Hair fashions when you were at school

[skyscraper101]

use leave in conditioner and stop being a tart

unless of course you have afro hair

I've never tried leave-in conditioner, does it keep your hair straight then?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Back combed for all the girls, flat top or mullet for the boys.

 

[seeformiles]

1979 (when started secondary) - girls had the "Purdey Bob" which morphed into the "Diana" as the 80s went on. A lot of boys favoured a kind of Adam Ant/Echo and the Bunnymen type cut with a shitty little micro-ponytail at the back. The girls who didn't do the "Diana" went for something similar - check out an episode of Grange Hill from about 1981 and you get the idea.
(I grew mine into a Hendrix bird's nest that nearly got me expelled)

 

[seeformiles]

I was at grammar school in the early 60's. I had a huge backcombed beehive for much of the time. By the time I left school my hair was dyed very red and had a bouffant at the front with curls down the back. Another girl had her natural blonde hair bleached white at the front and she regularly got sent home for dyeing the white bit blue or pink with food dye. A couple of other girls had hair like mine but the rest mostly had plaits or bobs all in their natural colour, apart from one very cool girl who had an amazing asymmetric cut that was way ahead of it's time, it was in Burnley anyway

I'm sure the beehive is due for a comeback
(The Mary Quant bob is timeless - Mrs SFM had one of those for a bit and she looked hot!)

 

[blossie33]

I was at a girls senior school in the 60's so it started off as backcombed styles or ponytails and went on to the Vidal Sassoon geometrical cuts or long hippy style hair.

 

[vauxhallmum]

The Farrah Fawcett Majors. I could never get my hair to do it. Ruined my school days, that did.

 

[Greebo]

The Farrah Fawcett Majors. I could never get my hair to do it. Ruined my school days, that did.

As much as the early Di cut not working *shudder* did? Never again.

 

[purenarcotic]

I started secondary in 2001. I don't really remember tbh, I know hair straighteners suddenly took off at some point. Barely anybody had curly hair.

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Secondary School 1992-97. Started with a mop, quickly graduated to a couple of years of the undercut wedge, then really crap long hair for the last couple of years.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

At school I was all like this. . . .

And all gelled up like this . . .

Somewhere around 85-87 I would guess.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I started secondary school in 1972. Long and straight for girls, long and straggly or afro for boys.

I always had out-of-control frizzy hair that my mum made me keep short, so was always desperately out of fashion.

 

[gentlegreen]

Oh dear.

 

[5t3IIa]

At the start of secondary school (85?) there was a thing for... for.,.. let me try to describe - it was basically like a mullet but the front and sides went into really big flicks and were hair-sprayed into place with so much hair-spray that it it rained you got poisoned. Well, they did - I used to look exactly like this:

 

[Thimble Queen]

When I was at high school the girls had slicked down hair pony tailed at the back with curly bits gelled to side of face... This still a common style in south london!

I had a shaved head/dreads/mohican at school. I miss those hair days....

 

[Reno]

In the mid-70s I had hair just like the boy from Let the Right One In.

A few years later I took a blow dryer to it to get a bit of a "Farrah flick" in an attempt to look like David Cassidy or Leif Garrett.

In the early 80s I had some asymetrical wedge cut that fell over one eye and which I dyed black.

 

[Orang Utan]

this was what mine looked like:

i accessorised it with a blue visor, which i wore all the time.

 

[lizzieloo]

I got into trouble for this at school. Too bright apparently. How that would stop me doing maths I have no idea. 1989 at 16

1987

It's a bit Gordonstoun flick I 'spose.

Most girls had a permed bob sort of flicked up at the front and hairspray glued in that position

 

[mrsfran]

I went to al all-girls school 90 - 97 - there was a LOT of Sun-In and Henna hair dying. Our school culture was very pro-grunge (read: middle-class) so there was a lot of back-combing for messiness, hair beads and undercuts (all of which I did with very poor levels of success).

 

[Corax]

what is this undercut of which you speak ? By the 90s I was in a job with a perm.

Kind of like a mohican that hasn't been spiked up. Shaved at the back and sides, and long on top with a centre-parting. Bleedin 'orrible, but it was cool for a while at my school!

 

[lizzieloo]

 

[Corax]

Not that bleedin 'orrible...

More like this, but not as *cool*

 

[Orang Utan]

ah, the fanny parting. only bellends at my school had that

 

[miss direct]

Oh yes just remembered sun in. I used that, even though I had dark brown hair. I constantly had a bob during secondary school...oh and the "Rachel" was very popular...remember that?

 

[lizzieloo]

Never used sun-in but henna's gonna be hard to deny

 

[Meltingpot]

I was at school in the early - mid '70s. We mostly had our hair quite long except for the ATC (Air Training Corps) lads. Then there were the ones who wanted to look like David Bowie (this was in the Ziggy Stardust era) and parted it in the middle; I don't recall anyone being brave enough to experiment with henna though for the full effect.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I was at school in the early - mid '70s. We mostly had our hair quite long except for the ATC (Air Training Core) lads. Then there were the ones who wanted to look like David Bowie (this was in the Ziggy Stardust era) and parted it in the middle; I don't recall anyone being brace enough to experiment with henna though for the full effect.

I was in the ATC so I had to keep my back and sides cropped short but I kept plenty of hair on top so I could back-comb it all and look like a blonde Ian McCulloch. Sadly this was in the heyday of nu-metal and nobody knew who the fuck Ian McCulloch was, they only knew I looked like a twat which, in their defence, I did.

But at least I got to spend all that time I should have spent with girls learning to play the guitar, the better to impress girls when I got to university and gave up on the shit Ian McCulloch haircut in favour of a shit William Reid haircut.

When I was younger it was all centre-parted pudding bowl cuts with curtain fringes. But at least it was a low-maintenance sort of look, unlike the young lads these days with those painstakingly ironed and sculpted efforts which look stupid even when they're not framing an adolescent train wreck of a complexion.

 

[such and such]

Oh yeah, I remember if you had your hair in a ponytail you had to have two bits of hair hanging from the front.

 

[such and such]

A bit like this

Why I have no idea.

 

[Sweet FA]

Early/mid 80s - skinheads with tramlines, casuals with wedges, rockabilly flat-tops, mod crops, mullets ( )

 

[nadia]

A bit like this

Why I have no idea.

I still do that I have no idea why