I'm still growing out my hair and have stayed clear of bleach for a good few months now (might be bleaching the long roots soon though!), and every extra millimetre that grows, it seems to take longer and longer to dry after I shampoo. Been shampooing once at the weekends, and once after my dance class mid-week, so twice a week. Weekends are fine, I've got plenty of time to style, but when I wash my hair mid-week at 10pm, there's no way it can air-dry in time for me to do much with it for the next day, and I either have a bad hair day, or a worse one!
Any suggestions - for, at its longest point, just past mid-back length hair - to style it when it's really quite wet at bedtime? I've tried to let it air dry as long as possible before going to sleep, then I've tried everything sans blowdrying to get it a bit set for the morning, sometimes a very light blowdrying, but mostly setting it in about two to four ringlets, wrapped loosely around my fingers, then bobby-pinning them and throw a hairnet over the top. Then I take out the bobby pins and let the hair fall inside the hairnet so that as much air gets to it as possible overnight. I like the effect of twists too, on dry hair, but there's no way it would dry even remotely with twists if it's still got a lot of water in it.
Not only would leaving it loose all night create a massively uneven mess in the morning, but I've been trying to protect the lengths from too much friction by wearing a hairnet every night anyway.
Any advice for 'setting' hair that is perhaps not even 50% dry at 11pm so I can wake up with a semi-decent and even style? 😀
Thank you!
Posted : November 27, 2014 10:52 pm
Braids? I don't know how thick is your hair, when I braid mine I usually split it in two braids to get more defined waves and in the morning is still a tiny bit damp on the underlayers, but I seriously have a lot of hair. You can go for a fishbone braid, french braid.. Or foam rollers if you have them, to get curls, or you can try to get curls with a headband. You put a headband on your head, on your forehead, divide the hair into sections, roll the sections up and tuck them into the headband to stay in place. This will give you large, loose curls (but it's not entirely disaster-free, I mean it takes a little practising. Some curls may look a bit bad at first..)
I can't come up with other ideas...
Posted : November 28, 2014 12:08 am
I haven't tried braids for a while, thanks Realize! I think it will still come out damp in the morning, but I'll give it a try.
I haven't attempted the headband all over my hair but did at the fringe once, and as suspected, it was too difficult to remove, thought doing the entire head would be a bit more damaging than was worth it!
There are some really squishy rollers I've seen at Sally's, they seem really comfortable to sleep in. I might splash out for those one day. The bendy rollers are probably the most uncomfortable to sleep in, but they do work well on nearly dried hair for a great style the next day.
I'll try some braids next week. 🙂
Posted : November 28, 2014 5:22 am
You're welcome!
I then remembered about a heatless way to get loose waves, like beach hair... separate the hair in two sections, twist twist twist them (they'll start to twist on their own in weird bends) and pin them up to your head. Then you unwrap them in the morning and it's done 🙂
Posted : November 28, 2014 7:50 pm
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