From bouffants du jour and shampoo secrets of the stars to yesteryear's 'dos and you-know-you-want-it accessories, if it's about hair, you'll find it at the always entertaining
Hair Hall of Fame.
posted by madamjujujive
on Jun 19, 2011 -
6 comments
Hanoi Rocks, Helsinki 1981. A year when they played 102 gigs, almost all in small dance halls deep in Finland. They were ready, even if their audience wasn't.
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For british drummer Razzle, they
looked like a band which he wanted to belong to.
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In next few years they caused chaos in Bombay, got spitted upon at Wailing Wall in Jerusalem because of indecent make up and hair, went big in Japan and had
good gigs in London.
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November 1984, they were ready to conquer America. After Mike twisted his ankle on a bottle broken by Andy on stage in Syracuse, a few gigs got cancelled and instead the band accepted invitation from L.A. scene to party with Mötley Crüe. In December 9th, 1984, the party ran out of alcohol, so Vince Neil from Mötley Crüe and the drummer Razzle went to get more. The car crashed, immediatly killing Razzle. He was
Dead by Christmas, and the band broke in May 1985.
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posted by Free word order!
on Dec 6, 2009 -
11 comments
Finally, you can test the 'blondes have more fun' theory completely.
Hair color for your "betty".
posted by graventy
on Nov 4, 2006 -
70 comments
October 1 through till October 8 is
National Trichotillomannia Awareness Week. What is Trichotillomania
^ (or Trich, for short), you ask? Put simply, Trich is a compulsive hair pulling disorder that causes people to pull out their own hair from the scalp, eyebrows or pretty much anywhere on the body. Because they often pull repeatedly from the same spots, they may develop bald spots that are difficult to disguise and which sufferers are often very ashamed of. Sometimes they may even injest the hair, which is
sometimes fatal. It is unknown exactly how many people suffer from it, but it is known that the vast
majority of those afflicted are female. But for those few people who suffer with it,
help is at hand! There's a
documentary about it which you can watch,
a website devoted to helping people learn how to deal with it,
blogs and even an
anonymous AskMe question. For those interested in learning more about what National Tricotillomannia Week entails,
check out this page.
posted by Effigy2000
on Oct 1, 2006 -
30 comments
Body, volume, style and shine with long-lasting power.
Clonycavan Styling Gel, along with mummification in Irish peat, works together with your freshly disemboweled corpse to protect hair from the disruptive power of 2000 years of rigor-mortis.
posted by 0bvious
on Jan 17, 2006 -
14 comments
Biggest Hair in Sports. Ever. Australia and New Zealand recently played a
Twenty20 cricket match in Auckland - the first time this shortened version of the game (it
only take four hours to play) has been played in New Zealand.
To celebrate the occasion, the New Zealand team (for some unknown reason) spent the weeks before the game going retro: growing 70s style moustaches and sideburns, and wore their much-maligned beige uniforms that the one day team used to wear in the 80s. When the
team took to the pitch in front of a capacity stadium, the crowd was suitably rapturous in their appreciation of the
efforts made.
Has
a bigger mop of hair ever taken to a field or court in a professional sport, anywhere, ever?
posted by noizyboy
on Feb 24, 2005 -
55 comments
Chemical heads Your hair is drab. Dull. Needs more volume. Needs less frizz. It needs something. Maybe it needs
cetyl alcohol. Mixed with a dash of
propylene glycol, and how about a little
butane, or
acrylamide?
Once upon a time, people lathered, rinsed, never repeated, and went on their merry bad-hair days. Then, science and chemistry specialized the way folks condition and shine.
Companies began creating new compounds so they could design products for specific hair types. Now,
some consumer groups worry about the mix of chemicals: they point to incomplete labeling and little government oversight of the cosmetics and hair industry, accusations the
Food and Drug Administration does not deny.
"The FDA needs to define what is safe to put in these products, and come up with standards," says Tim Kropp, a senior scientist with the
Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit consumer organization in Washington that helped produce a study on problem ingredients in everyday products. "
There are no safety standards in place."
(to access main link, a little help from BugMeNot).
More inside.
posted by matteo
on Oct 4, 2004 -
18 comments
London's Natural History Museum's subsite on
Hair has some interesting movies and games.
posted by dobbs
on Sep 3, 2004 -
3 comments
