Do you have an impression.....

[DISdreamin']

This is me - except for my naturally curly hair is fine and shoulder length. If I washed it and slept on it or if I blew it dry, it would be a frizzy mess. I wash it in the morning, towel dry and put curling cream in, but I have to let it airdry. It's damp for the first half hour to hour or so I'm at work, then I flip it over and shake it out and it looks good - that's just the way it is.

Me too! Fine, curly hair that is an absolute horror if I blow it out. Think French Poodle. If I wash it and sleep on it, then brush it...French Poodle. So I wash in the morning, dry the bangs only so they don't curl right up, and let the rest do the happy spiral curl thing. Once it is dried this way it looks SO much better than if I tried blowdrying it (mind you, it doesn't look great, just better...LOL!).

And yeah, sometimes I don't shower until almost 8:00 and I see peeps at 9:00, but by then it's nearly completely dry and I just sort of run my fingers through it to break up any big curls. Guess I am unprofessional, judging by what others have said.

 

[MIGrandma]

I worked with someone like that, not in a corporate setting though. We were both waitresses and many times she would come rushing in, 10 minutes late, with wet hair. I thought it looked unprofessional. I don't understand adults that can't get themselves ready for work and be there on time. Of course something happens occasionally that makes a person late, but almost every time? Come on. Get up half an hour earlier, start getting ready earlier, leave the house earlier. Make sure you have enough time to dry/fix your hair and get to work on time.

 

[Darsa]

My former boss used to come to work regularly with damp haird; absolutely and without peer the best, and hardest working, boss I ever had. AND she had awesome smelling shampoo So the only impression I get from someone who is in public with damp hair is "that person must have a busy schedule" at the worst. I also come to work sometimes with damp hair, depending on how quickly I can bully my DD out of the shower in the AM (or if I showered at the gym) Thick, wavy hair here.

 

[Wonders10]

I worked with someone like that, not in a corporate setting though. We were both waitresses and many times she would come rushing in, 10 minutes late, with wet hair. I thought it looked unprofessional. I don't understand adults that can't get themselves ready for work and be there on time. Of course something happens occasionally that makes a person late, but almost every time? Come on. Get up half an hour earlier, start getting ready earlier, leave the house earlier. Make sure you have enough time to dry/fix your hair and get to work on time.

I get this, but as someone who posted about coming to work with her hair wet, back on the 1st page, I take a little offense to this. I am up at 5:30 in the morning to get to work on time. I am never late - in fact, I'm usually early. The fact is, I pull my hair back into a bun, after it has been towel dried because I know at some point I will be pulling my hair back anyway - I work with children and my hair is heavy and just past the shoulders so it gets annoying. Myhair is always "done" - never just hanging there, wet. I hardly think I look unprofessional or unprepared for work.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I worked with someone like that, not in a corporate setting though. We were both waitresses and many times she would come rushing in, 10 minutes late, with wet hair. I thought it looked unprofessional. I don't understand adults that can't get themselves ready for work and be there on time. Of course something happens occasionally that makes a person late, but almost every time? Come on. Get up half an hour earlier, start getting ready earlier, leave the house earlier. Make sure you have enough time to dry/fix your hair and get to work on time.

This seems a bit of an overgeneralization. Yes, showing up late (regularly) is totally unprofessional. However, as a number of us have mentioned, curly hair is different care and often doesn't need the primping and priming that straight hair styles often need.

 

[paintnolish]

I am another one with really thick, curly hair. It is never dry when I leave the house...heck, it isn't dry for about 12 hours. I'm not kidding. I leave it in a towle turban long enough so that it isn't dripping when I leave. I also generally wear it up. Honestly, though, I don't think I would give someone's wet hair a second though, unless it was dripping on paperwork or something!