3b/3c here: Is it possible to preserve ringlets despite SLEEPING on them?

[CurlyCap]

Curlies!

For a lot of reasons, I usually shower and co-wash at night. When dried from wet, my hair forms nearly perfect ringlets but I NEVER get to wear them to work because they get flattened, fuzzed out, or squished into z-forms.

I used to be fine with this, but I sort of miss my ringlets.

Is there ANY to preserve ringlets through the night? I wouldn't mind if they were more diffuse (like if you allow a ringlet to form around the tip of you finger after you break the natural curl). I just don't want frizz or bad deformation.

I know I'm hoping for a pipe dream but maybe people have experimented in this area. I hate only having nice hair on the weekends!

[kitschy]

I CO wash in the morning/plop for 20 minutes and drive to work with clips at my roots. My hair is still damp/wet for the first couple hours of the morning, but my ringlets last through the day. I've never really found a great way to preserve them except to pineapple my hair in a scrunci while I sleep....but my hair has gotten a bit long for that method to work well.

[Shepherdess]

I have a silk sleeping cap, which when I bought (at wal-mart), claimed on the package that it will protect your hair and even keep it nice throughout the night. I have never tried it with my curls though, so I don't know if it was a valid statement on the package or not. Although it probably would flatten out the curls just sleeping with hair like that, so I don't know. I hope something works for you! Oftentimes if I just spray my bangs in the morning with a spray bottle of water and shake my head around it will curl my bangs back up in no time nicely. :)

[CurlyCap]

I have a silk sleeping cap, which when I bought (at wal-mart), claimed on the package that it will protect your hair and even keep it nice throughout the night. I have never tried it with my curls though, so I don't know if it was a valid statement on the package or not. Although it probably would flatten out the curls just sleeping with hair like that, so I don't know. I hope something works for you! Oftentimes if I just spray my bangs in the morning with a spray bottle of water and shake my head around it will curl my bangs back up in no time nicely. :)

I have found that sleeping caps are the anti-curl device of choice. Something about the head of my head and the humidity must smoosh the curls badly. My guess is that the same properties that make straighties get such straight silky hair in the morning turns my curls into ugly stacked pancakes.

It was sadness...but then I learned that I didn't have to sleep in a cap!

[kitschy]

Sleep caps didn't work for me either. For one thing, I couldn't fit all my hair in there without stuffing it like a stuff sack, then it just fell off during the night. I was glad it didn't work though, because I had a line across my forehead from the elastic. I felt like Ruth Buzzi.

http://www.heralddeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/buzzi2.jpg

[Cafe au Lait]

Sleep caps didn't work for me either. For one thing, I couldn't fit all my hair in there without stuffing it like a stuff sack, then it just fell off during the night. I was glad it didn't work though, because I had a line across my forehead from the elastic. I felt like Ruth Buzzi.

http://www.heralddeparis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/buzzi2.jpg

Haha!

Maybe some sort of spray to reactivate the curls? I don't know, I have the same problem. I'm a violent sleeper, and my hair is frizzy and sticks up in clumps in the morning. So I CO wash in the morning, but I have wet hair for hours as a result.

[Arya]

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[meishkamooshka]

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I just had to say this is great! HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA. I wish you the best, dear, with finding a solution.

[CurlyCap]

I have found for you a veritable host of solutions!!
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LOLZ.

Hey! I admitting to thinking it was a pipedream!

Then again, 10 years ago, I tohught the ability to wear my hair down was a pipe dream. I'm just acknowledging that there are things I may not know! :p

[MandyBeth]

On my curly minion, nope - or not that we've found. Plus her hair is so long, she wears it braided to sleep in. We just wash at night, gob in oil and conditioner, braid. In am, unbraid, wet hair, maybe wash if too oily, but usually just soaking her hair is fine. Her hair sproings back into her small animal eating mass of curls.

[Katze]

Interesting question! My DH is on the border of 3 hair, more like 2c up top and 3a below and on his length, and his ringlets seem to form from sweat and CO washes. His are the 'boing' Shirley Temple kind, in his length only.

I will be watching his hair when he wakes up to see how his ringlets look - he is one of those people who don't have to do anything with their hair to make it look good; in fact, the more he neglects it, the more it grows and looks pretty.

[Maelyssa]

On my curly minion, nope - or not that we've found. Plus her hair is so long, she wears it braided to sleep in. We just wash at night, gob in oil and conditioner, braid. In am, unbraid, wet hair, maybe wash if too oily, but usually just soaking her hair is fine. Her hair sproings back into her small animal eating mass of curls.

Same with my curly kids. Braid at night then a bit of water in the am with just a touch of leave in conditioner and the ringlets are like new again.