air hair drying time & wet ponytails

[xcrunr2go]

If air hair drying time is slower does that mean the hair is healthier? I would think that if it dried too quickly it would be overly porous & unhealthy...any thoughts or known facts about this?

Also, can you put hair into a ponytail w/a metal free elastic safely? What about damp hair? Or should I wait until fully dry? Thanks!

[Peanutter]

I've been told long drying time is sign of healthy hair. I have no empirical data to back up this claim, but it makes sense to me.

I also want to know the skinny on ponytails, cuz until 2 weeks ago when I joined LHC, I didn't even know they could be damaging over time. :P I only use the non metal closure ones, but I usually put them in one of two places on my head, so now I'm wary of breakage at those points.

[Venya]

I'd say that a longer drying time is correlative to general hair health.

You'd probably want to avoid tying your hair up till it's dry, though!

[Chetanlaiho]

Well the idea is that hair is more fragile when it's wet because it's already 'stretched' so it will snap easier. Ponytails already being a slightly damaging style that can cause the hairs that meet the band snap, I wouldn't combine them with wet hair. But that's just my 2 cents ^^