What happened to Alberto V05?

It went the way of Tenax Hair Gel

Pantene used to high end too.

More high end than Vitalis?

Don't forget about Prell Shampoo.

Sorry, Prell wasn't in the same league as Alberto VO5.

So...green!

Christ, R1, reading your comment gave me a sudden sense memory of the unique smell of Tenax in the metal tube.....

It's as high end a brand as I am an international star of stage, screen and TV.

Nothin' beats Butch Wax...

It is high-end -- right up there with White Rain!

Alberto VO5 had "international star*, Rula Lenska, shilling here in the states promoting my mother to repeat that eternal phrase "who the fuck is Rula Lenska?"

I'm a man and I want to look like Johnny Unitas.

VO5 is great.

When I was poor I used Vo5. Good smell, lather and didn’t make my hair look greasy like Suave. Not bad for 99 cents a bottle.

[QUOTE] Don't forget about Prell Shampoo.

The hard stuff. 100 Proof. Takes your roots out.

Halo shampoo was the shit. Both blue and green flavors!

Remember when shampoos and conditioners had placenta protein in them?

I loved the way it smelled

[quote] Remember when shampoos and conditioners had placenta protein in them?

No, but let's bring it back!

Are their products actually good?

She’s fine. She sends her love.

I've moved on to Studio Line by L'Oreal. It's what all the cool kids are using these days and it's only stocked at high end Dollar $hops.

When I was young, I thought I was so sophisticated using my mother's Halsa shampoo. I thought it was "European".

Dollar Stores are where Alberto V05, like all brands, go to die.

The last few posters are idiots. We're talking about the VO5 hairdressing, not the shampoos you fucking dumbasses.

There wasn't much to say about V05, R24. We moved on, as interesting people do.

Are their shampoos and conditioners any good?

Alberto VO5 is an absolutely delicious stiff drink!

... and there was a "blue" version for grey hair.

Seems like there should be a thread for hair dressings from decades back. I remembered Butch Wax, Vitalis, Brylcream... all that shit that was kind of Jheri Curl for white people. I remembered Groom and Clean... and hair grease that was also supposed to clean hair grease. For oxymoronic hair. I looked up a picture of it, and my god, they still make it.

I always use Wildroot Cream Oil for well-groomed hair.

Look Grandpa, R24, WTF is hairdressing?!?!

I use their Island Coconut shampoo and conditioner. 99 cents each at my grocery store and work fine.

r30 you probably use it now but in some other name you butthole. Try american crew or some other shit in a jar you put on your hair. Or are you still using gel?

VO5 has been around for years. It used to be the "go-to" hair dressing, but there is so much competition now that it got pushed down the rung.

What does VO5 mean anyway?

Alberto vo5 dot com is in business!

What our oldsters are calling “hair dressing,” the under-70 set might know as “product.”

Don't forget about Brylcreem.

To date, the only otc hair product my coarse, dry mane responds to.

White Rain is cum for your hair like in Something About Mary

As a kid I thought TRESemmé was high-end.

My favorite when I was so young. I wanted to be a model for them.

V05 was 86'ed.

Farrah was the best. It tamed my oily hair!

I used Mane 'n Tail.

If you want really old school . . .

Actually, Alberto VO5 isn’t half bad. I HATE the smell, but if you use it daily, it does make your hair softer and more manageable. Just a tiny bit and rub it into your hands to make It melty. It’s probably just axle grease or something.

Me too, R43

U can use vo5 for other shit

R47 - I used the hot oil on my hair every week and it made it long and lustrous.

I get many compliments when I use this shampoo and conditioner.

R49 gee! Your hair DOES smell terrific!

Body On Tap. It's got real beer in it! But don't drink it!

Remember Creme Rinse?!

The hairdressing is just petroleum jelly with a bit of tint and fragrance added. I have grey hair, so it's nice to use the product for grey hair.

Mmmm the smell of Vidal Sassoon creme rinse was so delicious, almond and cherries. My mother had all THREE products: shampoo, conditioner and finishing rinse. Sorry, Mom, I'm the culprit who constantly used up all your product!

I actually use V05 because it’s cheap and does the job better than all the expensive shampoos I’ve tried over the years.

also this works great on my poosie hairs

I still have an old tube of it and Dippity-do.

V05 was greasy kid's stuff; real men use Brylcreem!

Just a dab will do ya!

But if you use two.. whoaa Nellie!

If it's good enough for Mickey Mantle....

