What was your hair like in the 80s?

Actually, I havent scanned any, heh.

I had every other 80s hair cliche, though. Started the decade with a Diana Doo. Then an asymmetrical sort of Eton Crop inspired by Brideshead Revisited. Started a ratstail. Then I shaved my head. Then I sculpted what was left into a mohawk. Then I discovered the Jesus and Mary Chain and crimping irons in that order and spent several years looking like a lost Reid sister on a good day and Fat Bob Smith on a bad day. By the end of the 80s, I could no longer afford the hairspray and ended up with the shit floppy mullet that ended up on my passport photo.

Don't even ask what colours I had. Easier to say what colour I *didn't* have. I never had green hair. Everything else was pretty much covered.

(*this may be a lie)

But I was also blonde then. :(

1. A lady Di, yuck (growing out child's self-cut disaster) with FEATHERING (hair too thick to do this well)
2. which grew into a Sassoon bob
3. which became Phil Oakey happy hair
4. which became quiff/Marychain (no crimp but hello Aqua-Net) depending on growth
5. which became Louise Brooks/Corinne Drewery/Siouxsie in Peek-A-Boo bob when my hair-dye thing started
6. which became Shakespear's Sister maddo-woman short fringe/long hair/partial shaved head to ears/punk Audrey Hepburn thing

My neighbour throughout was an in-home hairdresser who'd trained at Toni and Guy in London in the late '70s but was now young mum in Mpls. suburbs doing $8 haircuts. I did not do Manic Panic at all, dyed hair black ONCE which was too much, went to dark no-purple auburn colour then to coffee-coloured shade close to 'natural' colour.

*googles Phil Oakey*

regards,

REB

my first hair style was armpit length and stick straight except my bangs which were permed. tightly permed. i was only like 10, so it wasn't sprayed or teased or anything. just sitting there. kind of like a brillo pad.

then a year later i became interested in fashion and stuff and got it cut into a chin-length bob with fringe. since then it's been some variation of that from crop to bob. i was the only girl at my middle school that didn't have a claw or 'wings' on the side.

http://southsidecallbox.com/images/kid.jpghttp://southsidecallbox.com/images/kid2.jpg

This sounds amazing - you must post a picture!

For the rest of my childhood, though, I rocked the "straight as a ruler" long hair thing, where I'd either have my hair up in a ponytail or down with a clip gathered up at the top. So basically not too far removed from what my hair's like these days, except I don't have the "my mom cut my fringe at home" problem anymore, thus escaping the horrors of this:

http://deanna.ladyinterference.com/ilx/communion2.jpg

(Real, authentic picture of me in the '80s!)

But the white socks! How could I?

There ain't nothin' wrong none with white socks.

oh yeah, and i had a helmet in the late 80s, and short-haired-dork look for the rest of the time.

Not a mullet or a perm, that's for sure. My mom (giant social snob) would kill me if I got a "perm".

Because Miami was the home of the mullet and its aberrant forebears the rat tail and the teja I avoided all three. Mine was moussed and blowdried high.

Rat tail was kind of cool. Some mullets were cool in the early days. I remember making fun of mullet heads in high school, like, "Why are you wearing your hair in a punk hairstyle. You hate punks."

started the decade with it short cos I was at school think I actually went pretty much skinhead at one haircut, grew it out to about 14" afro which I kept for a couple of years. I blocked view of the guy behind me in a school photo at one point. had the sides shaved at the end of '83 then started wearing hair gel in the thing, which I didn't really learn to utilise effectively, think I kept the sides shaved for a while. Then started spending friday afternoons in front of a mirror plaiting my hair into thin spiked plaits which I eventually got tired of doing and allowed to dread.
Had these combed out in 1984 and thicker plaits done which didn't work. Not sure how long I had that but went back to dreading my hair over next couple of years which took a while to really take hold. & at ione point i cut the har at the front short, in line with my glasses but it sprang up and led me to cutting a lot of the rest of it including shaving the sides of my head again. But have had dreads ever since.

I had a mini mullet, but my brother went all out with his.

You know, firey

At the end of the 80s, I was rocking the skater swoop over one eye.

Yeah the inlines swoop, baby!

first half of the 80's: schoolboy bowlcut
second half of the 80's: a rat's rest

I never really managed to sort out this 'hair' thing until the late 90's.

I think I had the regular schoolboy bowlcut too for most of the decade. I turned 10 in 1989, so hair wasn't yet important to me in the 80s.

i've had the same haircut - more or less - since 1982. short sides slightly longer on top. the new wave look! for a brief period in 87/88 I reverted to my 70s hippie length but quickly decided it looked even worse on a 30 y.o. than a teenager. these days I'm just thankful I still have (thinning) hair on top.

Yeah, didn't really have hair control issues until the last couple of years of the decade. Wanted to grow it super long, but the best I could do was a low-grade mullet, one of the key features of which was that I shaved the sides. It was a mohawk ambition that I finally achieved during the last week of school in seventh grade (1991?).

Did manage a decent rat-tail for a while. I also wanted a one-eye, but my hair was so curly that it took too long to get there and seemed like it was just going to permanently bounce around just over my eyebrow. I HATED having curly hair.

i had a mullet

also a quiff, a full on perm, some long straggly shit, can't remember how 1989 ended, bouffant probs

i spent way too many years growing out the ill-advised mullet of 87

when i had my perm my mates called me George Berry

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nBXq7qwS19c/TGxPaWcofDI/AAAAAAAAAb4/sLWSFV9b17s/s1600/13-+george+berry.jpg

but i don't think it was quite that tbh

Early 80s: Floppy centre-parting horrible schoolboy thing
Late 80s: Short at the back & sides, long and messy on top terrible indie lad thing

George Berry is a massive blast from the past, think he played the one time my uncle took me to Molineux to see Wolves v Spurs. Think Emlyn Hughes was playing too?

My haircut at the time was more of a Stuart Pearson sort of thing

http://cards.littleoak.com.au/197576_ipc_soccer_super_stars/31%20Stuart%20Pearson.jpg

my 80s went something like

boring schoolboy side-shade with long fringe > Ian McCulloch > long shaggy mess > Alarm-style spiky mullet > Daniel Ash mohawk-ish thing > Cure/Nick Cave bird's nest

i had ian mcculloch hair for a while as well. i liked it. my boyfriend's mother said, why can't you get a girl who looks like a girl instead of one who looks like a hybrid, which pleased me because she was not my cup of tea and now i had proof i irked her.

something terrible like this iirc

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/735/12a/73512ac2-9bc2-4c63-b209-780c97cb957f

http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/735/12a/73512ac2-9bc2-4c63-b209-780c97cb957f

maybe not quite as severe but yeah