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    Posted: January 12 2000 at 1:40am
> Thanks, Laura Jane! That makes a lot of sense. I will definitely try your method.>>
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> I'm curious about how others> with long hair towel dry their hair and if there's> some trick to keeping it from getting tangled.> Any thoughts would be appreciated.I'll share my routine. After washing and conditioning and rinsing, I gently squeeze the excess water out of my hair. I dry my body, and then lay the towel across my shoulders under my hair. I take the ends and place them over my head so that the towel is rolled around my hair with my hair still hanging down my back. (Think of a nun's wimple, rather than Carmen Miranda.) I leave it that way for a few minutes, then gently squeeze out whatever water I can and remove the towel. I detangle using my fingers, then gently towel the ends to remove the drippiness. My hair takes a few hours to dry, but this process creates very few tangles.Laura Jane lswanson@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu
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Since I began seriously growing my hair long (it's at 25 inches now), I've been following this routine for towel drying it: squeeze excess water out of my hair while still in shower, use a towel to squeeze it again, then wrap the towel on my head like Carmen Miranda for about 10 minutes. I've found that this method really soaks up a lot of the water, which makes it air dry or blow dry that much faster. However, it gets really tangled in the towel wrap and is a royal pain to comb out, even with a texturizing cream or leave-in conditioner. This morning, I decided to skip the towel wrap and just try to squeeze the excess water out as best I could. It dripped a lot and took longer to dry, but was much easier to comb through. I'm curious about how others with long hair towel dry their hair and if there's some trick to keeping it from getting tangled. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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