"I have 5 inch liberty spikes and i've been using hair spray and elmers glue. It was pissing me off cause it took about an hour to spike my hair. But today I bought this shit called Krew Comb Stick at a redneck barber shop (of all places). I used it and it only took me 30 minutes to spike all of my hair into perfect spikes pointing in all directions. If you happen to find some of this shit, grab a couple of sticks." - spaz7575 , Apr 28 2001

"Use eggwhites they hold great but youve gotta take the yolk out." - mike the punker, Apr 25 2001

"hey i need help what do u do if u have long hair and u wanna spike it please help me lol please" - belfastflyer, Apr 25 2001

"first mix the know jello, add that to your hair and rub it in really good when the gell is a as good consitency. Then add raw egg whites to your hair, then put yourself upside down and make your spikes, when semi hard ( good enoughto stand up) then use ICE hair spiken paste or CREW hair fiber to make that shit perfic. I have hela f*cken curly hair and i have not washed it for like a month and two weeks. I re-do my hair like every three or four days. I tried useing elmers glue but my hair got really flakey and like pure white and looked hella gay but now it looks ill as hell......ANYBODY WITH PUNKISH HAIR PICS, PLEASE E-MAIL ME A.S.A.P.!!!!!!!MuDvAyNe....." - lethal mother f*cker, Apr 25 2001

"have you ever noticed that hair spray gets you hair hard but not clumped into indivisual spikes and that gel will gel the spikes good but not your hair will not stay up well i found a solution. take elmers glue and mix it with some good gel make sure you have a good thick mixture and try to put more glue than gel next add a little hairspray to it to make it harden up. then mix it all up. if your hair will still not stay add more elmers but if it is too thick add more gel.i also have a tip for you polmade or hair wax users if you want to get it out easier buy some liquid body wash it does wonders." - grubber wripshaw, Apr 24 2001

"I am pretty young still but what i do works pretty well. I put hair gel in my hair till it is evenly in then i take a towel and push it back. Not all the way if you have long hair but if it is like 2-3iin. it works. oX " - sick mind, Apr 23 2001

"If your like me and don't want to put glue or paint in your hair, try this. First, only wash your hair with water. The shampoo won't help. Next, dry until damp. If it's completly dry, it won't work at all. Third, use "Bed Head Power Trip" through all of your hair (Bed Head Products can be found at most salons). Next, work "Bed Head Manipulator" through and push your hair up as you do this. Finally, with your fingers, pinch the end of each section of hair to be spiked. This gives it the "spike" look. That's about it." - Jack Web, Apr 21 2001

"buy some murrays pomade u can find it at savon or wal mart. wet your hair a bit. Next get some murrays on your finger tips.Get a section of your hair up with your other hand and put some on with the other.Keep putting some of the crap on till it stays. this stuff will keep your hair spiked unless you put shampoo on and mess it up.tis takes me about 45 min and i just do the top of my head in 3 rows and three in the back. Laterz remember to always rock out and scare geezers when your hair looks cool cause its spiked" - victor(MARK), Apr 18 2001

"Get some gellatine from your local supermarket and boil half the amount of recommended water in the instructions. after u've boiled the water, put the gellatine in and stir with a spoon until its all dissolved. it stinks like a bitch, but really good. then when its dissolved, put it in the fridge for 2 or 3 minutes to cool it down quickly. dont leave it too long or itll go hard. pour the gellatine which should still be like a liquid, over your hair and rub it in. use allllll the gellatine in the packet. and then hold ure head upside down for a while and the gellatine will quickly harden, then u can mould your spikes. itll dry in pretty soon and u can put ure head back up again... one packet lasted me 4 days and it would have lasted longer i'm sure. if you use 2 packets u have to watch that u dont break ure hair. " - Paul , Apr 18 2001

"All I do is take a chunk of soap and make it a little softer with my hands and rub it into my hair, the grab a chunk of hair and roll it into a big spike, repeat all over my head and it will stay, not the fastest to do but not the slowest, the only problem is that it foams a bit when it gets wet from rain and such." - Acidic, Apr 17 2001

