How do you sleep on it?

Before I go to bed I put some moisturizer in my hair, then I wrap it in a bun and secure it with bobby pins. Then I wrap a silk scarf around my head. I only put it in braids when I want some waves in my hair the next day.

Isis

I wear a satin night cap if my hair is dry, and if it´s wet and needs to dry I just let it hang down the end of the bed. If I have oiled it, the day before a hairwash, I might braid it on one side.

Sleeping with it just freeflowing is out of the question! It just gets stuck under me and I wake myself up trying to move my head!

Thank you for the good ideas... I will try some in the future. I am just starting to grow out my hair and I want to prevent damage as much as possible. Pulled out hair or broken strands really bother me. I have my "day" routine down (from lots of good advice from those of you here). After a year I am reaping the results.

A couple of months ago I cut my hair, should say I found a person I can fully trust to cut my hair, and now I am off to a good start with all the damaged part gone. Now it is just 3 inches past my collarbone, but at least it is the healthiest I have seen it for awhile. Since I am a color junkie, I decided to go with Paul Mitchell's deposit only color, just to brighten it alittle bit. So I will see where this takes me.

Thanks again for the ideas!

Sometimes I have mine braided, mostly after it's been washed, and sleep on it this way. Sometimes it is loose. I really never have tangles either, but when it was longer it got caught always on something or got pulled. So this time I will care for it differently as it grows out.

But now my husband's is another story... his hair is waist length and every morning it is a mess. It looks about as bad as a bird's nest. Somehow I don't think he will use a silk nite cap... maybe I can talk him into a bandana. He does everything wrong... uses a brush to comb out his wet hair. Rips through it when it's dry... and unbelievingly he still has hair! But I can only imagine how much thicker or smoother it might be if he just changed one of his little bad habits.

He is noticing the changes with the health of my hair, and actually showing some interest!!!

wittils : a silk night cap.... if it has nuke bombs, ak-47s or people getting sliced into pieces will always interest homo sapiens masculinus.

In reference to my comment, I'm still searching

That is pretty much my concern... when you wear a scrunchie, a ponytail, or braid and you toss and turn then you are bound to have hair pulled out or broken and short ends you don't want. Somehow I think a silk nite-cap over loose hair tucked up inside probably would work the best.

wittils wrote: That is pretty much my concern... when you wear a scrunchie, a ponytail, or braid and you toss and turn then you are bound to have hair pulled out or broken and short ends you don't want.

Hi wittils,

I agree. Once in a great while I sleep with the braid still in. Big mistake. I get lots of breakage at the point where the elastic sits, and the hair gets badly tangled there, too.

Kintaro: My god! lol

I just leave my hair in a ponytail generally when i go to sleep. I think I must be fairly lucky in tha my hair doesn't seem to get tangled under normal cicumstances. Question to nightcap wearers: how can you bare having anything on your head at night, urrgh eww ... sorry. 

Hi Hi:

Some times I put it in a low lose pony tail, other times I just let hang lose.  I guess it depends on my mood.

Susan