Men and hair products

I grew up in the eighties. A time when the men had just as big hair as the women. If you were into rock music at that time it was expected that you would have a huge frizzy do like Bon Jovi or Brian May. It was often easy to mistake men for women from the back and men were happy enough to spend their money on perms and hair products. This was the seventies gone mad. Hair styles had got bigger abd bigger until it couldn't get any bigger.

Then what happened? Music styles changed as they always do and Grunge rock was in for a while. Grunge was as the name implies, grungy. The hair was still long but not as clean and not as tended to. Out went the hairspray and in came not using anything at all.

With Britpop came the lad movement where it as permittable to use some kind of hair styling product but not much. If you got it wrong you could end up looking like a boy band member. That said, the boy band look did take off. At first in the late nineties gel and hair shaping products such as fudge were seen as only for the boy band wannabes but they slowly became the norm. It's now very common for guys to use hair styling gels as well as moisturisers.

The cosmetics companies are playing on this new liberation to encourage men to pamper themselves as much as women and there are new mens ranges popping up all the time.