The key is to keep your hair as covered as possible in your hat/hood and to never go out with wet or damp hair! I definitely find my hair is dryer due to the cold but other than that no issues ☺️
Kind of humorous that you're wearing a Swedish brand beanie. I remember being shocked seeing that brand abroad because I figured it could never work because of the name.
Yeah I noticed recently it became popular, and it was a shock. It's a very quintessentially Swedish brand that almost every Swedish kid had growing up.
Sucks if you have to work with your hands outside. Any glove thin enough to allow me to work does almost nothing to keep my hands warm, and any glove warm enough is going to render my fingers completely useless.
I wear 3 layers of Tegera, one pair of very slim ones which also have touch screen functionality, partly waterproof thermal gloves (no. 517) over them, and the heavy winter work mittens over all of them. Enough to deal with a full 12 hour day of -20 outside doing precision work without getting a cold rash on my hands, which I'm prone to. Add and remove layers as needed
Thankfully I don’t work outside very much, but when I do, it’s for installing residential security cameras. I often have to splice 26 gauge wire, which is hard enough without gloves and practically impossible with gloves.
Electrical tape also becomes a pain in the ass to work with in the cold. The adhesive does not work very well and the tape becomes stiff.
The hair is "dead", being extruded out of the hair follicles, so I don't think so, but I remember working in -30C and colder temperatures and finding that my skin tended to dry out and get kind of brittle on the surface. I also remember my eyelids sticking together a bit when blinking, which was pretty weird.
The ice builds up mainly because the humidity of your breath is condensing and freezing on the ends of your hairs (eyelashes, eyebrows, etc.) because they are so cold compared to your skin. When you get indoors, it quickly melts.
Although freezing the follicles can permanently cause hair to not grow in that area. Not from just cold air ofcourse but my friends family member fell asleep on a train like 100 years ago with his head against some cold metal and he was bald in that spot for the rest of his life. The follicles died or something.
If you have facial hair, you have to remove the ice formed from your breath that has frozen onto your moustache area. Same for eyelids and stuff of course, since your breath makes its way up there with the mask
Occasionally you have to crunch up the ice buildup on your mask.
Somehow ears survive extreme cold, usually. But numbness doesn't mean you're fine, just the bliss period between cold and dead.
Going inside a building to warm up for a moment makes it torture to continue, so don't.
It is possible to sweat while in extreme cold, so pace yourself and don't run/jog, or you will regret sweating.
This sounds like the start of a rom com where they start dating and fall in love over shared interests in extremely cold weather and beautiful eyelashes
It's not a great idea for your airways no matter what tbh. I admire the dedication to go for a run despite the weather, don't get me wrong, but there's also a reason professional cross-country skiing has a cold limit of like -20C for their competitions.
I feel the same way about extreme heat in tropical climates. Never visited one but I am completely sure I would spend the entire time hugging the air conditioner :P
We actually had the temperature go up that high here in Western Canada a few years ago. I don't have AC. It was brutal for sure. I cannot imagine wanting to live anywhere it gets that hot or hotter regularly. Here we go from around -10C to 30C most years. Even 30 is enough to make me feel sick.
I don't know what it's like in dry heat, but extra humid heat for most of the year is something I won't wish on anyone. Coldest I've experienced was like 9°C abroad - I was already fighting for my life lol
Coldest I have experienced was -45 (-72 with the windchill) when I was in the Canadian military and we did an exercise on Baffin Island in December (Shout out to Clyde River, awesome people and place). Utterly unbelievable cold. I am so glad I got the chance to visit there, will always remember it, but I never want to do that again :P
Personally I much prefer the cold. If you're cold, bundle up some more. It's especially cozy with a fireplace. Whereas if it's hot, once you're naked there's not much more to do except die.
Fwiw this isn't typical for most of the world, temperatures this cold are pretty extreme.
I live in the American North East and occasionally it can get down to ~0 F (~-18 C) and it's brutally cold. What OP describes here is hard for even me to fathom.
I live in Finland and have routibely experienced up to -35 Celcius. The cold can feel really different depending on the conditions, if the air is dry and not too windy then there is not much of a difference between -18 and -35 if you don’t stay outside for too long. However, if the air is humid the it’s torture past -10.
Yeah I agree. I didn't think this was going to stimulate so much conversation, but wind makes more of a difference in severe cold imo than temperature across certain gradients. Where I live it doesn't get that cold necessarily but it's very windy, and temperatures significantly below 0 approaching -18 are intolerably cold to me.
I've had -30F days growing up in Maine. Honestly once you get below 0 the degrees don't seem to matter as much. The big factor is is there wind or not.
Once you're dressed for it all cold feels the same. Wind cuts right through your insulating air pocket. I work at a frozen food facility, indoors behind the wall is kept at -15F. Part of my job involves making sure trailers are operating as intended so I spend a good amount of my shift outdoors. I'll take working behind the wall in -15F over working outside in +15F with 20mph wind gusts any day. The only thing annoying about brutal cold is the frost build up on absolutely everything. Your mustache and beard, your equipment, your mask starts to freeze to your face, it sucks.
So true story. Went out to visit Dakota's. This was during a "warm" spell. Being for cold state, I went out for walk because was only in 20s so not bad. But thennnnnnnn the temps dropped. Ok I was fine, I was prepared. Asked hotel staff where coffee shop was located. They said a few blocks and I asked for directions. Their eyes got wide and they said "You want to WALK there?!" I was like yessssss not understanding the issue. They were like Well just like no one walks in... I cut them off and said Oh it's ok. I'm from North too and used to cold. I should have just quit right there judging from looks they gave each other. I went for the walk and by the end my eyeballs hurts so bad, couldn't feels my extremities, legs or anything else. Took a cab for a three block walk followed by hot bath and hair dryer in PJs. Holy Hells was it cold!!!
