Okay, you just got done washing your hair (whatever the method) and your hair is dripping wet. What do you do now? Special towel? Special shirt? What's your after shower routine?

When I first get out I wrap my hair up in a towel. In the process of dressing, this towel comes off.

I have 4 cotton shirts that I never wear out of the house. They are my cleaning/hair drying shirts. They absorb well and dry quickly. 99.9% of the time I dry my hair while wearing these shirts. Basically, I leave my hair alone until it is mostly dry or completely dry. Sometimes I add some oil to the ends right after the shower. I try not to comb it until it is dry.

My hair is finishing up drying right now, so I figure this is a good time to post here!

First, I gently squeeze the excess water out of my hair in the shower. Then, I wrap my hair in the towel I used for my body to get out of the shower, and bend at the waist to let my hair hang over the front of my head once I take the towel off. I run the towel down the length of my hair, sometimes squeezing a bit. After a few runs with the towel I'll fingercomb a bit to break up the biggest chunks that are hanging together, on the theory that more surface area will get it to dry faster. I continue to squeeze and run the towel over it until it's no longer dripping from the tips, then I oil the ends with coconut oil and flip my hair back onto my back with a smaller towel laid on my back. I'll usually wrap it up into a sort of towel bun while I'm getting dressed, and then leave it down until it dries -- right now I have it over the back of the couch so it won't get my (ok, my boyfriend's, I'm stealing it) nice sweater damp. I don't comb it until it's dry, as a general rule, and I try not to put any hairties in it. Sometimes I'll braid it, for braidwaves, but most of the time I just let it dry down.

Well, I carefully comb it out, then I put it in a backwards Turbie until it is only slightly damp. I usually take it out and put a dab of oil in my hair to smooth it out. I don't think I'm going to do that anymore, since several posters have told me that fades the color in the hair.

Sometimes I do the Saran Wrap and quickly blow dry, but rarely. I'm trying to avoid it altogether :)

I gently squeeze out as much as possible in the shower, then put it up turban-style in a microfiber towel. It stays that way for about a half hour while I get dressed and stuff. Then I let it down and comb through some modified Kimberlily defrizz spray. At this point it's still damp, but it doesn't get my shirt wet. I let it air-dry down the rest of the way.

I wrap my hair in a towel until it is just a little damp, then I gently comb it out. Letting my hair dry all the way before combing it is a recipe for disaster for me, unfortunately. :-(

I apply products on soaking wet hair, wrap my hair into a towel aka plopping/plunking (example of it on Jessicurl's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2qD38ZYX6A) youtube channel) and leave the towel on for 30 mins - not longer for me, bad results! lol! - then take towel off and airdry.

I do forbidden things. If I am wearing it up or air drying it, I blot/squeeze (but not "rub") it with a normal terrycloth towel. Then I'm done drying it. If I want to wear it down someplace where it would be bad to show up with wet hair, I diffuse it for five minutes! Mua ha ha.

I wrap my hair in a towel and squeeze once. I drop the towel, put on clothes and let it air dry. I may comb once or twice after it's a little dry. If it's cold I keep my head in the towel a little longer. I've only used a blowdryer 10 times or so in my life.

I lean over in the shower with my hair over the back of my head, squeeze out excess water, then wrap it in a super-absorbent turbine that twists and buttons in the back. I leave it on for about half hour, while I moisturize, brush teeth, etc. When it is soaked, I take it off and let my hair air dry. I keep a small towel on had to squeeze out the water in the ends, otherwise it drips. I usually wear a sweatshirt to keep myself dry.

Wrap it in a towel, then comb, because it's very non-tangly, the I have a ceiling fan in my room. I turn the fan on high to get a little breeze or if it's warm I go outside.

I fingercomb it, drape a towel over my shoulders, and let it air dry & do its own thing for as long as it takes...

