Describe your 80's hair

[radikal00]

I was only a kid, so my hair was pretty normal, short and black.

[SidewaysY]

Spiked on top, layered on the sides. Quite punk.

[insearchofjason]

Big bangs... lots of Aqua Net. The white can.

Funny I didn't bother with the back. For all I cared it could air dry.

[kentuckychic]

My momma wouldn't let me have big bangs so I had medium sized bangs.

[iggy]

I had Bow Wow Wow hair in the late 80's. Some sort of spritz to keep it vertical.

[SidewaysY]

How would a bald guy answer this question?

My brother had hair that was really long. He refused to cut it (or wash it) and Mom had repeated fits over it. A month ago he was looking through his old school pictures and exclaimed "MOM! HOW COULD YOU let me wear my hair like THAT??!?"

She was speechless.

[kentuckychic]

Your mother is a saint....I would have smacked him right there on the back of his head.

[insearchofjason]

Iggy, did you use that Aussie spritz that came in a purple bottle with hot pink writing? I loved the smell of that stuff.

[kentuckychic]

What about Salon Selectives? Everyone had hair that smelled like apples.

[vester]

"The claw" bangs held up by Joico Ice Spray.
The back was pulled back into a low ponytail slicked back with gel.
Yikes.

[iggy]

Hmmm...no, it was in a blue bottle. I lifted it off one of my sisters.

I was all the rage...just so you know.

[Diva4230]

A half pony tail off to one side of my head, and my bangs off to the other side of my head.. Or sometimes just my entire ponytail off to the side.. It looked quite nice with my NKOTB shirt with the floercent writing on it and my neon green spandex pants..

[ellenmed]

BIG! Was a hair bear. Aqua Net execs loved me.

[insearchofjason]

Back To Basics makes a "firm hold - spritz" (sunflower style) that would rival Aqua Net back in the day.

It's like dehydration in a can. Nothing right about it at all.

[SidewaysY]

A half pony tail off to one side of my head, and my bangs off to the other side of my head..

That just seems so Piccasso-eque.

:-)

[iggy]

cubist hair...how avant garde

[radikal00]

ooh wait i forgot to mention when i was about four my parents just decided to shave me bald, cause my hair was too thin or something. In my old pics I look like a mini Kareem Abdul Jabar lol :p

[SidewaysY]

I asked a friend to trim up behind my kid's neck because she'd complain so much at night about it being hot. He cut the hair and shaved her clean as a whistle in the back. If she sat really still you couldn't tell due to her long hair, but if she moved at all it looked freaky. Of course she showed off all the time and my Mother hit the roof.

I keep threatening purple mowhawk...

[princessKT]

My mom made me have a bowl haircut. Then when I was a little older I pulled it halfway up and then curled my bangs all up and teased them. Oy.

[LJK]

Henna red with my own personal mixture of color. Cut really short in the back and sides, with a poof of curls in the bang area. Sort of a Lucille Ball looking cut. Oh, and a tail that was about 15 inches long.

Wanna hear about my eye make up?

[radikal00]

^ sure, go for it :)

[bjorkfan19]

Short, black, soft, and possibly washed with Johnson & Johnson's "No More Tears" formula.

[db44]

Early 80's, as my early years, were pretty much whatever my mom thought was good, although by 10 ('83) I was asking for a part on the left.

Late 80's, pretty much what I wear now... Short. Except then I let the length grow in the back... Until I went to college in the 90's, saw a video of myself in a public speaking class, and realized how horrible the back of my head looked.

[LJK]

Mid '80s eye makeup:

Shadow foundation
Yellow shadow in center of lower lid
Dark purple over lower lid (the yellow highlights the center of the eye)
darker purple in the crease and a little above the lid
dark frosted garnet on brow bone
light frosted garnet on inner corner of eyes up by the brow

blend

Line with frosted green pencil

one coat of covergirl professional waterproof mascara


Before going to bed, four cotton balls with lancome non-oily makeup remover.

[MerrySunshine]

This is a difficult question for me as I spent all of my teen years in the 80s, save for a few months of age 19 in 1990 before I turned twenty, and sort of went through a coifure metamorphosis during that time. It was all about growing and changing and "finding myself." :o

Early 80s: end of elementary school and junior high. Pretty normal, straight blonde, turned under . . . sometimes bangs.

