In terms of the knotting: in my experience, sufficiently aggressive use of conditioner will keep those knots mostly self-resolving or easy to untangle. (With occasional exceptions, every couple months, where I need to spend a couple hours doing more intense untangling and lose a decent number of hairs in the process.) It wouldn't surprise me if the effectiveness of that were somewhat dependent on personal idiosyncracies of hair-texture, but it's nonetheless plausibly a good place to start to the extent you haven't done so already.
(I currently use two-in-one shampoo and conditioner three times a week on a typical week, plus a small amount any time I bathe or shower during the rest of the week (because otherwise it seems to get washed off and lose its tangle-mitigating effectiveness), and that's enough for me to get the above-described results. (Back when I did it once a week it barely prevented horrible tangles at all, they just were a bit slower to get worse, and when I did it twice a week the tangles came every couple weeks, so increased frequency-of-use definitely seems to yield improved results.))
As far as the wind problem goes, I haven't got much advice; wind blowing my hair into my mouth is a form of unpleasantness I haven't yet figured out how to mitigate. When it comes to bending over, though, I've found a useful trick: if I pull all my hair over my shoulder on one side, it'll generally stay on that side, thereby freeing up the area around the other side of my body to be relatively hair-free. (So, like, if I need to use a relatively-low-placed water bubbler and don't want to get hair mixed in with the water, I'll pull my hair over my right shoulder and then tilt my body so that the bubbler is on my left as I drink, and my hair will thereby stay mostly out of the way.) It's not a complete solution, but it at least somewhat mitigates the problem.
I have no solution to the losing-hair-over-time-and-having-it-end-up-in-inconvenient-places problem, sadly. If you ever figure one out, please let me know, because I would very much like to stop having that problem.
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Date: 2020-06-07 01:25 am (UTC)In terms of the knotting: in my experience, sufficiently aggressive use of conditioner will keep those knots mostly self-resolving or easy to untangle. (With occasional exceptions, every couple months, where I need to spend a couple hours doing more intense untangling and lose a decent number of hairs in the process.) It wouldn't surprise me if the effectiveness of that were somewhat dependent on personal idiosyncracies of hair-texture, but it's nonetheless plausibly a good place to start to the extent you haven't done so already.
(I currently use two-in-one shampoo and conditioner three times a week on a typical week, plus a small amount any time I bathe or shower during the rest of the week (because otherwise it seems to get washed off and lose its tangle-mitigating effectiveness), and that's enough for me to get the above-described results. (Back when I did it once a week it barely prevented horrible tangles at all, they just were a bit slower to get worse, and when I did it twice a week the tangles came every couple weeks, so increased frequency-of-use definitely seems to yield improved results.))
As far as the wind problem goes, I haven't got much advice; wind blowing my hair into my mouth is a form of unpleasantness I haven't yet figured out how to mitigate. When it comes to bending over, though, I've found a useful trick: if I pull all my hair over my shoulder on one side, it'll generally stay on that side, thereby freeing up the area around the other side of my body to be relatively hair-free. (So, like, if I need to use a relatively-low-placed water bubbler and don't want to get hair mixed in with the water, I'll pull my hair over my right shoulder and then tilt my body so that the bubbler is on my left as I drink, and my hair will thereby stay mostly out of the way.) It's not a complete solution, but it at least somewhat mitigates the problem.
I have no solution to the losing-hair-over-time-and-having-it-end-up-in-inconvenient-places problem, sadly. If you ever figure one out, please let me know, because I would very much like to stop having that problem.