"Twice this week I've been in meetings with people showing up on camera with wet hair," Marie Claire's Executive Editor Andrea Stanley wrote to me recently over Slack. "This used to be taboo. Is it not anymore? Is it fine to wear wet hair anywhere?"
Oh no, I thought worriedly, realizing that I, quite literally, arrived to a breakfast meeting this week with just-out-of-the-shower hair dripping down my back. That sounds more dramatic than it looked, I swear. I do this all the time. But with all the hoopla around prioritizing hair health—which includes not going to bed with wet hair since it's more susceptible to damage or using too much heat—I don't really understand what the alternative is to leaving the house with a damp head. Scratch that, I do, actually: It's yanking day-three hair up into yet another bun or ponytail to disguise the greasy roots. That can only go on for so long, people! What am I supposed to do, wake up at 6am to shower and towel dry my rib-skimming hair all morning until I hop on the train and pray I'm fulled dried by the time I swipe my keycard in the elevator? Hard pass.
