Reader Pete J. suggests that the “singed look” could be the next big thing in hairstyling. It’s just so stupid I could see it catching on. (Although this video is clearly all a lark.)
I’ve burnt my hair a few times. It pretty much balls up on the ends and those go away after a few […]

Every once in a while it’s good to go back in time and do things the way your great great great great grandparents did things. Cutting down a tree with an axe instead of a chainsaw, taking the stairs up six flights instead of the elevator, brushing your teeth with salt and baking soda on […]

Hey, I’m sure we have ideas that are both snappy and crappy, but I thought that the Barbershopped idea was a born hit. We went first, and a few of you came up with some fun stuff.
But where were you when we needed your mugshots? I’ll tell you where — you were too busy […]

For the better part of the last hundred years, the only way it was acceptable for men to color their hair was with some male-oriented product like Grecian Formula, which gradually tinted your gray hair darker, resulting in a more vouthful and virile appearance in the office amongst the brass. The only men who […]

Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin, and Orson Welles acting fey in a salon, taking easy cracks at women, outing Popular Mechanics as an homo-erotic rag, and a porcine Welles stumbling though a soft shoe that threatens to cave in the floor—this is the television we gave up for American Idol. (I want both!)
Nice find, Brownlee.

I’ve noted here before that I have been an amateur, unliscensed hairdresser for more than twenty years. I’ll do it at my place or at friends’ places, I’ve done it in bars, in the desert, even once in a moving vehicle. Unfortunately, I’ll never get to do it on a plane. Alas. In recent […]

Magic Move: The secret of Hollywood hairdressers, this stuff comes from the land of all things technologically superior, Japan. Essentially, it’s a tub of goop that adds body and control to the hair with “thready organic fibers”. It is not subject to humidity, and thus can be screwed with several times a day for […]

Brilliantine: A close cousin of the pomade family, only more oil-based and lightweight. It is heralded for adding luster and body without adding excessive buildup. The cache here is that your grandfathers probably used it, so there’s the cool old boy factor built in, even if you’re using Bumble and bumble’s instead of the thicker […]

Hairspray: In a nutshell, it’s aerosol-delivered glue, seldom used for anything other than sealing in a perfect style achieved with other products. If you sweat with this on your hair, and it runs in your eyes – and it will – life can suck. Nevertheless, it’s available in a wide variety of strengths, from light […]

Styling Wax: Some of the easiest stuff to use, great with short hair. Often comes in a tub, and the rule of thumb is, if you have

According to an unnamed study quoted by a couple of news outlets, I have learned two things: Elvis Presley’s hairstyle has been voted “most iconic” of all time; People in the UK call Elvis’s hairstyle a “quiff.” (From “coif,” I wonder?)
Other iconic hairstyles from this apocryphal list, from second place to fifth? Elvis Presley, Marilyn […]