Can You Keep Your Hair Dry When Swimming? | Swim Cap Tips

If you've got short hair, I doubt you've even considered this a problem, but first us a long hair. Every time you go for a swim, soaking it in chlorinated water is far from ideal, so much so that actually puts quite a lot of swimmers off and it's bad enough getting out of the pool with red rings around your eyes, a hat line and that distinct Odour of chlorine, but leaving in a wet bedraggled look is enough to actually make some people time there swims for days. I need to wash the hair, which can be pretty limiting, so today I'm going to be doing a little bit of an experiment, and I want to start it with a disclaimer cuz. This is genuine and I haven't yet worked out how to keep my hair dry when swimming, but I've got several ideas which I'm going to try out so hopefully, by the end of this, we will have a solution to be able to go swimming and keep our Hair dry. Well, I guess I should probably start with a bit of a control. So while my hair is dry, I'm just gon na put my hats on, like I would normally attire up in a bit of a bun check, my hat on and go for a swim and I'll show you what it looks like at the end of it. Okay, I've done a decent swim, so it's time for the swimming cap reveal, for the control run, see what we're working with pretty wet cap. I'M imagining my hair is gon na be soaked through. Let'S have a look yeah, I would say that is pretty wet. Have a ring that I've got a good starting point, at least well, like I said earlier today, is a bit of an experiment and both from what I've been told from my little play on Instagram and things I found online, I have gone out and bought this Selection of swim caps, obviously of all you had these two GT end caps. I'Ve got a really expensive joking. It a free shower cap from the hotel to try out this little nylon, a virgin cap here, and then this one, which is something very new to me. With the ear protector and the hope that that's going to seal right around the edge, but there are so many different options out there. This one is great if you've got really long. Hair, apparently, which my hair is relatively long and there's quite a lot of it. So hopefully it should be able to fit everything else, underneath I'm gon na try a selection of sometimes the caps on their own, trying different hair styles underneath and a combination of various options here, all right, my hair is entirely dry, so I probably need to get Back in the full this time, I'm going to keep it fairly simple, but change things up slightly. So a lot of the suggestions were high, bun, which I normally don't do and put my hair at the back. Maybe that's just because I think it's more Aero offices less drag so we're gon na put it nice and tight, but right on the top of my head. So just twisting it like. I did before really tight. So I keep it in place and B to reduce the surface area. That'S potentially exposed to the water nice I'll hair bubble again, keeping it in place like a ballerina, I'm sure they're low, like one and now let me introduce this special cat, so I bought this after my research. I'Ve never tried one of these before, as you can see, there's a little extra bit for the ear, which means the Hat should be r2 still nicely around my ear, because that's normally where the water goes in. It'S also a hat designed people with a lot of hair and yes, my hair is very long, but it isn't actually that thick. So if you do have a huge amount of hair, then hopefully you're better to fit it underneath a hat like this, and I could help to keep it dry. Put it on and see what happens. I feel very pointy not sure that I would be a very aerodynamic like this sort of ballerina meat Smurf. So good luck all right, so I haven't ever used one these cats like over there before, but the idea is comes much better than my ears and it feels sort of secure can't hear very well. So if I'm shouting, I apologize and hopefully it's gon na steal, the water. That'S been a little bit loose around the bottom and I must admit, I'm one of those people as she wears my normal silicon hat fairly low. Don'T like water going in my ears, although doesn't normally stop it, hoping this well well. So, like I said, I haven't never tried one of these caps before and I found it on Amazon when searching for caps belong home taps to keep your hair dry. A brand called Zoma, it cost me 14 pounds 48 and the description this one made me chuckle, so the consuming cap for women and men for long or short, hair tear resistant, silicone with ergonomic air pockets. All right, I'm actually not sure what to expect. My ears felt a bit wet spits laughing around here. Oh, I can tell it's gon na be dry, so, let's reveal middle bit of the cap. Is dry ears. Are a bit wet you guys can see. I can't actually tell whether it's dry on top, but it feels it I'm going to reveal. Oh, yes, not bad, I would say well. It certainly felt really odd having the bun on my head and then we tie my tumble turn. If I like lays a resistance, but I guess it's just different to what is my normal, but I think that's the last place to get wet on your head and if you put a bun there and the great part of this cap it it's got more room For lots of hair so clipping the way forward, I do feel on either side. Smaller, my head is probably quite average size I think, and it felt a little loose from the ears. So maybe something like this for larger heads or people with lots of hair and if I could get a smaller version of this, I reckon could be the answer. Well, whilst I've got time - and I'm sat here waiting for my hair to dry, it should probably use this moment to share some of the research that I've actually found out, and I spoke to my hairdresser just to know how to protect my hair a little bit More from chlorine and yes, you can get some anti cooling treatments which you can put on