I usually blot it a bit with either a microfiber towel or regular towel, then I bend over and scrunch in my products (usually KCKT and KCCC), scrunch some of that moisture out with my "Curl-ease" towel, dry my bangs if I am going to with a blow dryer and "place" the hair sort of where I want it at the crown and sides. Then I let it dry by itself and scrunch out the crunch usually with some coconut oil.

Occasionally I'll diffuse a bit but it tends to cause frizz.

I let it air dry overnight and basically leave it alone.

I usually wear a bathrobe after showering and keep it on for some time, putting my hair in the hood so I don't leave a trail of water when I walk around. Then when I get dressed while it's not dry yet I put my hair in a braid or bun.

I squeeze the excess water out in the shower and then wrap it in a towel. I twist the towel and wrap it around my neck like a big scarf for about ten minutes. It's usually dry enough to wear loose without getting my shirt wet by the time I'm dressed and ready to face the world :)

I usually wrap it in a towel and squeeze some of the water out. Then, I put it in a loose bun on the top of my head and go to sleep. In the morning, I take out the bun and let the rest air dry.

I try to be gentle and pat it with the towel I dried off in .then I go to my husbands closet and steal one of his hanes white shirts and I put the headhole around my neck and then bring it up to cover all arounf my hair, then I get on the computer or do some chores for about 30 minutes before I take it off, I dont comb and I let it dry. I might put some oil in it while its still slightly damp.

I squeeze all the excess water out of my hair in the shower. Then I wrap it in a towel for a few minutes so it's not soaking wet. Then I just leave it alone to air dry. Except when I'm going to school when I just do a loose french braid.

How do I dry my hair? Well since it air dries I'd have to go with patiently. Hehe. Depending on how much time I have after the wash before I have to actually go out and do something sometimes I sit in my undershirt or sometimes I'll braid it, put on a shirt and go out. So long as nobody hugs me and causes my back to shiver from the cold I manage pretty well.

Wrap in a towel for ten minutes or so then leave loose till dry, no touching.

If I have to go out or o to bed I will gently detangle with my rake comb (mason pearson) and Bun to go out or braid to go to bed...or make a sleep tale if I want it to dry straight.

My hair is just plain nasty when wet and really easy to damage so I try not to touch it much. I wash it gently upright though so I make very few tangles anyway.

ETA: I wash upright and like to keep my hair that way. I do the first twist of a log roll and hold it aginst my head while I turban the towel so all my hair fits under the towel without tangling. When I take off the twoel I gently squeez the towel around the length.

I am only a newbie, so my routine isn't firmly set- I will be experimenting with some of the previous answers! At the moment, I wring out the excess water and cover my hair with a buff for an hour or so, it seems to work ok.

Wrap it in a standard towel for a few minutes, and then let it hang and airdry. It's usually dry within an hour or two.

I detangle when wet in the shower, the rinse again, taking care not to disturb my part. I squeeze out excess moisture. I put my hair in a standard towel turbie style, by folding my hair a few times and laying it on top of my head, then wrap. I leave it this way for 5-15 minutes, depending on my schedule. Then I take it down and scrunch/blot a bit. Then I pin the very front Curly Girl style so that when dry it stays out of my face. I can air dry from here, keeping a small towel on hand to continue to scrunch/blot the ends, which are very drippy for up to an hour. Lately, I've been using a ficcare to put it into a modified bunnytail (just one twist and let the tail hang down--it bears no resemblance to any bunnies I've ever seen). I still need to blot the ends, and it gets "straight" at the top, but the ends still curl nicely, and I don't get soaked while it dries. The pins at my hairline can be removed, so I can go out this way. I generally take it down and redo it a few times to let it air out. It takes about 5 hours to dry.

I wrap mine in a towel when it's soaking wet, then hang my head upside down and fingercomb some aloe gel through my bangs. Sometimes I also fingercomb some Goth Rosary conditioner through the length and ends.

Then I flip my head the right way up, comb my bangs back with a wide-tooth Mason Pearson comb, and fingercomb gently through the length. I then leave it to air dry, down, for as long as it takes to dry.

