Am I the only one who lets her hair flow wild, even on my pillow?

[leilani]

I'm not wearing any shiny bonnet to bed and I don't wear my hair up very often(if I do, it's to get the hair outta my way, not the other way around). It's usually just loose. I don't stress about my bamboo pillow case damaging my hair, nor my purse strap. My hair just has to deal with the world I live in and honestly I don't think it minds. I am starting a chemical-dye free life and wash only twice a week and never use heat, and oil it, so I pamper my hair in other ways, but keeping it up or in a bonnet and protected from the world is just not my bag, baby.
Who else is with me?
Or do I just need to hang around lhc longer and I'll be donning a nightcap before long? :-)

[spidermom]

Well heck no; it's your hair - do what you want. I usually wear my hair up because it bugs me when it's down. The longer hair gets, the more it gets in the way; that's what most of us have found.

But it's still nice to let long hair down at the end of the day and comb or brush it out. Very relaxing.

[Larki]

I leave mine down at night like half the time; I wore it in sleep braids exclusively for about 2-3 months and didn't notice a difference in my hair, so I stopped worrying about it. My hair doesn't tangle and the purpose is to prevent tangles (and therefore prevent breakage), so I don't bother. Sometimes I braid it at night to keep it off my neck and make me cooler.

[spidermom]

A lot of nights, I gather up my hair and drop it into the space above my pillow. It pretty much stays directed over the top of the pillow, except for the worst of my tossy-turny nights.

[truepeacenik]

I've always been aware of carrying straps because pulling hurts my scalp.

I'll leave mine down on days I'm off, or do a really loose half up.
I'd rather do that than break out elastics, honestly.

And at night it is often loose.
I go through braid or sleep bun phases. Or fall asleep reading with my hair however (most likely scenario. My glasses are usually removed in. The middle of the night when I wake from the %{~.#{?*&!! lights.

[twiglet]

The only reason I sleep with my hair back (in pigtail braids) is because I find my sleeping habits usually result in some pretty funky bed head that results in my hair being less cooperative with weird bumps and kinks in it that stay all day. But other than that I'd say I wear my hair down 75% of the time. It really only goes up or back if it is particularly unruly one day or if I'm working out or in a situation that calls for it (i.e. summer cleaning, cooking, etc.)

You are not alone haha.

[sourgrl]

I prefer it up because it's hot and getting heavy down. Also it helps keep my shed hairs from getting every where. But I am trying to let it down more often, like in the morning or a few hours before bed, to give my scalp a break from the up dos. I also prefer it out of the way when I'm sleeping so I bun it at night. For the past week or so I've also been using a satin scarf when sleeping. Not sure if I'm going to continue with it. It seems to suck the volume out of my roots but my crown has never felt so soft.

[ooglipoo]

You're not alone. I do that with my hair, as well. It is more comfy when I have a migraine, which is often. I sleep with it down nearly every night; sometimes, I put it in a top-knot if it is bothering me and I can tolerate it.

Day-to-day, it's down, except in the car. We don't use the A/C, so the windows are always down. That blowing crazy wild feeling in the car bugs me... when we stop, I feel the need to brush it out. So, when I go into the car, it goes up.

Otherwise, I don't fuss too much about protective updos, sleep caps, special potions or oiling much.

[JustPam]

I sleep with it however I was wearing it during the day, minus any pins and clips etc. It's never that tangled, at least compared to how tangled it USED to be, regardless of whether it was up or down, braided or not.

[lapushka]

My hair's up 24/7, well almost. Only on wash day it gets "released", but after it's dry it goes into a half-up, so technically yeah it is (almost) up 24/7. I wear a LWB mostly. A cinnabun is still too loose on me. As a iii, I know I needed a lot of length just to be able to get it up into a bun, though, so that might contribute to it. At night it is down, though. Folded right under my head (I don't move much during sleep). My hair's only washed once a week, and to me, that's fine. It is a stretched wash situation. Normally it would need washing twice to 3 times a week. I have my greasy days.