Monday, July 20, 2020

Men's Grooming Etiquette Male Hair Care - Mane

Hair is to be clean and look conditioned, cut and cared for. It is to be let down every once in a while if only to wash it.
Take the hair test. Look in the mirror at your hair halo or silhouette. You can take a picture. The prickly hairs you see are what shows in each photograph. Change that. Rub your hand over your hair from the back to the front. If it makes a loud noise, if it threatens to tear at your skin, “You betta” do something about that.

Men Shampooing Hair
Hair is to be shampooed according to the edicts of your culture. A person with very coarse or very dry hair is to shampoo it once a week. In between, rinse it with water alone while taking a bath or a shower. Put new dressing on it. A man with fine or oily hair can shampoo his hair three times a week. Some people may seem to shampoo their hair anytime they get anywhere near water.
To shampoo, your hair, wet your head and hair and massage your scalp with your fingers. Turn off the water. Apply a small amount of shampoo to your hands; add it to your wet hair. Rotate your fingertips in place from the nape of your neck forward. Massage shampoo in over every inch of your scalp with your fingers. Then rinse your head and hair, and stop. You can repeat this process. This action can be necessary: when your hair is very dirty when you have been swimming, or after you have been bicycling behind a bus. You may just do it because you want to see lather as you see it on TV. Change your shampoo one day every three months.
There is a rumor, to remove dandruff, close your eyes, shake salt into your hair, then massage it in, O.K. now go back and rinse or shampoo it out. To remove gum you can use peanut butter. To remove grease, you may try some lemon juice in the final rinse. It may also be used to bring out additional highlights.  Watch out for your eyes.

Men Conditioning Hair
Hair is to be conditioned. It can be deep conditioned. Apply whatever it is, that you must use, to provide natural high lights and body to your hair. The advantage is the more you condition your hair the shinier it gets, and the more natural it stays. The better you take care of your hair the more intelligent some people will think you. Maybe this is not an advantage, just a reality.
A person with coarse hair may use a crème rinse conditioner. A fine-haired person may use a Balsam conditioner. A person with tangle or flyaway hair or hair which has spilt-ends may use an instant conditioner, a bodybuilding conditioner, or a corrective conditioner with humectants such as glycerin to help bind water to the hair.
To condition, your hair, apply the conditioning agent to your hands and add it to your newly rinsed hair. Work it in: twist it in for five to ten minutes, until there is a change in hair texture. Then rinse it out. This works, even with 2 in 1 Shampoo and Conditioner. You can condition the hair over your entire body.
Rub your hand over your hair; if you can hear it, it is time for re-conditioning.

Men Drying Hair
Dry your hair. This can be done with a wash rag or towel. This may be done while you are still in the shower.
You could blow dry your hair outside of the shower, before combing it down. Move the dryer over your hair in a sweeping motion, until it is dry.
When you have longer hair, you may move the dryer over your hair until it is just damp. Then pull your damp hair straight to retain straight hair when it dries. You can hold the attachment around a hank of hair, dry it, release it, and continue this process until all of your hair is dried.
You may curl your hair with a brush attachment to have it curl when it dries. Hair can be towel dried, gently, or allowed to air dry naturally.

Men Trimming Hair
Avoid having hair that is sheared.  Hair is to be trimmed with scissors. Go to a barber or hair stylist and let this be done. You can go to a business hair design consultant. When your instructions are disregarded, leave no tip, and change stylist. When your wishes are honored: when you are gifted with great trim, be grateful. Tip and say, "Thank you." Hair is to be scissor cut in a style according to the edicts of your culture, and/or the conditions of your employment. The preferred cut is neat and short, and clear of your ears, cheeks, and collars, the day before you go to have it trimmed; that is to say always. Whatever the length get your hair trimmed at least once every other week. Hair is to be washed before it is trimmed unless it is to receive a chemical process. It is to be washed immediately after. Hair can be buzz cut or shaved off the head. Some of us can pull off either look, but unless you are in the military, have been, or have a great head shape, these practices are to be avoided. This may be done with a razor blade and 91% alcohol placed in the cap of the plastic bottle in which your razor is stored.  Dip the head of the razor in the alcohol and shave your head in one direction in one-inch strokes. 

Men Caring for Hair
Hair may be added in the form of a weave, and/or a transplant. We are not all the same. Avoid adding or taking away hair which will cause you to look suspect, or to look dangerous. Avoid radical haircuts, unless you really are technically well versed enough to be self-employed, or do not mind perpetually earning minimum wage. Brow trimming could be a part of a man's haircut. Each is to be combed straight and then snipped. Brow plucking for a man is entertainment: either he is in it, is it, or will be it.  Avoid over plucking. Then there is the two finger rule – the space to be between the two.  Ear lobe-hair trimming might be a part of a haircut. When you cut your hair, treat yourself to a soothing or an invigorating scalp massage. 
Hair is to be colored by nature. It may be accented with a color gloss or surface highlights. Hair is to be cared for; hairdressing is to be applied to it. When neglected, or unprotected, hair gets hot, it burns, and it smells. Avoid this. Use a dressing that has little or no scent.
For thick dry hair, you can use oil, hair grease, gel, or a lotion. A fine-hair person may use a hair texturizer; take a small amount, add water, apply it with your hands, and comb it through. A person with oily hair could use a water-soluble non-alcoholic dressing. 
Apply a dressing to your hands, and then apply it to your wet hair.  Spread it thoroughly, but sparingly, regardless of how it is scented.  Avoid rinsing this dressing out. (You would only have to reapply it.) Always wet your hair for two minutes and then brush it for at least one hundred strokes, (OK 50 strokes).  Coarse hair will develop a wave pattern, and fine hair will shine. Afterward, you can comb or brush it out, shake it out, or massage hair when it is to sport a natural look.
You might apply hair spray to your hair. Use one that is unscented. Hold the hair spray can or container at least twelve inches away. Press the nozzle only enough to mist your hair. Avoid having hair that never moves. Hair spray is to be brushed out of your hair each night.
Hair is to be kept looking neat. It may be smoothed with your hands, in public. Beyond this, leave it alone. Do other acts of grooming in a bathroom.
Clean your hairbrush routinely. Comb all hairs out of it. Soak it in a warm soap and water solution, in alcohol, or in a hydrogen peroxide solution. Rinse it out. Let it dry with the bristles down, preferably, on some kind of towel. Clean your comb by hand. Remove the loose hairs from it. Soak it. Rinse it. Let it dry. Return each to a holder or drawer for storage.

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