That's a lot of hair drying. My hair is about that long, and takes, I dunno, 5 minutes at full blast to fully dry? I rarely dry it all the way though, I'm too lazy.

Ahhhh, hair dryers. Back in the hep 80s I used a hair dryer to achieve that perfect feathered look. Now I have no need to dry my hair. It dries in a minute. They dry it at the salon, and I always feel like a tool.

Speaking of which, my new stylist gives the best hair wash. It's like I died and went to heaven. I could totally fall asleep. Mmmmmmm head massage.

Mine's shoulder-length, and super-thick, and it takes a good 30min. -- after letting it airdry for 30-60min-- to get it completely absolutely dry, which is required if one wants to use a straightening iron.

But I tend to let it airdry, or just kind of get it un-dripping enough not to look completely ridiculous by the time I get to work. I've finally found a climate that works with my hair, and a hairdresser who believes me when I say that I'd like a style that looks ok if I let it air dry; it's like I'm in hairdo nirvana.

This girl is OCD. Her hair is fine and not thick, and there's no WAY it takes her that long to dry her hair.

She's also prissy and has led a pretty sheltered life and irritates me in her attachment to her naivety.

But whatever. I'll be out of there in a week and a half.

Dude, she's not drying her hair, she's completely frying it. Unless, of course, she's doing it on the Cold Blast setting, which is just a waste of energy.

My hair is shoulder-length, fine, of medium thickness. Sometimes, I blow-dry it wavy. Sometimes, I just let it air-dry into something super-wavy. Sometimes, I wrap it up and it somehow dries all voluminous and straight. Regardless, it takes less than half an hour to towel/air dry. It takes about 7 minutes to blow completely dry.

Thick, wavy hair below my shoulders here. I can blow-dry my hair to acceptable damp-dry in about 10-15 mins., but it takes a lot longer than that to get it bone-dry (which, as mentioned, is required if you want to use an iron). Air-drying takes an hour or so.

When my hair was more in a chin-length bob, I actually had to spend more time drying it, because I was constantly battling with it to get it to fall into place with the cut.

Speaking of which, my new stylist gives the best hair wash. It's like I died and went to heaven. I could totally fall asleep. Mmmmmmm head massage.

MuddDude thinks it's weird that I get my hair shampooed at the salon. It feels super-awesome! So relaxing, and only mildly awkward.

Getting your hair washed is the best part of getting a hair cut.

I hardly ever blow-dry my hair. It takes forever. When I work I give it a quick blast at the front. Today I went to the salon. At least five people told me how great my hair looks. They aren't used to seeing my hair out of a ponytail or bun.

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I never blow dry my hair (even when it was super long) because I shower at night. Of course, this means that my hair looks like shit 99.9% of the time, but that's my issue.


Hairdryers scare me. I've attempted to use them before and I always end up doing one of three things: 1) burning myself, 2) getting my own hair stuck in it, or 3) wasting a whole lot of time and only ending up with half-dry hair, which pisses me off even more because it looks like I don't give a damn.

(My hairdresser is awesome though and I allow her to blowdry my hair because it looks all awesome when she does it. When I actually get it all dry, it looks like a cat slept in my hair. )

I let mine air dry---but I've learned that whether I wind up with ringlets or frizz depends on the type of conditioner.

i haven't blow dried my hair since the 80s.
Right now it's in a clip looking pretty rockabilly. It's the no one'slookingouttamyface look.
i wanna find those curlers you can put in while it's wet but i can never find them.

If I use a hairdrier it trips a circuit. Unless I dry my hair in the kitchen plugged into the same outlet as the microwave. I'm far too lazy for that.

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I would have had similar thoughts, but we aren't allowed to think about specklet like that any more ;-)

Sometimes, I'm glad that drying my hair is not something I have to worry about. In the time you ladies take to dry your hair, I can get out of bed, shave, shower, get dressed, drink a coffee and be halfway down the road on the way to work.

My hair is thick and an inch or so longer than my collar bone. I use a blow dryer and it takes me less than 10 minutes on the cool (but not cold) setting. I don't blow it completely dry, however, because that would irritate my frizz. Just enough to encourage the curl.

And if I'm going to be straightening it, I don't wash it. Takes waaay too much time. Even with straightening, I separate it into three sections (top, middle, bottom) and it only takes about 10 minutes.

I wonder if the time difference (to blow dry bone dry) has to do with the fact that I usually towel/air dry my hair for 20-25 minutes while I eat breakfast and make lunch.

That doesn't sound too long actually. When I used to still straighten my hair I'd put it at about at 2 hour process. I obviously took mini breaks because my arms would get tired, but the blowdrying part alone took around average 30 minutes for me. I have pretty curly hair. It's more like spiral curls if I don't do anything to it, but it definitely takes a long time because it's styling as you blowdry. I don't know if she just blow dries it, but if she's taking a boarshair bristle brush to it to do the intial straightening before applying a flatiron, then that's a long process too of doing it in sections. You also want your hair bone dry before you take a flatiron to it or else it'll a) not be that shiny pin straight or in fact will look sort of frazzled and frizzy straight or b) you risk seriously damage your hair flatironing it wet. Ugh, I still shudder thinking about the deep fryer-esque crackle when the flatiron would hit a not quite dry patch.

Also my hair used to be past shoulder-length, but one summer when I decided to cut my hair into a chin length bob I could've sworn it not only took longer but was harder to straighten it. The hairs were more rebellious short and I couldn't get the same grip on it with the boarshair brush or the flatiron when it was short. They'd escape all over the place. Styling your own head is superhard when your arms don't reach the back of you all that well; making my hair short added a whole level of "fun" to that. I don't know why I even bothered with that haircut.

The whole thing was way too annoying and I gave up on it. I keep the flatiron and blowdryer around in case I ever want to wear my hair straight, but it'd take a lot of convincing to have me do it again.

Yeah, but she has fine hair, it's not very thick, and it's SLIGHTLY wavey. (Mine is thicker than hers, albeit shorter, and it takes me a maximum of five minutes to blow dry my hair.)

To spend 35-40 minutes blow drying and 45 minutes straightening EVERY DAY, even on your DAY OFF, before you can allow yourself to leave the house is TOO FUCKEN MUCH.

I'm so jealous of curly/wavy hair; it breaks my heart to read of women straightening their hair.