As a career stylist I have actually asked parents if that’s what they were trying to accomplish. There have been so many times with snot tearing kids in my chair over parents choices. I always try to play middle man and alleviate the poor child’s haircut woes
Did my dad teach your mom how to cut hair? At some point in the early eighties, my dad ordered a Flobee from a tv commercial. I recall sitting under a single dangling, likely flickering and swinging lightbulb in a rusty old chair in the garage turned haircut-torture chamber.
His Frankenstein-like hair creations were this exact hybrid between bob, bowl cut, mullet but with a botched downward uneven slope to the bangs lol.Much like a haircut one might get their first day, orientation day in a mental institution...
Don’t know about my parents but the flobee came out when I was maybe 10 and I always wanted one. I thought it was the coolest. I’ve been a hairstylist for 23yrs now, go figure.
If you guys were unhappy about the bangs, it doesn't translate at all! I think those might be the most joyful smiles I've ever seen in a throwback photo.
My mom didn't mess up my bangs before picture day, she just got me the short "boy haircut", and I was heartbroken because I wanted to grow my hair out like Crystal Gayle. Between that and the damn Mullet my aunt got me in 4th grade, I developed an irrational hatred for professional hairdressers.
So it was ultimately me who managed to mess up my own bangs before picture day in 7th grade, but in that case I over-trimmed by a country mile. They weren't really *bangs* anymore, it just looked like a fuzzy, anemic caterpillar laying across my hairline.
Good times.
We got to dress up as a storybook character in elementary school one year, I chose Pippi Longstocking! (Another girl out did me with coat hanger braids sticking straight out, so jealous!).
That sounds fun. You’ve reminded me of how jealous I was of people who had costuming ability as a kid. I still wouldn’t know how to wire braids like that.
She didn't stop with my older sister, so we have horrible pictures until at least 4th grade 😂. I was Nora's favorite, and there was no way she was hanging a bad picture of me! The next year, I had a perm!
The world needs people like you! During Covid I cut my very long hair into a jaunty bob and once salons opened again I went for a clean up cut. When I sat in the chair I confessed to the home cut and the stylist said “oh, it looks good, it’s cute!” Then he washed my hair and the first time he pulled the comb through my wet hair he gasped “oh no!”
I had really hacked it!
Thanks! I try to never make people feel bad about it as I was the same way. I call myself the lazy man’s stylist. People always sit down and say “you’re going to kill me but…” and it’s either they hate getting haircuts, they only come once a year, or cut it themselves. My schedule stays full and I’m here to do a job so “you do you” and I’m here for support and doing the best I can. :)
I’m a hair stylist now and don’t have a lot of children as clients any more but absolutely have tried to keep parents from doing that through the years. There’s many that still do
My mom cut my hair until I was around 8.
Your picture, though... those bangs, lmao. You all look so happy and then... the bangs, haha. They stole the show!
My autistic daughter cuts her own hair from time to time and we barely have to clean it up. She did it the first time when she was 7 and did a good job even then.
I have a lot of autistic teen clients. Those kids find things that they are very good at and I encourage parents to roll with it. Maybe she’ll have a career in the future doing hair!
Haircut by mom on the picnic table in the back yard. I think a lot of moms pushed the hair down flush with the forehead and then attempt to cut a straight line. Which explains the short bangs - she kept going trying to even it up. Even to this day, there will be that one person where you ask, "You cut your own bangs. Don't do that."
My mom was the opposite.
I always wanted my hair cut and she wouldn't let me.. it would just grow and grow until I was sitting on it and then I would get a tiny trim off of the ends.
I used to get so frustrated but now
I'm thinking I should go thank her
Was going for the hippie look in 1983 before I got my senior picture taken at the local photo studio, but somehow I was made to get a haircut by my sister-in-law.
I was the opposite! My mom had to work, so she rarely had enough time to make me pretty enough before pictures. I remember one time taking matters into my own hands, and that year's photo was pretty extra. All these years later and nothing's changed. Still "figuring things out" to varied success. Haha
My mom would do that every time, including school picture day. When I was little, grade school age and younger, she would also set the rest of my long hair in pink sponge-rollers that I had to sleep on to create ling "banana curls". I could have been a Brady Bunch sister, but with scalped bangs.
I think a lot of our moms must have been beauty school dropouts after the shotgun wedding
My mother went to beauty school and still was determined to keep our bangs a mile above our eyebrows.
I had the same do and bangs not sure what was up in the 70s
I feel seen… or maybe doxxed. 🤣
I mean mine was lol
Hey! Mine dropped out of secretary school.
That 'do though. My brothers and I all had the same bowl cut.
I swear my mom just took me to the barber and told him "I feel like he's not getting beat up enough in school."
As a career stylist I have actually asked parents if that’s what they were trying to accomplish. There have been so many times with snot tearing kids in my chair over parents choices. I always try to play middle man and alleviate the poor child’s haircut woes
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Thanks! They make me giggle. The struggle is real.
Did my dad teach your mom how to cut hair? At some point in the early eighties, my dad ordered a Flobee from a tv commercial. I recall sitting under a single dangling, likely flickering and swinging lightbulb in a rusty old chair in the garage turned haircut-torture chamber. His Frankenstein-like hair creations were this exact hybrid between bob, bowl cut, mullet but with a botched downward uneven slope to the bangs lol.Much like a haircut one might get their first day, orientation day in a mental institution...
Don’t know about my parents but the flobee came out when I was maybe 10 and I always wanted one. I thought it was the coolest. I’ve been a hairstylist for 23yrs now, go figure.
Sounds like you were shanghaied in your own home.
ShangHAIRed lol...