Only when it's fully dry do I comb it properly.

-Sqeeze out excess water.
-Wrap in towel for 5-10 mins.
-Take off towel and do some head-banging which untangles the hair and gets more water out.
-Let Air Dry until damp.
-Detangle with wide toothed comb.
-Let dry some more.
-Comb first wide toothed and then fine toothed comb.

Voila!:)

I gently squeeze out the excess water, pat gently to get it to the damp state, apply oil, and gently comb.

I wrap mine, 'turbie style' as I understand it, in a standard towel for a minute or two while I finish up in the bathroom, then gently squeeze it with the towel before putting the towel up. A tiny amount of conditioner plus a little oil gets added from the tips up to no higher than the ears while it's still wet or at least damp, but my hair will be otherwise left alone until it's dry again and ready to be combed. My wet hair hates to be even fingercombed and combing wet will suck all life out of it so that it dries to become limp as cooked spaghetti, only less appetizing.

1. Turning off the shower, I gently finger-rake out the tangles while I'm in the shower, and my head is upside down.
2. While upside down, I rake through some leave-ins, then gently scrunch with a micro fiber towel several times each section.
3. Lay out the mf. towel and plop my upside down hair onto it, fastening it to my head, turban-style.
4. Then I turn the water back on in the shower, rinse off the rest of me, and leave the towel on while I use body and face moisturizers, dress, and do my make-up.
5. Then (20 min. later?) I gently take off the towel, while head is upside down, scrunch in a bit more leave-in product, then lift up straight and check out the effect.
6. Usually then I take a hair stick and, using a hand mirror to see the back in my bathroom mirror, I lift all around, to arrange the strands nicely.
7. I put several finger-curls around my face with bobby pins, then let it air dry, but I usually take out the finger curls before they are totally dry, otherwise they seem to get a bit firzzy.

I pat dry with a towel, and air dry. Sometimes I comb it, sometimes not.

I get as much water out as I can, then put it up in a microfiber towel. I'll leave the towel on for about 5 - 10 minutes, just to take out any excess water. If I leave the towel on for longer, that's just keeping it wet longer. Then I take the towel off. Sometimes I'll rake my fingers through the ends to find any tangles. If my hair starts leaving water marks on my shirt I'll go ahead and squeeze out some more water or pat it again with the towel. It gets mostly dry pretty quickly, within about 15 - 20 minutes (it helps to live in the desert), but it doesn't get fully dry for a few hours. I don't put my hair up or anything until it is almost completely dry, just because I don't want those strange kinks in my hair afterwards!

I put it in a microfiber towel while I get dressed. Then I comb with a very wide tooth comb, add product, bend over and scrunch. Then I air dry.

I plop with an old tee shirt for about 30 minutes. Then, I just shake it out and let it finish air drying.

I squeeze as much excess water out of my hair before getting out of the shower, wrap my hair in a towel and leave it for about ten mintues, comb it out then leave it loose to air dry.

Squeeze out the water, put it up in a towel for 5 -20 min. Then take it out, make my side part, do not comb it at all, sometimes not until the next morning( I wash usually at night) but definitely not until it's fairly dry.

Squeeze out water, then put it in a towel for as long as I can be bothered. Then I comb it, fluff it out a little, and let it airdry. :)

Well, if aloe gel becomes a regular part of my routine, I'll need to work it int this somehow, but this is what I do now:

Gather hair into low (unsecured) ponytail, fold length back over my head. (This prevents tangles, as opposed to simply turning my head upside down.)
Wrap towel around head turban-style.
Dry off, apply deodorant rock.
Turn head over. Take off towel. Flip it over one long edge, so the opposite side and dry long edge are now on top.
Re-turban hair.
Do other stuff for a few minutes...
Let hair down, comb it, let it air-dry.