before swimming to try and protect it, and then also afterwards, and a few of you even suggested, putting conditioner on your hair. Is it's gon na stop it drying that? But you need to be careful with these products as if it's anything that's going to be too slippery or slimy on your hair, that when you put a cap on and you swim a few lengths, it's just gon na gradually slide off. And then your hair's gon na get fully exposed that way. A talking of slipperiness try to avoid putting too much moisturizer on your skin. I'Ve made that mistake before slamming moisturizer on my face and then throughout the session that you just constantly kind of pull your cap back down onto your forehead and another one which I don't know how much evidence there is with it. But I'm on the same page. Here as Sarah true, so we spoke to Sarah true last year, just after some superstition and one of hers is come race day. She doesn't like to have clean hair. As you probably know, clean hair is just nice and shiny and smooth, but that doesn't necessarily bode well for keeping your hats on and with that thought, if you don't swim every day, then try to maybe combine your swimming with winning like with when your hand. These are washers aei caps, gon na stay on better and be it's a good excuse to give everybody a thorough wash afterwards all right. Well, as we know one cap on its own with my hair, just stuffed up inside it does not work so gon na. Take it to the next level, I'm gon na put my hair a little bit tighter in a bar behind my head and I'm going to be using this sort of spandex style cap underneath which you can find it pretty much any sports job. It is old school. I have to admit this: one cost me 3 euros 50 and I've opted for this over latex because they don't, if you've ever tried a latex cap, but try taking that off a long hair and it pulls your hair out. So you need to think about. You know protecting your hair actually after the pool as well. So hopefully this will be kind to my hair and it will keep it slightly further away from the water and then I'm just gon na simply put this one. This GT end cap on over the top. These are, I think, $ 6.99 in our shop, but any silicone hat. So it's a very different feel to latex it just a little bit kinda on your hair and it's a bit thicker as well. I'M a bit of patience here. Don'T laugh, miss you, but I am new to this type of cap, but I always put my cap on from the back just fine, it's a little bit easier. I felt like I want to have some like petals on my cap or something that would be cool. It'S nicely sure it looks wonderfully fetching right now streamlined silicone cap necks again, I put it on from back to front some people do front to back whatever you find easiest but play around. You can just rip it in one motion: put your hands inside like so perch it on the back, pull over to the front. Excuse me I'm just taking the pressure off my ears, just bas. I talk to you guys, so I personally always put my goggles on over the top just like so, but you might find that if your cap comes down really nice and low for sealing that getting your goggles won't actually seal, because your goggles obviously need to completely Touch your skin in order for them not to leak. So there's a little bit of a debate here of whether you want to do goggles first and then your final cap on over the top or the other way around. I know mark always specials goggles on underneath which looks really nice and tidy, but I personally find that I prefer to have mine on the outside, so I can adjust them, take them off more easily and another downside of goggles underneath you're opening up the cap and Water can go in much more easily, so today it's all about keeping hair dry. Oh what you do okay. I think this could be a long day as I feel there might be wet hair underneath here, but I'll get straight off in the sunshine. Let'S reveal that's wet right away through, let's see how to layer, let's see you guys can probably tell if it looks dry or not. Hmm this this feels wet here around the edges. I feel tried to touch anyway. Let'S whole neck. Alright, there you go, you can see the water line it was seeping through, so that means top very top is dry, but I think my bun feels it feels wet, but I'm going to unveil and see how wet that really is. I think I supposed to say it's drier than control, but it's not really acceptable, Michael just about wring out a few drops, I'm dry on top, but even with a really tight bun. I'M amazed that the waters got all the way through that in just basically five minutes of swimming. So then we need to try another version in a moment, but on the plus side it does mean that I've got to sit in the Sun and dry, my hair, but thankfully it's sunny and windy here at prices result. So we should get some pretty quick dry time, I'm taking it back to basics on this one, and it's been inspired by a bit of research on YouTube with the good old shower cap. I have spent zero pennies on this one, and this is my GTN cap, which I already had in my bag. So I'm gon na pop that one underneath, but first I'm just gon na put my hair up, as I would normally when I'm swimming just in a sort of ponytail and then cuz, it's so long. I just fold it back on itself. Keep it out of the way at the back. It'S gon na try and pop my GTN cap on over the top, and this is an experiment I'll see if it works. Oh gosh right. I think I need to get rid of this so just see. If I can tuck it out, the way, stop very fetching, and it's probably not gon na - do the job if anything is sticking out from the silicone cap from the odd lumps this just feels like a normal stem cap. Now, alright, I feel like I'm just going for a normal swim with it once I've got rid of my sexy little shower cap fringe, not sure the shower cap is gon na make any difference, there's only one way to find out. Okay, let's reveal