Freshman year in high school (1985-86): started with a short bob, permed. Sort of shaped like a delta. Then I got it cut so that it was about an inch short on one side and the short hair spiraled around to the nape of my neck. Gelled the short bit to follow the spiral around my head and put those different color mousses in the longer, still permed bit on the other side of my head (or just left that bit my natural blonde). Very avant garde . . . I was rebelling. iggy and I probably could have stood in the hallway together mocking the other kids because they'd never heard of Bauhaus and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

http://www.mindspring.com/~rkalas/images/lauperhair.jpg
Freshman hair: OK, not exactly like Cyndi's here because I didn't have it dyed all those colors (used the mousses), but sort of like that, only smooth and gelled on the short side and not quite so long on the other side.

Sophomore year in high school (1986-87): The short part of my hair moved all the way around my head during the summer between sophomore and junior year. Top stayed long and it was filled with products and hung down in my eyes. I dressed like Molly Ringwold from Pretty in Pink and carried around a notebook wherein I would write observations about my "shallow" classmates and their entirely absent sense of style and individuality and/or sad bastard poetry. I'm still standing in the hallway with iggy talking about Depeche Mode's new record, Black Celebration, and telling him that he should use Elmer's Spray Adhesive to keep that hair standing well into the night (you have to wash your hair with a mixture of baking soda to get it out, though).

Junior year in high school (1987-88): I'd grown my hair back out into that permed bob from beginning of freshman year. I still put stuff in my hair sometimes to change the colors, but I was sort of "over" being a freak girl and just wanted to be a little more normal. Still hung out with the freaks, though . . . still dressed like Molly Ringwold from Pretty in Pink.

Senior year in high school (1988-89): Full on 180 in the hair department straight to Normaltown. It's long and blonde, no bangs, and I'm up for six of the eight senior favorites spots. Somehow, I went from being freak girl to one of the "in" crowd, and I got their hair in the process. (But never their bangs, fortunately . . . never had the claw, mercifully . . . .) I think that maybe they adopted me as their pet freakster in order to make themselves feel more hip . . . hey, some of them never would have listened to the Smiths and Elvis Costello without me. ;) The freaks still liked me too, though, since I still carried around that notebook writing crap in it and still dressed a little, er, quirky. Best of both worlds. :D

[iggy]

Yeah...my Bow Wow Wow hair lasted only the one year. By senior year (91) I had Charlie Sheen hair...as some of you have observed from my senior picture. Oh and there was junior year where I was full on into plaid shirts. Wore a different plaid shirt everyday. What sort of mental illness has this as a sympton?

It's now 2002 and Charlie still has that hair. Maybe a letter writing campaign is in order.

[NikDC]

My prehensile hair was waist length, very curly, very poofy, big on the bandanas and banana clips. Many a day found my mop in those banana clips though it was always hard to close it.

And blue eye or green eye shadow, though I wasn't allowed to wear makeup until the late 80s in the first place :rolleyes:

[SidewaysY]

I hope none of us were in that group that wore the blue eyeshadow on the bottom with that hideous white eye shadow on the top.

I've always wore purple eyeshadow with light grey until recently. Now it's gun metal grey with light grey and black eyeliner.

[MerrySunshine]

I have strawberry blonde hair now (thanks to the artificial red highlights) . . . . It's all about the warm tones for makeup for me now.

Back in the 80s, tough, I wore a sort of teal eyeliner, upper and lower lids, with frosted pink and blue eyeshadow and practically white lipstick. I used talcum powder as cosmetic face powder to get that attractive pasty-pale cast to my already lily white complection.

[iggy]

Although it was pre-Goth, I did like the look for the pale faced girls and their sullen, indifferent attitudes.

Kinda like Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice.

[MerrySunshine]

Oh, you woulda loved me . . . especially whilst I scribbled in my little notebook scowling at the shallow masses. :p

[SidewaysY]

If you didn't own a muddy pick up truck, you didn't stand a chance at taking me out on a date. I'd make exceptions for Trans Ams if it had cherry bombs on it. :-) Little Miss Naughty NOW maybe, but there was no hanky panky until college for me.

[iggy]

I did hanky, but no panky till my senior year of high school.

[MerrySunshine]

Ditto.

It actually worries me, now, knowing what I did and did not do at those ages and knowing that my little cousin is 15 years old. Makes me want to lock her up in a room far away from all those little horndog boys. :o Do as I say, not as I did . . . . :rolleyes:

[SidewaysY]

They seem to think about stuff sooner. Even with a dress code, there are 2nd and 3rd grade girls dressed like hookers at the elementary schools here.

I took a group of giggly 10 year olds out to lunch and 1/2 of them pushed away their food before they were done because they were watching their figure. They're TEN.

Ten year olds don't have figures. Even if they DID, no one is supposed to notice.