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(or "do not read if you hate talking about appearance/appearance enhancers") i have "today's man" hair gel, which i ocassionally use to slick my hair down. but mostly i can't be arsed with that stuff. how bout you all?

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

dud. sticky hair = yuck

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I struggle with basic hygine yet alone beauty.

― Kiwi, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Bedhead Control Freak = excellent; it even has a nice apple smell. But I only use a smidge to keep my hair from fizzing too badly.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

on boys it's usually a dud. really spiky hair on girls, though, is classic.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

for the last fortnight i've been trying "bionutrient treatment #2" by nioxin cause of suggestions from my brother and mum.

it's not bad really, makes my hair smell like ink, but gives me the body and sheen you see in tv commercials.

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a rather grown out mohawk. usually it just lies down, and from the front looks like just shortish modboy hair. some days i use murray's to spike the back tho an' it looks rad. yup.

so classic, but nothing you can't do with just bedhead.

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 00:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I am such a sucker for hair products. With all the stuf in my room i could spike, smooth etc my hair until I'm 60.

My favourite at the minute is Gunk mess it up waxstick. It smells gorgeous, and in theory you don't have you get your hands sticky, but if you just put it in your hair with the stick you have to put a lot more on to get the desired effect, and then it just looks greasy.

I also like the bedhead stuff, esp the blue stuff, but I can't remember what it's called. I've nearly finished that one, I don't think that's ever happened before!

I really liked the fudge liquorice stuff.

Am I wierd liking hair products so much?!

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

this is where everyone who knows me starts thinking, if she likes hair products so much why is her hair always boring/crap?......

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate product in hair. I like hair that fingers run through smoothly. Often hair looks much better with product though. Sadness.

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, it's all a big duddo. why put gunk in yr hair?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:06 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh hair putty is great. there is no excuse for using gel these days

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't even use shampoo - there is less hair on my head than my chest, arms or legs, I have a #1 crop (though I am lazy about trimming it regularly), so there's not much there - I just wash my head with soap, same as the rest of me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

short spiky hair on girls = one of the three most classic things in the universe. on boys it is generally a disaster but is k-classic if they are v v gd looking anyway, unless they have so much gel in there that it leaves marks everywhere. yuck.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

also, martin - soap in yr hair? are you crazy??

(i am completely the opposite viz i have shorter than #1 crop which i cut v regularly, yet have getting on for 10 diff types of shampoo; i am seemingly unable to walk into a chemists without buying more.)

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

when I wash my hair I sometimes use conditioner. I like to have fly away hair.

Hair gel is nasty.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i have to use gel to keep my hair from attacking passers-by.

― amy (amy), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

when i useto have hair i used brylcreem.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

What's the problem with soap on my head, Toby? I've not noticed any change in my hair because of this, but I guess it coincided with my getting rid of my very long hair in favour of a crop, so I haven't experienced my hair in anything like the same way anyhow.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 October 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that I have short hair I need product in order to look like something other than a fluffy, red chicken. I went to the supermarket because I wanted cheap product and I was totally overwhelmed!

They had cream, gloss, wax, goo, gum, mud, gel, mousse, putty, and all sorts of other things. I didn't know what to buy. They were all around the same price so that wasn't a good criterion on which to base my decision. Their descriptions were all equally uniformative. I opened their lids but little could be ascertained by looking at them and I didn't want to touch them all. Instead I had to choose by scent. I got the one that smelled the most artificial and toxic.

It's like a hardcore-evil-imitation-raspberry-flavoured "texturising gum".

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 12 October 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but passing strangers might want to lick your head!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Product in my hair = DUD! babyfine hair turns into a sticky uncontrollable ooze. Yuck.

However, I have used Aussie leave in conditioner since the first time I used it, and Dan C6 stuck his nose in my hair, inhaled deeply and went "Your hair smells great... do you use Pantene?" GOON!

― kate, Saturday, 12 October 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

Yesterday, my hairdressers tried to soft sell me some kind of hair slime. You know, it was like slime in a pot for kids. A bit elastic and stringy and mucous. Should I have bought it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't put any shit in my hair since George the Senior was in office. All natural, baby. Course, my hair usu looks like shit, but at least I have the excuse of not trying.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

black and white hair pomade - a cross between lard and vaseline but it makes my hair so luxuriantly soft that i can almost run my fingers through with very little friction now - i also find a lil dab on a monday is still going strong on friday.

― james (james), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

you don't wash your hair the whole week? must be a british thang.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i was somewhat disturbed to find that liquid latex was a part of a friends haircare regimen

― H (Heruy), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:37 (twenty-three years ago)

washing ones hair strips the hair and ultimately will be its undoing - i give my hair a vigourous scrub with water and i wash it approx every other to every other other day - it feels better and is perfectly clean

― james (james), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

bah, the virtue of non hair washing is a big hippie myth. You wash your body / face every day (well most women do at least) and your hair goes the same places as them so it needs regular washing too. Does washing your body also 'strip' it and lead to its undoing? Is the secret of longevity not bathing? eh?

