The picture is wrong. Shampoo runs in your eyes if you tilt your head backwards. If you tilt your head forward, the shampoo runs over your cheekbones, but not in the eyes.
Peter - how can shampoo run in your eyes if you tilt your head back? Maybe if you let the water flow straight over the front of your face... Have you ever had your hair washed in a salon? It's the same concept.
I shower like the guy in the drawing, though because of very long hair (long enough to tuck into my pants as a joke) and scoliosis/nerve damage in my neck. Peter is right. If you put your head back, the soap does get in your eyes more easily. If you have very long hair, it's harder to rinse it by tilting back. If you tilt forward it's all right in front of you for easy rinsing.
Joy, when your hair is washed in a salon, you're seated, your head is in a basin, and the person washing it has a handheld sprayer. I don't see how that's relevant. When you tilt your head back in the shower your eyes are facing the ceiling... and the shower head. That's why it's easier to get soap in your eyes that way. It's also harder to rinse the shampoo from the nape of your neck if you're leaning back.
Well, I shower tipping my head back and I never once got shampoo in my eyes. A past boyfriend use to tip his head forward... although he never complained about 'shampoo eyes' ;)
I don't understand how shampoo gets in your eyes if your head is titled back so gravity does its thing and slides the shampoo away from the face and towards the floor. If your head is "titled back" but you still get shampoo in your eyes I'm guessing your head is not actually titled back properly. An old boyfriend did the front method and often got shampoo in his eyes, but he didn't mind it, he referred to it "shampooing his face."
Have to agree with the other tall guys. I'm 6'1 and its unusual to find a shower with a head high enough I can stand under it without leaning over.
In hotels, the shower pipe is typically placed between 5 and 6' from the shower/ tub bottom. Then they put on 6" of downwards pointing shower head. This puts the shower head approximately at shoulder level or chest level. Very very difficult and dangerous to try to wash your face or head by leaning backwards in a slippery shower to put your head under it. Much simpler, easier and safer to do it by leaning forwards.
Blitherypoop - The seating in a salon is not what matters - it's the flow of water and where you are allowing it to run. Ah - are you facing the sprayer or away?? You need to be looking away from the shower head and facing the opposite wall. I would think it would be much easier on the neck to wash long hair by simply letting the shower run over the back of the head and run straight down.
Obviously either method is simply personal preference.
Late to this party, but definitely more difficult to bend over backwards to rinse shampoo. So I bend over forwards, and I can keep my eyes open while I do it and not suffer any stinging from shampoo getting in them. It probably helps that I have very short hair, too. Longer hair would, I would think, create an easier path for soap to find it's way into the corners of the eyes, thus creating a wicking effect.
The picture is wrong. Shampoo runs in your eyes if you tilt your head backwards. If you tilt your head forward, the shampoo runs over your cheekbones, but not in the eyes.
ReplyDeleteThat is so true! I don't know why men do that!
ReplyDeletePeter - how can shampoo run in your eyes if you tilt your head back? Maybe if you let the water flow straight over the front of your face... Have you ever had your hair washed in a salon? It's the same concept.
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ReplyDeleteI shower like the guy in the drawing, though because of very long hair (long enough to tuck into my pants as a joke) and scoliosis/nerve damage in my neck. Peter is right. If you put your head back, the soap does get in your eyes more easily. If you have very long hair, it's harder to rinse it by tilting back. If you tilt forward it's all right in front of you for easy rinsing.
ReplyDeleteJoy, when your hair is washed in a salon, you're seated, your head is in a basin, and the person washing it has a handheld sprayer. I don't see how that's relevant. When you tilt your head back in the shower your eyes are facing the ceiling... and the shower head. That's why it's easier to get soap in your eyes that way. It's also harder to rinse the shampoo from the nape of your neck if you're leaning back.
Well, I shower tipping my head back and I never once got shampoo in my eyes. A past boyfriend use to tip his head forward... although he never complained about 'shampoo eyes' ;)
ReplyDeleteExactly!! I've always wondered why my husband does that (although I suspect it helps wash the beard).
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how shampoo gets in your eyes if your head is titled back so gravity does its thing and slides the shampoo away from the face and towards the floor. If your head is "titled back" but you still get shampoo in your eyes I'm guessing your head is not actually titled back properly. An old boyfriend did the front method and often got shampoo in his eyes, but he didn't mind it, he referred to it "shampooing his face."
ReplyDeleteI'm 6'4"+ so my head tilt varies depending on the shower's design.
ReplyDeleteFree tip - close your eyes and rinse face before opening them. You are welcome :-P
Men are taller than women in general, and if you are taller than the shower head, you can't bend back comfortably. Bending forward is a lot easier.
ReplyDeleteI'm 6'6", and getting my head under the shower head would be like a limbo dance -- which I can't do.
Have to agree with the other tall guys. I'm 6'1 and its unusual to find a shower with a head high enough I can stand under it without leaning over.
ReplyDeleteIn hotels, the shower pipe is typically placed between 5 and 6' from the shower/ tub bottom. Then they put on 6" of downwards pointing shower head. This puts the shower head approximately at shoulder level or chest level. Very very difficult and dangerous to try to wash your face or head by leaning backwards in a slippery shower to put your head under it. Much simpler, easier and safer to do it by leaning forwards.
Blitherypoop - The seating in a salon is not what matters - it's the flow of water and where you are allowing it to run. Ah - are you facing the sprayer or away?? You need to be looking away from the shower head and facing the opposite wall. I would think it would be much easier on the neck to wash long hair by simply letting the shower run over the back of the head and run straight down.
ReplyDeleteObviously either method is simply personal preference.
Late to this party, but definitely more difficult to bend over backwards to rinse shampoo. So I bend over forwards, and I can keep my eyes open while I do it and not suffer any stinging from shampoo getting in them. It probably helps that I have very short hair, too. Longer hair would, I would think, create an easier path for soap to find it's way into the corners of the eyes, thus creating a wicking effect.
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