did you wear hair gel growing up?

Mint Aero · 14-04-2015 03:45AM #1

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:

:mad:

Mint Aero · 14-04-2015 03:46AM

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

Thread failed.

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Savage Tyrant · 14-04-2015 03:53AM

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

Calibos · 14-04-2015 04:04AM

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 · 14-04-2015 04:28AM

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:

:mad:

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 · 14-04-2015 04:41AM

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

Minderbinder · 14-04-2015 05:10AM

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 · 14-04-2015 08:40AM

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 · 14-04-2015 08:46AM

Had a bit of a late 80s Brylcreem habit.

Corvo · 14-04-2015 08:54AM

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 · 14-04-2015 08:54AM

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 · 14-04-2015 08:59AM

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 · 14-04-2015 09:03AM

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:

14-04-2015 09:13AM

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

Turtyturd · 14-04-2015 09:21AM

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 · 14-04-2015 09:22AM

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 · 14-04-2015 09:23AM

Dax Wax :cool:

Junkyard Tom · 14-04-2015 09:32AM

LARD.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-04-2015 09:34AM

goose grease

14-04-2015 09:46AM

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 · 14-04-2015 09:52AM

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

14-04-2015 10:12AM

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 · 14-04-2015 10:17AM

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 · 14-04-2015 10:31AM

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

LDN_Irish · 14-04-2015 10:35AM

[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 · 14-04-2015 10:39AM

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 · 14-04-2015 10:43AM

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 · 14-04-2015 10:48AM

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 · 14-04-2015 10:49AM

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 · 14-04-2015 11:36AM

No, and no.

14-04-2015 11:41AM

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.

did you wear hair gel growing up?

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