Tearing my hair out...

[MysteryDiveBuddy]

I just started diving my drysuit again after its summer hiatus and it is yanking my hair out! My hair is thin and fine so I can't afford to lose much. It gets pulled out when I don and doff my latex neck seal and from the latex around the collar and face of my hood. Yesterday when I combed my hair, gently, post-dive a TON fell out. Ok so I do shed some in the fall and I shed more when it is long but I think the drysuit is pulling out a lot. How can I lessen the hair loss?

 

[SCUBAJENNIFER]

Trying putting conditioner on it first...should slide right over then...and you will have a lot less trouble combing it out after the dive! It also means that your hair will absorb less salt water!

 

[PerroneFord]

Astroglide.

 

[riguerin]

Rogaine

 

[rakkis]

Use a swim cap

 

[wldflwrs03]

I use a lycra hood; they are cheap and helps prevent the mask from entangling in your hair as well.

 

[Scubakevdm]

I just started diving my drysuit again after its summer hiatus and it is yanking my hair out! My hair is thin and fine so I can't afford to lose much. It gets pulled out when I don and doff my latex neck seal and from the latex around the collar and face of my hood. Yesterday when I combed my hair, gently, post-dive a TON fell out. Ok so I do shed some in the fall and I shed more when it is long but I think the drysuit is pulling out a lot. How can I lessen the hair loss?

You wanna know what I do to avoid this problem? I wear a hair protector.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/scubakevdm/boardme.jpg

 

[MysteryDiveBuddy]

Apparently I missed them.
Won't conditioner do bad things to my neck seal?
Won't it be slimy and gross while I am underwater?
Lycra hood would be too chilly but thank you for the suggestion.

 

[TSandM]

I don't have any data, but I'd be really careful about conditioner and latex seals. The neck seal on my Mobby's suit totally failed after about forty dives, and the ONLY thing I could come up with that might have contributed to it is that I use an organic, Lavender-scented hair conditioner. I've taken to not using conditioner on my hair at all on the days I dive, because dry, lank hair is preferable to the bill for another neck seal replacement.

 

[DiverLaura]

use extra powder when pulling hood on (dry), or get hair wet first.

Mine is mid length, and I find putting a french braid in it helps as well.

I find more hair torment from the neoprene hoods than the neck seals (the skin in parts) One of the "many" reasons I like the latex hoods with a thermal bonnet (a la viking dry hoods).