The real answer? You’re probably not scrunching enough. Scrunching squeezes water out of the hair core. Use your hands, squeeze from tip to root. Listen to the squelch. Do it in front of a fan. The air carries the water away. You are an air-dry engineer now. Build your system.
Also, stop touching it. Your fingers are oily and warm. You’re re-wetting your hair with hand grease. Hands off. Let it be. Let it breathe. Let it become dry.
Your hair won’t dry because it’s a complex, beautiful, infuriating system of physics, chemistry, and genetics. Embrace the wait. Or buy a bonnet hair dryer and look like a 1950s housewife. Both are valid. Both end with you, finally, having dry hair. Eventually. Probably. Good luck.
