Is it ok to go to bed with wet hair?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

I'm crap at getting up early. I wake at 7am and its go go go to get the kids sorted and dropped at school (we leave at 7.50am to go to Breakfast Club), then off to work.

I manage a quick shower each am but do not have the time (currently) to wash and blow dry my hair in the mornings. As such, I was it before bed every other night.

If I'm organised I'll do it early evening then blow dry or leave to air dry before bed but once a week ish I end up going to bed with wet hair.

Is there anything "wrong" with sleeping with wet hair? I keep the towel wrapped round it as long as I can bear then take it off before I fall asleep. Is there a product that would be good to put on my hair/head for overnight sleeping with wet hair?

I know the answer to it all is "get up at 6.30" but we are 36 years in and it's just not happening.

Doesn't it give you piles? Or is that sitting on a hit radiator?

Hot

Mine would still be wet in the morning if I did that

I do it all the time, I'm another one with stupidly thick hair so ay other drying method takes too long. My pillows (hollow fibre) have never shown any ill effects.

I can't do it, it gives me a headache.

@MintyGreenDream

Mine would still be wet in the morning if I did that

Yes, mine is often still damp in the morning if I wash it too late in the evening, especially in winter. I unfasten the plait, as soon as I'm awake, to speed things up.

are you my MIL....this is her "thing" ....when dd was small hair washing was such a bloody trauma of screaming about water being in her eyes, up her nose, in her ears that I could not face more screaming about knots and tangles and the hair dry being too windy, or too hot or too cold, so it was a wide comb through wet hair, and towel dry only

MIL was horrified. Maybe @StrychnineInTheSandwiches is my SIL ....are you the only working woman with children on the South Coast?

My hair is either still damp when I wake up or else I look like Hagrid. I am a night time shower-er because wild horses couldn’t drag me out of bed early enough to shower but I dry my hair straight before bed.

I use aquis turbans after washing my hair. I have three, and use them in succession, each one gets less wet than the last, so that most of the water is removed. Then tie hair in a pineapple and sleep with pillow covered with a towel. Usually bit damp in the morning but no ill effects to scalp or hair.

My hair goes into crazy waves, and not in a good way, if I leave it to dry naturally.

I get hurty, kinky hair and it falls differently from the crown if I sleep with wet hair.

There is a risk that your head will warp or even shrink. That's what happened when I left a wet towel on my bedside cabinet.

I do sometimes when I'm stressed or anxious I find the sensation incredibly relaxing and it helps calm me down quite a lot. I sleep much better for it although I will say my hair looks bloody awful the next day.

I’ve been doing it for nearly 60 years. My hair is thick, glossy and healthy. Can’t be arsed with hairdryers.

I’ve got long, thick hair which the older I’ve got the more thicker it has got and I used to plait it when damp at bedtime as it took ages to dry with a hairdryer.

But I bought a Dyson hairdryer and that has solved the problem as it dries my hair much more quickly.

If it’s been a very hot day I might still go to bed in plaits but only occasionally.

Yes.

Also, it really is safe to wash your hair during a period.

My mother was wrong on both counts.

I couldn't go to bed with wet hair. Would hate to sleep all night on a soggy pillow: I have the same morning leaving time as you and just get up 15 minutes early on hair wash day. Always a struggle though.

I have always gone to bed with wet hair. And I’ve never ‘caught a chill’ from it.

Aah these people who just get up 15 minutes earlier on hair wash day! Lucky ducks. My hair takes hours and hours to dry naturally, upwards of 30 minutes solid blasting with a hairdryer.

On weekdays my options are wash it in the morning, plait it, blast the worst of the wet off the top and get on with the day, or wash it in the evening, plait it and go to bed with it wet (towel over the pillow). I have made it to 38 with both my hair and pillows intact.

Aah these people who just get up 15 minutes earlier on hair wash day! Lucky ducks. My hair takes hours and hours to dry naturally, upwards of 30 minutes solid blasting with a hairdryer.

Ok, 30 minutes earlier then.

@liveforsummer More like 50, by the time I've added 10 minutes to the shower for the wash and deep condition it needs, and then 10 to towel dry it off before I start with the dryer

I often do when I have a shower before bed and can't be arsed to dry it.

This whole thread has made me want to shave my hair off. Why is long thick hair such a pain in the ass to wash and dry and defrizz etc etc. Fucking hair. I couldn’t sleep with wet hair as insomnia means the slightest thing fucks with my brain so have to wash in the morning but never have time to dry properly in winter so ends up a frizzy mess even with the hair dryer. Aargh.

I do many times but then it needs washing again in the morning as I can't do anything with it

I’d have to get up hours earlier; if i blow dry my hair straight after washing it i turn into the love child of Monica in Barbados and Aslan.