The answer is PERMS.
The five options were: BRAIDS — TWISTS — LOCS — PERMS — CORNROWS. Four of them share one thing in common, and the fifth one breaks the rule completely.
- BRAIDS — made with hair alone: sections woven together, nothing added but hands and technique.
- TWISTS — made with hair alone: strands wrapped around each other.
- LOCS — made with hair alone: hair allowed and guided to lock over time.
- CORNROWS — made with hair alone: braided close to the scalp in rows.
- PERMS — the odd one out. A perm is a chemical process: chemicals are applied to break down and rearrange the hair’s structure itself.
See the line now? Braids, twists, locs, and cornrows are all protective styles — ways of arranging, weaving, and wearing hair as it is, using technique alone. A perm doesn’t arrange the hair; it chemically changes what the hair is. It is the only one of the five that needs a chemical treatment, and the only one that isn’t a protective style.
That makes PERMS the unique answer — no other option in the set is a chemical process, so there’s no second defensible pick. Did you spot it straight away, or did locs try to trick you into overthinking? Tell us below.
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