AndrewDoesHair
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Sorry, I keep posting about this on the official hair thread, and it keeps getting lost in the pages of people asking the exact same questions over and over, so now it gets it's own thread. I promise I'm not trying to sell you anything, just change the way you think. I've been a hairdresser for 10 years, and have strictly worked on men's hairstyles for most of those years, and today I have become one of the most followed hairstylists on instagram (I know, instafame is worthless, but it hopefully gives me enough credibility here for you to hear me out so I can help you) most probably through the tips I've been sharing there and through videos, both on my website and youtube... The bottom line is that the change you guys are seeking through the comments on the official hair thread will never ever come from a product.
Let's talk about what hair product does, if you don't mind. Say your hair is standing up where you want it to lay down, and at the same time it is laying flat where you want it to stand up. by the time a product is heavy enough and strong enough to hold up the limp hair and hold down the rigid hair, it is also heavy enough to look like you have a heavy product in your hair. But the Justin timberlake (or who the hell ever) hairstyle is soft and natural looking, it does what he wants and it doesn't look heavy, shiny, or sticky. In fact it looks downright moveable, and natural. He just must have good hair, naturally...
You have good hair, too, you just don't have a good relationship with it yet. This is what has happened to us poor men: once society said we were allowed to openly strive for good hair, a million product companies came out and tried to capitalize on our newfound freedom. They sold products with promises, and we bought them up. So we believe that for the right dollar amount, if we dig and look hard enough, ask enough people on Styleforum to confirm on the brand, we can find something in that jar to give us hair like we've never had before, but every time we fight our hair's STUPID ANNOYING natural tendencies, the hair either wins, or the product looks heavy, greasy, shiny, crunchy, or wet. And so we keep looking. The people who enjoyed this product while I didn't, they must have good hair, naturally...
This is what I propose to you: Don't fight what your hair wants to do, using products, change what it wants to do, using a blow dryer and/or flat iron, and then use your product to work WITH what your hair is now wanting to do, instead of using it to fight against what your hair wants to do. Limp hair can be given volume, coarse hair can be made to lay down, curly hair can be pulled straight, and then after any and all of these things have been done, a product of any kind can be used to give you whatever finish you want, from light and natural, to heavy and shiny. But the difference is that hair which has been blow dried up will want to continue to stand up all day long, while hair that has only been glued up with product will be fighting to fall back down the whole day. Hair that has been bow dried back will want to return to that direction after your hair has been tussled by the wind, but hair that was only glued back with a heavy pomade will spend the whole day dreaming about when it can lay forward again. By using the proper tools and methods to change what your hair wants to do, you can have good hair.
Here, watch this to see me doing all this stuff...
Let's talk about what hair product does, if you don't mind. Say your hair is standing up where you want it to lay down, and at the same time it is laying flat where you want it to stand up. by the time a product is heavy enough and strong enough to hold up the limp hair and hold down the rigid hair, it is also heavy enough to look like you have a heavy product in your hair. But the Justin timberlake (or who the hell ever) hairstyle is soft and natural looking, it does what he wants and it doesn't look heavy, shiny, or sticky. In fact it looks downright moveable, and natural. He just must have good hair, naturally...
You have good hair, too, you just don't have a good relationship with it yet. This is what has happened to us poor men: once society said we were allowed to openly strive for good hair, a million product companies came out and tried to capitalize on our newfound freedom. They sold products with promises, and we bought them up. So we believe that for the right dollar amount, if we dig and look hard enough, ask enough people on Styleforum to confirm on the brand, we can find something in that jar to give us hair like we've never had before, but every time we fight our hair's STUPID ANNOYING natural tendencies, the hair either wins, or the product looks heavy, greasy, shiny, crunchy, or wet. And so we keep looking. The people who enjoyed this product while I didn't, they must have good hair, naturally...
This is what I propose to you: Don't fight what your hair wants to do, using products, change what it wants to do, using a blow dryer and/or flat iron, and then use your product to work WITH what your hair is now wanting to do, instead of using it to fight against what your hair wants to do. Limp hair can be given volume, coarse hair can be made to lay down, curly hair can be pulled straight, and then after any and all of these things have been done, a product of any kind can be used to give you whatever finish you want, from light and natural, to heavy and shiny. But the difference is that hair which has been blow dried up will want to continue to stand up all day long, while hair that has only been glued up with product will be fighting to fall back down the whole day. Hair that has been bow dried back will want to return to that direction after your hair has been tussled by the wind, but hair that was only glued back with a heavy pomade will spend the whole day dreaming about when it can lay forward again. By using the proper tools and methods to change what your hair wants to do, you can have good hair.
Here, watch this to see me doing all this stuff...
