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I am entering new territory with my hair... it is now at least 3 -6 inches longer than I have ever grown it before (between a third to halfway down my back.) I find that as it lengthens there are new sets of problems/experiences to be faced and I¹m wondering how some of you have handled these situations.
1. After I sit down in a chair or get into a car I find my hair pulling if I tilt my head. After reading so much about caring for long hair I have become concerned that this might damage and pull out some hairs. It might seem silly to ask, but does this situation improve or stay the same as the hair grows longer? Should I be concerned?
2. While sleeping I have had occasions when I awoke to find my wife laying on my hair, making it difficult to move (I realize this could be an opportunity for an interesting situation). I also find my hair pulling and am concerned if I move around too much it might cause more tangles. Is it common to sleep with the hair loose or restricted in some way? Which way is better?
3. Before I discovered this web site (about two months ago) I use to shampoo my hair everyday and pile it on top of my head while I washed my body. Then I read that I should not shampoo everyday and piling the hair on top of my head was not a good idea. Now I push the hair to one side and wash my neck and back, then to the other side. But this isn¹t always very efficient since I try not to get soap on my hair. Any suggestions?
4. What do you do about static electricity? I read somewhere that hair spray works well, but I don¹t have any other reason to use hair spray (I guess I could borrow some from my wife). I have tried wetting my hands and patting my hair to calm it down. Any other ways to keep the hair from flying around?
5. Anyone have suggestions on what ³dangers² to look out for, besides fire, smokers, getting hair caught in a door, etc.
Thanks for any advice. Some of you have been down this road for sometime and made it a lot further ahead. It helps to learn from your experience! I hope I can someday do the same for others.
I run into this problem on occasion, myself. I've found that pulling my hair around front, before I get in my car, helps alleviate this.
There's no such thing as a silly question, my boy! ;)
As long as your hair is long enough to get stuck between you and your car seat, the problem will always persist. As mentioned above, however, pulling your hair around front should help. No need for concern, really, save for the few strands of hair that're prone to get pulled out on occasion. Not a big, deal, either, really, when you consider that people shed an average of a hundred strands of hair/day.
I've run into this, too; only I have the added inconvenience of worrying about one or both of our dogs laying on it when they decide to climb onto our pillows when they come to bed (grin). I just toss my hair above my head so it draps over and behind my pillow. If one of our dogs decides it wants that spot, then I just drape it over the dog (grin).
If you're particularly concerned about your hair while sleeping, you can always pull it back and secure it, loosely, so it's not being pulled on. It's possible to sleep, comfortably; you just have to get used to the small bump in your hair.
One thing my wife LOVES is when, during foreplay, I stroke her body with my hair. ;)
Oddly enough, I find very few tangles in my hair in the morning. I attribute this to the fact that I do sleep with it drape over my pillow at night.
Either way has its advantages. It depends on which you're more comfortable with. I wear mine lose. My wife wears her's secured. There's always a risk of tangling either way, though.
As my own hair grew longer, I noticed increasing difficulty with washing my hair while I took a shower (because I'd wash my hair with my back to the shower head). Then, I found an article describing the safest, most effective way to wash long hair: with the hair in front of you, so you can see what you're doing. Now, I shower first, then wash my hair. Since I have a combo bathtub-shower, I rest one foot on the rim of my bath tub and lean on that leg, so as to lessen the strain on my back, and bend over the tub to wash my hair. I've got one of those detachable shower massagers, so I'm able to use the shower head as you would the spayer in a kitchen sink.
When I shower, but don't want to wash my hair, I either put my hair in a pony tail, or have my wife tie it in a bun for me.
Try Herbal Essence Spray-On Gel. It works WONDERS. You apply it on towel-dried hair (moisten your hair with a spray-bottle full of water if necessary. I use an old bottle of 409), and style your hair as normal. My hair is waist-length, so I usually spritz it in four rows of three hits on both sides of my hair, run my fingers through it to distribute/style, then do the same to the other side of my head. Then, just let it air dry. It looks GREAT once it's dried, and if your hair has curls, the gel really helps bring them out and stay put. Another big plus with gel is that it helps prevent frizzing.
Wrapping it around your throat while you sleep.
Glad to be of help! Good luck to ya! :)
Candles. My hair has been on fire three times and I've just swooshed away with my hand to the wide-eyed stares of onlookers. Fortunately, I have so much hair, I never missed the burnt parts, but it sure smells bad. Watch out for vacume cleaners too. If you have to bend down to pick up something off the rug while vacuming make sure you turn it off first. Luckily, I was able to pull my hair out without much trouble. As for in bed, I pile my hair up over my pillow, that keeps the boyfriend and my daughter off it. Also when you roll over you don't have to do much readjusting.
Chaeya