I dont have pics but its got to long to get up its right at a foot long i am useing kenra hair spray and redkins hair gel i have a blow drier but i cant seem to get it to stay up more than 2mins i can use all the help i can get on what to use and how to get it to stay up better. As of now i am a sad flat hair goth i miss my deathhawk and dont want to get it cut short so i can get it to spike it help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not an expert, but maybe if it isn't staying up you could leave out the gel and backcomb your 'hawk instead?

If you have long hair like mine teasing does flatten over the course of the night, but lacquer (heavy duty hairspray) and a fine tooth comb can help maintain a big style better than product alone. See what you think.


If you want to stick to gel without teasing, I've heard of people lying on their sides to style until its set in place (and even heard of punks sprinkling jelly crystals through their hair and ironing it! Lol).

my sons hawk was pretty impressive , not a foot but close to it. We would put bed head stiff stuff (i remember it was blue) in it, quite generously. and then use the blow dryer to set the stuff. it never moved no matter how much head banging he did. course he has course hair and takes well to being spikey

Bed Head is great stuff. When I had one, and occasionally faux my hair now, a littlehair spray and back comb, then add more hair spray and blow dry up side down. Works well foe me.

Thanks laying on the side helps a lot to keep its shape and thanks for telling me abought the bed head hair spray and the links

I have to say...I think I'm going to try a faux deathhawk. I think my hair cut will lend itself to the style well. I'm excited!

I tryed a faux deathhawk it went over well but i wanted more so now i am happy i love my deathhawk.
i hope you have fun with your faux hawk

Blessed be
sjldog.

I've watched so many videos on youtube about teasing hair and nothing seems to work. I have the fine tooth comb...I even bought an actual teasing comb. I use this super hold spray from Tresemme and good old Aqua Net. Nothing! I get to the point where I just spray the crud out of my hair, try to get it to stand up, then it droops down with this sort of "Yeah, fuck you" attitude. My hair is maybe 6 inches long, heavily layered. I'm guessing my hair has just gotten too fine?

I wish you luck with the deathhawk sjl!

Thanks. If you spray your hair with a lot of hair spray and do your hair just like you like it wait 2 hrs then dont wash it out just spray and do your hair the same way with the hair spray that gives the hair spray time to set and then you know what to fix if you have the time i will start two hrs early on my hair then wait then do it like norm.
One more ? is the side burns just for girls on the deathhawk for girls every pic i have found that has a deathhawk with the side burns is a girl?

When I was rocking a deathhawk, I used the extra hold hair spray from http://www.tresemme.com/
Backcomb the base, spray it, blowdry, spray, blowdry until the base is sturdy. If your base is weak, your hawk will fall. Start moving up to the tips of the hair, spraying and blowdrying as you go. Repeat on the rest of your head. It would take me about 45 minutes to do it throughout, sometimes longer depending on how stubborn my hair was that day.

As for the sideburns, I've seen it on both men and women in the deathrock and goth scenes. For punk, men usually don't have sideburns when sporting a hawk. In the end, it's your call. These days I've seen so many normal people sporting hawks that it's become a watered down hair style over here. Sad, but at least normals aren't sporting foot long multi colored liberty spikes yet

thank the goddess on that one.
no one were i live has a real hawk the two guys that do have a fuax hawk so i am safe there i have a one foot tall deathhawk thats shiny jet black and goes down a foot and 1/4in both back and front down my head.

Where's your hawk now, Mr. No Hair?

It's gone the way of the dodo. *sniff*

Broken I remember the Hawk!! Guess I have been here a long time.

I remember the Hawk, but you're hot enough to rock it bald.

Like the new avatar, BTW - very Matrix-y.

~spidey