Salon Selectives

How did we make it to 61 posts without multiple people coming in to shriek that Vermont Country Store is the only place to buy [insert product here] but it’s not the same as they remember.

It doesn’t work as well, the smell is different, and a single bottle is $39.99 now. IT’S NOT THE SAME!

"ooooh, Alberto!"

[quote]Remember when shampoos and conditioners had placenta protein in them?

My shampoo contained bone fucking marrow. Imagine if mad cow disease had been transmissible through application of diseased bone marrow to the scalp. Yikes!

I remember being a teenaged gayling in the late 90s and reading a cover story on Sophia Loren, and how she cut and coloured her own hair because she knew the way she wanted it done. She also only used baby shampoo to wash it. I couldn't run out to buy baby shampoo fast enough, and that's all I used for a few years.

Steady on, r62.

When I worked at a celeb West Village salon, a coworker would blowdry SJP hair and it would take over an hour to smooth out all the frizz. She really could’ve used V05.

One time Asian photographers showed up and started taking pics and she was furious, thinking the staff tipped them off.

She never came to the salon after that. My coworker would go to her brownstone nearby, and commented that they were shoeboxes from floor to ceiling and wall-to-wall in her bathroom

I love the stuff. Better than all that overpriced sulfate-free shit out there that doesn’t clean hair at all.

I haven't seen the hot oil treatment this century.

The shampoo, same as everyone else has said. Not a classy gal, so I have enjoyed a 99 cent bottle now and then over the years.

[quote] Body On Tap. It's got real beer in it! But don't drink it!

𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔

R61 As a gayling, having the correct Salon Selectives number and letter for my hair type was VERY IMPORTANT.

[quote]I haven't seen the hot oil treatment this century

Google is your friend. It’s still being sold and still getting great reviews.

R73 Google is to help me find porn and home repair info, not products that I don't care much about and haven't been displayed prominently in stores since I was young. Thanks, though.

R74 You’re welcome!😚

R74 is pressed and stupid too!

Kee -rist R64! Tell me though, did it work?

I have no idea.

Not familiar with Halo, or Hälsa, but enjoy the sense of nostalgia with these other old brands. Vo5 had a lovely lavender and balsam scented hair gel for men for many years, in addition to the petroleum paste. It was discontinued as well. The shampoo did smell nice, rather manly, not fruity or perfume-y, and was perfectly fine for normal hair.

In the UK the Brylcream brand has expanded into a full line of modern products. It's surprising they don't sell the other items here.

I use the VO5 shampoo, 99¢ at the supermarket. It has a great scent and works very well.

I've been around long enough to know that most beauty products are just marketing. The cheap shit works exactly the same as the high-end shit.

I use to use Protein 21 Shampoo regularly to take care of the frizzies.

4 out of 5 top movie stars use Lustre Creme!

Rock Hudson also used Lustre Creme, but not in the way it was intended.

Did Mary Martin use Lustre Creme or Prell to wash that man right out of her hair every night in the original production of South Pacific? I used to know but I forgot. I'm getting old, I guess.

I'm guessing Lustre Creme, R84. Prell was actually pretty new in 1949.

Glamorous singing star Miss Peggy Lee sings the praises of Halo shampoo.

What happened to Jhirmack products?

Late Mr. Jheri Redding founded Redken, Jhirmack, and Nexxus hair products lines. All were sold off and are still around.....

More:

Playtex got Jhirmack from Jherri Redding, who in turn sold it to Alleghany Pharmacal Corp. now known as Inspired Beauty brands......

Just Google "Jhirmack" and you'll find tons of hits for places selling current offerings. Highly doubt are same as from back in the day, but what is nowadays?

I wonder if Rula still uses V05.

If you don't look good, we don't look good!

[quote]I wonder if Rula still uses V05.

With her busy life, showing friends from America around London and being handed roses when she steps off a plane, I'm quite she relies on it to give her hair all-day hold.

Jhirmack! Bounce back! Beautiful hair!

So, is Paul Mitchell a joke yet?

Paul Mitchell the person is dead, don't know who owns his company nowadays.

That being said Paul Mitchell is everywhere; beauty schools, professional hair care and coloring lines (allegedly salon exclusive, but we know how that goes....), along with other things.

My lover uses alberto vo5 hot oil treatments everytime he sodomizes me so my anal hair is soft & downy , not harsh & scratchy.

Is that Nestor at r97?

R98 i would never own up to the name nestor!

I wash my pubic hair with gee your (pubic) hair smells terrific.

“I told two friends about it. And they told two friends. And so on, and so on....”

