did you wear hair gel growing up?

Mint Aero

and do you still have hair?

Me, yes & no. Correlation?

AH?

Ladies, I'm not particularly interested in yer input on this one. You may reply below but please don't answer the poll. I'm gonna have names showing on poll so we all know who the lady messers that can't listen to instructions are.

Also, having an open poll might distort poll results as men might want to pretend and show off to AH that they have hair etc

So in essence, the ladies have already ruined the poll because they won't listen to me

Thanks a bunch :mad:




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Mint Aero

Oh i'm on my phone and it wouldn't let me add a poll.

Thread failed.

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Savage Tyrant

Bet you're pulling your hair out in frustration...

Calibos

Used oodles of the stuff from about 14yo to 25yo. Started electric shaving blade one all over in 1999 ie. the last 15 years without product in hair.

At 41 I've the same hairline as I did at 14 with zero thinning. About 10 grey hairs on each side of my head.

Sorry

No correlation to my mind.

Robsweezie

Mint Aero wrote: »

and do you still have hair?

Me, yes & no. Correlation?

AH?

Ladies, I'm not particularly interested in yer input on this one. You may reply below but please don't answer the poll. I'm gonna have names showing on poll so we all know who the lady messers that can't listen to instructions are.

Also, having an open poll might distort poll results as men might want to pretend and show off to AH that they have hair etc

So in essence, the ladies have already ruined the poll because they won't listen to me


Thanks a bunch :mad:




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inspired/robbed off my fuss thread??? anyway the barbers would ask me if I wanted it after a haircut and 9/10 id say no, always found it very smelly and felt weird when it hardened in your hair. also many kids my age were already wearing it, so I felt like a sheep and it wasn't me. a lot of the time lads who wore it thought they were gods gift to the girls and had a cocky, ''loves himself'' attitude. i never really followed trends, like pokemon cards and Gameboys, so hair gel was not on the agenda. i didn't want to look like i was trying too hard, or make a balls of it and end up getting the piss taken out of me at school.

i used to butt heads with my parents over not wanting my hair a certain way,
they thought it was too plain and had no shape or style to it. my sister was a hairdresser and tried to put gel in several times but i had none of it. i let her do it reluctantly for a wedding once, i still don't remember agreeing to it. it was very much the style back then to ''spike up''.

a couple years ago i tried experimenting with a combover style with a strand of hair coming over the front of my face, i would do it in the mirror just messing around, hoping something sticks. i would wear it at home and if it felt good then debut it in public. a new style is hard because you could head out feeling completely comfortable with it, then someone might pass comment and make you doubt yourself if you haven't a thick skin.

so in short i don't wear gel and never have really, not for long anyway.

Mackman

I'm 30 and still use it. Should I not be?? :eek:

Minderbinder

Mackman wrote: »

I'm 30 and still use it. Should I not be?? :eek:

i don't see a problem with that. it's teenagers who should be banned from using it. heads plastered in the stuff and half the time they just leave it in for a whole week by the looks of them.

jester77

Yes and yes, too much of it. Have to cut it every 4-5 weeks to keep it under control

I sported the Kurt Russell in Tequila Sunrise gelled back hair for a long time... cringe

anncoates

Had a bit of a late 80s Brylcreem habit.

Corvo

Use it everyday (well mostly a clay, not so much a gel) to style it either by spiking it or as is now fashionable, the Joey Barton/Adolf Hitler/Geordie Shore comb over

LDN_Irish

Yes, and yes I still have hair, but I've receded more than the average bloke for my age. Baldness is feckin endemic now though, I work with large groups of men usually in their 30s and over and like 30-40% are bald or seriously balding. I think it's all the contraceptives being pissed in to the water or something.

foggy_lad

Have a friend who still uses it every day and he often uses ky gel whenever he runs out of hair gel! I still have hair all over and hairline has not receded too much.

cloud493

I used to get my hair done in a mohican with hair gel at the hairdressers like Michael Owen, thought I was the coolest kid around :cool:

Been using brylcreem strong gel nearly everyday since I was a child, still use it almost everyday (age 30 now).

Turtyturd

Only used gel occasionally growing up, preferred brylcream/dax.

Used red dax during my teens and early 20's, would hold your hair in place during a hurricane.

Use Fish clay/putty stuff now.

Shenshen

I used to use it to spike my hair up when I was in my 20s.

I've got shoulder-long hair now so don't use it any more.

iDave

Dax Wax :cool:

Junkyard Tom

LARD.

SEPT 23 1989

goose grease

I did but never felt like I was doing it correctly. I still can't style my hair properly the way I want, so I just leave it alone and let it look lifeless and boring.

DublinCJM

Used to use it in my teens and twenties. I've nothing to put it in now

anncoates

anncoates wrote: »

Had a bit of a late 80s Brylcreem habit.

