What is a hair trend of the past that you hope never comes back in style?

I was just remembering crimped hair the other day. I once crimped my hair for school picture day in junior high. Late 80s. I thought it looked so cool.

What was everyone thinking back then? We WANTED to look like frizz bombs? And it took FOREVER to do your whole head of hair.

What hair trends of the past do you hope to never see again?

Oh, absolutely ANYTHING from the 80s! What a weird decade...the other day I saw someone with their shirt tied to the side with a scrunchie and I about passed out.

The female mullet is a close second!

Great topic!

I think all mullets should be banned forever, male or female! Also: poodle perms, yikes!

Mall Bangs

Oh my. Yes, there are too many women still going around with the female mullet. Long in back, short and poufy on top. I guess that's a hard style to rid yourself of. No real option but to cut it all short.

Do people with mullets not have mirrors or something?

Frizzy perms. Yuck!

Gotta agree about the mullet. They don't look good on ANYONE, in my opinion.

I'm glad the "Dirty Dancing" perm is out of style. Nothing was worse than seeing all these poofed out piles of curl on the back of a girls head.

what are mall bangs? are they bangs that are cut straight across? i've actually never heard that term before..

but my thing: side-swiped pony-tails.. I remember that was the way I would wear my hair to school. move most of the hair to one side of the head and make a ponytail that would jut out from one side of the head.

LOL Purple!

I used to wear my hair in a side ponytail! I have a photo of myself in 1989, wearing my New Kids on the Block t-shirt, and my hair in a high side ponytail.

I think mall bangs are like when they're all poofy on top. Kinda like you have a Furby on your head or something.

aah.. poofy bangs.. yeah, I can totally see that... poofy bangs, side ponytail, leg warmers, big sweatshirt with leggings.. hehe..

LOL, I remember hair shows in the late 80's...We're not just talking poofy bangs...I swear some of the Hair Stylists had bangs 5" high...Straight up. High Hair! and S P R A Y E D to the maxx with PM's Freeze and Shine.

That spiky thang that Bowie had going on - and half of London followed suit.

Much stiffened by the sneaky use of Mothers' Elnett and usually allowed to collect dust and dirt.

Teenagers who didn't care to maintain it would come to school having slept on the (previously) crisp spikes. They would have flat parts where they had slept on it. Then the girls (for it was mostly boys who took up this style) would try and help their class-mates resurrect the fallen, flattened spikes with diluted glue.

Don't laugh - we didn't have gel in those days and our pocket money didn't extend to cans of hairspray.

Please God, never again.

Other "older" stylist in the forum will know this one.

TRANSFER PERMS

aaaaggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Run for your lives!!!!

Another one.........The Boz!!!!

You mean when we transfered hair from rod to roller before Neutralizing? Good consept, But what a pain In the ***!

Hey, what about Root perms?? We would wrap the hair just at the base and leave the ends out...with some kind of spray conditioner on them...And if it wasn't long enough for that we would use a specially designed end wrap (Plastic coating on one side and minerals on the paper side) to keep the solution from curling the hair.

All this so the hair would have lift at the base and straight spiky ends.....Those darn 80's again.***sigh... those were the days***

BTW Lil, what is the Boz???

The Boz was a popular haircut made famous by the football player Brian Bozwell. It was spiked on the top with buzzed sides and a thick rat tail in the back.

Ding, Ding Ding This hairstyle, circa 1984, was what started the rat tail craze. When I started doing hair in 1986, it was stongly stated that the rat tail was OUT. Gee, think of all these idiots out there wearing a style that is almost 20 years old.

My son has a kid in his class with this very same haircut, to me, this is just plane child abuse!!!

RatTails ugh!!!! Don't you just wanna grab your scissors and sneak up behind people!!!

That's hideous!

I have also heard mall bangs referred to as the claw. Because they were sprayed into a spikey claw shape sitting on your forehead. My husband used to say they were so sharp they could cut someone. I managed to maneuver my hair into that style but I had to spray it so stiff that it could not be moved at all. Someone asked me to push my bangs up to look at something on my forehead and I couldn't. They were too stiff.

LOL...Demo, I remember it well.

women: Permed afros, mall hair, crimped hair, big
bangs, blatant mullets. Or perming as such, for that matter. It forces hair into the shape - well - permanently - and can damage it.

men: the spiky look that seems finally to be creeping out of style

Say, Sophie, what does your hair look like now?
Was it different in the 1980s?

OK, let me state one thing very clearly, I NEVER had mall (the claw) bangs in the 80's...But I did have a perm all the way through the 80's right up until the early 90's. always long...long...long!

Hey, I did hair...and in the 80's we permed everyone, I think it was a rule. LOL

But now, my hair is just below my chin, long on top, layered and chunked out in back, and highlighted with kind of taupey honey color as I'm a level 3 brunette naturally. And, I like the a look of a lot of texture, so I love Styling products. Kind of messy looking really, but then I love that too!

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I also have to say...Duke Daarling... the Texture Waves (perms) that are coming out are really beautiful, But, it can be key that you find a stylist great at giving perms.

Cheers

I remember the Boz, that was awful. He used to paint colrs on the sides of his head (either red and white, the colors at Oklahoma, or blue and green, the colors he wore when he played for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks)

Just AWFUL.

Wow! I never thought this thread would be so popular.

You know what hair trend I hope DOES come back? 70's style Charlie's Angels dos. Is that called feathered??

Like the dumb sister on That 70's Show. I love her hair. Jackie on the same show has the same style, just different color.
I imagine the style would take more time in the morning than I am willing to spend.

Did any actual people achieve that style successfully in the 70's, or just TV and movie actresses with a stylist standing nearby at all times?

Didn't the Charlie's Angels look already make a comeback, a few years ago?
Looks really hard to keep looking good by yourself, though.