Whether you wear it up or down is your choice as long as you take other measures to ensure that your hair is protected while you rest. Check out some of our best pre-sleep hair care tips, below, that put a positive spin on the term “bed head”.
- Detangle Your Hair Before Bed
One of the simplest ways to protect your hair at night is by brushing or combing through your strands thoroughly. This will help detangle your hair and evenly distribute its natural oils from the roots to the ends. Use a wide-tooth comb to remove knots and tangles on damp hair, which will help prevent breakage.
- Apply a Nourishing Hair Treatment
Hair treatments are often praised for their moisturizing benefits, and using one as a leave-in product at night is an effective way to give your hair some love while you sleep. Mist the spray through clean, damp hair and comb through to make sure it touches all of your strands.
- Use a Lightweight Hair Serum
Managing frizz and flyaways can be frustrating, and these annoyances can occur as you sleep due to friction from rubbing against your pillowcase. To help minimize the amount of frizz you wake up with, try applying a hair serum before heading to bed.
- Sleep on a Satin or Silk Pillowcase
As we mentioned above, the wrong type of pillowcase can be a detriment to your style overnight as well as the health of your hair over time. It’s true that pillowcases made from cotton tend to be rougher on the hair and can cause breakage. Switching to a satin or silk pillowcase can help to keep your hairstyle from getting tangled while you toss and turn since they’re smoother than other fabrics. Plus, sleeping on silk adds a luxurious element to your nighttime routine so who’d say no to that?
- Try Protective Hairstyles for Sleeping
Some of the best ways to wear your hair to bed to prevent breakage include styles that you also may want to wear out and about, so they save you time getting ready in the morning. Whichever style you choose, the key here is to make sure that it’s loose and not too tight, because tension can pull on your roots and cause damage.
- Wrap Your Hair and Tuck Away Your Ends
As we just mentioned, certain hairstyles need to be wrapped to be preserved at night. While this is important to keep from ruining your style, it’s also important so that you can keep moisture locked in your hair and prevent your ends from being wrecked. Learning how to sleep with long hair is especially important when you’re trying to grow your hair out so you need to wrap your hair like a pro.
Once you've secured your bobby pins throughout your hair, you’re good to go, but we’d advise that you take an extra step and put on a hair bonnet for sleeping or a hair cap. These will better help keep your strands in place should any of your pins fall out while you snooze.
- Choose Braids Over Heat Tools
As we also mentioned previously, braids are a great protective hairstyle for sleeping. They’re also a good choice because you can create heatless waves by braiding your hair before bed and letting it set overnight.
Apply a curl cream throughout your hair before braiding and cover your head with a silk scarf to keep the braids in place. Undo your braids in the morning to reveal gorgeous curls.
If you do decide to use a heat styling tool, always use a heat protectant to prevent any damage or breakage.
- Give Yourself a Scalp Massage
There’s no denying that one of the best parts of going to the salon is when your hairstylist massages your scalp, and you can recreate that relaxing feeling before bedtime with a quick scalp massage. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, doing so stimulates blood flow to your hair follicles — which keeps the scalp healthy and aids in producing thicker strands. A quick scalp massage can also be relaxing and can help lull you into a deep sleep.
- Use a Humidifier at Night
The same way adding moisture to the air at night can have a healthy effect on your skin, it can help protect your hair from thirst. Additionally, sleeping with a humidifier on can help your overnight hair treatments further penetrate your strands. You can never go wrong with hair that feels properly hydrated.
- Sleep in a Bonnet or Scarf
Using a hair cap, bonnet, or wrapping your hair with a silk or satin scarf at night will shield your hair from rubbing against your pillowcase. This will also help you protect your ends at night and make your hairstyle last longer, and you don’t have to worry about any friction or loss of moisture as you rest.
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