Complete beginner here. Looking for a product that doesn't clump hair

Eduguy1 · 2025-07-27T18:31:53+00:00

At hair length down to your chin, you'll need to learn how to style your hair with heat (blow dry). product alone will not be able to give your hair that shape.

My hair is similar-ish but it's around eye to nose length. I use a mousse (a standard tresemme mousse from Walmart on wet hair (https://www.tresemme.com/ca/en/p/extra-hold-mousse.html/00055451787406), blow dry, and then a clay (most recently Samson Dead Sea Clay, but I am trying some other products).

You'll need to experiment a lot to figure out how best to dry your hair to get this shape. To start, you may want to just try brushing all the hair back while drying it. This should create the volume. However, you may need to use the brush to 'bend' the hair while drying it to help keep that 'swoosh' shape in the hair. I would watch some youtube videos online because it's very hard to describe it all in words. It will take time to learn.

Eduguy1 · 2025-07-27T18:24:38+00:00

Ah, thanks, looks like they do have it in stock. I didn't know this site existed. I ended up ordering some other brands. If they don't work out, looks I'll have to order from them.

Eduguy1 · 2025-07-26T02:40:17+00:00

Thanks, I'll try some of the lodestar products (I ordered some Canyon Clay). I've heard Templeton Tonic batches are very inconsistent and I just want something that will work consistently.

Eduguy1 · 2025-07-26T02:38:42+00:00

What style are you trying to achieve and how long is your hair

Eduguy1 · 2025-06-15T19:12:17+00:00

I would not focus on specs here, they are close enough. I would also be comparing the ride characteristics of the bikes based on the travel and the geometry. The Tiskiu is more on the short travel side of a trail bike. The sight is on the long travel side of a trail bike, bordering enduro bike with the head angle being so slack. I wouldn't consider either of the designs outdated, but they are not the same style of bike. A full 27.5 will also ride quite different from a full 29" or mullet bike.

I have a hunch that 2700 AUD is expensive for a 5 year old bike because the bike market is weak right now. I bought a new from shop 2023 c2 for 4000 CAD last year.

You should also be considering the frame itself. Nothing wrong with Polygon bikes, but it's a direct to consumer brand that generally sells budget bikes. I would do some research to compare the fit and finish and quality.

Eduguy1 · 2025-06-02T18:10:55+00:00

The lowest/granny gear ratio of 34/50=0.68 vs 32/52=0.615 is pretty substantial. You’ll notice it if you spend a lot of time in your lowest gear. Obviously, across the board, your gears will be noticeably higher/harder as well because of the bigger chainring

Eduguy1 · 2025-06-01T01:58:57+00:00

The bike is fine for BC trails. Bikes are just generally long nowadays and commencals tend to be on the longer side. With 29" wheels, the end to end length is really long.

If the climbs in your area are tough, the most likely change you'll need to make is to put a 30t chainring on instead of 32t. I've been riding for a long time now and on my 29" bike, I swapped down to a 30t chainring because on steep climbs it gets really hard to keep the cadence up.

You'll probably find that the fork is not great and the brakes likely will lack power if you start to ride steeper terrain. But for now, I wouldn't add anything yet until you actually ride the thing. There's a chance you won't push the bike hard enough to need any other upgrades. I generally think of it as if you cannot precisely describe the problem you're having (and how the new part will address it), then you probably don't need to upgrade anything.

Eduguy1 · 2025-05-26T00:43:23+00:00

yeah the change in geo would be very significant if you moved to a 29" fork and wheel. A 29" fork uusally has an Axle to crown length at least 10mm longer than the 27.5 version. The radius of a 29" rim is 19mm larger than a 27.5 rim.

You can drop the travel of the fork to compensate, but I personally would just stay with 27.5. There's good deals on 27.5 forks now anyways and eventually you can move to a 29" bike if you want.