"Well, if you want the un-gelled original punk look, I strongly suggest using this stuff called Crude Clay. It comes out great! And its easy to use. I really dislike the new squeaky-clean gell punk look." - Max, Apr 17 2001

"for all the art students... thick white paste and acrylic paint. if you get bored, mix shit with it, glitter, sawdust, metal shavings. plaster is a bitch." - lizzieb, Apr 09 2001

"Yeah well for a kickass gel heres what ya do: take 1-2 eggs and a 1/5 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water and ya mix the sugar and water and then ya seperate the yolks and whites from the eggs. Ya put the sugar water in a saucepan and boil it, till you hear popping noises. then mix the sugar water with the egg whites and there ya have it. HOW TO USE: for liberty spikes, get some of it in a bowl and stick your head in the bowl and work the mixture into yer hair and then hold up an amount of hair so it looks like a spike then blow dry it till its crisp. Repeat for whole head. For a mohawk: like before mix the shite into yer hair then lay yer hair flat on a shitty old table so one ear is pointing towards the ground and the other, the ceiling. well iron yer hair like this and there ya go. Also if you have short hair and want a classic scruffed up punk rotten look just use a little and screw yer hair up with yer fingers until you've got it where ya want it then either blow dry it or air dry it. " - Darby Crash, Apr 01 2001

"use chap stick get like 20 sticks melt them down and let cool for 1 minute add to hair doing as you wish . or get a box of corn starch and mix with water till glue like consistency add to hair (hard to wash out but worth it)" - crow , Mar 30 2001

"Ok....first i get knox gellitan and rub it in really good and i also use ICE spiker and rub that in good too. Then i blow dry it till i can really work with my hair. Then i put my head upside down and make the spikes. It takes about an hour and a half but it works hella good." - zach, Mar 28 2001

"to get johnny hair, i put some weird streaks of colour in, then i spiked into big spikes with crappy gel. once it dried i rubbed my hair so that it would look more natural...you can also use hair spray(ice mist works the best) if you want sid's hair. spray it on, pull hair up, and blow dry. it'll hold anything up. also hair glue works." - dave nasty, Mar 27 2001

"WELL IF YOU HAVE SHORTER HAIR LIKE ME WET YOUR HAIR WITH WATER THEN USE A HELLA LOT OF GEL GRAB A HUNK OF HAIR AND RELEASE" - PUNK KID, Mar 16 2001

"i've got pretty long hair(over a foot and a half) and the other day i spiked the entire thing . elmers glue and hair spray works the best" - Nicole, Mar 11 2001

"Hey kids...listen up. Crisco is the way to go! Its smells like hell and feels like crap..but you get a great studery look!" - john-e, Mar 02 2001

"i use elmers gel glue.its thick enough to shape your hair, but it dries as hard regular glue,so you get that wonderful hold." - Willy, Feb 15 2001

"Ok all the ideas on this board are ok ideas, but if you want the best way to spike your hair this is it!! First dont wash your hair with shampoo, just water. Then towel dry till its damp and add dippity doo (the pink stuff). put it on so all hair is covered. Next use a product called ice spiker. You can get it at salons. flip your head upside down and gravity help you! pull your fingers through your hair while you blow dry it at a cold temp. Keep doing this till it is dry (takes a bit of time and your neck gets a bit soar, but it is the best way)......I promise it will work for you! my hair is 7 inches tall and spiked perfectly straight in all directions......It will work! and lasts for a week or so~!" - The hitman, Feb 12 2001

"To everyone who dosen't know what theyre doing : Use Elmers sckool glue to keep your hair up. My mohawk was a foot and a half before I shaved it and it stade up for three weeks at a time. And it keeps straight spikes too." - stephen kaye, Feb 12 2001

