So I was watching a show on tv and yet again there was a scene of a beautiful (naturally) woman waking up in bed. Long, flowing hair, thick, shining, medium curly, with no signs of disarray except one lock falling forward artistically drawing attention to her beautiful eyes… Is it really like that for anyone?
If I sleep with my hair completely loose, an entire night of tossing and turning against the pillows converts my hair into a rat’s nest. It takes minutes of careful work with a wide-toothed comb to return it to something like order.
So I generally don’t leave it loose overnight. At various times I’ve put it into loose braids, ponytails, coiled it up, clipped it… something to keep it under control. How about you all?
I suppose people who have lived with others with long hair could chime in, too. What did your partner do with it? Did they magically have TV-worthy hair in the morning?
Maybe it’s the texture of my hair? It’s only very slightly wavy, but fine, and not at all the high shine/perfectly glossy hair you often see on Asian women except for a few hours right after a conditioning treatment.
Oh, and let’s say “long” hair means at least a few inches past just touching your shoulders.
I have medium length hair that is layered. About a year ago, I started using silk pillowcases. What a game changer! Most mornings, my hair looks like it did when I went to bed. It might just need a bit of brushing.
@TRC4941,same. What you sleep on makes a difference.
I don’t like silk on my skin. The feel of it bugs me.
I use a very high thread count cotton or bamboo.
My super long hair( reaches the small of my back) has always been a problem over night. Some nights I believe squirrels have come in and had a romp on my head.
I look like the wild woman of the woods.
I, at least flip it over before presenting to public viewing(sounds like I live in a zoo, oh yeah, I do! ).
I can generally get it organized pretty quickly.
I’ve found the barometer makes a difference as to how my hair acts. It’s fickle, at best.
I had very long hair in my twenties, and the longer it got the curlier it became, so I didn’t have very neat hair (although my mane looked great, think seventies Robert Plant or Roger Daltrey) to begin with. So there wasn’t much of a difference after a night’s sleep, but nonetheless IIRC, I washed my hair every morning, like I still do now that my hair is only a few cm long (and much thinner). And I brushed it a lot.
I think it depends more on the texture of the hair and your sleeping patterns than anything else. I have very thick naturally curly hair and I’m a side sleeper who doesn’t move much when sleeping. When I wore it long it actually required less attention than it does now at medium length.
I’m back to a short cut, but when I’d let it grow out (until last spring), it was maybe 3" below my shoulders - is that long? I’m a back sleeper and I left it loose, but it never got extremely tangled overnight and it was also never TV-wake-up glamorous either. Then again, it’s thin, straight, and fine, never thick and wavy, but that was my cross to bear.
Nor do I rise with perfect makeup. OK, I never wear makeup anyway…
I can poke my belly button with my braid. And that’s it: I keep my hair in a single long braid almost all the time. I braid it after I shower in the evening, and I unbraid it and rebraid it before I leave the house in the morning. If I don’t do this, it tangles monstrously.
My hair is just about long enough to sit on when it’s loose. I have occasionally slept with it unbraided and I regret it every time.
Not only do I end up with a tangled mess in the morning (and my hair is thick as well as long) I usually don’t sleep well because someone is always lying on it (me, husband, cats) and I get yanked or trapped by it.
I have straight hair. It’s now shoulder-length (when trimmed it should be a bob reaching to the tip of the goatee of my beard). I just run a comb through it in the morning. There are some tangles when I wake up but generally that’s enough for me.
BTW, the OP’s original impression touches upon a TV Tropes trope – Wakeup Makeup. That is, when someone is shown in a film, on TV, etc. waking up perfectly groomed.
I’m sadly in need of a haircut. Mine is the basic ‘bob’ a little below shoulder length. The thing is…it’s then, but nice and smooth on the sides, and the back is an eternal kinky warped rats nest. I spend waaaay too much time picking apart the knots and mats with my fingers. I say this because once I passed middle age and it went gray (and a very nice color it is), the texture changed! Yuck. I’ve tried bundling it into one of those black silky snoods found in the hair accessory aisle, it helps a little. I need a gray-hair-haircut that isn’t totally disgusting.
A few years in the military followed by many years in security usually meant short hair. I now wear it shoulder length (or more) and color it as I, or the students at the schools I work with, see fit…which is currently magenta.
My hair is to the middle of my back, I always tie it back to sleep, in the winter, but not so much in the summer. Way too much static in the winter, I’m constantly brushing it off my face. But the summer? No problem. I def look like I just rolled out of bed, in the morning, but it’s not a tangled nightmare or anything. Run a wide tooth comb through it and done.
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