After morning workout hair

So I like to run in the mornings before work and school, but my hair gets all sweaty. I take a shower when I'm done. Any ideas on what to do with wet hair. A bun everyday is getting quite boring.
I have crazy curly hair that I straighten when I can, but I don't want to blowdry and straighten daily as that will ruin it.

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  • arains89
    arains89 Posts: 442 Member
    Braids. New exciting updo. Wear it curly? Mine is curly too when not straightened. I throw some moose or gel or hairspray or whatever you fancy in it and go about my day. Or a bun. I do those often. But a lot of times I blowdry and straighten my hair. Been doing it for forever my hair is still pretty healthy :)
  • doIlhands
    doIlhands Posts: 349 Member
    French braids are my go-to. Half up/half down is easy and works well.
  • PinkyMouse
    PinkyMouse Posts: 37 Member
    poney tail ! low or up, on the back or on the side. You can add a braid to it too !
  • mdcoug
    mdcoug Posts: 397 Member
    This is what my hair stylist suggested and it works great. I don't have crazy curls, but I do have crazy thick wavy hair. My sisters have beautiful spiral curls and do something similar.

    Wash hair
    Scrunch dry with towel--DO NOT RUB DRY
    Apply liberal amounts of mousse, scrunch in
    Keep scrunching hair as you get ready
    DO NOT BRUSH YOUR HAIR
    Blow dry with a diffuser--hold hair dryer in one place, with a section of hair piled into the diffuser for 45-60 seconds; repeat for other sections

    Basically do as little as you can to separate your hair and you wont go quite as frizzy. That's why you shouldn't brush or rub it dry with a towel. Also, the repeated up and down and circling with the diffuser makes the hair frizzy, which is why you just hold it in place and do sections at a time.

    I use this mousse and love it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003E0Y0BI/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    Embrace the curl!!
  • JusticeGirl25
    JusticeGirl25 Posts: 703 Member
    Wear a hat when you workout. All that sweat traps it in the hat and you won't be sweating as much.
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    Braids. New exciting updo. Wear it curly? Mine is curly too when not straightened. I throw some moose or gel or hairspray or whatever you fancy in it and go about my day. Or a bun. I do those often. But a lot of times I blowdry and straighten my hair. Been doing it for forever my hair is still pretty healthy :)

    Braids for sure! When I can't properly do my hair (which is wavy), I towel dry, smooth curl cream through it - sometimes I just water down my regular conditioner - do 2 braids*, and let it dry on my way to wherever.

    When it's dry, I take out the elastics and have controlled waves.

    If I'm worrying about frizz, I also use a few drops of jojoba oil over the curl cream. Way less gross than the silicone hair de-frizzing oils. My hair sucks the jojoba right up without it looking/feeling like there's a film overtop.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    Putting an elastic on wet hair causes it to break. When the hair dries it expands and the elastic can break it. Best is to let it dry first without putting it up and then put it up after. But yeah I use a diffuser without combing/brushing and copious amounts of curl gel.