Weird The Straight Hair Pill

[Scary Nachos]

According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered a "curly gene" and are working on a pill that can make hair straighter from the inside out.

It goes the other way too -- straight-haired women (or men!) who have fantasized about cascading waves would take a curly pill.

But enough about corporate greed -- let's go back to fantasizing about what it would be like to simply swallow a pill and wake up with the hair of our dreams. It's right up there with the fantasy about being able to cure gray hair.

Want “Good Hair”? New Pill To Make Hair Straight

Scientists have discovered the gene responsible for curly hair and they are developing a treatment to cure you of those awful curls from the inside out. Likewise the pill would also make curly hair straight. So maybe it's human to see the grass as being greener on the other side. On ...

www.sofreshandsogreen.com

 

[Whitesock]

Screw you Bosley! I'ma drug my hair back!

 

[Tru_Power22]

Cool, but my hair is already straight. Not that useful for me.

 

[Zakyath]

sure could use that, straight perms are expensive

 

[Romek]

My hair's curly as, though the womens like it, so I don't mind.

 

[GooS]

WOW! This discovery is big, It's right up there competing with the wheel.

 

[thewrongvine]

Cool, but my hair is already straight. Not that useful for me.

Works vice-versa too,

~Hai-Bye-Vine~

 

[Blackveiled]

I'd get this, hahaha.

 

[CysticCraze]

I dont get how this would work since hair is roughly dead skin... But if it was possible I would assume it be a giant leap in the medical field because it means they could alter basic skin development, meaning elderly would possibly be able to have young skin? Regardless its cool, but I have to wonder if only the hair on your head is affected =S

 

[T.s.e]

I dont get how this would work since hair is roughly dead skin... But if it was possible I would assume it be a giant leap in the medical field because it means they could alter basic skin development, meaning elderly would possibly be able to have young skin?

Hair and skin are two widely different things. Hair and nails however, are made of the same thing, a substance called keratin.

 

[ElderKingpin]

the innovation just blows my mind

 

[CysticCraze]

Hair and skin are two widely different things. Hair and nails however, are made of the same thing, a substance called keratin.

I was under the impression that Keratin was dead skin, or wasted, or something of the rather. Regardless biology was back in highschool, so I'd be happy to be corrected.