I squeeze out excess water in the shower, then apply leave-in and gel, scrunching out water. Then I scrunch with my inverted Twisty Towel (the smooth side) to get as much of the water out as I can. Then I pick one of the methods below...

Air dry: Clip up the front so I won't touch it too much and wait.

Diffuser: Diffuse the roots for 5 minutes, scrunch the ends again and wait for them to finish air drying.

Overnight: Scrunch / "plop" into my Towel, twist and sleep. In the morning I diffuse if my roots need it and scrunch any crunch I've gotten from the gel with my inverted Towel.

I gently squeeze the water out of my hair in the shower. After getting out of the shower, I gently squeeze/blot out some more water using a towel. Usually I either let my hair hang loose to dry or I put it in a bun, depending on my mood and if I'm going anywhere or going to bed before it drys all the way.

I squeeze what I can in the shower then put it in a turban and when the excess has been absorbed I just let it hang down my back until it's dry!

I squeeze out excess water, twist up gently into a sort of bun, then wrap a towel around it. After I put on lotion I let it down and air dry.

gently squeeze out excess water, oil the length with a drop of EVOO, comb with my fingers and wrap a towel around my shoulders until dry. Sometimes I am very bad and use a blow dryer, but I try my hardest to let it air dry 95% of the time.

I bend over, wrap a towel around it and twist into a turbanny thing and leave it for between 5 minutes and half an hour. Should I be using another method? I suppose it might be getting tangled or stretched in there...

I blow dry the front of my hair (long side swept fringe) and let the rest air dry 90% of the time in summer, 50% in winter. It's so cold here!

Blot it.
Comb it.
Braid it.
Smile at it.
Go to bed.

pour hibiscus tea rinse over it, wait a few, letting it drip in the shower, then gently squeeze with hands... if I'm not going anywhere, or not dressing for the day right away, I leave it at that, if not, I wrap in the same towel I dry my body in and squeeze lightly, then I oil my body and run excess through hair, then go about day.. if I'm wearing something light colored, and not doing a night wash I try to let it dry first... I am experimenting with doing some daily WO washes between real washes.. if I don't wind up using hibiscus each time I will let it air dry completely even if it gets my back wet...

Amie

Totally depends on where I am. Probably 90% of the time I shower and CO my hair when I'm at the gym, so time is usually a little crunchy.

If I'm at the gym, I gently squeeze as much water from my hair as I can then fold it up on top of my head and wrap a towel around my head. It stays this way until I'm dressed, when it comes down and I either finger comb it or use a really wide-toothed pick thing to break up the chunks and get any major tangles out. Then it goes into a loose cinnabun to dry. Whole process takes less than 10 minutes and leaves my hair in a very wet bun.

If I'm at home I do the same first few steps, but my hair stays up in the towel much longer, depending on what I have to do - I almost always wash in the late afternoon if I'm at home, because it's when I give my sweet DD her bath. I do take it down to do the de-tangle thing, but then it goes right back up into the towel, sometimes until right before bed, when I braid or bun. It's just moderately damp at this point.

It ALWAYS air dries, though, no matter what. In summer when it's warm, I might sit on the deck in the sunshine for a while and let it dry in the sun.

I scrunch it with a micro-fiber towel as soon as I get out of the shower, then wrap it in the same towel for about 30 minutes while I drink coffee and do intrawebs stuff in the morning take towel off, let it hang down on drive to work, then put it up in bun.

If I showered at night, I will let it air dry a little while I do other stuff, shake it loose (it will make huge, thick clumps otherwise), braid it WITHOUT combing and then go to sleep.


If I showered in the morning, I will let it air dry while I get ready and eat, shake it loose and sometimes comb the bottom 4-5 inches carefully if they're twisting around themselves. Then I will either put it in some kind of updo or braid(s) or leave it down. Most of the time it's down.


Usually I comb before my shower, so combing after isn't necessary unless it's misbehaving and such.

It generally varies a bit how I dry my hair, but the basic method is the same.

