The answer is coarse hair. Its thicker shaft and cuticle make it more resistant to chemical processing than fine or medium hair.
Fine hair is the opposite case — thinner and more fragile, it processes faster and is more prone to damage from the same chemical service. Porosity is a related but separate hair property from texture, and this question is specifically about strand diameter, where coarse sits on the resistant end.
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