Your Hair Needs Oribe’s 24K Gold-Inflected Pomade
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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12:45PM, Friday July 3rd 2009
After Princess Fancypants washes her hair with white truffle oil shampoo and slathers Creme de la Mer between her toes, she sits before her vanity and pouts. Still, something is not right. Shall she polish her skin with Beluga caviar? Clean her ears with the sharpest emerald she can find? No. It is her hair. Her hair simply isn’t right.
Aha! Then she remembers. She opens a small drawer and takes out a bottle of Oribe 24K gold pomade ($49 for 1.7 oz). Its web site says it is “excellent for use on pleasure craft [or] in convertibles” and, wouldn’t you know? That’s exactly where she is headed. At last, she is ready to go. [Oribe 24K Gold Pomade]
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Backliteyes
wrote on July 3 2009 @ 04:56 pm: [report]
I’m super curious how that actually looks. Not curious enough to buy, though.
_jsw_
wrote on July 3 2009 @ 05:34 pm: [report]
There are no pics, which, well, probably says something. From a website that promoted, er, reviewed it:
“The 24K Gold Pomade is actually made from crushed gold (in fact, it looks like golden goo-glitter) and serves almost as “makeup” for your hair, giving you shimmering gold highlights (which the creator admits will gild your clothing if you’re not careful) while helping you style and providing moisture and UV protection to your luminescent locks.”
Hmm. Gold’s at well over $900/ounce. 1.7oz of it would run over $1500. So, the $49 container would be, at best, 3% gold, and that’s if the rest of it’s free and they make no profit. Of course, they’re aiming for a profit, so let’s say it’s 1% gold (a very generous guess). The review says “crushed” but I figure they mean it’s basically gold particles suspended in something waxy/greasy (hence the “pomade”). I’m guessing it doesn’t look all that good. Not like dipping your hair in gold. More like using a cheaper pomade and then sprinkling on the “Fairy Dust” my daughters use… but costing a lot more.
I doubt it’s worth it.
But the container’s awfly purty.