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Where do people dry their hair?!

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Starryskiesinthesky · 03/02/2022 00:05

I sit on the floor but have always aspired to having a dressing table! I am mid 50's and was just thinking, when you are 70 do you still sit on the floor drying your hair?!

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Snowiscold · 04/02/2022 07:40

I’m mid-50s with shoulder-length hair. I don’t dry my hair. I don’t own a hairdryer or straighteners.

tabulahrasa · 04/02/2022 07:58

@BootsScootsAndToots

How do British people feel about electricity in the kitchen. All those plugs, sink, and electrical appliances 🙄

Honestly, as an adult I'm sure you can avoid chucking your hairdryer into the bath/sink!

The thing is, you’re saying it like it’s an inconvenience not to be able to use electricity in the bathroom, but it’s honestly not.

I’ve been to America, still dried my hair sitting on the bed - because why would I stand in a bathroom to do it when I can sit on a bed?

TiredMamaBear · 04/02/2022 09:08

Oh I would love to have a dressing table! I sit on the bed to dry my hair.

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CrimbleCrumble1 · 04/02/2022 10:33

If I didn’t use a hairdryer my hair would take the whole day to dry, maybe even longer. It’s not that thick but I have a lot of it. When the hairdresser blow dries it they always comment and now book
a longer slot for me.

breakdown19 · 04/02/2022 15:29

Anyone here have a dyson hair dryer? Ooh I'd love a dyson hair dryer

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 04/02/2022 16:08

The thing is, you’re saying it like it’s an inconvenience not to be able to use electricity in the bathroom, but it’s honestly not.

Because it's nice to have more options. Sometimes DH is asleep, and I don't want to wake him by drying my hair in the bedroom.

ZZTopGuitarSolo · 04/02/2022 16:09

@breakdown19

Anyone here have a dyson hair dryer? Ooh I'd love a dyson hair dryer
I do - I love it! I have thick hair that goes weirdly wavy if not dried. It dries it really effectively and gets the kinks out.
WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks · 04/02/2022 16:13

I used to stand in front of the bedroom mirror (or sit on the bed where I couldn't see into the mirror) but now, following building work, we've got a small "spare room" so I use that.

There's a small desk in there so I've put a small freestanding mirror on there to use for hair and make-up purposes.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 04/02/2022 16:16

I let mine dry naturally after wrapping it in a microfiber towel while still in the bathroom brushing my teeth etc after showering. So wherever I am often in the car

My teens sit on their beds though. Although they have desks so could sit on their desk chairs at desks if they felt the need.

Amusingly (maybe just to me) the only one in the house who absolutely always uses a hairdryer is my teen son who started after borrowing a friend's after swimming and liking the results 😊🤣 I'd never dried his hair with a hairdryer as a small child as he always had it short and washed hair in the evening anyway.

Shmithecat2 · 04/02/2022 16:17

If I bother to wash my hair at home, it gets dried whilst I sit on the floor at the top of the stairs. But I usually get a blow dry at the hairdressers once a week.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 04/02/2022 16:23

We're in Germany so do have power sockets in the bathroom. We only have one full bathroom though (shower cubicle, seperate bath, twin big sinks, toilet lovely size room) plus a downstairs toilet and oddly a shower cubicle in the laundry room, and three teens plus two adults.

Having one family bathroom is no problem at all specifically because we're all considerate enough not to hog it doing pampery non water requiring things we could easily do in other rooms!

Drying your hair in the bathroom is bloody selfish unless its your personal ensuite or you live alone or are the only one home!

maddiemookins16mum · 04/02/2022 16:24

I stand in front of the mirrored fitted wardrobes. I don’t think I’ve ever sat down to dry my hair.

qualitygirl · 04/02/2022 16:36

I do it at my dressing table in the dressing room...sounds fancy 🤣 we built our house so I made it specifically like a hotel dressing room with the hairdryer in the drawer. 👍

IncompleteSenten · 04/02/2022 16:37

Towel dry it before I get dressed then leave it to finish drying. My hair is very short so after toweling it it's practically dry anyway

CrimbleCrumble1 · 04/02/2022 16:55

@breakdown19 Dyson hairdryer dryer is totally life changing, it’s so fast and makes my hair super soft and shiny. It so suits my hair.

tabulahrasa · 04/02/2022 17:29

@ZZTopGuitarSolo

The thing is, you’re saying it like it’s an inconvenience not to be able to use electricity in the bathroom, but it’s honestly not.

Because it's nice to have more options. Sometimes DH is asleep, and I don't want to wake him by drying my hair in the bedroom.

That’s when I sit on the couch - and tbh, I’ve never lived in a house where the bathrooms were far enough away from the bedrooms that it would have been an option without waking anybody up anyway.

I mean if anyone was that desperate they could just run an extension through to the bathroom, who’d stop them in their own house?

But I’d rather sit somewhere comfy and I can dry and when I straightened it (I diffuse it now) use straighteners without a mirror, so ive never thought the bathroom was the obvious place to do it.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 04/02/2022 18:01

EU here - in the bathroom in front of the mirror next to the washing machine.

UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme · 04/02/2022 18:55

Prokupatuscrakedatus you have a mirror in your Wäschekeller?

ErrolTheDragon · 04/02/2022 19:02

oddly a shower cubicle in the laundry room

that makes perfect sense if you've got people who get filthy in their work, hobbies or sport, so long as the laundry room has an external door so they can go straight in without traipsing through the rest of the house. Clothes in washer, self in shower!Grin

EileenGC · 04/02/2022 19:42

The thing is, you’re saying it like it’s an inconvenience not to be able to use electricity in the bathroom, but it’s honestly not.

It is if you've lived all your life with electricity in the bathroom. I remember when I moved to the UK that I had to buy a new 'razor socket' toothbrush base, as mine had a full plug that I obviously couldn't use with UK bathroom sockets.

I dry and straighten my hair in the bathroom. I do my IPL treatments (plug-in machine) in the bathroom. I once lived in a flat where the hoover's cord wouldn't reach the furthest wall of the bathroom, if you plugged it in the hallway (it was long and oddly shaped). Had to clean the floor with cloths, and you can never get all the dust that way. Never had that issue before, as I would always simply plug the hoover in the bathroom!

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 04/02/2022 19:45

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme
No Wäschekeller - not that type of house. Grin
Just a bathroom (shower, bathtub, two basins, wc, room for closed storage) with space for a washing machine and tumble dryer. Two electrical outlets with a special type of breaker for 'Feuchträume' and a large window in the ceiling.
There is also a second separate wc + basin.

SweetPetrichor · 04/02/2022 19:48

I air dry mine. My hair dryer is used to warm up defrosted rats for my snake! Grin

VioletOcean · 04/02/2022 19:49

In the front room. Spent 2 years drying DDs hair in the kitchen and even now I can’t think why I didn’t just do it either in the front room or bedroom 🤦‍♀️

KateTheEighth · 04/02/2022 20:14

Sitting on my chair at my dressing table with mirror. It's quite old fashioned and I'm thinking of getting rid of it but it works for me

RonCarlos · 04/02/2022 20:15

In the floor in the time hall!