Went well with Lynx Java and a bit of Joop or Fahrenheit.

Boom_Bap

I remember as a youngster using the pound shop green/purple hair gels. Make your hair rock hard and if you touch it, the gel evaporates.

But I've since evolved through waxes, pomades, clays, putties and pastes depending on what type of barnet i'm sporting.

I juggle between a matt paste and matt clay now so I dont have the shinny look but some sort of hold.

fleet_admiral

Used it all the time growing up and still do now at the ripe old age of 34

LDN_Irish

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Went well with Lynx Java and a bit of Joop or Fahrenheit.

I walked past a lad wearing Joop the other day. Smell of 90s off him.

WoollyRedHat

iDave wrote: »

Dax Wax :cool:

I remember trying to get that out in the shower, it was like bloodly glue, awful stuff, oh and the smell eugh.

Mr. CooL ICE

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I remember trying to get that out in the shower, it was like bloodly glue, awful stuff, oh and the smell eugh.

Easy. Put shampoo through your hair before you wet it. Once through, rinse the shampoo out with water and then re-shampoo. Done

WoollyRedHat

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

Easy. Put shampoo through your hair before you wet it. Once through, rinse the shampoo out with water and then re-shampoo. Done

Now you tell me? Where was you when I was young?

Boom_Bap

LDN_Irish wrote: »

I walked past a lad wearing Joop the other day. Smell of 90s off him.

That could have been me
I'm down to a 5 year old Issye Miyake which smells a bit pungent at this stage and half bottle of Joop. So Joop is the only option I have. But it does have some sentimental value to me.

Has anyone tried that dust stuff for your hair? I got it once after getting a chop, it was weirdly great.

5starpool

No, and no.

Yes (sometimes), and no.

Hair gel has nothing to do with hair loss (nor hair spray for that matter; another myth).

Colouring your hair and blow-drying it can potentially damage it, however most hair loss is due completely to genetics, and perhaps diet and lifestyle to a lesser extent.

Source: GQ or one of those lads mags from my last haircut.

LDN_Irish

Boom_Bap wrote: »

That could have been me
I'm down to a 5 year old Issye Miyake which smells a bit pungent at this stage and half bottle of Joop. So Joop is the only option I have. But it does have some sentimental value to me.

I read that Issey Miyake was an aphrodisiac to women and wore it for years after that. I actually got a ride eventually so maybe there's something to it. Joop has sentimental value to me too, I had a bottle in the house that everyone sprayed on themselves every time they came so there was basically an entire housing estate smelling like Joop at one stage. I got a bottle of D&G off someone for Xmas so I smell like I hate IVF babies now.

BeerWolf

I use it lightly to spike up my short hair somewhat.

Hoop66

Mint Aero wrote: »

Did you wear hair gel growing up?

FAAAAAAAAACK OFF.

Mesrine65

No, us punk rockers of old used to use Gloy paper glue for keeping our mohicans up :cool:

efb

No. Sometimes the barber would ask and I'd say yes but not something I'd use myself.

Ruu

Yes.

BeerWolf

Calclor wrote: »

Hair gel should be banned on public transport, greasy gel smudges on the window disgusts me.

That also happens with unwashed greasy hair... so a ban would be pointless, no ?

BetterThanThou

Used hair gel regularly when I was around 8-10, just for the typical spiked up hairstyle that most kids seem to have at some point. Stayed away from all hair products for a few years and began using various styling products again around the age of 16, primarily clay and pomade, has stayed the same to this day, though I'm only 18 so that's not saying much. I'm currently not using any product as I've been keeping my hair down lately, but I'll most likely go back to using pomade soon enough when I grow tired of my current hairstyle. Luckily, neither of my grandfathers, nor my father have experienced any considerable thinning or balding, so hopefully that won't be an issue I have to deal with.

K4t

Red Dax users unite..

Seriously though, the stuff changed my life. Never have less than two cans of it in the house. If you heat it and let it melt slightly you can literally do anything with it. Anything.

Smidge

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Yes (sometimes), and no.

Hair gel has nothing to do with hair loss (nor hair spray for that matter; another myth).

Colouring your hair and blow-drying it can potentially damage it, however most hair loss is due completely to genetics, and perhaps diet and lifestyle to a lesser extent.

Source: GQ or one of those lads mags from my last haircut.

Actually, one of the major causes of hair loss(obv apart from genetic)is a build up on the scalp(sebum, dead skin, product, dirt and grease).
It basically suffocates the scalp and the hair follicle can die, and then baldy baldness.

The other fella

Dapper Dan.

McChubbin

When I had my hair cut short I used this stuff in it. I had hair like Goku for about a year until it eventually got too long to hold the style. Ahh, good times.

efb

so much effort