Extreme measures for extremely crappy hair?

I am a guy with strait hair (about 3 inches long) it is frizzy and jacked up and poofy beyond belief, i havent been to the salon since i razor shaved it last, whenever i try to use gel it looks OK spiked up on the top, but freaking horrible on the back and sides, i am wondering what are some extreme measures i could take, should i ask to get my hair reverse-permed (aka- chemically straitened), what are some options i could ask for besides just slapping gel in it? thanks

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yes Anais! I think I found my future husband!lol...

Hot guy aside, LOL eKatherine!

If you really are sick of your hair, you could look into relaxers (at a salon only). It IS putting lye on your head, and there's no chance you're ever going to get your hair to grow long (maybe that's not what you want anyway though)...and there is the potential it could eventually break off to bald (due to repeated relaxing). A lot of people do it anyway though, and some with good results. Like I said though, ONLY at a salon. Way too dangerous to do yourself. (And all those other suggestions are good to I hafta say!)

Okay, yeah, I probably shouldn't have made an absolute statement there....I was thinking of all the trouble people I've known in the past had even keeping their hair shoulder length sometimes after relaxing...but that's true, with lots of care I'm sure it must be possible, just hard.

InnamorataItaliana wrote: yeah--youll have split ends up to your roots! lol...and it will keep breaking off--making it seem thinner and more damaged then it is pre-relaxer.

Won't that make it impossible to have attractive long hair?

Ekatherine: It really depends on what your priorities are...If your number one priority is how healthy your hair is--then it may be a problem growing it out...But making hair with breakage and split ends look attractive is far from impossible. Given the right tools, product, and care(and a little bit of extra time) you can make a healthy head of hair and an unhealthy head look identical(given the exceptions for extreme cases)..For example, I have been through so many processes with my hair(ie:bleach) being the guinney pig in my cosmetology class and my hair is currently about 8in. over my butt(and still succesfully growing) and you would never be able to tell it was damaged unless you get close enough to see the single strands...Now obviously Im going to need to cut it eventually because you can NEVER repair damaged hair. But with one relaxer treatment I would say(Assuming its done right) that you can grow your hair out to LOOK nice, but in reality,yes, it will be slightly damaged.