When your hair is short, you can wash it with Gatorade and it’ll look acceptable. The longer it is, the more you have to maintain it. I’m a guy who grew his hair out.
i have really long hair for a dude (longer than my back), and wsash my hair nearly once a week, with whatever soap or shampoo i can find (i have washed my hair with dish soap previosly).
Imo the only thing that matters is do not let your hair get dirty (tie in a bun for example) and you are mostly good to go.
I’m a long haired freaky people and have been for almost 40 years but I found my hair is healthier if I rinse it regularly, wash it once or twice a month and condition it at the same time.
I use Nizoral AD (some almost medicated antindandruff thing) and Head and shoulders conditioner twice a month at most.
I still have my long luxurious hippy hair and I’m told there is no recession yet so I got that going for me.
As another middle-aged long hair guy who has been approached numerous times by women asking about my haircare routine, I think there are multiple components to this:
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Hair is most definitely affected by hormones, multiple women told me that their hair becomes straw-like during periods or how they lost a lot of hair after pregnancy and I was like sorry can’t relate 😅 I honestly believe if more men didn’t cut their hair short they’d be generally better looking than women’s, well, until they start balding.
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Some kind of pink tax or whatever. Every shampoo that I tried in a cute semi-transparent colored bottle that boasted some bullshit like lavender extract, durian aroma, ginkgo biloba seeds and such, has always destroyed my hair and took months to recover. Cheap shampoos in plain-ish looking packaging(pantene, head&shoulders, syoss) have worked well for me, with no noticeable difference from the fancy 5x pricier shampoos that my girlfriend has forced me to try. My cousin even uses plain soda bar and his hair is looking even better than mine.
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Less is more. It seems like every other woman I know are constantly fucking with their hair all the time. Wash two times a day, apply conditioner, then another conditioner, then a spray, and serum, a gel, and mousse, add perfume on top, mix a whole chemical lab on top of their head, then curl them, then straighten them back up, apply a different tightly knit hairstyle every day, then cut them short because of a break up, then color them, then bleach and color them again into another color, then cut them with a guillotine because that’s the trend nowadays, then straight up rip chunks of them out because of stress. Like girl, all you need is to fuck off your hair and just wash them once every 3-5 days, and only rinse on others. Then just let the nature do it’s thing, and if it doesn’t, you need to pay a visit to a trichologist, dermatologist and probably also gastroenterologist and therapist, not yet another bottle on the shelf.
Pro tip:
Washing: plain soap (organic/homemade soap is best, not that fancy scented/blended and chemically treated expensive shit). Rationale: plain soap doesn’t have additives (or herbal ones you can control/choose), any chemically treated (and factory made) product will have impurities and other random shit mixed in if they mix products on the assembly lines. (Happens all the time even in medicine!), the “advanced” shampoos are an excellent example: low volume/shared production lines. The contamination that makes chemistry teachers weep and build fly swatters from random equipment. And that’s why cheap products made in high volumes are more effective: minimal unintended chemical interactions because of dedicated assembly.
Moisturising/conditioning/whatever: a light application of natural Shea butter , and one absolute drench once every week or two. The drenching treatment is recommended for the first time though. Rationale: same as the above, plus: Shea butter is what most “good” cosmetics use to begin with (although they most likely synthesise the fatty acids industrially to cut on costs, not sure tbh), but the point is that it has nearly everything your body needs to build healthy hair (though not only for hair, it’s also great for skin care!)
If you try this, you’ll see immediate results after drying, but see the full effect after an entire week of doing it daily. You can thank me then! :P
Also don’t overdo it! Once a day/every two days is good enough.
Rationale: Over-washing/conditioning is terrible for the follicles/scalp in the long term because it prevents your body from building up the natural oils/chemicals it needs to defend you from parasites and microbes that do the damage in the first place! The soap acts like a “reset” button that takes away all the byproducts/dead microbes/skin piling up due to its dual hydrophilic/lipophilic nature that sticks to anything it can bond with, and the Shea butter moisturisation step acts like a temporary replacement for the natural oils you lose in the washing AND gives the body some much needed nourishment/material it can immediately use to rebuild while being absorbed through the skin.
Disclaimer: this is just an informed analysis/observation from empirical evidence, and it is not based on any actual formalised research that I’ve read or studied. (Which might actually exist, dunno because I have an allergy to academia as it currently stands)
You can rinse your hair with water as much as you goddamn like. Once a week, three times a day, doesn’t matter. It’s not going to ruin your hair.
