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what are you talking about?

R U saying Indians smell? R U talking about hair products?

I like Vatika and Parachute

Stop putting grease on your hair, the smell will go away

Back in the grunge era of the early 90's, it was considered the thing to not wash your hair and have it greasy.

i dont know its just i'v noticed sardarnies have that smell


yeh i was thinking it might be the oil cus i even remember when i was in india like i was really really young and my parents used to put oil in my hair and it stunk like hell i hated it


yuk really?

You were probably young when the whole grunge/alternative scene came out, but the point was to not support the whole idea of looking hot, perfect or fancy for everybody. It said go with the flow and don't worry too much about how you look. The look was flannel shirts, doc martens, loose baggy clothes, used clothes from thrift stores, little to no makeup, etc.


The point of not washing your hair just showed that you didn't give a $hit, lol.

Kurt Cobain might have been smelly and dirty, but he sure pulled off the grunge look pretty well.

^ looked like slackers to me

I did it in middleschool. I was into all of the Seattle bands back then. Those doc martens cost a 100 bucks though!

i went thru a bit of darker phase...and thankfully for my parents i got over it

^emo? goth? i can imagine a Indian going threw that phase

Eh just condition it, it'll keep it from smelling, but wash it once a week, lol. Works well if you wanna go for that flowy bedhead look.

I did go through "darker" phases too, but I wouldn't classify myself as goth. I'm old-school where I think goth is more than just wearing black. Goth is a state of mind, and a real gothic is WAY more than just wearing black.

yeh one of my friends always says that "goth is a state of mind and ppl that wear black and call them self goth are idiot's

I always though indians smelled like they put too much perfume on

Many tend to put on too much, especially for formal occasions. Others don't put anything on, because they don't like the products. Most I know generally put on a reasonable amount.

Thankfully I've never been told I smell bad or anything, rather the opposite actually, I've had compliments that I smell good (always found that pretty weird, I don't think it matters much though).

not sure what the heck i was thinking...but it was the complete opp of what my parents wanted...pink streaks in the hair...wierd jewelry...i never did manage to get extra piercings. bah...it was the age...i thought i was the only one with problems...got over that really quickly and got a J-O-B!

Yeah I died my hair pink and purple too, but got over it.

I've got loads of asian (indian,bengali) friends there is actually a reason, they tell me they have to especially on their clothes coz of the strong indian cooking (curry) that gets in their clothes constantly.

What happens if there is no Indian cooking daily in your house?

My friend made fun of me on how we don't eat Indian food everyday.

u want to eat Indian food every day visit India, i eat Indian food a lot but not all the time but when i went to India all we ate was Indian food like all the time and i guess my system wasn't used to it but i had to go to the toilet like after every meal which really sucked when i was at someone else's house cus they don't have those sit down dunnys i refused to go until we got back home

I'm a low-calorie diet now, so I don't know if I want to eat Indian food daily. Knowing the elders, they make you eat a lot.

huh? I eat Indian food on an almost daily basis, as well as often helping my mum, sister-in-law and grandma in the kitchen. None of my family smell like the cooking

whoever started this thread is definetly an asian sellout!

that's true for other people as well. i've gotten disgusting sea food smell on my clothing after visiting other friend's houses.

some people generally just dont know when to stop spritzing the perfume/cologne bottle.

Am I missing something here? the only time people's clothes get the smell and stuff is when they go to bars or in a kitchen at a restaurant or something (i.e. a place where the smell is extremely strong). I've never had the problem at anyones house though

^ its usually something with a strong odor when its able to get onto and linger on your clothing - def not everything otherwise i'd come in smelling like mom's cooking everyday.


went to my sis-in-laws house and her husband was making shark!

i had to promptly get most everything i was wearing dry cleaned!

but honestly i've never heard of greasy hair smell...isn't it more of a look?

Only certain dishes make your clothes stink. I remember I used to make sure my bedroom door was shut when my mom cooked with certain spices or with okra/some other veggies. Incense(that type Indian families use in their homes has a distinct smell) also sticks to your clothes. I dunno if it's just me but just about everyone's house has a distinct smell.

gah...i had this white guy, jewish tutor once who would come in the evenings to tutor me and my bro. my mom was cooking something in the kitchen one afternoon and the guy had to leave the house and drink a gallon of water. turns out he hated spicey food and stuff. i was soooooo embarassed bc after that when we tried to call him to come back and tutor us, he wouldnt even answer/return our calls! hehe...

lol


yeh who bout food up i eat Indian food almost all the time (my dads a chef) i don't smell like a kitchen


yeh i remember when i was back in India my parents used to put oil in my haiir to make it all shiny and slik(my cusins and brothers aswell) but it would get all smelly after

lol, you did wash it after a little time right?

It could be related to the type of oil used. My sister in law also puts some kind of oil in her hair, but I've never been able to smell anything. On the other hand, my gran uses some other oil that does smell.

Personally, I've never put oil in my hair, so I can't really give an example myself.

lol...its either amla (black with a greenish tint) or coconut oil in the blue bottle

my mom would massage it into my scalp when i was younger - now i just buy her stuff from sephora which smells a heck of a lot better and is a lot less greasy! indian mother - god help them!

The sephora stuff costs 5x more money.

I'm betting it's alma, it had that distinct funky smell. Coconut oil has a distinictive smell too but it's somewhat pleasant if the smell isn't heavy. I dunno why so many people in India like oily/shiny hair. It looks like crap in the sun.

i don't know what product we used i was too young

If it smelled bad, it was probably alma, kekeke.

so?

i make some of my own face masks (great granny's secrets) - we can have a mix of the old world and new age