If anyone else struggles with sleeping on long hair

[Zen]

Deep condition your hair every so often ...you can make your own using olive oil, eggs, and avocado (recipes should be easily found online)

And whatever is leftover makes a great salad dressing

If there's an avacado in my house i'm sure not putting it on my head

[Tuckervill]

Yeah, what I was thinking of was satin pillow cases. Those are from the days when women "set" their hair once a WEEK.



Karen

[Cataboo]

Yeah, what I was thinking of was satin pillow cases. Those are from the days when women "set" their hair once a WEEK.



Karen

There's still a bunch of those women... My Mom owns a beauty shop, she's got a ton of old ladies who come once or twice a week to get their hair set, then hairsprayed into a hard helmet...

Most of them roll up a towel into a pillow and put that under their neck to support it so that their hair doesn't actually touch the bed/pillow or get flattened.

[Eden]

Better than a less harsh shampoo is a less harsh shampoo and using it little as possible.... I resisted for years - I have dry curly hair, but I still thought my hair would be oily and unruly if I did not wash it every day. Turned out to be far from reality. Now that I only wash it a few times/week it stays in so much better shape - no more split ends! It used to split so bad one hair would have 5 or 6 splits up the hair shaft. I still shower every day, and I condition every day, but I only shampoo when it truly needs it and I try to keep the shampoo off the ends as much as possible. I can't use a super heavy conditioner... or it does look oily quickly, but without so much shampoo I don't need to. I also don't ever rub with a towel or use heat on my hair - turns into a big poof if I do.

[Dianyla]

My experience has been that once your hair gets long enough it just hangs off the bed and stays there by it's own weight.

For mid-lengths of hair (say between shoulder and buttlength) you can just make a loose comfortable braid to sleep in.

[Jolt]

Wow, I guess I should consider myself lucky that my hair (mid back length) doesn't seem to tangle that much. If it did I'd probably end up cutting it short again (and getting mistaken for a boy...). I wonder what it is that makes some people's hair more prone to getting into knots than others.

[singletrackmind]

I mostly just have problems with my husband sleeping on it.

[Cataboo]

And whatever is leftover makes a great salad dressing

If there's an avacado in my house i'm sure not putting it on my head

I don't like avocado's, so I only use them for my hair