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heya

just one of them sporadic, random and whimsical posts on the off chance anyone is even remotely interested in my concerns for quasi hygiene but more style. i would not reasonably expect anyone to hold all that much fascination in such, look you see, but the abstract mechanisms of time have deftly defined how usually i should not be trusted to gauge what may or may not be popular. 

for no apparent reason, then, i find myself at one of those stages where i am all of a sudden quite interested in how my hair looks. normally, usually, just however it turns out after a shower and a rudimentary seeing to with a towel is what does me. but, every so often, i feel compelled to in some way "style" it, or have a go at making it loom somewhere approaching styled. 

this means, or requires, the use of certain things, or "product". i would really, really like to use one of them aerosol can hairspray things, because Sigue Sigue Sputnik were shown using one in a video (i believe Love Missile F1-11). but, despite every (marginal) effort to do so, i am simply not as cool as Sigue Sigue Sputnink, and anyway it looks rather a faff. so, gel it is, then. 

should it be so that you were wondering (or had any concerns about) what gel it is i am using, then there you go, the picture above shows the two (2) most recent ones used. and yes, of course, presented in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode. such a view shall catch on, one day. 

whilst my finger is far removed from the pulse of what is hip and what is trendy, i am at the least aware of that "VO5" (no, no clue what it all stands for) is a well known brand for all that hair stuff. kind of, i guess. i mean, i have heard of it, so it must have some kind of reach as a name in the field. not vidal sassoon, or however you spell it, but still. anyhow, it was on special at some supermarket or other, so i got it. 

it was more or less satisfactory in giving my hair some sort of "style", or concept. more or less. not sure how, exactly, the "wet look" is supposed to appear. overall i was rather more bothered that it did what i wished, which was keep my hair in a sort of 'place' that i wished. brushed back, i suppose, as a quasi tribute to Bowie of Station To Station. this it did, bar an annoying streak or patch of my hair, to the left on my head, which always seems eager to stand up and not back. 

one or two of my contemporaries, being verk colleagues, had taken the time to complement me on the efforts made with respect to my hair. it was suggested that i keep it so, and also from time to time i have been awarded a new nickname with the appearance, "slick rick" no less. which is lovely, and i guess works on numerous levels that i am simply not intelligent enough to understand or fully comprehend. 

as it happens, the other gel pictured, 'shockwaves' by whoever makes it, is a favourite. not only does it hold my hair as i wish it, for a long time (as in i wake with it still styled, like i suppose how i imagine one of them "perm" things what were so popular with ladies in the 80s) and splendidly so. most importantly, this one, the shockwaves one, is slightly cheaper than the other. very much a plus is how either get manages to disguise, or distract from, the grey nature of my hair. 

not really much else to add on the subject, except an ardent fascination with the wording. all of these gel products appear to stress how they offer an "extreme" or "ultra" or "mega" ability to style and hold hair in place as desired. well, yeah, isn't that why they are purchased? i mean, just what sort of market is there out there for a gel which promotes itself as saying that it will not let you style your hair as you want, or hold it in place for particularly long? 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!