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Hair treatment that's bad, and not all the rage (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

singe

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'hair treatment' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'bad and not all the rage' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'bad' could be 'sin' and 'sin' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ge' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'that's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for singe that I've seen before include "Char, scorch" , "Scorch slightly on surface" , "slight burn" , "Result of match accident" , "Earnest entreaty" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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