Hair fashions when you were at school

[Ich bin ein Mod]

Boys: either curtains or gelled spikes. Apart from the summer when the "Gazza" was everywhere to be seen (v.short peroxide blond)
Girls: mostly scraped back ponytail look.

 

[toblerone3]

This was my year.

 

[DrRingDing]

'ardcore raver

 

[Hellsbells]

 

[Badgers]

Awful spikes, side partings and such. No idea how I got any female attention.

 

[zenie]

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

weird how hairstyles are global

I began school with the pineapple/croydon facelift see JUST how high on your head you could put a ponytail! With the obligitary 'front bits' and a lot of gel lol.

Then the bob that cut really, really short at the back you shaved part of your head.

Had a red bob with bleached front bits ala.....

then asked for a....

in my dreams ey?

Also was a bleached blonde/red underneath/dreadlocked at some points

Boys had undercuts 'steps', and later French Crops.

 

[Badgers]

There is one picture of me looking the spit of Michael J Fox but with much much worse clothes about 13 years old.

Now I look like a young(ish) Oliver Reed without the charisma and much much worse clothes.

 

[Cloo]

That boyband/Justin-Bieber-pre-haircut longish all swept forward do with a fringe seems to be everywhere with teenage boys at the moment.

 

[Voley]

That boyband/Justin-Bieber-pre-haircut longish all swept forward do with a fringe seems to be everywhere with teenage boys at the moment.

They will look back and weep.

 

[Fedayn]

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

I was at senior school 1979-84 and those were the same hairstyles plus the permed mullet and various new-romantic styled side asymmetric sheds.

 

[May Kasahara]

There is one picture of me looking the spit of Michael J Fox but with much much worse clothes about 13 years old.

Now I look like a young(ish) Oliver Reed without the charisma and much much worse clothes.

 

[equationgirl]

'86-'91:
Boys: Mullet (with or with quiff), perm optional. Rat tail popular early on. Gelled spikes of various lengths. Mostly sensible haircuts with a side parting like this -
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[equationgirl]

Girls:
Big hair. REALLY big hair. Permed with lots of mousse so the hair felt crunchy. Big flicked straight fringe artfully arranged. The Di. The wedge. Most were variations on these:


Mine was uncontrollable and defying my mother to grow it long proved one of my best decisions.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Perms, and I think they were called Dulcie (or something). I had neither

 

[FiFi]

Oh gods!
It was all "Lady Di"' (attempted) or hugh volumes of crimped frizz

Frankly the early eighties are best forgotten

 

[harpo]

My earliest personally chosen do (as opposed to my nan putting newspaper curlers in my hair) was the Babylis crimpers. Massive quantities of hairpray (some of it blue), hanging head down off the end of the bed burning the hair into the shape of miniature corrugated iron, a bit of backcombing and you too could be Siouxie. Or Toyah.

 

[Prince Bert]

Spikes here too. I had them done in Selfridges, but they looked too long really judging from the photos I have. I was about 8. Also, the old crew cut was popular too. Timeless classic.

 

[Ceej]

Those wedge 'Purdy' bobs. Fucking hated that hairstyle.

Ah...this. Guaranteed to suit no-one at all. Morphed into the same cut but hair was flicked up all around, rather than curled under. Equally flattering.

 

[dilute micro]

 

[Sapphireblue]

Secondary school was 89-96.

Our school was very middle class, all corkscrew perms for girls and curtains for boys, sun-in for both.
Local school not so much, all pineapple/facelift ponytails for girls and gelled spikes for boys.

My evil sister was the only one who looked good with the perm/sun-in combo. I had neither, having fuzzy, teddybear-like hair and being frightened of hair products. I had long hair, either tied back with all the front bits escaping messily (but not attractively) or it down in a big fuzzy mass. Also occasional use of those wierd hair curly things you left in overnight, with the rubber twisty pink and blue bits - can't remember the name can you tell?! Still looked crap on me though as no mousse/serum was used.

Almost at the end of school hair straighteners really took off. I didn't learn how to take control of my own hair until a few years later though!

 

[wayward bob]

kid1 is doing the 80's in history atm ( ) and she's been researching fashions, including giant hair bows. which reminded me of getting called to the headmaster's office and told off for wearing one

 

[wtfftw]

Pretty sure the weird curly things were called benders.

I liked the tactic for curling ones hair and sticking it to ones face. spit and then twist the hair round your finger and then more spit to stick it. :classy:

 

[Poot]

Just really, really big. Seriously, I had to turn sideways to get through doors in about 1987.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The flick-up was quite popular.

 

[Ceej]

Ah...this. Guaranteed to suit no-one at all. Morphed into the same cut but hair was flicked up all around, rather than curled under. Equally flattering.

See above. That's the one.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Something like this.

 

[Poot]

Johnny, is that a load of photos of Ted Bundy's victims?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Johnny, is that a load of photos of Ted Bundy's victims?

No. Everyone killed by Ted Bundy looked pretty much identical.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm going to a high school reunion this year. In my mind's eye I still see my old HS friends as looking like those people in the yearbook photo. But in reality, they'll look like a bunch of grandparents in their fifties.

 

[Poot]

I'm going to a high school reunion this year. In my mind's eye I still see my old HS friends as looking like those people in the yearbook photo. But in reality, they'll look like a bunch of grandparents in their fifties.

I pity people in the old days who had to go to school reunions before Facebook was invented. At least nowadays you can get your head around the fact that everyone is fat and grey haired (or bald) before you get there.