After slightly wetting it, I let it air-dry with some finger-combing.
After full conditioner wash, I comb it carefully, mess it up, and let it air-dry without finger-combing usually.
When I'm getting ready to go out and have to have gel or mousse in my hair to style it, I blot it loads with a dry towel. Then I "style" it.

When I'm at home, air-drying is fine. My curls stick together and compress and my hair looks very frizz-less and shiny!

When I go out it's another story. Walking to the bus stop dries most of my hair (wind always comes at the wrong time). By the time I get to the place desired (no products in my hair), I'll have a full-on afro! Finger-combing grows this afro even bigger. Hahaha.

Squeeze with a towel while still in the shower. Use that towel to dry my body. Wrap hair gently in that towel and get out. Stand under heat lamp in bathroom taking care of other toiletries. Pull towel off, do a half-hearted finger comb. Ignore for twenty minutes to half an hour, then add coconut oil to the length, comb, and put up for the day. It's usually still damp when I take it down about an hour before going to bed.

I pat dry the excess off, then finger comb it into a loose bun or braid.

I'll bun if I want my hair to look it's best and I'll braid if I want it easy to manage.
I never leave my hair down to dry. The results are hideous!! :lol:

When I get out of the shower and my hair is still dripping wet, I apply a bit of AVG & glycerin, then plop it in a microfiber towel I bought from walmart. After I have finished dressing and applying moisturizer/foundation, I then take it down to let it air dry.

I just blot it dry, apply a serum/oil at the ends and let it air dry.

No need for detangling. As long as I go to bed with it dry, I wake up with more or less straight hair.

I squeeze out the excess water in the shower, then wrap my hair up turban-style for several minutes. I use a regular terry towel, but I try to be gentle with it. The only part of my hair where I ever see damage is in the very tippy-tips of my ends, and they're too long to get wrapped up in the towel at this point anyway. Since I don't seem to be doing any damage, I can't see the point in spending money on a microfiber towel. :shrug:

After that, I braid my hair, and it stays there till it's dry. Takes it about 24 hours to dry that way, so sometimes if I want to speed things up a little, I'll take it down when it's getting close to dry. That usually takes several hours off the drying process.

Wrap in turbie towel for a few minutes. Remove turbie. That's it.

I put a cotton t-shirt on my head to soak up the water for about 30 minutes or as long as time permits. My hair typically takes a long time to dry, so this really helps cut the time down and spare my clothes from major soakage. My hair tends to be a little wavier, too.

Microfiber towels make my hair frizzy :rolleyes:

I put it in a towel for a moment, but not long or it becomes a frizzy mess. I just leave the towel over my shoulders because my hair soaks a lot of water and drips, which is not so nice unless it is very warm ;P

I put a towel over it for a few minutes, then leave it to air-dry. I used to leave it overnight before combing, but since I stopped using cones it has become very difficult to detangle if I do, so I try to wash it in the morning so it can be completely dry before I comb.

At the moment, the only time my hair is down is when it is drying!

Well, when I'm in the shower, I semi-rinse all the conditioner out of my hair, gently squeeze the water out and twist it up off my neck and clip it there while I dry and dress.

When I'm ready to style I take down my hair and blot it a little more and add my conditioner, I use an olive oil hair masque as a leave in. I finger it through while detangling, then add mouse and spray gel.. (there are quite a few steps with the styling that I'm leaving out here!) haha, when I'm finished applying product, I plop the hair with a towel and scrunch upsidedown capturing the hair from ends to scalp.

When I'm through with that, I just let the hair air dry with as little touching as possible. I do scrunch it while it's drying, but I don't run my fingers though it or brush it at all. I flip it from one side of my head to the other while it's drying for a natural part.

I'm an oddity in that I just walk around until my hair dries.

Sometimes, very rarely, I'll rub some of the excess water off with a towel, but usually I just shake my head doggy-style (no perverted comments xD D<), spray with a leave-in, apply oil to the length, and leave.

