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Getting gum stuck in your hair is a sticky mess (wakka wakka wakka). But really, trying to remove a wad of gum from your hair is a difficult task. There are several techniques that you can use to remove the sticky foe. The best and easiest technique is to use Peanut Butter. You can also use cooking oil, vaseline and ice.

Using Peanut Butter to remove gum from hair is the easiest technique that I have used. The magic is in the oil, so get the "smooth peanut butter" type - the more oil (and fat content) the better. Avoid the chunky peanut butter - though the chunks may add to the peanutiness of the peanut butter's appearance, it does nothing to help remove gum.

Apply a gob of peanut butter over the gummed area and work it in. You can use an old toothbrush if you don't want to use fingers. I find the best technique for working the peanut butter into the gum is with long, circulating strokes. You should begin to 'feel' some of the gum dissolve apart as the peanut butter oil mixes with the gum.

If you are using a toothbrush to work the peanut butter in, you can use a spoon or flat utensil as a base underneath the affected area. Stroke the toothbrush above the wad gum.

Once most of the peanut butter is worked into the affected area, use a dry cloth to smooth and pull on the peanut butter gum mass; the whole mess of peanuty-gum should come out! It's also probably a good idea to wash your hair after this procedure to get the peanut butter smell out of your locks.

This is probably the messiest of the techniques for removing gum from hair, and though the steps for doing it seem short, it's effective and messy:

1. Cover all of you hair with Vaseline, spreading a larger amount over the area with the gum clump.

2. Use a wide-toothed comb to comb the gum and the Vaseline out of your hair

3. Wash your hair to get the rest of the Vaseline out...

1. Apply the cooking oil (preferably Olive Oil) to the gum and surrounding hair clump.

2. Wait for a few minutes.

3. Use you finger to pull the gum out

4. Wash hair with shampoo

Using a couple cubes of ice, ice the gum for 10-15 minutes. It should harden so that you can take it off.

I don't really recommend this approach unless the gum is only worked into a few strands of hair.