![]() Flutesnoot then reveals that he analyzed Jughead's formula, and that a key ingredient is swamp muck Weatherbee has a headful of moss. Weatherbee gets it of course, and pretty soon has a headful of hair again. In another comic, Jughead has created a hair tonic and tested it on a cue ball.By the end of the comic, it's revealed that the tonic makes one grow a freakish amount of hair, with pouring water on it being the only way to stop the process. Weatherbee insists on secretly using it on himself. Though he stresses that he's still testing it, Mr. In an Archie Comics comic, Professor Flutesnoot invents a hair tonic which apparently does a great job growing one's hair back.His last attempt is a hair tonic that is revealed to work very well - too bad he accidentally falls into it, covering him of hair everywhere except on his scalp. In an Achille Talon comic strip, Achille tries multiple ways to cure his baldness, all of which turn out to be ineffective.The tonics cause hair in the sink to grow out of control and start to consume Daitetsu and the house. Chapter 51 in the Ganso series showed him losing faith in his hair tonic dumping every bottle in his hair-clogged sink. A Running Gag had him losing hair by force, such as laying unconscious on an escalator and pulling off a glued wig. In the gag manga Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku, 43-year-old Daitetsu Osawagi has a bald spot and fearing of becoming completely bald like his father.There was the one that only works when he's angry, the one that comes from a one-of-a-kind dragon's whisker, and so forth. This doesn't stop him from trying new remedies. On Ranma ½ Genma is quite embarrassed about his baldness and has tried all kinds of cures.A (not so) helpful denizen of the magic world promptly gives her a magic hair-growth potion, which works perfectly for all of a minute before the hair begins to engulf her. Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a female variation, when short-haired Ako thinks she should grow her hair out to be more attractive.(Not 100% really this trope, since we never learn whether the potion works - but the kidnapping does lead to the demon losing his last few hairs - before he is killed.) At hearing this, Kagome angrily insists they eat her instead. She thinks they simply want to eat her, but it turns out one of them is severely balding and embarrassed about it, and he has heard you can get a hair growth potion by boiling down a human maiden. An early Inuyasha story has two demon brothers kidnap Kagome.Compare Baldness Angst and First Gray Hair, which might make people turn to the untrustworthy hair tonics. ![]() See also All-Natural Snake Oil for the same principle applied to more serious ailments, not usually played for laughs. The gold standard of baldness treatment is hair transplant with ongoing maintenance, as it is the most likely to actually be worth the money spent on it with the least systemic side effects.įor similar forms of hair-related hilarity, see My Hair Came Out Green and occassionally Kaleidoscope Hair. ![]() Prescription systemic treatments are somewhat more likely to work (though they also come with bad side effects for men - namely, they work by reducing testosterone and/or its effects on the body in most cases). Truth in Television: most over the counter baldness remedies don't work or don't work well, especially when used once the condition is sufficiently advanced. ![]() Other side effects may occur as well, including, but not limited to, the hair turning an unnatural color or what little hair was left falling out completely. Or rather, it usually works too well, with way more hair sprouting than necessary, and often in places that it wasn't wanted. Which is why a bald character is bound to try using some kind of product that promises to grow back their hair. It seems that a man's greatest fear is losing his virility.er, hair, and once it's gone, it's gone for good. ![]()
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