[FM] 38 - Arch Enemy
Hair products.
They seem innocent. Small bottles and tubes of various goops and gels, and the occasional spray. Harmless, well for the most part. Aside from the usual warnings, like not to put it in your eyes, and to remember to wash your hair after using it all, it's still supposed to be harmless.
Oh, but they lie. They lie with their advertising and their pictures of perfectly styled heads of hair. They make it sound easy, simple even. A dime sized amount in the palm off your hand and instant sex appeal. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
Here's the problem. Dime sized? Never looks like enough. So you compensate, and that usually means that after the actual styling has started? There is no going back. You know the saying you can always add but you can't take away? THAT should be on the bottle. They should say, "Squeeze a dime sized amount into the palm of your hand, and don't sit there telling me it's not enough, because if you need more ADD more, don't try to wash it out in the middle." That would be a good warning label.
So it takes you a few tries to get the styling right, because you've tried a few variations with less than stellar results, and now that you've got the hang of it you've decided that this? This is the style for you. You don't care what fashion trends come or go, because the hair looks good and even if it's not good in a few years, it doesn't matter. You know this style. You have perfected it.
Here's where they get you though. Hair products? Those goops and gels and sprays? They get discontinued, they get replaced by something different. When was the last time you say a bottle of spray mousse? See? That's EXACTLY my point. You get used to using something and then suddenly you aren't using hair gel, you are using something called "Stand Up" with an exclaimatory mark behind the whole name. The little jar of pomade that you never said you'd use again isn't even that anymore. It's hair putty, or tacky, or stiffener.
The labels change, the bottles change and even the problems that you thought you had worked out? The cowlick that you have at the front or the little part at the top that won't exactly lay flat when you want it to? All those problems rear their ugly head and make you start all over again.
Then you repeat it all and say, "This is the style for me."
It'll all change though, and you know it. One day you'll hear that gross sound as you squeeze the Gel, or the Tacky or whatever crazy name they put to it, and you'll have to take a trip to Target only to find that they've improved it, which will cause you to try and have to improve your style.
I swear I don't know how Angel gets away with it. It could be the two hundred odd years of experience, or we could go with my other theory that he just has an entire closet just full of a suppliers worth of whatever product he got used to. After all a dime sized amount is all you need.
They seem innocent. Small bottles and tubes of various goops and gels, and the occasional spray. Harmless, well for the most part. Aside from the usual warnings, like not to put it in your eyes, and to remember to wash your hair after using it all, it's still supposed to be harmless.
Oh, but they lie. They lie with their advertising and their pictures of perfectly styled heads of hair. They make it sound easy, simple even. A dime sized amount in the palm off your hand and instant sex appeal. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
Here's the problem. Dime sized? Never looks like enough. So you compensate, and that usually means that after the actual styling has started? There is no going back. You know the saying you can always add but you can't take away? THAT should be on the bottle. They should say, "Squeeze a dime sized amount into the palm of your hand, and don't sit there telling me it's not enough, because if you need more ADD more, don't try to wash it out in the middle." That would be a good warning label.
So it takes you a few tries to get the styling right, because you've tried a few variations with less than stellar results, and now that you've got the hang of it you've decided that this? This is the style for you. You don't care what fashion trends come or go, because the hair looks good and even if it's not good in a few years, it doesn't matter. You know this style. You have perfected it.
Here's where they get you though. Hair products? Those goops and gels and sprays? They get discontinued, they get replaced by something different. When was the last time you say a bottle of spray mousse? See? That's EXACTLY my point. You get used to using something and then suddenly you aren't using hair gel, you are using something called "Stand Up" with an exclaimatory mark behind the whole name. The little jar of pomade that you never said you'd use again isn't even that anymore. It's hair putty, or tacky, or stiffener.
The labels change, the bottles change and even the problems that you thought you had worked out? The cowlick that you have at the front or the little part at the top that won't exactly lay flat when you want it to? All those problems rear their ugly head and make you start all over again.
Then you repeat it all and say, "This is the style for me."
It'll all change though, and you know it. One day you'll hear that gross sound as you squeeze the Gel, or the Tacky or whatever crazy name they put to it, and you'll have to take a trip to Target only to find that they've improved it, which will cause you to try and have to improve your style.
I swear I don't know how Angel gets away with it. It could be the two hundred odd years of experience, or we could go with my other theory that he just has an entire closet just full of a suppliers worth of whatever product he got used to. After all a dime sized amount is all you need.