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’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.
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
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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
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.
The 6-in-1 products are great overall but mine struggles with thicker carpet. YMMV
The 7 in 1 product mentions “shag”.
They don’t mean the floor kinda carpet 😎
Now I don’t know whether you’re making a joke about a thick bush or a fursuit.
“yes”
Do they mean the kind that matches the drapes?
tbh I don’t think men generally have better hair
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)
Speak for yourself. I have 3mm of sheer perfection
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.
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.
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.
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are there 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
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Pointlessly gendered
Meme or shampoo
Both
People.
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 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.
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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-my neighbor who is into essential oils
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Are you suggesting that 6-in-one product has fewer chemicals?
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My hippie neighbor who uses his own piss twice a week. For real. His beard looks lavish.
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I’ve heard it’s good for your skin, too. Supposedly, pregnant women’s urine is the best.
shampoo is bad for your head
only using a no wax high protein conditioner scrubbing your scalp then scrubby/combed out rinse will change your hair for the better in two weeks.
all the pollution, sweat, salt, urea, and dead skin rinse out with the conditioner. the oil left on your hair will give your hair body and curl.
for reals.
Also don’t shampoo every day if you’re going to, do it once or twice a week depending on sebum production.
Oh god, the high protein fad is even making its way into hair care! Ruuuun!
Men’s shampoo: is this for dry or oily hair?
Yes
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.
I think women’s shampoo does a better job personally, I like the smell more roo
I’ve been washing my face with shampoo since I saw a meme about it and it’s been fine. I actually got complimented on my skin.
