to go into "work" with damp hair?

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I help in a primary school 2 days a week - listening to KS1 read.

Sometimes I have been in with wet hair - shower in the morning, very little time, very thick hair and a reluctance to put the hairdryer on all conspire against being beautifully coiffed.

During half-term my very forthright DSIL mentioned how unprofessional it was of a work experience teenager to turn up to the school with damp plated hair. Now she knows I do it as well on occasion the minx and obviously I knew it was a veiled dig at me as well.

So, AIBU to be not fully primped occasionally in this circumstance?

As I said, mojito, she's quite tactless forthright.

Also she doesn't have 4 (sometimes 5) DC to get out the house silently in the morning while battling with woeful insomnia.

I think turning up with wet hair is maybe a like being undressed when in professional places ... I once did and someone asked me if just been swimming I said no just got out the shower and got a look of indifference what is the difference wet hair from swimming wet hair from shower ..

Is your SIL one of these people who finds it horrific that women go out in the morning without a full face of make-up on, too? She clearly has too much time on her hands. In fact maybe that should be your 'forthright' reply next time she says something of this ilk.

We have one of those built in hair dryers at work. Also a shower although I wouldn't use that.

Mojito, I'd just like to clarify thay the "oh ffs" was to me for yet another typo, not to you, and just an unfortunate timing clash.

Alopogies, if you thought it was to you.

MixedBerries According to my mum I will end up with rheumatism too. She's rather too gleeful about it for my liking. I will also get a nasty thing called erysipelas from plucking my eyebrows.

It took until I left home that I summoned the defiance not to wear slippers.

I also politely inform people drone on about colds being a virus and not connected to getting cold, except in circumstances of lowered immunity, which is rare.

I've annoyed at least one poster on here about it but I will not be silenced.

pinot sitting on radiators also gives you piles

I can't see a connection here and perhaps your SIL can't either?

One is a work experience placement given to someone thinking about entering into the teaching profession...and perhaps might have made a little more effort given that fact.

The other is a Mum helping out.

There's no connection there really at all and I'd be surprised if even your SIL managed to remember you sometimes have damp hair when you go there.

Perhaps you've seen a 'veiled dig' where there wasn't one?

Haha folk girl, when I used to commute I dried my hair with the car heaters every time! Works really well!

Now I live a five min walk to work so it gets a 30sec blast, putting up and go. No1s ever commented yet

Sorry for the hijack, OP. Your SIL is an idiot and will probably perish in a house fire while trying to find matching socks.

I'm confused though- if you don't have time to dry your hair in the morning why not wash it the night before???

Because then you have 'slept on' hair rather than 'freshly washed' hair!

I don't think you need to worry about looking 'professional' or 'coiffed' as a mum helping out with reading! Wet hair might look a bit odd in an office job with a smart dress code, or a client-facing role, but that's not really your situation here. Are you sure your SIL meant it as a dig at you, seems a bit odd to me.

I have thick hair too though, and it only takes me a few minutes really to blow-dry and have it looking reasonably smooth - give it a good blast first to get it almost dry, then finish off with the styling nozzle and brush.

If I'm really in a rush in the mornings (or if it's cold!) I'll shower and wash my hair the night before.

What nonsense. I arrive at work with damp hair all the time. Had no idea anyone thought that way!

It's quite wilful hair Eau - I'd have to spray it down when I wake anyway - so same outcome.

eau... hair ould still be damp in the morning even if I had washed it the night before.

I work in a smart professional job with clients and everything and not one of them gives a flying f whether or not my hair is dry.
I wash my hair once a week usually (lucky me doesn't get greasy hair and anymore it flys away) and nearly every time I wash it the put it up neatly and leave it to dry through the course of the day - blow drying would add almost an extra hour to my day (lots and lots of hair) and who has that much spare morning if you have a job to go to.
As long as she didn't come in looking like she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards who cares!

I swim every morning so usually have damp hair till lunch.
Scrape it back into a clip. Nobody else's business.

I never use a dryer, I have curly/ frizzy hair. If it hasn't dried naturally in the hour between shower and desk then so be it. At least it's styled and not frizzy

What y'all need to do is move to colder climates. When I was a school girl in New England, back in the ice age, our hair would freeze while we waited for the bus and be dry once we got to school.

Sorted.

NOTE: If you comb frozen hair, it will break off. So wait until you are inside and it's defrosted before tending to it. Thank you.

You'll catch your death of cold! Nah. I never use a hairdryer. Always go out with it wet.

I don't think it is unreasonable as such, but I do think it's a bit unprofessional. I have ridiculously thick longish hair (hairdressers book me double and triple slots) and I would never dream of going to work with it wet. I make sure I get up a bit earlier or do it before I go to bed then just barrel brush it out for 3 mins in the morning. I know I'm going to get flamed but I think it's lazy to have it wet all day. If it DOES need washing but you genuinely don't have time, whack some dry shampoo in it and put it up in a donut..chic and out the way.

how many of the men come in to work with wet hair?

There's a big difference between damp hair and sopping-wet-just-rolled-out-of-bed-into-shower hair, though!

A teenage work experience person is likely to be getting to work 10 minutes after waking, still rubbing the sleep from their eyes. A mum helping at school is more likely to have washed hair then done a dozen other things so the hair is damp underneath but relatively tidy on top...

It's fine! What happens if it's raining. And what is it with the funny smell coment? what does damp hair smell of apart from shampoo/conditioner?

Just smile and say but I do that, I'm trying out a non-chemical nit solution.

Unless your being photographed for "Beautiful Hair" magazine then I doubt that damp curls effect the ability to do your job.