humidity

Depends on your point of view. If you’re a tropical plant, humidity rocks! My philodendrons, dieffenbachia, and parlor palms need to be spritzed all the time because I don’t live in the tropics. They love their «showers». I also group them close together to create a more humid environment. Humidity also enables gardeners to cheat their zones a bit, as it raises the overall temperature to the plant. If you keep bringing home one philo at a time and it dies inside your dry-​air house, it’s probably because it needs company and more leaf-​surface water. And folks raising orchids successfully know more than anyone how important humidity is.
If you’re a person, well, you probably deal with it by having air conditioning and not venturing outside if you can help it. Living in California, humidity is rare. The only truly humid climates I’ve been to are in Florida, India, and Japan. I’ve heard China too, but I haven’t been there.
The main rules are (1) forget achieving any kind of hairstyle because it’s going to shit as soon as you step out the door and (2) dress in light layers because any time you go inside, the A/​C is going to brrrr so the T-​shirt won’t be enough.
The best way to deal with humidity-​induced hair hell is VO5 hairdressing. It comes in a tube. That’s how Marilyn Monroe used to protect her hair from the burning lights on movie sets, and all you need it for is to keep your mop from looking like crap while you’re riding the teacups at Disney World. That or putting it up; how do you want to look in your pictures?
So, I like humidity, but that’s because I see the benefits as a gardener AND I don’t have to be in it all the time.

Humidity is not my friend. In fact humidity is evil. Yes, evil! Thank God I live in California where humidity is non existent :)