizz, condition — the three readings, in the order you take them in the chair. Put her history in and the condition code falls out of it, counted where each service actually landed.
Read the pattern dry, no product, before you comb it. Section from the mid-back — not the hairline, which reads loose, and not the nape, which reads tight.
Do it on ten heads and it stops being a checklist. You will look at someone and the code will just be there.
Which family is she in?
One strand, dry, left alone. The number decides the letter — there is no c3 and no w5.
Tighter, or looser?
Within your family, pick the closest.
How much of the pattern is still visible?
Graded against her own pattern, not anyone else’s. A treatment-strength reading, not a description.
Her history — the whole life of the hair
Only what is still on the head. If it has been cut off, it is gone. Otherwise go all the way back — eight-year-old hair means eight years of questions. Ask where it landed, not just what it was.
Her code on the Zoltan teCsture Scale™
The Zoltan teCsture Scale™ is a trade mark of Zoltan Vargyai. © 2026 Zoltan Vargyai. All rights reserved. The code is read from the answers; confirm it in the chair with a root check and, where it matters, a strand test.