But add shampoo or conditioner and you need to be wayyyy more careful what you’re doing. Now you’re messing with your head’s natural oils and it can quickly spiral out of control.
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I don’t necessarily mean more maintenance as in more washing/conditioning. I mean that you have to more carefully consider what your hair needs. You actually need to wash your hair more often with short hair since the grease has less room to spread out. When I was growing my hair out, I knew I didn’t want to look like the long-haired metal-head with a big frizzy mess. I gradually started washing it less and conditioning it more. Now I don’t condition but I oil it after washing. That seems to keep the split ends at bay and give some nice locks without too much greasiness. If I still washed it every time I showered like I did with short hair, it would look like brittle shit.
Yes this is true. You still have to do the maintenance. I do have to brush it twice a day, and the lady taught me the virtue of brushing it from the bottom up so I got that going for me. My hair is the longest it’s been since I started brushing it correctly 😅
👀 brushing from the bottom up, you say.
This is a thing i learned having girl kids. They still mean you brush away from your scalp, but start at the bottom.
Go a few inches up from the tip and brush down. When thats done, move up again, repeat.
This gets the knots out of your hair instead of pushing them down then giving you a massive rats nest at the tip of your hair. It really does make the process so much easier and my kids complain so much less
That makes so much sense I’m mad I didn’t think of it first. I’m so used to brushing a juicy knot into my hair and picking it apart for a minute.
Good way to avoid getting bit by your dog too
my hair is healthier
There’s no such thing as healthy hair, it’s only dead cells. That’s why ads always say they make your hair “healthy-looking.”
You can keep it looking nicer, though.
There is such thing as healthy skin though. A lot of products will strip the bejesus out of your scalp and cause either dry or oily skin up there
But the real question is: did you apply?
The 6-in-1 products are great overall but mine struggles with thicker carpet. YMMV
The 7 in 1 product mentions “shag”.
So you can use it as lube?
Anything is a lube if you’re brave enough.
My 8-1 has menthol in it. Do not recommend for lube.
Chilly Willy
Is that the one that can be used as toothpaste as well?
They don’t mean the floor kinda carpet 😎
Do they mean the kind that matches the drapes?
Now I don’t know whether you’re making a joke about a thick bush or a fursuit.
“yes”
tbh I don’t think men generally have better hair
Speak for yourself. I have 3mm of sheer perfection
Last inch of mine look like a 5 year old toothbrush with Y shaped ends.
I don’t have a better description for that.Those are called split ends. If you have a lot of them, it’s best to get a trim (just enough to snip off the split ends) and then try to figure out what is causing them.
You can’t repair them. You can only get rid of them and then avoid them. Or keep getting maintenance trims.
With split ends trimming = longer hair over time.
Source: I had them so bad for years that my hair would break off and not get any longer looking. For me, it was too much heat (hair dryer and curling iron every day)
Also the specialized shampoo is 15.99, the 17-in-1 everything-soap is 1.19.
But the specialized shampoo is pink, so that you know that’s the one you’re supposed to buy.
I use the same soap for washing my floors as for washing me. However I don’t use it’s toothpaste function. Dr Brokers is amazing.
Bronners
Itt: people missing the joke conditioner/conditional. It’s not that good, but nothing to get mad over either
But the hair length of a lioness and lion vs female human and male human is inverse…
I’m beginning to think this meme is just supposed to be humorous!
What? Someone is going on the internet and telling jokes? How is this allowed?
What is their agenda? Which nefarious shadowy group are the promoting by doing this?
antifa high command sent orders to post this at 12:23 zulu time. They’re promoting folicularly talented individuals to use their locks to undermine durr furrhurr’s comb-over conspiracy
Assuming there’s any truth to that, why wouldn’t women just use the 6 in 1 shampoo?
…And man-pants with pockets, while we’re on the topic. I suppose there might be issues in the hip-department there, though.
It’s nonsense, and men with longer hair who use 6 in 1 have bad results. Longer hair takes more treatment, hair is usually vitalized by oils from the scalp, so the further away from the scalp the more help it needs to stay healthy.
I think it’s not so much the shampoo but a mix of most men using shorter haircuts and doing less damaging things to their hair, like hair colouring.
And it’s not like there aren’t specialized shampoos targeting primarily men. I think I never saw a dandruff shampoo marketed towards women.
Huh. Is dandruff not a thing that happens to women? I wouldn’t know.
