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To ask if you have medium to long length hair what you do with it to sleep

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YeahWellWhyNot · 07/09/2024 22:25

I'm clearly dim and missing a trick despite having the same hair cut for nearly 40 years. Not far below shoulder length wavy hair. Thanks to young kids, my hair in the day is nearly always in a claw grip clip to get it away from my face. At night I let it down because I obviously can't sleep with a clip, but my god my hair pisses me off. In the summer, unbearable, sticks to me. Last night, tickles me. And I wake up looking like a mess. Don't do hairbands as they leave a kink, or if left loose, fall out. I always shower in the evening, let it dry naturally. I am up and down all night with the kids, and also toss and turn A LOT so anything that requires me to sleep (spooned) gracefully like a movie star is absolutely out of the question. But I'm kind of sick of waking up looking like I haven't washed or brushed it. Also showers in the morning would be impossible. Oh and I have the technical skill with anything hair and make up as a donkey with boxing gloves 😁

Thanks I'm advance!

OP posts:
ShinyPebble32 · 07/09/2024 23:36

TheHateIsNotGood · 07/09/2024 22:33

@TomatoSandwiches - a "silk bonnet" indeed, one of the best 21st Century suggestions I've read on MN it is. Do you make your own or do you purchase them from a fine Bonateer, China or?

Wowww, please tell me this is just mortifying ignorance and not outright racism??

Thistooshallpass24 · 07/09/2024 23:28

Are most replying with long hair, naturally long or extensions?! My hair is like toddler hair! All silky with no hold , hair bobbles slip out, it doesn't keep a parting and it doesn't seem to grow ( I'm attempting to grow it)

fost · 07/09/2024 23:23

my hair is very long (thigh length). I use a silk pillowcase, and chuck the whole lot of my hair up and over the pillow. some of it likely falls down the back of the bed as I have a metal bed frame rather than a solid headboard.

AmyLovesAutumn · 07/09/2024 23:21

I have waist length hair and it’s put into a satin bonnet otherwise it annoys me and DH lies on it during the night. It gets very knotted too and takes me ages to brush if I don’t.

Radiat · 07/09/2024 23:18

Messy bun using a scrunchie. My hair’s poker straight and doesn’t kink/hold a curl, so it doesn’t really matter what I do with it, as long as it’s off my neck at night.

TheHateIsNotGood · 07/09/2024 23:18

Are they actually Bonnets which tie under the chin, with maybe a little peak to add some shade or charm? Or are they really just Caps?

Either way, can you get matching silk nightclothes to give a bit of a style 'edge' to create an ensemble? I hope so as in my mind it seems more Hilda Ogden, nightcream and curlers.

RaininSummer · 07/09/2024 23:16

Loose plait and then tucked up into the elastic on my sleep mask. #I'mtoosexyin mybed

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 07/09/2024 23:12

Plaits or twists and a satin bonnet of I plait a hair scarf into the braid and tie the hair on top of my head like a medieval style using the bits of the scarf that poke out at the ends.

Lisbeth50 · 07/09/2024 23:11

I just have mine loose. It's never occurred to me to do anything else. I wash it every other morning but on the in-between ones, it's always fine. I just brush it.

ThinWomansBrain · 07/09/2024 23:10

Nothing!
I just wet my hair every morning & add more curl cream/spray if it needs it and let it dry naturally.
I co wash it about once a week

Marine30 · 07/09/2024 23:10

mynameiscalypso · 07/09/2024 23:02

Do people's heads not slide off silk pillowcases?

I have a Tempur pillow which is sort of ‘grippy’ underneath the case. But I have used on other pillows and my head is in the same place come the morning.

Flopsy145 · 07/09/2024 23:08

I just do a long plait, ideally with a silk scrunchie although my toddler seems to have hidden them 😂 but brush and plait, even if wet. I've heard sleeping on a silk pillowcase is the best thing.

Stirmish · 07/09/2024 23:07

I plait mine

MiddleClassProblem · 07/09/2024 23:07

I can’t sleep with bonnet, braids or a scrunchie. I loosely tuck it over the top and under my pillow. Sometimes if it’s more unruly I give a twist before the tuck but I can’t have it tight or pulling so it’s a loose twist not close to my head.

mrsfollowill · 07/09/2024 23:04

I stick mine in a low pony tail- cannot stand waking up with hair flopping about- in v hot weather it goes in a pineapple on top of my head out of the way. Not the most attractive but IDGAF I need to be comfy.

mynameiscalypso · 07/09/2024 23:02

Do people's heads not slide off silk pillowcases?

Dibbydoos · 07/09/2024 23:01

Why don't you have a short cut?

I'm the same, had short hair most of my life - easy cooling etc

Grown it to below shoulder length and it drives me nuts! Straightened every day cos it's got an ugly wave about it (it's dead straight when short 🙄) and at night either a scrunchy or I tuck it round the side I'm not sleeping on. It seems to stay there, I don't move around much (I assume).
I'm thinking of visiting vidal sassons academy in London and telling them to give me something that suits me!

Marine30 · 07/09/2024 23:00

YeahWellWhyNot · 07/09/2024 22:34

I thought about a silk pillowcase but always thought it would look odd on the bed..I mean we buy sets but maybe we're just old fashioned / cheap!

Might not look great but really helps smooth hair down. Works well on mine (mid back) and never tangles overnight now.
Jasmin silk does good ones and they’re not too expensive.

UmaNipples · 07/09/2024 23:00

Anything silk must just slide right off your hair though no? How are you securing this bonnet?! My silk eye mask shoots off the back of my head constantly in the night which drives me nuts.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 07/09/2024 22:59

A sleep bonnet? This is reminiscent of the poster who wanted a sex hat !

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 07/09/2024 22:57

YeahWellWhyNot · 07/09/2024 22:34

I thought about a silk pillowcase but always thought it would look odd on the bed..I mean we buy sets but maybe we're just old fashioned / cheap!

When I make the bed I put my silk pillow on the bottom and the matching pillow on top, when I go to bed I flip them. I have curly hair and whilst I still wake up looking far from polished it's definitely reduced tangling/breakage I can't wear a bonnet I tried but I think I must get hot in the night and take it off

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 07/09/2024 22:57

My hair isn't particularly long but when it's hot I put it in two low bunches so that the elastic is a few inches below my ears and against the slimmest part of my neck so it doesn't irritate if I lie on my back or my side.

OneTC · 07/09/2024 22:56

OH puts hers in a loose plait

UnNiddeRides · 07/09/2024 22:55

I’m also getting Ena Sharples vibes!

ColonelRhubarbBikini · 07/09/2024 22:54

UnNiddeRides · 07/09/2024 22:52

Isn’t sleeping with a bonnet on a bit hot when the weather is warm?

I don’t find it hot at all. If anything the silk feels cooling.

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