I squeeze it and wrap a towel around it for a minute, then flip the towel so i use all 4 surfaces (top side a, bottom side a, top side b, bottom side b)
Then i oil and let it air dry. VERY rarely i blow dry it quickly to leave it barely damp if i need it dry in a hurry on the cold setting pointing downward. And i've straightened my hair breifly 3 times in my whole life! But hair has to be dry to do that! lol

Squeeze water out with my hands, then wrap with a microfiber towel and put up on my head, kind of like turban, but slightly different. I take the towel off right before going to sleep and let my hair lay out behind me, usually on top of a towel that's on top of my pillow. I don't move around much while I sleep, so I don't worry too much about giant tangles developing.

Squeeze water out with my hands, then wrap with a microfiber towel and put up on my head, kind of like turban, but slightly different. I take the towel off right before going to sleep and let my hair lay out behind me, usually on top of a towel that's on top of my pillow. I don't move around much while I sleep, so I don't worry too much about giant tangles developing.

As above except I use an old t-shirt on the pillow as a towel makes my hair too frizzy

I was in the shower down my back. I gently squeeze/blot my hair with my body towel. After I dry off, I wrap my hair in my MF towel (if I can find it) or my regular towel. I don't flip my hair over to do this but keep it in that same upright area and fold the towel up and folding the length under. Usually this last until about 20-30 min when it falls off. Since I can usually schedule a wash for when I don't need to go anywhere. If it is during the day I just let my hair be to air dry. If it is cold our or sometimes when I just feel like it, I will blowdry on low/cool until my scalp is dry and the length is about 75% dry. If at night before bed, I will toss my length over my pillow (and hope it stay there LOL). Most of the time I comb only when my hair is 90-100% dry unless I am combing it 'straight' (better than blow frying it).

I don't like to bun or braid wet hair as it tends to stay that way. I will if I need to though like to go out unexpectedly or if I want to try for some added waves. I rag curled once and it came out nice but didn't last long.

ETA: I like to add a leave in either before or after I wrap in a towel. That is if I remember and have the stuff handy at the time LOL.

I squeze some of the water out in the shower and wrap as much of my hair in a towel as I can. I bun it after I get dressed, and don't le it down until the evening, when I let it air dry. I fingercomb it when it's almost dry, then bun it again as soon as I notice it start to frizz so that I can preserve its waviness before it turns into a frizzy mess.

I wash, squeeze as much water out as possible, put up in my turbie, and about 20 minutes later take it down and let it airdry.

If it's freezing, I try to bundle up and airdry, but I have been known to use a blowdryer (always on 'cool') if it's just too cold. I'm thin and don't tolerate cold well.

Is drying necesary? I sometimes let my hair stay wet all day by tying into a braid or a bun. I only dry when I go to work...am part-time. I am wondering if it's ok to let my hair stay wet like this? i do it because i like how it feels when it is sort of wet. I also apply some shea & jojoba to the ends after my daily co wash.

I wrap it in a towel just until I am done getting dressed. Then I take the towel off and put leave in conditioner on and put it back in a pony tail, and it eventually dries then. :) Some times I comb it and some times I don't.

After I am done with the s & c then I wring the excess water out then I use a towel to kind of blot dry ( not rub ) and then I use a detangler and comb out with a wide tooth comb and then I put a towel on my back and let the hair hang loose. It still has what I call frizz when it is done drying and sometimes it has more wave..ahh.
The other day I went to a local salon and got a deep conditioning treatment and the girl used a blow dryer on cool ( she said it would not defeat the purpose of the conditioner on my very dry hair). So is a blow dryer on cool ok to use on your hair, or does it still cause damage that way ( I dont have one but was thinking of getting a cheap one) ?

I wrap it in a towel until I get dressed, let it airdry until its almost completely dry then I bun it loosely for an hour or so. This combats frizz and preserves/enhances my waves.