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keri
2008-12-16 10:50 pm UTC (link)

By the by, am I the only person who hates the phrase "hair product"? I don't know why, but I feel like I didn't start hearing it until about eight years ago, and now I hear it all the time and it makes me rage a little inside.

Actually, I maybe do know why: it's so ambiguously unspecific.

It's like when on What Not To Wear, the hairdresser is all "now use this hair product every day like so and ta da" and I'm all "WHAT PRODUCT IS THIS? Is it gel? Is it mousse? Is it some bizarre combination of chocolate and pomegranate seeds in order to attract amourous bees?"

Also, I just don't like the way the word sounds.

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	phosfate 2008-12-16 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Do you need any product today?" "Yeah, I need some bookbinding linen thread, and I'm out of Diet Pepsi." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2008-12-16 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	"genuine artificial synthetic simulated processed food product." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2008-12-17 01:53 am UTC (link)
	YES. I hate "product". Mostly unrelated, but I also hate the fashion industry's phobia of plural words. "You shouldn't wear that pant with that shoe." "I think we should go with a full lip and a smokey eye." I have visions of one-legged, one-eyed, one-lipped models hopping down the runway. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2008-12-17 04:18 am UTC (link)
	I just realized the word I was reaching for: Pretentious. Totally describes that weird phobia and the "product" nonsense. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2008-12-17 04:48 am UTC (link)
	I'm glad I'm not the only one that bothers. shudder (Reply to this)(Parent)

	caffeine_fairy 2008-12-17 01:05 pm UTC (link)
	sound of grinding teeth (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bubosquared 2008-12-17 01:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'm imagining models wearing one pantleg, half a top, one lip lipsticked, one eye made-up, ... And of course, having said that, I'm betting that'll be the fashion in less than ten years. (Well, the half-make-up anyway.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	littlebitca 2008-12-18 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	Somewhere someone has done that and was considered avant garde. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	judyhazeleyes 2008-12-17 04:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'm so amazed and relieved to discover that other people share this pet peeve! Also, the excessive use of 'little'. "We've got a cute little pant with a little belt and this adorable little shoe, that has a little bow accent and a gorgeous little heel, with this little top that's got a little AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2008-12-17 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	I love Project Runway and similar shows, but this kind of thing is like nails on a chalkboard. "I just don't know about that pant." Oh, Tim. MUST you speak this kind of nonsensical jargon? /sigh (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2008-12-18 11:14 am UTC (link)
	Well, in all fairness, most of the contestants do seem to make only one-half of a pair of pants when they're required. Like it's the evil design from hell that will kill you when you go pee in the toilet. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	coyotegirl 2008-12-17 04:15 am UTC (link)
	The upside on that one is that you can use it to tell the stylist to put absolutely nothing in your hair - no gel, no mousse, no spray, no nothing - quickly and easily, just by saying "don't use any product, please." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2008-12-17 04:17 am UTC (link)
	Er, why would a stylist do that? I only ever go to HairCuttery where I get a blunt, chin-length bob done, and I've never in my life had the stylist try anything like that on me. Usually they have to convince me to let them blow-dry it enough to check the length. (But I wouldn't say that anyway because it still sounds stupid to me. :P) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	catslash 2008-12-17 04:52 am UTC (link)
	My stylists always want to put shit in my hair. I tell them there's no point because my baseball cap will flatten. Most of them listen. I will admit, when I get the occasional one who doesn't listen, the result of the stuff they use looks really good in those five minutes before the cap goes on my head. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ralkana 2008-12-18 08:58 am UTC (link)
	Ha! The last time I went for a haircut, it was with a new stylist, who asked me how I wanted it. I said shorter, and she asked what style, and I said it didn't matter, as I wear a baseball cap all day, every day. I got the biggest death glare, like I was wasting her time. Glad to know I'm not the only one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	coyotegirl 2008-12-17 06:52 am UTC (link)
	Huh, I'd always had the opposite experience - every time I went to a salon, even the cheap ones, I had to convince them that no, I didn't want them to style it with stuff in it. Maybe it's the style? I tend to have mine done very short and feathery. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

keri
2008-12-17 07:06 am UTC (link)

Yeah, that's probably it. Or else the fact that I'm so insistent on "just a blunt bob, please. No, no stacking in the back. No layers in the front, either. Just get it cut...no, please don't blow-dry, it's a waste of electricity, I mean really" sort of convinces them ahead of time that I'm not going to take kindly to it. :P

I love my standard haircut so much. I varied a bit in August by getting it stacked in the back, and it was horrible. It actually required me to use a blow-dryer and styling gel to get it to look right :O

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	julesnoctambule 2008-12-17 04:15 am UTC (link)
	I don't like 'product', either; I'm always tempted to reply with 'Cat chow' or 'Marzipan' when a stylist asks me 'So, what kind of product do you use?'. I use both often, though not in relation to my hair. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cazrolime 2008-12-18 12:34 am UTC (link)
	Every time I hear the word "product", I picture monkeys flinging poop around. I blame Animorphs. (Reply to this)(Parent)

pokecheck
2008-12-18 02:39 am UTC (link)

I love What Not To Wear, but the hair part always kind of bothers me.

Nick: Your hair is beautiful! It's so thick and healthy! What do you do with it?

Person: I wash it.

Nick: I can't believe you have such beautiful, thick, healthy hair and don't do anything with it! Here, let me put in FIVE GALLONS OF CHEMICALS to style it!

Me: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK SHE KEPT HER HAIR HEALTHY, YOU NONG?

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	chibikaijuu 2008-12-18 04:41 am UTC (link)
	Oh God, watching the hair-styling part always makes me cringe. Yeah, they come out looking good, but he always cuts so much off! If someone did that to me, I would cry. I love the crap out of the show and yet the amount of money they want you to spend on clothes horrifies me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pokecheck 2008-12-18 11:46 am UTC (link)
	Heh. Actually, I would love to have all that money to spend on clothes, but then again, I'd probably want a nice petticoat and a variety of period shoes, so, um, that's not what they're really going for... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	floriatosca 2008-12-18 09:00 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, "product" makes me think of imitation food - the kind of stuff that needs an alternative spelling for legal reasons due to USDA regulations. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	pfeffermuse 2008-12-19 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	One word: Velveeta (Reply to this)(Parent)

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