Different coats of Don Sphynx

There are several types of a skin/hair/coat a Don Sphynx can have, ranging from totally naked cat to a "brush" kind of hair, which is somewhat similar to a normal cats hair. With any type of those, a cat is still Don Sphynx if they look the way the standard describes it.

Naked:Completely hairless cats(also called "gummy cats"). Their skin is soft, warm and almost sticky to the touch. The kittens are usually born with open eyes and without whiskers and eyebrows.

On the right is a foto of our newborn, DonAmen Minoque, age is two hour. She was born with open eyes and without any hair.

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Flock: Flocked hair is short;fine down made of sparse rather little hairs. When you touch it, you will note that it isn't "gummy", it's somewhat other, smoother sensation.  Some breeders like to differentiate two subtypes of flock, usual flock and extra-short flock(thin-flock), that is one little step from "gummy skin.On the right is the flock/velour-coated cat

Even flocked cats may have longer type of hair (velour or brush) on some areas of the body. Usually it's points and tail.

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Velour: type of hair is made of 1-3mm hairs, closely put one to one. Usually you can see those hairs from middle distance and when you touch a cat, it's still somewhat smooth sensation, though hand get some resistance when you move it over skin, you sense some short hair(which you don't with flock).

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Brush/harjaturkki:These are curly hairs, longer than velour. when you touch brush hair, it's absolutely unlikely to anything naked; it's just a soft wool or hard kinky hair, short or lengthy. Brush cats can have curly whiskers. Below is brush coated don sphynx, thank you again Larisa ;)

Sometimes a cat can be "brush-point", she has brush kind of hair on legs and tail and velour(or even flocked) on other parts of body. Main thing is, there are no just four strictly defined groups of hairs, those groups are somewhat diffusive, you can't always tell if it's flock of velour, if it's extra-short or usual and so on. And a final note, when you're not sure what kind of hair your cat is, check a legs(not tail) and decide upon its analysis.