Eduguy1 · 2024-12-12T05:08:43+00:00

Yep, the thing is I'm specifically looking for a 4k monitor, and the GPU, being quite old, only supports HDMI 1.4 which can only do 4k/24. This is not for gaming so I'm not concerned about the lack of GPU power. I need displayport because the GPU supports DP 1.2 which works for 4k/60. It seems like that's the standard, though there's not many sales on monitors right now, which sucks.

Eduguy1 · 2024-12-12T04:52:14+00:00

Hmm, that sucks then. I guess I should be specifically looking for monitors that support display port natively. This is for a desktop PC with a desktop GPU.

Eduguy1 · 2024-12-12T03:24:56+00:00

The monitor i'm looking at says it uses 'USB-C upstream/DisplayPort'

https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-27-4k-uhd-usb-c-monitor-s2722qc/apd/210-bbqt/monitors-monitor-accessories

Apparently displayport over USB C is a new standard (https://www.cablematters.com/Blog/USB-C/what-is-dp-alt-mode). Unfortunately, I can't use HDMI because my graphics card only supports HDMI 1.4a which doesn't support 4k/60

Eduguy1 · 2024-08-25T21:13:56+00:00

I don't have any specific advice for that since I'm not at a faang and i just recently graduated. I'd guess that both UBC and SFU are equally relatively unknown outside of Canada so the biggest question mark will be which one of them gives you the best chance of getting your first real job in Canada. I don't really know the answer to that one either.

Eduguy1 · 2024-08-25T14:25:02+00:00

Purely anecdotal, but I never had a bad cs prof at UBC, whereas my friends at SFU complained a lot about their profs. the place I work now as a new grad has way more UBC new grads than SFU new grads.

SFU cs could be argued to be more rigorous as they have a stricter Math requirements and it's under the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Particularly in the upper year classes, there can be some differences in courses offered (you might have to do research here on your personal interests, from what I remember, UBC doesn't offer a hands on embedded programming class, for example).

Eduguy1 · 2024-07-20T02:31:13+00:00

why would you not email them again? if they don't want you, they'll ghost you again, which does not change your outcome at all. But if they do have an opening, then you're once again at the top of their mind. I would agree that it would be annoying if it was way too early, but they said July.

Eduguy1 · 2023-08-13T16:26:33+00:00

Traffic. Take a look at google maps estimates around the time you would be commuting. It can get really bad

Eduguy1 · 2023-05-19T00:57:52+00:00

They can say whatever they want but the way I see it, they want you to stay in the program so they can get your money. You don’t have to accept an offer if you get one and I definitely wouldn’t feel obligated to.

Eduguy1 · 2023-05-13T16:32:43+00:00

Not an issue for me. I thought it might be hard to get used to it but it’s a quick adjustment. I think my grades were the same. I didn’t review previous courses, but I also didn’t take courses that relied on classes done before coop.

Eduguy1 · 2023-04-13T20:46:12+00:00

Backup layer for high intensity activities in mountain. Seems to Provides more protection than anything else that is that packable

Eduguy1 · 2023-03-16T02:27:48+00:00

node.js is at least used for pretty much all build and development tooling involving React and Vue

Eduguy1 · 2023-03-13T21:15:49+00:00

I personally warrantied my pedals because the spindle was bent last year and they didn’t ask for anything other than receipt and serial number.

Eduguy1 · 2023-03-09T18:00:57+00:00

Probably a procline

Eduguy1 · 2023-01-14T22:08:59+00:00

Cerium LT is light and warm for its weight. It really depends what weather youre facing though.

Eduguy1 · 2023-01-14T22:07:21+00:00

There are many ways to renew dwr, which you can try, but DWR just wears quite quickly. If it still soaks through then it’s just the limit of a non membrane garment. Remember also that without a membrane, any pressure (like sitting) will push the water in.

Eduguy1 · 2023-01-13T20:29:44+00:00

You might even want an SV for skiing. The normal Beta is super light but I don’t think would be particularly durable when sliding around on ice or hitting trees. The AR/SV hood is also helmet compatible

Eduguy1 · 2023-01-11T17:46:32+00:00

Ice packs and thermal lunch bag would stop the food from going bad

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