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?

Tell SIL to friff off and get a bloody life.

I work in a school and have been known to turn up with still damp hair. I have a very sore scalp and using a hair dryer can make it feel much worse, so I avoid using it as much as possible. It's a 10 minute driver and I have the heater on so it is only a bit damp when I get there, and I give it a brush on arrival. I have been working since 1996 and been doing same since then - never once had it mentioned to be at all!

I went into work once with freshly washed but not quite dry hair, and my colleague asked why I was sweating, given the fact it was a cold day in winter!

YANBU

Some hair just doesn't take kindly to hairdryers.

It's not as if you are in a "client-facing role" as they say. You are not representing a company to the outside world, you are playing with some children.

How do you have "sometimes 5" children to get out of the house? Is there one who sometimes lives in the cupboard under the stairs and refuses to come out?

"Wash it the night before" people clearly don't understand curly hair.

I thought she occasionally looked after a friends child in t'mornings too.

Anyway, I went out this morning with damp hair. For the first time in years, possibly ever. And no cold, yet :) Plus it rained a bit on me and I thought "Do your worst, sky" and felt a bit smug.

Plus it rained a bit on me and I thought "Do your worst, sky" and felt a bit smug.

Had a bit of a chuckle at this. The idea of feeling "yesss!" for having got one over on the sky. I've had this too.

Go, Pinot! There's no going back now :).

It's not kind, but I do feel a little smug when I see people with hair straightened-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life panicking when a few drops of rain start to fall.

Hairdryers are against my religion.

Fortunately my hair dries very quickly, helped by the fact that it's quite short. My sister offered to get me a hairdryer for Christmas once. I said absolutely no point as it would never get used. At all. Ever. For anything. (My sister, dear soul that she is, doesn't take subtle hints.)

... oh I did also thank her for the generous thought, obviously

heh heh moi aussi Trills

Mind you that could be plain jealousy from em as I canna use straighteners as my hair is too fine/fragile/rubbish. I would love to have hair like Jen Aniston, all thick but smooth and sleek.

me not em.

If you pull your hair into a ponytail how thick is it?

My ponytail is thinner than a big thick marker pen. I have a friend whose ponytail is more like the width of a toilet roll tube. She has lots of hair.

How odd (of your SIL).

No, OP, I dont think you're being unreasonable at all. I didnt realise there was an etiquette over wet hair either. I sometimes do this, I have very, very thick, long hair that takes ages to dry so if Im rushing Ill just towel dry off the worst and go into work. I do have 3 children under 6, a full time job and a husband whos never at home (and gone to work before any of us get up) so at times things are hectic - she obviously has more time than a lot of us!!.

I work in an office environment, just never thought anything of it.

Theres a lady a few offices down from mine, who goes to the gym/ running on her lunch break, has a shower and would often pop into our (shared) kitchen for a cuppa with wet hair. I dont think anything. Actually, yesterday I remember thinking "Hmm lovely smelling shampoo"

Greasy, smelly hair would bug me though.

Am a bit that people could think of me as unprofessional for this now....

Mine is the width of a marker pen too.I can use one kirby grip to clip it all up in a chignon (the only good thing I think to having fine hair)

Oooh, a chignon, how French!

Mais oui mon petite croissant, mais oui

Petit croissant - flaky and full of butter? :o

We could make Pain au Chocolat code for being full o'shite

Oh yay another thing to enforce on women going to jobs. So when we round up all the scroungy single mothers with 3 kids to get to school/nursery in the morning and send them to workfare, we'll count them as not trying hard enough if they have damp hair and stop their benefits? A victory for civilised society, that.

And if it only applies to 'work experience' kids, how is it an insult to say they are unprofessional? They aren't being paid; by definition they aren't professionals. Your sister, otoh, presumably is paid to work and not stand around gossiping about some poor teenager's hair.

I'm a sahm these days but used to go to work with wet hair. It's very thick and very curly...if i put a hairdryer on it I look like a poodle with a bad perm. If I washed it the night before I would have to go to bed with wet hair and wake up with a giant ball of frizz on my head.