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    13 days ago

    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.

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      9 days ago

      Also, testosterone helps maintain your hair looking nice, at least until your body says “I’ve had enough” and it makes your hair thin and fall.

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      12 days ago

      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.

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        11 days ago

        I literally do not even use any soap. I just comb my hair under running warm water from the showerhead once a week and it’s the healthiest it’s been and looked since I finished puberty

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    13 days ago

    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.

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        13 days ago

        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)

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    13 days ago

    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!

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      13 days ago

      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?

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        12 days ago

        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

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          11 days ago

          I should’ve known they were up to their old tricks again! Is this coming from their frog division or their unicorn brigade? I suspect chicken man is the ring-leader!

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      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”.

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        12 days ago

        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.

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            13 days ago

            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.

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              13 days ago

              The source is key here, especially the pathway for obtaining said chemical. The biological pathway a human used to source ammonia is natural.

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                13 days ago

                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.

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          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).

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    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.

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    I’m sorry, but men’s 6 in 1 soap sucks ass. The moment I tried shampoo and conditioner for women, my (at the time short) hair got way better and I never looked back. Now that I have long hair I’m not even going to consider washing with the hair destroyer 2000 again. The image is wrong, the “conditional soap” is way better because it’s not just soap.

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    Itt: people missing the joke conditioner/conditional. It’s not that good, but nothing to get mad over either

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    I’m pretty sure how well your hair looks (or really, how well you look overall) has more to do with your physical and (importantly) mental health than with what shampoo you’re using.

    It’s just that in the US specifically, the extremely poor mental health of many women has been so normalized that we don’t even perceive it as such anymore. It’s just that society treats women so absurdly badly, it’s not even something i can put into words anymore. And that shows.

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      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.

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    13 days ago

    I have a ton of hair so I’ve tried a ton of different products and types. I found the $10 highly moisturizing stuff to be the most effective. It also lasts a while because it’s not super watery. The dish detergent quality stuff makes my hair brittle and fall out. Which is pretty inconvenient since it’s about 2ft long at this point.