"Knox gelatin. Often called "punker's wet dream". Get a bowl you dont use often. fill it up with water according to how much gel you want/need. Put it in the microwave for 30-45 seconds. Pour 1 to 1 1/2 packets of knox gelatin, stirring it until it dissolves. Let it sit until it turns to a hair gel consistency. Put it into individual spikes, or mohawk it. blow dry til hard. It lasts up to a week. It also supports hair up to 3 feet long." - Noah, Feb 08 2001

"tip 1: never EVER shampoo. (you can get by with shampooing only 2 or 3 times week without getting dandruff) step 2: use soemthing gooey and thick (like pomade or gel) - gel if you want a hard dry hold, pomade if you want a soft hold. i usually start by dampening my hair a bit and working in some hair goo. then take a towel, and starting from front i slick my hair back, then from the back i whip the towel forward and my head up. this gives me a spikey/afro kind of look i can then shape or spike how i please." - human bean juice, Feb 05 2001

if you have the time, just put hella hairspary in your hair, and then continuously blow dry, wayne static from static x uses white rain hair spry and a blow dryer, he just sits there and combs his hair up while blow drying it and it eventually stays. so it will work with spikes too" - matt, Feb 03 2001

my tips r symple, i dont use glue or anything like that 4 my hair, because after a while it will just ruin it. i just use a lot of gel and hairsprey and it will keep up anything to liberty spikes. the hairstyle im known for is the spikey look. spikes everywhere placed on my head with bright colors like orange and purple, black or blue etc. i use a lot of rottens spikey looks for this insperation. if u want a good hair sprey get "freez" i think that is what its called, u have to all my friends who have mohawks or liberty spikes uses it =), and it damn well works good!" - gracie rotten, Jan 31 2001

First of all you have to dry it to where you can barely feel the dampness. Second you gotta figure out the right amount of jell or whatever disgusting substance you use to keep it stiff because if you use to much it will be to heavy and it will fall down. Third make sure you have it cut right because if its tooooo shaggy it wont dry right. Fourth form it and shape it until you get it like you want it. And if your anything like me you put a little spooge in your hair and just say screw it... - Fastestdrummer, Jan 29 2001

Back in the 80s I would find the most powerful hairspay I could find,like Aussie Instant Freeze, spray a shitload of it on and blow dry it or use a crimper to get it up, THEN I would not wash it for a week or two! My god, it looked so great! It would get realy disgusting after a while, but thats what it was all about for me back then, just being revolting and weird! A dirty punk is a happy punk just ask Johnny!!! - honest lizard, Jan 29 2001

Right, my hair's 4 inch long and shaved back and sides number 1 and then on top i do 3 rows of spikes. How i do it is i was my hair loads, then dry it completly and then grab some hair that i want to spike and spray it loads with just some normal firm hairspray stuff and absolutely saturate it, and then blo dry it at the base and let that dry and then work my way up the spike, and do this for all teh spikes. Takes a while, but works, then afterwards i used loreal glue gel to coat it with and then blo dry that! - Paul (Jimmy), Jan 28 2001

For starters never ever brush your hair...this makes it naturally start to separate in the same way you grow dreadlocks. That way when u go to spike it it will already be trained to separate. Wash ur hair with soap too to give it more texture and grip and then just gel it upside down with some cheap ass rock hard gel, aiming to get as much gel as possible deep down in the roots not just on top. Then scrunch your hair with your fingertips using your nails as kinda like a rake until it sets - Porcupine, Jan 27 2001

for cool spikes i definatley reccomend using dax wax (the saviour!) once out of the shower,towel dry your hair till damp and then rub the dax until it is soft and sticky-n.b:if u dont do this it leaves clumps in your hair...have fun! - katie, Jan 27 2001

If you want spikes use cheap ass wal-mart hairgel and petrolium jelly. Toothpaste will also do the trick but dont use aquafresh cos it's too thick. - steve-o

one word one product: SOAP! - Chris

Wash or wet whole head, then hold your head down so your hair falls down with gravity. Blow dry it this way, then take any kind of gel, spread it thickly on both palms and "pet" your hair so you only get the tops of it. Keep doing and add more gel like this. (remember to keep head down whole time.) use consort hair spray and spray top of head. Use blow dryer to shape strands. This should give you thick spikes since your not using a brush or anything.

