How long does it take for your hair to naturally air-dry?

**Tiliantti** · April 22nd, 2020, 12:10 PM

It takes forever...
If I am awake and doing stuff, it takes about 5h, but if I go to sleep with wet hair, it is usually still damp in the morning.
My hair is not super thick, only about 7,5 inches, but as it is very fine, there is quite a lot of it. I guess that is what makes it so slow to dry

**MusicalSpoons** · April 22nd, 2020, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Tiliantti

It takes forever...
If I am awake and doing stuff, it takes about 5h, but if I go to sleep with wet hair, it is usually still damp in the morning.
My hair is not super thick, only about 7,5 inches, but as it is very fine, there is quite a lot of it. I guess that is what makes it so slow to dry

Do you mean 7.5cm?

**Tiliantti** · April 28th, 2020, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by MusicalSpoons

Do you mean 7.5cm?

Oh, yes

Seems like I couldn't decide between using inches or centimeters and ended up with a mix.
(7,5 inches would be quite amazing mane)

**JennGalt** · April 23rd, 2020, 02:16 AM

I voted for 5+. When I lived in Arizona, the desert heat could dry my hair completely in under an hour if I went outside and spent a few minutes of that time in the sunlight. Now that I’m back in eastern Washington state (also dry but not quite as much, and much colder), it takes over 24 hours. I have super porous hair, so in theory it should dry quickly, but it’s thick and weirdly absorbent, so can hold an astonishing amount of water.

**Ylva** · April 28th, 2020, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by JennGalt

I voted for 5+. When I lived in Arizona, the desert heat could dry my hair completely in under an hour if I went outside and spent a few minutes of that time in the sunlight. Now that I’m back in eastern Washington state (also dry but not quite as much, and much colder), it takes over 24 hours. I have super porous hair, so in theory it should dry quickly, but it’s thick and weirdly absorbent, so can hold an astonishing amount of water.

Contrary to what people usually say about low porosity hair drying slowly and high porosity hair drying quickly, my experience is similar to yours. Most of my bleached lengths are high porosity, while my virgin hair is low porosity, and the healthy bleached hair is something in between, probably medium porosity. Since the bleached hair absorbs so much more water, it also takes a lot longer to dry, while the low porosity hair barely absorbs any at all, so it dries fast. I could, however, imagine that if my low porosity hair was to get properly soaked, it would take a long time to dry. I suppose it doesn't during a regular wash.

**Dixie_Amazon** · April 23rd, 2020, 08:01 AM

Over 5. I rarely completely blow dry it. Sometimes I will hold up my hair blow dry underneath it expedite things.

**Miss Thyme** · April 27th, 2020, 12:53 PM

I voted 4 to 5, but really that's just because it's getting warmer out. In Winter it can easily be over 5 hours.

**squirrrel** · April 28th, 2020, 01:04 PM

I find that it depends on the routine. The more conditioning I do, through normal conditioner, deep treatment, or LOC type dryi, the longer it takes to airdry.

**Blues** · April 29th, 2020, 03:02 AM

I can go to sleep with wet hair and wake up with still damp hair. My fiance finds it crazy. But I think in a warm temp 67 degrees (ish) it will take 4-5 hours. In 80-90 degree weather out in direct sun, I think it takes about an hour or two and is way curlier.