From what I could find, men are more likely to suffer from dandruff than women, so even though women can suffer from dandruff it makes sense from a marketing perspective to focus mostly on men, especially since men are still thought that anything even cosmetics adjacent is not manly.
Its my understanding it does, but is generally far less noticeable (gets caught and held in hair, then washed out when bathing) but is usually cared for / treated by using proper hair products.
For the pants, it’s partly the hip/waist ratio and partly the extra bunchy fabric in the crotch region.
Almost everything on the market is shit and will destroy your hair. That includes the 6 in 1 shampoo, men just usually have less hair.
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Some already do.
And man pants aren’t that big of a hurdle to get used to. Just need to take measurements of waistband and inseam and you’ve got the size to look for in mens pants. Thats what I like about them: they have much better sizing labels than the nebulous/arbitrary size numbers on women’s pants.
Whatever works, right? Right now I’m wearing this really nice pair of sturdy heavy-duty felt-lined jeans from Duluth Trading Company which are supposedly made for women (albeit with perfectly nice pockets) - not that I care one whit. They fit perfectly, and are generally lovely.
When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.
Hip stuff only matters if you’re trying to have form fitting clothing. It sucks for women, but at the same time you’re not required to buy that crap. Be comfortable.
are they even form fitting clothes for man? I just buy the cheapest man pants that are baggy, fit me, is compatible with belts and is made with 100% cotton
I don’t know. I also just buy for comfort/utility. I ain’t no fashion model.
It’s so weird, I’ve tried various shampoos and conditioners of every type and my hair just seems happiest with the cheapest shampoo I can find with absolutely no conditioner. With anything else I wind up with horible dandruff, hair which gets greasy within 6 hours of taking a shower, or hair which dries out so bad it looks like I got the worlds shittiest perm. But as long as I use some cheap ass generic mens shampoo that’s scented like a verb then my hair is fine.
Your hair might be addicted to whatever forever chemicals the dollar tree shampoo is made of
the secret might be not pumping you hair full of chemicals?
-my neighbor who is into essential oils
i think your neighbor might be onto something (essential oils notwithstanding)
Are you suggesting that 6-in-one product has fewer chemicals?
no
So no washing your hair at all?
Or is there some whitelist of allowed chemicals? I assume at least water, but hopefully some kind of surfactant, too?
And no, I’m not being obtuse, I genuinely never know what people mean when they say things like this. Same as eating “clean”. It usually seems to be “clean means food that seems intuitively healthy to me” and “chemicals are things that seem intuitively scary to me”.
water + soap or the simplest shampoo is what i go for, depending on if i have a buzzcut or long hair. i don’t dye it either.
My hippie neighbor who uses his own piss twice a week. For real. His beard looks lavish.
Fun fact though, pee is composed almost entirely of chemicals.
Almost?
Edit: ah. Nevermind :)
Naturally sources.
That’s the thing about chemicals, though. Ammonia from a penis is the exact same thing as ammonia from a factory. Despite what homeopaths would say, molecules don’t have a memory of where they’ve been. I suppose I can see an argument around sourcing chemicals from sources that minimize environmental harm.
The source is key here, especially the pathway for obtaining said chemical. The biological pathway a human used to source ammonia is natural.
Is the concern the additional chemicals that it may be mixed with due to the method of production? Because ammonia is ammonia is ammonia, regardless of source.
i keep hearing urea is good for a bunch of things but i’m not that brave.
It may be. But it’s not insanely complicated to synthesize NH₂CONH₂, and it’ll be far more pure than getting it from an animal’s waste. You just need ammonia, carbon dioxide, and some equipment (and know how to use said equipment without exploding things, so best to outsource the production).
I’ve heard it’s good for your skin, too. Supposedly, pregnant women’s urine is the best.
The trick for everyone, use the cheapest shampoo you are comfortable using. Spend the time and money to find a good conditioner for your hair and scalp type. I need antidandruff shampoo and use a light leave in conditioner. You’d think it used $40 products from the salon.
Men’s shampoo: is this for dry or oily hair?
Yes
Pointlessly gendered
Meme or shampoo
People.
Both
skill issue
I think women’s shampoo does a better job personally, I like the smell more roo
I prefer the smell of Kanga, but maybe I’m just older.
I wanna see a girl use guy shampoo and tell us if it works better
I had to do it after Burning Man cause that’s all the gas station had. Granted, my hair was dirty with mud and unwashed for a week, but still.
It was a horrible mess. The 2-in-1 product didn’t do either job well - washing or conditioning. My long gorgeous hair turned into near dreads and felt so nasty. Never again.