Or wash wet hair, keep head down and blow dry partially and take hair spray and spray entire head and again pet your hair but do it lightly. You get a look simalar to Spider from Powerman 5000 if your hair is long enough.

NOTE--you have to have fairly long hair to do these at least 2 inches for best results. - Jason

Paul Mitchell works well for me. Does anybody know of something that doesn't flake and spikes up your hair? There are these girls who like to screw with my hair. - JuNo

It takes forgoddamnever to do, but i use the tiny tiny sort of rubber bands you get for orthodonticsor whatnot, and before i go to bed i put tiny tiny little ponytails all over me head. In the morning, i take a shower, but don't get me hair wet, but it's sort of damp, so you can take out the tiny tiny rubberbands, and put glue or gel or whatever you desire into you hair and it'll be all nice and spiky and not go limp. Sometimes i use the curly hair gel stuff and have cute little curly spikes. But i've found that if you have super fine hair you have to do the rubberbands the day before to train your hair to stick straight up and keep together. - endless, nameless, today

i think that the best hold is soda...preferably sierra mist. i found this out while having a soda fight with my two best friends. only bad part is it starts to itch and smell weird. but it works great!!!! - TimBeckz

you yanks must be loaded - f*ck all that gel nonsense, use imperial leather soap, way cheaper. Whats the difference between the beatles + the pistols? Soap n water!!! - Becca Puke

just get ur hair layered next time ya get it cut and then use a reasonable amout of plain old hair gel (i use loral melting gel, get it at wal-mart) and if u want it to last longer use sum hair spray. - $hawn

knox gelatin all the way man! it works great to get your hair to stick up and doesnt come out easy. you gotta wash it forever to get the shit out. - brat

I've found that, if you have trouble keeping your spikes up, that vaseline works really well. Back in the Seventies, when the Punk look was just being born, it was one of the first methods used to get that wildly electric spiked look (i.e. early John and Sid), and it won't harm your hair. To wash it out, put on the shampoo while your hair is still dry- otherwise it will mix with the water and be repelled by the petroleum jelly, and thus really hard to wash out. So work up a good lather while dry, and then rinse, follow with another little shampoo and some conditioner. If anyone's ever used pomade, it's pretty much the same routine.Spike Daft

I am a Johnny Rotten impersonator and fanatic... the guy that said the things about the shaving cream is right, it works excellent to reproduce the Johnny or Sid look.Johnny

i actually use gelatin in my hair. its kinda sticky but it works wonders! haha ive also used glue.miranda brown

This is for girls who want short punky hair. If you are going from long to short it is the best thing you can ever do because short hair rocks and you can do so much cool shit with it. It doesn't matter the exact cut you get because you can f*ck it up so much with products that it all looks the same. Once you have rotten short hair dye it. I don't like fudge colours cause I can never get them to stay, so I like to dye my hair with red or grey or whatever I can at the grocery store. For styling I blow dry hair with my head hanging down so I get hair that stands straight up, then I use AEROSOL hair spray. It is improtant to use aerosol, because the pumps suck. Then use eggwhites mixed with kool aid to twist into spikes. This always looks really different from the time before, but it also looks really cool. - Lizzy

For a 1977 Johnny hair style use hair pommade then mousse. The pommade is cool cos you can get it in different colors, mine's blue. - Kate

wet hair, dry it with a towel but leave it a bit wet , spike it up, put hairspray on it, then spike it with shock waves style cream, it holds all day - adam phillips

take any shitty store brand gel that you want, and aqua net gel put it pretty thick in your hair, and rub your head till the consistency is the same. then take a small towel and do a "drying off motion" remove the towel, nit pick to make it look more even, and go out to the streets, you crazy punk! - paul

---