I feel a lot of replies here aren’t getting it, like yh it happens.

I have wavy hair with a lot of volume, and I do push it behind my ear or whatever, but sometimes when I eat, I find a piece.

It’s not when I’m cooking, and I’m sure if I had straight hair it would stay behind my ear neatly all the time. Wearing a bonnet or a hairband is not something to do in the middle of meal too? And it would ruin the style after.

It is what it is. I’ve gotten hair in the mouth while making out too!

Editing just to say, it’s fine man. Embrace the waves! They are beautiful, and people in real life find it cute. Most people want their hair to have more volume but you’ll get answers online making it seem weird or wrong because it isn’t what’s common.

Ew, no. I don’t use my hair as a filter. Saliva smells gross when it dries, I can’t imagine hair with dried spit smells good. I don’t understand what you mean when you say you can’t push it back, I literally just push my hair to either side of my face so it doesn’t go in my mouth when I eat. I can’t imagine a hair type that’s impossible to avoid chewing on.

Eh, a ponytail is easy.

But, yeah, back in my younger days when I let it stay loose when I wasn’t at work, and now when I’m feeling all sexy, it can get in the way of things.

Less now, what with the balding, but still.

Tbh though, the only time I ran into heavy infiltration while eating was when there was a lot of air movement. Since neither my Jr high or high school was air conditioned, that was pretty much all warm days, and the cold days where they needed air flow. Those ceiling fans could move.

I have fairly straight hair once it’s past shoulder length, so that might help. It’s super fine though, so it doesn’t take much to get it moving.

My beard doesn’t get in the way at all. My mustache, however, when I let it reach soup strainer length and don’t use wax or balm, sandwiches are a laugh :)

…i tie back my hair or tuck it behind my ears when i eat…

Most girls I see with big curly (or other textured) hair use wraps or bonnets of some kind, usually silk. It does usually have a snug elastic band around the forehead, backs of the ears, and nape of the neck, but the top that holds the actual hair is usually looser and flowy. Another option is to contain the hair in a silk scarf wrapped in some sort of elaborate layered wrap system that you can either look up on YouTube or possibly go learn from a black or other curl / texture specializing hairdresser. If you’re looking for something more masculine, black men usually call it a do-rag, or you could get a bonnet that is in a darker more subdued color and side profile.

In either case you would have to accept that big textured hair does demand somewhat counter-cultural styles just for practical reasons; there’s a lot of stigma around them, at least in the states. I work in an institutional setting in a predominately black area and one of the more twisted bits of US irony is that we institutionalize black and other non-white people more often, then don’t stock the hair products they need, then send them to court looking a fucking mess.

We had a really really beautiful success / recovery story this week after I had an utterly hellish experience with the same patient the previous week and I was reflecting that I really live for those moments because it can be otherwise difficult to justify my role in this system, and I work in the kinder mental health half now, not the completely fucked correctional end. Sorry for the tangent, I’ve had some pretty big emotional highs and lows of late.

No, I pull it back when I eat. And when I cook or serve food.

I just make a something like a chingion tail. Normal pony tail + another half. This works for me.

Back when I wore it long, the problem was getting it in my pants?? How did I have that problem but not getting it in my mouth

This wasn’t a problem for me back when I had long hair but recently I was growing a wicked long mustache that was half way down my chin. The peanut butter getting all up in it every morning after my toast was getting annoying so I chopped it off.

I just usually keep my hair tied back with a rubber band, a head band, or under a bandana, if doing most anything but just sitting.

i just tuck my hair into my shirt before i eat

Nah, I just tuck it behind my ear and eat with a weird little hunch and it’s fine

i just use a hat or a bandana to keep it back when i’m eating.

No. Sometimes.

Beards are sometimes like that too.

Let’s talk more about the headbands. I use the cheap elastics and haven’t had an issue. Have you tried a large handkerchief?

I have dreadlocks. If there are hairs in my food, i will know :D