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Hard Decisions: The SHTF Hairstyle.

31K views 146 replies 88 participants last post by  PurpleKitty  
#1 ·
A very important prep that is often overlooked on here is the SHTF Hairstyle. Your Hair (or lack of) lets people know exactly where you stand in the post-apocalyptic World.

To a potential BG or starving neighbor the subtle difference between the Steel Dawn Swayze or the Road House Swayze can make all the difference.

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Be careful when going Swayze though. A few misplaced brush strokes and spritzes and you could go full Saget:
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And when the SHTF, you don't want to have the Saget.


What celebrity hair style will you have when the balloon goes up? Choose wisely.
 
#3 ·
Jason Bourne Wahl Clipper cut because it's really hot down here. And because I have the clipper and the solar power to run it and I do my own clipper hair cut now. I've gotten good enough at it that Mrs Cricket rarely wants to touch it up anymore. That's unfortunate because it was really fun playing barber chair with her.
 
#9 ·
Everyone here is wrong.

I saw this movie called the Day After. There's this nuclear war, see, and the next day, like everyone had like long hair and beards. And they were dirty, too. It don't matter if you cut your hair, after a nuclear war, like it grows back real fast and dirty too. Its probably like something with radiation, you know.
 
#17 ·
Your hair and beard actually have a basic function. To keep you warm in the winter. Some people get to be warmer than others however. I keep it short now. But I doubt I would bother getting it cut down the line. It may actually be the very last thing on my list of priorities.
 
#95 ·
This, Long hair and beard keeps the sun off when its hot and keeps you warm at night when its cold . Even when its hot, the beard and hair seem to hold water and alow long periods of cooling when there is even the slightest wind.

I always go feral in the lead up to a big adventure in the bush in Australia. Try walking in 100deg sun with a buzz cut and no hat or sun screen and on the flip side try walking through freezing winds (below 0 deg c) without a beanie.Its also good camo.

I have never had a problem with lice and hair pulling is for girls

I find after a while (few weeks) your hair sort of finds its natural balance, no washing required. I also find animals are not as spooked down wind if I Haven't used soap or shampoo for a little while
 
#36 ·
Have been cutting the hair with the #4 blade for several years now and will likely be dropping down to the #0 blade before the first grandchild. At least the beard is coming in pretty well, mostly white except for a dark patch on the chin which means that before Santa-season (in time for deer season -yikes-) I have to start bleaching it :( Don't want to be mistaken for the south-end of a north-bound deer!