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I've been wearing spiked hair on and off for many, many years now. It's just one of many affectations of mine. I colour and sculpt my hair without hair-care products or hairdressers, often with much better results (more vibrant and permanent). Although I hate sheepishly following other peoples fassion, I tell you all this information so you too don't get ripped off by a beautician. Besides, much of it is traditional, passed down by word of mouth from freak to freak for generations.------Hair Sculpting Techniques:1) Fins The easiest kind of hair sculpture, works best with a mohawk or undercut. Cover your hands with gel, put your hair between your hands and squeeze as you make upward & outward strokes.2) Spikes Very similar to fins, but a little harder to get symmetrical. Cover your hands in gel and pull clumps of hair upwards and outwards.3) Dreads Big dirty knots. If you have curly hair these will probably form themselves if you don't comb! But for the rest of us they need to be created. One way is to make spikes then let them grow floppy. But to make knots you need to tease the hair. Spend all your spare time rubbing clumps of hair between your hands and they will happen eventually (works best if your hands are sticky).4) Extensions To attatch something (like old dreads) to your hair you could either: Tie it in with a knot/dread (very difficult) or glue it down with either 'Strong' or 'Hardcore' hair-gel.------Hair-Gel Recepies:1) Weak (Washes out with rain or sweat)Ingredients: Glycerin-based Soap (the cheap stuff) Hot Water Dissolve glycerin soap in a little hot water. Be careful not to use too much water as you can easily add more, but not take it away. The soap & water solution should be a gloopy mess which sticks easily to your fingers. As the water cools, the mixture will harden, so while it's still luke-warm, use it to sculpt hair into shape. Be careful not go go dancing or walking in the rain if you want your hair to keep it's shape. Washes out in the shower.2) Strong (Washes out with boiling water)Ingredients: Gelatine (nb: vegans beware) Boiling water Coloured chalk (optional) Microwave oven Dissolve as much gelatine as you can in boiling water and give it a good stir, for colour you may like to add a little chalk to this solution. This solution will harden very quickly as it cools, so you will either need to be *really* quick with your hair-sculpting, or have a microwave oven handy to keep your mix hot (add a little more boiling water as required). Gelatine by itself dries into a clear rubbery glue, but if you use chalk for colour, it's a bit more like rubber cement. To remove it you will need VERY hot water, a comb and about an hour (or two).3) Hardcore (never comes out)Ingredients: Superglue or Apoxy Resin Disregard for personal safety I've never actually used this method myself, but it is by far the simplest and most permanent. Just glue your hair into shape. Easy. Exept to remove (use clippers). Apoxy resin is a little more involved than super glue, so if you've never used it before, now (as you sculpt your hair) is not the time to start. Be careful not to get disoriented by the fumes.------One last thing to take note of. Hair sculpting can be very messy (nb. the gelatine/chalk mixture is very hard to remove). So do it outside. DO NOT use the bathroom sink if you share a house with others.
