ReignElle’s Tip Of The Week
Protect Your Hair Tonight!
For the healthiest curls, make sure you are sleeping on a satin pillowcase and/or sleeping with a satin bonnet. They are inexpensive, so buy a couple! You won’t be disappointed.
Benefits:
- Aids in Preventing dry hair – Cotton sucks moisture right out of your hair
- Reduces Frizz- your hair glides along the material rather than be snagged
- Keeps your hair in place
Bonnets are a STAPLE in my hair care! It doesn’t fall off my head like a scarf, and I am a wild sleeper!
**Avoid hair bonnets with elastic. They are very likely to damage your edges, go for a bonnet that is flat and smooth.**
How do you protect your hair at night?
I am devastated I used the satin bonnet and it took out my edges so I started using a silk scarf and when I wake up in the morning its laying on the spot where the hair has fallen out I beleive it may be preventing my hair from growing back, Do anyone have any suggestion for the growth and protection of my edges?
I've been using a satin bonnet with the smooth edge and it took out my edges so I started using a silk scarf and i wouldn't say it took my hair out but it didn't do the growth any justice because I still don't see any,I am devastated! Does anyone have any suggestions to grow and protect my edges?
I'm sure I'm really late with this suggestion, but I use these pillow cases by Neero & Ana. I saw the owner on the Today Show a year or so ago and was so impressed with her story (went from corporate america to self employed)
Anyway they're great and beautiful.
No Frizz at all.
Warning says bonnets w/elastics damage edges, still true if elastic FULLY covered by fabric? Saw a youtube post about cap in the picture w/cut off end to go completely over head like a shirt when being put on; loved idea but live outside US so hard to find, went DIY instead. Large silk scarf sewn together at the edges to make a tube and unstretched elastic to match my head diameter wrapped into the top opening (fabric threaded together fully covering elastic vs. fabric to exposed elastic). Please let me know so I can change to drawstring (or other recommended closure you can suggest) if needed. Thanks!
I use a Sue Masta hair hood…You put it on and it raises the curls above your head (you kinda look like Queen of the Nile with it on)…wish it came in a satin variety but it doesn't as far as I know. When I take it off in the morning my curls are not smushed and a few shakes and looks the same as it did the day before…I can officially get to day 4 wash n go hair using this hair hood…such a pleasure find!
I cover my head in a satin bonnet every night.
sleeping on a satin pillowcase has changed my life for the better!!! since being relaxed since age 11, i was also conditioned to keep my hair wrapped at night so I used a satin scarf or bonnett every night, but they would smush my curls. now i only use them when my hair is in a twist updo. Using the pillowcase, I just sleep how I want, wake up, and shake my curls around with some olive oil and i'm good to go! P.S. i am a wild sleeper!
I actually use the Stay-On bonnet pictured above. It was only $2, but I would have paid much more because it works so well.
If I'm doing a pre-poo and have oil on my hair, or I've misted my hair with water and conditioner before going to bed at night, I put a plastic cap on, under my bonnet. That way the neither the bonnet, my pillowcase or my face gets oily or damp while I sleep.
I have the satin bonet with the drawstrings. I also have the satin wrap. I do no go to sleep without them.
I'm not sure there has ever been a night that I have purposely gone to sleep without something on my head. It's all I know. Growing up as a little girl, my mom would cut up a clean pair of stockings to use as my night cap. Now, all I use are satin scarfs or bonnets.
* However, I wish there was an oil proof satin scarf. I always get upset at myself after I moisturize my hair, seal with oil at night, and place my satin bonnet on, but then wake up the next morning to a spotted pillow with coconut oil! I get mad at myself.
I have a satin cap that has drawstrings instead of elastic, so I can make it as loose or as tight as I want. It's been a life saver, since I sleep crazy, too.