For people that have long hair or know someone that does, how does sweat interact with the hair?
Does it drip down the long shafts? Be specific please.
Firstly, it creates a damp sticky itchy cloud of hairsweat up close to the head, which thrilling experience also cascades down the neck if you have your hair down. The sweat does slowly drip down the hair shafts as well. The wet hair-strands plaster themselves to your skin; they also tend to clump and tangle, the hairs sticking to each other, so when they eventually dry they are likely to be a snarly mess. Oh, and the sweat-wetted hair seems to want to take on the role of a Bounty paper towel, soaking up as much dust and pollen and leaf particles and whatnot as it can manage to encounter, just to add to the visceral experience.
I have very long and thick hair. Head sweat is indeed a concern. But your head is no more prone to sweat than any other part of your body. My issue is the weight of sweated wet hair, as it get really heavy ( or mine does). It is also a bitch to wash and dry. And you are correct Ahunter3 about tangles and snarls. I spend alot of time everyday ridding myself of these hazards.
Since the OP is asking for personal experience, let’s move this to IMHO.
Colibri
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Yes. It drips down the long shafts in jeweled beads that, after a breathless lacuna, detach from the strand that bore them and give themselves over to the void.
When I used to be a runner, the sweat would run down my hair, and if it was hot enough outside, evaporate leaving salt crystals in my hair. It was pretty cool, actually.
Some runs down the shorter hairs around my face and neck and drips off the ends, and the sweat does get the first few inches of hair all around my head wet, but a lot of it runs right down my scalp and onto my neck, face and shoulders. I can feel the beads running down my scalp headed for these areas.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with anything, but I am a redhead, and I read somewhere that redheads have fewer strands of hair per inch…something like that. Maybe that is why mine travels on my scalp like that instead of down the shaft? And my hair doesn’t appear thin, it is actually fairly thick, so I dunno, that could be total caca-doody.
Like most women, I put my hair up when I am being active, and in addition I usually wear a headband or kerchief to contain all that sweat because I don’t want it all over my face and it makes dealing with tangles and snarls easier.
I’m not sure what you are looking for?
I had long hair before i got old and most of it moved away.
It got wet.
If you sweat enough it got really wet, so your hair looked like someone dumped a bucket of water on you, which includes dripping and flying sweat.
By that time a lot more than your hair is probably soaked
Then it dried later and your hair felt like a dirty sticky mess, kind of like when you swim in the ocean, so you washed it.
As far as any strange or unusual interactions, i can not think of any, it simply got wet and dirty?
Are you sure?
I thought that as humans have evolved to have a bigger brain, this brain also uses a disproportionate amount of body resources (blood flow, nutrients, etc.) compared to other animals. Wouldn’t this also mean that the head containing this brain would have more heat to dissipate than other parts of the body?
If you have your hair pulled back in a ponytail, it wicks down it.