I don't think my BP is shedding correctly

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I can't be certain since this is the first shed and I have never owned a snake prior to now. Parker has been in shed and I have been really excited, and have posted a few threads to make sure everything is ok. My humidity levels have been fine (between 60 and 80 percent) only dipping below 60 on one occasion a few nights ago for a few hours when i wasn't home. I have been misting a lot, placed damp towels over the screen top (glass tank enclosure) and have been monitoring everything multiple times a day. My set up is a 20 gallon long (or 29 long I can't remember it was so long ago that i bought it). I have a UTH on one side, a very large water dish that is bigger than necessary but that's what the lady at petco told me to buy. The cool side gets too cool so I have an additional 40watt infrared heat bulb on the screen over the larger water dish/cool side that maintains it at 80 degrees on the substrate. I use, for now, reptibark, but i am not happy with it and will be replacing it as soon as the bag runs out. My warm side is between 89-92 (sometimes it gets higher, like 95 because I am STILL trying to figure out the thermostat). I use an accurite digital thermometer/hydrometer and a temp gun. Plus, next to the warm side I have a climbing branch. I think that about covers it. Sorry this is going to be so long........

Parker's enclosure is in my 3 1/2 year old step son's room since its "his" snake that I take care of until he is old enough to learn how to do it himself, and be responsible about it. Anyway, my step-son is in bed, and after lights out I can't go in and check on the snake. When we were getting ready for bed I noticed that Parker had started to actually shed the skin on his head. I tried to get a better look to see if the eye caps had shed too, but he was in his hide and it was difficult to get a good look at it. He was just laying there and it looked like it was just peeling. About 5 minutes later he was rubbing all over the inside of his hide, just as i expected, to get the shed off, but I think it is coming off in pieces. I don't know yet since it was just his head last I saw. I wish I had taken a picture but i will do my best to describe. It seems to have peeled back on the sides over his eyes, below his chin and mouth, and on the skin on top of his head between his eyes. It is all still attached to him, not flaked off in the tank, but it is, if this makes sense, sorta like a banana peel....so like separate pieces. The skin below his mouth and on top of his head looks like it isn't coming off well at all, not like I have seen in videos. Almost like when I have gotten a bad sun burn. I won't know until the morning when it's all off and I inspect the shed and Parker. He also looks very wrinkly on some parts of his skin which I read could be dehydration. I just don't understand how that's possible when I provide a big thing of fresh water and have kept the humidity up. Then again, I am a newbie.

If he is having a bad shed I have a few questions. I have read to give him a soak in luke warm water to help him get the remaining shed off. How do you give a snake a bath? How do you soak his face if the eye caps haven't shed? I tried to give him a soak once before when he hadn't pooped in a while, he did NOT want to be in the water and kept trying to get out of the bowl. I kept placing him back in, which he didn't seem to like but he pooped about 10 minutes later. But this is different right? How would I get him to stay? Any other suggestions besides a bath to help with shedding remaining skin if he has it?

Also, any suggestions for something I should do differently during his next shed if this didn't go right? I was thinking of making a humid hide next time.