Is Finesse still around?

I've seen Finesse in grocery stores. I haven't used it in ages, but it had a nice scent.

Pert Plus

Lustre Creme! Betty Hutton would never use anything else!

R98

If you looked like this bet we'd hear a different story.

Hair dressing is the term used for greasy/oily type hair products like VO5, Brylcreem, etc.

Isn't she the congresswoman from the Bronx?

R107 Brylcreem was never straight petroleum, or mineral oil as most other hairdressings: it was always a cream, or emulsion. The residue would quickly absorb into one's palms, unlime Vo5.

^ unlike

Groom and Clean

Dry shampoo!

Pay attention and don't ask any questions:

NEVER USE ALBERTO VO5 AS LUBE.

Timotei for those alpine goatherding sojourns.

[quote] Timotei for those alpine goatherding sojourns.

Did I hear my name mentioned???

R107

Brylcreem is an emulsion of mainly mineral oil, beeswax, and water. It was meant to be something different than the greasy oil laden pomades that men had been using for hair dressing since Victorian times, if not before. At one time men were using bear fat and other substances until petrolatum jelly arrived.

One reason women were always knitting or crocheting dollies was to place them on arms of chairs and along backs of upholstered furniture to keep whatever greasy/oily pomade or hairdressing men used off. These knitted items were easier to launder or replace than furniture.

Clairol's Vitapointe cream hairdressing is also an emulsion and served same product market; as an alternative to greasy things like Alberto V05.

In advertising for Brylcreem or similar products you notice one key marketing point; women wanting to touch and or run their hands through man's hair.

With pomades like Alberto V05 hair was often left with a greasy residue (especially if too much was used, and or hair wasn't washed daily), that came off on anything hair touched. Stable emulsions solved that problem due to their reliance on lighter oils (such as mineral) instead of petroleum jelly.

If you look at any jar of "hairdressing" from past or even today marketed for African Americans you'll see two main ingredients, petroleum jelly and mineral oil. Things like Afro Sheen, Ultra Sheen, and the rest were mainly petroleum jelly which explains why when you see vintage video or pictures of AA performers under hot stage or other lighting their hair looks like a greasy mess.

[quote]One reason women were always knitting or crocheting dollies was to place them on arms of chairs and along backs of upholstered furniture to keep whatever greasy/oily pomade or hairdressing men used off. These knitted items were easier to launder or replace than furniture.

This is why I love Datalounge. The things you learn here!

R118

Here ya go!

Or just to cut right to chase.

Later on of course certain housewives just shrouded their furniture in plastic covering and that was that.

Interesting I didn’t know dry shampoo existed before I thought it was a relatively new invention

Dry shampoo has been around for a long time. The aerosol versions are modern. But you could sprinkle some cornstarch in your hair and let it sit, and then brush it out well with a natural bristle brush. Works very well, absorbing extra oil. I don’t know how it works for people with dark hair; I’m blond and it was great.

Dry shampoo concept goes back hundreds of years.

Modern shampoo as we know it wasn't invented until 1927 by Hans Schwarzkopf (Germany) and later in 1930 P&G launched Drene, the first synthetic detergent shampoo.

Prior to this any sort of washing of one's hair that involved water used various concoctions of soap and or perhaps plants with cleansing properties like soap berry. Either way the main thing was same as bathing; access to amounts of water needed to do the job.

Women in particular since often had very long hair suffered most; with many only washing their hair once a month or even longer. It was just that huge of a deal especially if one didn't have servants or family members (someone has to fetch and pour all that water). Indoor plumbing and or even manual pumps helped, but you still had to deal with fact soap is just not best thing for washing hair.

So people turned to absorbent powders like clay, starches, talcum, etc...

"The first commercially produced dry shampoo was sold in the 1940s, but the product existed before that. By the early 1940s, the Stephanie Brooke Company of Jersey City, New Jersey had developed Minipoo, the first brand of commercially produced dry shampoo powder. Minipoo was marketed to women and children for use in scenarios such as "surprise dates" or when they were sick in bed, according to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Since 1790, 71 patents have been filed for dry shampoo products in the United States."

Huge benefit of Psssst was it came along when wash and sets were still main way many women did their hair either at home or in salon.

Of course once washed with water hair had to be set on roller or whatever, dried (with hair dryer or naturally), rollers removed and hair finally styled. All of this took time; and if you had something to do that was often in short supply. Psssst allowed women to get somewhat clean hair without totally disturbing their set.

Before Psssssst, there was...

MINIPOO