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Last week, we at SeenOnTV Express reminisced about the perplexing little contraption known as the FlowBee:  half vacuum, half haircutting device, and 100% confusion.  However, the FlowBee is not the only infomercial product designed to style your hair in the most mystifying of ways.  Today we look at another bizarre product designed to give you the hair you have always dreamed of--if, that is, you have always dreamed of spray painting your head.

GLH (which stands for “Good Looking Hair,” of course) is a “hair spray paint” designed to cover bald spots and thinning hair.  GLH is made up of spray paint and fibers that “mimic real hair follicles.”  Despite being featured on Way Back Wednesday, GLH is still available; however, it earns  its spot in our retrospective due to its early infomercial beginnings when it was hawked in the early 90′s by Ron Popeil, legendary inventor, pitchman, and founder or Ronco, one of the leading companies in as seen on TV marketing.  Popeil was awarded the “Ig Nobel Prize” in Consumer Engineering in 1993.  The awards were originally given to “discoveries that cannot, or should not, be reproduced,” but the intent was later revised to reward 10 achievements that “”first make people laugh, and then make them think.”  The Ig Nobel Prize committe, which includes scientists and Nobel Laureates, described Popeil as the ”incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television,” and said his inventions redefined the Industrial Revolution.

In the following video, Ron Popeil is seen promoting the Ronco product GLH.  In this video, he actually spray paints his own head.  Without laughing.  Theoretically, GLH provides the illusion of actual growing hair rather than a vast expanse of baldness.  To me it looks like--well--a spray painted bald spot.  Judge for yourself:

Lest we mock hair-in-a-can too much, lets keep in mind that GLH is one of many products designed to give the illusion of thicker hair by camouflaging the scalp.  The ubiquitous Joan Rivers has a new product called Great Hair Day.  Great Hair Day is a powder, not a spray like GLH, and it is applied in a much more subtle manner, using an applicator brush rather than an ozone-eating aerosol can.  Once again, infomercial evolution has managed to refine one of its more befuddling products. 

Unless, of course, you prefer to graffiti your own head.