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    Aqua Net

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    Aqua Net’s glue-like hold has been making hair happy for decades: teen girls fumigated their parents’ bathrooms when they were shellacking their beehives back in the 1950s.

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    The only hairspray for helmet head, Aqua Net’s affordability and accessibility (it can be found in every K-Mart the world over) has sealed its reputation as the premiere hairspray favoured by all walks of life.

    Aqua Net’s miraculous secret formula has been imitated but never duplicated.

    While a little spray prevents the hair from flying away, a few extra layers of Aqua Net gives you a hairnet of impenetrable plastic.

    Hairsprays work by coating the hair in plastic polymer atoms, which join together to stiffen the hair.

    Housed in an attractively coloured aerosol can with a fishnet design overlay, Aqua Net holds the hair in an almost waterproof finish.

    The big hair of the 1980s owes its existence to Aqua Net: mile-high hair mall girls, hair bands (Poison, Ratt), punk rockers (Mohawks) and goths (see Robert Smith of The Cure) all relied on Aqua Net hairspray for their gravity-defying coifs.

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