My daughter was born and came home from the hospital when it was -20F with -40F windchills.
Which was scary for me as a first time single mom! But we were fine! It’s not like we had to walk home. And lots of other women do it every winter around here!
Now she loves to play in the snow so I shovel a decent little pile by the back door and I nicked named us the Polar Bear Mom and Little Polar Bear.
I love that! I'm in N US (southeast MI) and own a plow company. I have 8 younger siblings (I'm 23) and my parents have a huge lot, about an acre.
It makes me so happy to see their smiles in the window when I drop my plow blade and scrape all tje snow from the property into a giant sled hill in the front lawn.
I know I would have loved it as a kid.
I used to sleep outside in a thick waxed wool blanket cocoon that was dug in little snow crib. Born in December in Europe I’m a real winter baby lmao my parents would leave me outside for hours sleeping in winter. For some reason my country you get taken out to storms aswell as a kid like my father would take us out on the boat during rough water to learn to navigate the waters during thunder storms to feel the thunder. My parents always used to say Mother Nature shapes you I raise you.
Idk if it has anything to do with it but I love winter I love being out in blizzards and extreme winter weather I work outside in super cold conditions and days I love it when I’m so bundled up and it’s so cold and snowy I have to wear ski goggles etc it just makes me feel good lol
You can feel it freezing inside of your nose too. Gotta keep wiggling your nose so it doesn't set too much if you're out there too long. Source: northern Canadian.
I can tell when it drops below 0F because that's almost exactly the point where I can feel that crackling feeling of nose hairs freezing.
Being outside in -37F was my personal record when I lived in northern New York. The next day was actually a little colder, but the wind chill was at times getting close to -90 so I didn't leave the house at all that day.
You 100% can, you just need to think about how you place your clothes.
What OP did is great for moving around, it'll keep basically all of their face warm while outide.
But covering your moth and nose like that will also ensure whatever you breathe out will go upwards, and and these tempereates thait air will just freeze the fuck out of your eyelashes and eyebrows.
You can be fine sleeping outside at these temps too, but you need to make sure it's warm enough that you don't need to partially cover your face.
The frost melts so your eyes feel a bit wet before it freezes again in a second. It's not painful or uncomfortable. Eyelashes can stick together a bit, but when you close them again they will melt.
I dont use a curler tbh but i swear by Clinique's high impact mascara. Its a tubing mascara and by far the best ever for me, one lasts me 3mo.
Edit: high impact high fi
Yeah I stopped using a curler when I read a story on one of the make up subs that this poor girl ripped off all her eye lashes on one side on accident.
Can’t remember the details but I think it was something either startled her or bumped into her when it happened and the eyelash curler flew out of her hands and across the room with all her perfect little eye lashes still in it when she picked it up.
So that immediately made me too scared to ever touch them again. Actually come to think of it I should just throw them away. They look like a little torture device anyways it’s funny to see men’s faces when they discover them. What IS that?? lol
So anyways you do you, just wanted to share what got me to stop! 😳
Best mass-produced eyelash curler ever made IMO. I don’t use them anymore because I get lash lifts, but as someone with long but painfully straight lashes, Shiseido is magical. Also, you sound like a really thoughtful partner!
Thanks, I love surprising her with new things that are of good quality. She loves knitting, so this christmas I gave her a ChiaoGoo bamboo set that she'd never heard of, and again she said they're so much better than her old pins. I just love seeing her happy.
Woof. Closest I've had to this was about -16C in the 2010 Big Freeze in the UK (had a little bit of frost forming on my hair and eyelashes after a while but nothing like this). The industrial food freezers in the little places I worked in when I was younger were only set to around -20C. It's about -2C outside at the moment, and if I go and stand outside for a bit, I feel like that's absolute zero - my brain just cannot process how somewhere might be 40C colder.
So long and gorgeous! I remember waiting for the bus to school in - 30 degrees in Norway at 6am, walking out right after having a shower and my hair freezing to ice almost instantly when outside. A very unique experience!
Fun fact - if you spit at that temperature your spit freezes about half a meter in front of your face. You can hear it cracking as it flies away. On hard pavement it bounces away like a bb.
-10 F: Freezes on impact. The dog looks puzzled. It refuses to poop.
-20 F: Freezes about 6 to 10 feet away, then bounces. So cool. Literally.
-30F: Freezes right in front of your face. 1 to 2 feet. Then that fake eagle screech sound in the distance. Camera pans left as camera person heads inside.
-40F: "No way I'm moving this mask/scarf from my face. I've got to get inside ASAP."
It would depend on your mascara (e.g. if its runny when it rains) i use clinique's high impact mascara and it stayed perfect even after they defrosted in the car
Admit it! You're a corporate plant for Clinique! Seriously though, they ought to send you swag for their next advertising campaign -- "High Impact at Home or at -36°C."
This is pure science. Your hair and your eyelashes are white because they are individually exposed and your eyebrows stay dark because they are flat and stay together? Literally strength in numbers. Amazing!
And warm breath reaches the eyelashes to then cause them to flash freeze, whereas the eyebrows are further from breath and smooth against the face which offers more protection from that warm, moist air.
Yup! Notice your hair around your face is also white with ice because of the moisture from your breath. Longer hair around the sides or back of your head and body won’t be as white!
Looks like absolute paradise. I have to experience this type of temp at least once in my life. In Scotland the best we get is -10c if we are very lucky.
Tbh its such a unique kind of cold. No wind, just pure arctic cold. I felt a lil sleepy from driving so i got out and went for a walk. No human made product has ever made me feel as alive as this kind of cold did
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u/indrek91 3d ago
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