Comment on Anon gets dommed by his barber
PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I swear someone needs to teach young men about pomade, hair gel, mousse, just anything at all about how to style and texture your hair. I guarantee the guy in the left pic doesn’t look like that when he rolls out of bed, and if you want your hair to look like his, you’ll need similar amounts of styling and product.
i thought i was doomed to always have bad hair aside from maybe one or two days a month when they decided to look nice
gels never worked, neither did pomades (curly hair) but then i discovered hair modelling clay, and now i can have a nice hair whenever i want :)
Same issue, pomade was the fix for me (wavy hair), until then I always just lived with my hair looking like shit until it reached the perfect balance of “unwashed enough to have some weight and texture on it, clean or dry shampooed enough to not look super unwashed”.
Yes, clay for curly hair! My stylist introduced me to that and now I realize it’s half the battle. L’Oréal shit I use is expensive at $23, but it lasts awhile and the results lead to regular compliments.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re not at all wrong with the first part.
But I can tell you with hair like that, you can actually just roll out of bed and have it look good. But that presupposes you’ve actually taken care of the hair and that it’s cut well.
Definitely wasn’t a great stylist if that’s how unevenly they cut the front, but also that dudes hair is kinda dry, so perhaps with product he could make it look better.
I had horrible problems with a frizzy mess of hair until started using a leave in conditioner spray and a bit of hair oil. I also sleep with a silk bonnet. But yeah, when there’s a suitable amount of both, the next day I’ll just wake up and slightly brush it and it looks great. Whereas last year I couldn’t even get a brush through it. And if I don’t wear the bonnet I don’t need to brush even, as it squishes the hair a bit.
If I style it I use a tiny bit pomade, but like a really soft one. Almost like a cream.
But yeah you’re definitely right that someone should teach men about hair care. I’m still just learning but my hair is already much better. Just would’ve enjoyed knowing these things in my 20’s for a gorgeous mane. I don’t have male pattern baldness in my family really but it does thin a bit.