oh, it's all come up in one I'm gon na have to analyze this first middle of the cat looks fairly dry and it's hard to talk to my hands away. I can't actually tell if the water is on the inside or the outside, so the proof guess is in my hair: oh middle is dry ish. These n bits are not. You know, timing out, see if there's anything too that's a lot better than I expected. I guess, with a few downsides day with this shower cap, you might want to put out in the changes when it was watching, but, like I said earlier, it doesn't really matter what we look like. If you can keep your hair dry, it's got to be a good thing. I feel that I actually might need to experiment with this for a little bit longer, because today, I'm only doing 400 meters at a time. That'S all we've realistically got time for, but maybe in its time I'm filming I might put shower cap on and not tell you guys and just see for myself a little bit different. I have just stolen none other than an Olympic silver medalist to plat my hair hair feeling quite quite spoiled. So I know this is Lisa Nord earnest, you guys same term recognized Olympics of medalist from the London Games and triathlon, and at least it always has wonderful. Fastener hair, when she races just happens to be here at play, it's just result when we're filming. So probably it should make money agreed to give my hair about this much hair though yeah might take you longer. So my theory now is my hair's, always gon na. Be really nice and tight in my head and less of the the long hair is gon na be exposed to the water, so if it doesn't get entirely soaked, so I'm hoping that the bits on the inside I released not gon na be damaged by the chlorine. Even if just these bits get wet, so that's the theory. I have had my hair plaited in the past from racing, although they don't don't you notice, if it's dry, because you're sweating so much anyway. So it is an experiment. I have to now decide what hat combination I'm gon na do with this, because this is obviously one of the measures and we can't try absolute every scenario. Wow I've never had that Lisa's gone so much effort. I'M gon na go to quite a lot of effort here and try a double hat combo, but take you up the Steph and I'm going to do one silicon hat just a normal silicon, GTO some cap and then I'm gon na follow and I'm gon na use. This one again so - and I hope that this is the double sealant and that will do the job, so you might have to take the flat side. But sadly afterwards, I guess I will have to say I'm gon na go with the back over the top. A little arrangement, so this is pretty much my final attempt and I feel like it could be the winning combination, because not much of my hair is exposed with the plat and then the normal silicon cap, on which I get a pull of salad. My ears properly. In a moment to try and seal that that I'm even actually can take my earrings off, so I think that will help with the seal. And then I'm gon na go with this over the top again so covering the the ears and hopefully sealing right around here, and I mean if water gets through that I tell it where we really go from there all right. Let'S have a reveal. I do feel that these were slipping up a bit, and that might be that I put it on too low, so I think the water was just coming in under here. Oh, I can hear it again. That'S nice right, first layer, first layer definitely got some water inside it. So another. Let'S go! Oh oh right! This bit is dry at the top round. The sides not entirely dry. I don't know what it looks like on my head. This feels very dry. All down here feels entirely dry in the middle. I think I should probably unplug it. I don't want to take my platter. Thankfully, sir, I have to undo this wonderful hard work. She'S put in conclusion. I can't see the mirror, but there's definitely wet around here, although the bits of my hair, which let me get more damage to the ends and well they'll its happy but they're pretty dry. So that's got to be a plus point that at least the chlorine isn't damaging all of my hair and maybe with the plaster, the hairdryer I'd be good to gates, go to a peg or I might funny the cap, but all seriousness. I actually think just from that last experiment that I could feel the water going in every time I tumble turn, so it does depend on the type of swimming you're doing and if you're someone who just does a touch turn, maybe there's a plus point there, because The water's always just going to be going this way and not going to me forth in the sides, because it's the ears that seem to be causing the problem. Well, at the end of the day, there are so many options and a few disclaimers we've all got slightly different head shapes and different styles of hair and different ways in which we can put our hair up, but rounding. All of that up. I would say that the tighter you can make your hair. The drive is going to stay. So if you can manage your plat, which obviously I can't do myself or a high bun, that seemed to keep my hair the driest and then when it comes for caps. Double-Layer seems to give double protection, which I guess makes sense, and that extra large cap seem to help keeping the ears slightly drier and obviously it gives really you've got more hair. There'S still so many different versions of that, and I did only ever swim for 400 meters at a time which isn't necessarily real. But if you're someone who just does touch turns and breast rate you're, probably gon na - find that all of those methods keep your hair dry, I think oh well, that leaves, for me to say, is: go away and experiment we've, given you some ideas, but do share Them because I want to know - and hopefully together, if we all work on this, we will eventually find a way which we can keep our hair entirely dry at the end of a full swim session if you've enjoyed. This then give us a like, and a follow over at GTM