Sleep & protect

Compare loose overnight containment with a bonnet, scarf, wrap or tie.

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Choose your starting point

Choose around your dry style, hair length and available covering. A bonnet contains the hair, a scarf lets you adjust the fit, a pineapple holds suitable lengths high, and a directional wrap is for a straight style. Compare the fit and release steps.

Compare the methods

Explore the methods below. Open a guide for when to use it, what you’ll need and the full steps.

One hand lifts damp roots while the other moves a dryer on cool or permitted low heat.

3–8 min hands-on

Prepare damp hair for bed when it cannot fully dry

Damp-hair bed preparation removes drips, prioritizes root drying and leaves remaining damp lengths loose on a dry pillow layer.

Loosely wrapping fully dry straight hair around the head under a smooth sleep scarf with no tight hairline.

2–5 min hands-on

Preserve a blowout or silk press between washes

Smooth-style preservation keeps a dry blowout or silk press loosely contained overnight and resets only dry roots between wears.

A woman checks both sides of a sleep bonnet band resting flat around her hairline and ears.

30 sec–2 min hands-on

Put on a loose sleep bonnet

A sleep bonnet is a fabric covering that holds hair inside while you rest, with a band that should sit comfortably around the head.

A woman checks the roots and loose scrunchie beneath a high pineapple while the curly ends fan freely.

30–60 sec hands-on

Put waves or curls in a loose pineapple

A pineapple is a loose high ponytail that holds suitably long waves, curls or coils above the head during sleep.

Lowering a soft beanie gently over dry hair.

30–60 sec hands-on

Wear a hat or beanie over your style

Hat-style preparation uses a comfortable fit, smooth lining and loose arrangement to reduce pulling, rubbing and flattening under an ordinary hat.

A woman holds flat wrapped hair at the side of her head while placing a bobby pin horizontally.

3–7 min hands-on

Wrap a straight style for sleep

An overnight method that holds dry straight hair in a directional wrap around the head beneath a sleep scarf.

A woman ties the two side corners of a sage scarf at her nape over the central triangle flap.

1–3 min hands-on

Wrap your hair with a sleep scarf

A sleep-scarf wrap encloses dry hair in a folded square of fabric, secured with a comfortable knot for overnight containment.