― Emma, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you saying you wash it 'every other to every other other day' with shampoo and the other days with just water. or that you never use shampoo?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:09 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, what is this thing about people washing their hair everyday, do they not know that it's bad for their hair, and inevitably makes the hair shafts produce more oil, as they wash the natural oil that your hair needs to be healthy away everyday.

― maddylonglegs, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i wash it with shampoo but not as often as it states on the bottle - if i did that then i'd be playing in to the shampoo magnets plans

― james (james), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Shampoo bottles don't tell you how often to wash your hair!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

They do usually say 'rinse and repeat' which isn't really necessary, though, 1 shampoo is enough. Unless you are a very dirty person.

― Emma, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It's usually just 'repeat if desired', isn't it? Actually, I have a feeling that many manufacturers have now dispensed with instructions altogether, oblivious to the plight of the millions they have left confused and scared in the shower, banging bottles against their heads and suchlike.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't use "today's man" hair gel anymore. clips keep my hair in place sufficiently. i still wash my hair everyday, with shampoo - i use conditioner once every few months. once went for three months without washing my hair. ick. hair that smells good is where its at.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

ah but N many say mild enough to use everyday - with that type of persuassion who could resist

― james (james), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to wash everyday as my hair goes greasy if not, but I don't agree that everyone needs to wash their hair everyday.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 June 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

In my case with my hair, washing every day is a necessity, otherwise it's a greasy flyaway disaster.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 June 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I dont know how people survive without product. It would look like I had a big poof-ball on my head if it weren't for product. my current favorite is the hair-wax-stick.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.bootblog.com/archives2/images/may02/poof_ball.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 6 June 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I've become a fan of Bumble & Bumble's Sumo Tech pomade stuff. Way too expensive but works perfectly and smells great.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 6 June 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i am Jeff Daniels in Dumb & Dumber without product... I use a leave in conditioner and the Control Freak mentioned above to tame the frizz.

― Aaron A., Friday, 6 June 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

btw Phil, would you model the poof-ball look for us?

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 6 June 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

My hair is really thin and frizzy, so for it to look even halfway decent, I've got to put something in it, even to just make it look natural. And I can't grow my hair out, which sucks. I was the only one of my friends in seventh grade without Kurt Cobain-hair... Luckily, that also makes me the only one without any pictures of me with badly-dyed and greasy Kurt Cobain-hair. Huzzah.

Unfortunately, I get irritated by having anything in my hair, and somehow it never ends up looking right after a few hours (the back and edges get frizzy again).

So, lately, I've just started cutting it all off. Every few weeks I shave it down to a 4, and it doesn't look too bad with my sideburns. Just long enough to avoid the military-look.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I got rid of my hair. Couldn't be buggered.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:49 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

seems like hair product is wayyy less prevalent than it was 20 years ago: t/f?

― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:17 (thirteen years ago)

F imo

1) There are a lot more products that don't have that shiny 'product' look
2) It seems very trendy right now to use stuff that very much has a product look in an old school way, such as pomade or brill creme. This is big both among hipsters and young banker types, at least in NYC.

― why would she write "argh"? (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:26 (thirteen years ago)

i can't really go without it, my hair is too fine and just blows everywhere and looks thin unless i use some kind of thickening hair product.

― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

I started using this stuff recently:

http://www.layrite.com/

mostly because my hair gets ridiculously unruly unless I cut it every few weeks and I am too lazy and cheap to get my hair cut that often. But it kind of tames my thick in-between-wavy-and-curly hair in a way that can look *professional* if needed or more casual if not.

― why would she write "argh"? (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:28 (thirteen years ago)

Also, it looks wet if you apply it wet and dry if you apply it dry, which is kind of neat. I change it up once in a while.

― why would she write "argh"? (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

American Crew - Fiber is the best hair stuff for men.

― GoatEA Sports (It's In The Name) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

oh that stuff is on display where i get my hair cut. first time i saw it i thought of that masculine identity marketing thread (can't remember the title atm)! xxp

― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

i think my radical faerie bear whatever leaning tendencies have led me down a path of productlessness and i'm blind to current hair product trends.

― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 22:33 (thirteen years ago)

Kevin Murphy Night Rider

― mmmm, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 23:08 (thirteen years ago)

Old school "setting lotion" is a big thing with my friends who are in the vintage/retro scenes. You need it for those elaborate wartime/40s/50s hairstyles that are all hardcore curls, shapes and coiffs. I mean these ladies are often at the stylist every week getting their hair set the way my nan used to. Never tried the stuff myself but I get the impresh it makes the hair hold a curl/shape for days.

gels and mousses in the 80s were gross. I like the modern products, I have a spray thing called "root canal" that just helps me bouff up my hair a little. I dont wear product often tho, as it makes my head itch.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:05 (thirteen years ago)

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