Have you tried to freeze your own hair?

Photos credit: Takhini Hot Pool, posted on 28 April 2020

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Take your head out of the freezer, close the door and get out of the kitchen - this is not what we have in mind!

Attempting to freeze your own hair at sub-zero temperatures seems like a good laugh and a unique selfie opportunity. The icing on the cake is that you also get to bathe in hot outdoor springs while sculpting your hair during the sub-zero temperatures.

This activity is so weird that it actually qualifies a point on the post-coronavirus travel bucket list.

Hair freezing contests

Hair freezing contest at the Takhini hot pools

Takhini Hot Springs run an annual competition, which you can enter by visiting the springs any day when the temperature is below -20°C.

To enter the competition you have to dip your head into the pool to wet your hair and then get your hair out into the cold air. Once the hair is frozen with lots of frost and ice build-up, which doesn’t take long in -20C degrees, you ring the bell by the pool entrance and the staff come to snap a photo.

Hair freezing contest winners

During the 2019/ 2020 contest, 288 submissions competed for the titles of the five categories - Best Male, Best Female, Best Group, Tim Hortons' Most Creative and Nongshim Noodles People's Choice Award.

Do you think you could do better?

Best Male

Best Male category winner at Takhini Hot Springs’ hair freezing contest

Best Female

Best Female category winner at Takhini Hot Springs’ hair freezing contest

Best Group

Best Group category winners at Takhini Hot Springs’ hair freezing contest

People’s Choice Award

People’s Choice Award category winner at Takhini Hot Springs’ hair freezing contest, sponsored by Nongshim Noodles.

Most Creative

The winning hairstyle for the Most Creative category, sponsored by Tim Hortons.

The winners walked away with great rewards and a bunch of free passes that will support them in developing their hair-freezing skills. More specifically, the winner were awarded $2000, free soaks in the current hot springs facility, and a 12 punch pass for the new facility when it is completed in the autumn of 2020.

Takhini Hot Springs Hair Freezing Contest is a sculpted hair competition held at a resort in the Takhini Hot Springs, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Weather permitting, the contest takes place every year and the winners are announced in February.

Where else could you freeze your hair?

Hair freezing in polar vortex

A person living in Toronto experiencing the 2019 polar vortex says the hairs in your nose would freeze. At the time it was -30C in Toronto.

Another entertaining story is that of a woman in Iowa with her long hair frozen standing upright on her head. She froze it as she stepped outside with wet hair and flung it the air. You would need some serious sub-zero temperatures for this for sure.