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    Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane

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    Image of Dorilys Dorilys
    08/16/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    I had the Braidini because I wanted to have french braided hair and my mother couldn't braid to save her life.
    I intensely studied the instruction booklet but I could never figure out how to work any of the equipment. I felt that I was missing some essential component of girl-dom and coolness because I couldn't figure out what looked so easy on tv.
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    Image of fjordtjie fjordtjie
    07/28/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    i still have the topsy tail, and i use it every day to part my hair--it has a good point on it. i also have to admit, i use it for it's intended purpose when i'm going to be doing strenuous activity. before you judge, know that my hair is almost 2 feet long and buns and regular pony tails come undone really easily with activity, but that little inward flip thing holds it like a knot tight on my head. works like a charm, without a mess of gels or bobby pins.
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    Image of MissMoneypenny MissMoneypenny
    07/27/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane

    The Bumpit box looks like this tampon box from the UK.
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    Image of mirrorghost mirrorghost
    07/27/09

    @MissMoneypenny:

    that's the most beautiful tampon box i've seen...why can't we have this stuff in the US? :(
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    Image of birdfeet birdfeet
    07/27/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Man, I wish I could flip through one of those Glamour Guides. I have a thing for epically dated hairstyles, though.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    07/27/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Her Hairagami Set, you say?
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Whenever I read "bumpits", I think bum pits. Which is what I imagine you might call that fold where your ass meets your leg.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    The Split-Ender is one of the very few things I've actually almost been tempted to buy from an infomercial. About 5 or 6 years ago I had waist-length hair that was super damaged and I saw this infomercial and was like oh.my.god. I must have it!

    But a couple days later it got really hot and I got one of those crazy "gotta cut my hair NOW" bugs. So I did, and I never thought about the Split-Ender again, until just now.

    Thanks for the memories, Hortense!
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    Image of Lin-Z [linguist on duty] Lin-Z [linguist on duty]
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    I could never understand the purpose of a topsy tail! It is really easy to flip your pony tail through itself without a strange plastic device.
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    Image of LolaQuinn is full of beans LolaQuinn is full of beans
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Oh man, I had a hairagami in the eighth grade. It was impossible to use and it would snap on my hands and fingers and bring goddamn tears to my eyes. I remember trying to put my hair up for a dance with it and SHRIEKING when it would snap over my knuckles. I hope that thing is off the market...
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    Image of The HZA. The HZA.
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Ok so I bought a set of Bump Its. In my defense it was with a gift card. For some reason it seemed like a good idea at the time. They didn't work for my hair, which is for the better.


    But I loved my Topsy Tail so much when I was 8.
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    Image of zu_zu zu_zu
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Oh man I am so tempted to buy a Bump-it now that they are in stores.
    I front a band and it seems so suited to outrageous stage costuming, though I am concerned that it would not withstand my stage antics and that I'd end up putting someone's eye out with the a rogue Bump-it flying out of my hair.
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    Image of RaisedOnWhiskey RaisedOnWhiskey
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    My husband is a barber, and it never ceases to amaze me the number of men that will admit that they still own a flowbee and have been using it for years.
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    Image of siandt siandt
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    My hair was never long enough for complicated ponytails and it was far too thick for even the conventional French braid, much less the machine-assisted. This did not stop me from wanting any and all of these hair products. Luckily for me and my school pictures my mother had too much sense to buy me any of them.
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    Image of Le Kangourou de Kataroo Le Kangourou de Kataroo
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    What about the french braider thingy? It was like a 3 tonged piece of plastic that labeled the parts "Moon valley" and "star prarie" instead of just 1 2 and 3, so they would tell you to remove the hair from moon valley and add it to star prarie and it all got really confusing.

    But it did come with this neat plastic zigzaggy thing that you would weave your hair into and create a fake french braid.
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    Image of stonebiscuit rolled a 1 on initiative stonebiscuit rolled a 1 on initiative
    07/26/09

    In reply to Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Trip Down Wacky Hair Infomercial Lane
    Turn it off, man, turn it off! It's sucking my will to live!
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    Image of Cafezinha Cafezinha
    07/26/09

    @stonebiscuit is a ΓΔΙ: *slow clap*
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