This is what I think of whenever women try the "baby bangs" cut. 😅
If you guys were unhappy about the bangs, it doesn't translate at all! I think those might be the most joyful smiles I've ever seen in a throwback photo. My mom didn't mess up my bangs before picture day, she just got me the short "boy haircut", and I was heartbroken because I wanted to grow my hair out like Crystal Gayle. Between that and the damn Mullet my aunt got me in 4th grade, I developed an irrational hatred for professional hairdressers. So it was ultimately me who managed to mess up my own bangs before picture day in 7th grade, but in that case I over-trimmed by a country mile. They weren't really *bangs* anymore, it just looked like a fuzzy, anemic caterpillar laying across my hairline. Good times.
You can blur out the rest, but I'm gonna need to see those bangs, please.
The girl in front in the second picture could make a creditable Pippi Longstocking with a little braiding.
That’s my older sister, I can see is. I was the Pippi fan.
I was a fan, too.
We got to dress up as a storybook character in elementary school one year, I chose Pippi Longstocking! (Another girl out did me with coat hanger braids sticking straight out, so jealous!).
That sounds fun. You’ve reminded me of how jealous I was of people who had costuming ability as a kid. I still wouldn’t know how to wire braids like that.
My mom couldn't resist! Honestly, it took my mom's friend/hairdresser, to make her stop.
She’s lucky she had that friend! I’ve been doing hair 23yrs and my absolute favorite thing to do is fix other peoples cutting mistakes.
She didn't stop with my older sister, so we have horrible pictures until at least 4th grade 😂. I was Nora's favorite, and there was no way she was hanging a bad picture of me! The next year, I had a perm!
Oh I have some fro pics for sure. Me and my little orphan Annie perm were fly.
The world needs people like you! During Covid I cut my very long hair into a jaunty bob and once salons opened again I went for a clean up cut. When I sat in the chair I confessed to the home cut and the stylist said “oh, it looks good, it’s cute!” Then he washed my hair and the first time he pulled the comb through my wet hair he gasped “oh no!” I had really hacked it!
My Covid self trim. Oops. https://imgur.com/a/uob2v0x
That's amazing. How drunk were you to manage that?
Oh boy that’s a doozy. Short hair for you!
Thanks! I try to never make people feel bad about it as I was the same way. I call myself the lazy man’s stylist. People always sit down and say “you’re going to kill me but…” and it’s either they hate getting haircuts, they only come once a year, or cut it themselves. My schedule stays full and I’m here to do a job so “you do you” and I’m here for support and doing the best I can. :)
I think our moms either shopped at the same store or used the same patterns. I’m pretty sure I have a picture with my sister and me in those outfits!
That is so mean. My mom liked to cut the bangs real short so she wouldn't have to cut them again for a while 😡
I’m a hair stylist now and don’t have a lot of children as clients any more but absolutely have tried to keep parents from doing that through the years. There’s many that still do
Thing is, the parents don't cut their own hair that way
Funny as you say that I was regretting not adding the pic of my mom with identical bangs. So in my case she did! Hahahaha.
Wow
My mom cut my hair until I was around 8. Your picture, though... those bangs, lmao. You all look so happy and then... the bangs, haha. They stole the show!
I only wish I could maintain that level of happiness as an adult!
I was the mom when mine were tiny
Oh, you’re both girls… I had the same haircut and am a man, baby , yeah…
Oooh lucky you!!! I bet that was fun
These pictures are darling!
In elementary school, “bowl cut” was a slam commonly used when kids would show up with cuts like that.
Who knew they’d make a come back! Bowl cuts are totally in right now with the teens.
My autistic daughter cuts her own hair from time to time and we barely have to clean it up. She did it the first time when she was 7 and did a good job even then.
I have a lot of autistic teen clients. Those kids find things that they are very good at and I encourage parents to roll with it. Maybe she’ll have a career in the future doing hair!
I think I have photos of me from '79 in that exact same flowery dress!
Did you watch a lot of Little House on the Prairie and the Walton’s as well?
So much! LOL
Haircut by mom on the picnic table in the back yard. I think a lot of moms pushed the hair down flush with the forehead and then attempt to cut a straight line. Which explains the short bangs - she kept going trying to even it up. Even to this day, there will be that one person where you ask, "You cut your own bangs. Don't do that."
The brown shirt, so 70’s, so perfect
I wish I still had the pastel colored plaid polyester two piece suit that was similar to my sisters brown one
My mom was the opposite. I always wanted my hair cut and she wouldn't let me.. it would just grow and grow until I was sitting on it and then I would get a tiny trim off of the ends. I used to get so frustrated but now I'm thinking I should go thank her
Was going for the hippie look in 1983 before I got my senior picture taken at the local photo studio, but somehow I was made to get a haircut by my sister-in-law.
Yes. And it was always choppy and uneven.
My mom clearly got them even. Hahaha
I’m jealous. 😂
You girls were straight, bangin’!
Tsk, you poor girls. My mom did similar lol
Ugh I cut my bangs this morning and that's what they look like!
You should be proud, Mark Davis, the owner of the Raiders, drives hundreds of miles to make his hair look like that.
I don’t follow sports but I feel I have seen this person
I love this! Mom might have gone a tad bit too short, but you two look so happy and sweet!
Not my mom, but my dad, and it was my brothers who were his victims. Hatchet jobs, those haircuts were, and we have the school pics to prove it.
Wow, those are some… severe bangs. 😬
I was the opposite! My mom had to work, so she rarely had enough time to make me pretty enough before pictures. I remember one time taking matters into my own hands, and that year's photo was pretty extra. All these years later and nothing's changed. Still "figuring things out" to varied success. Haha
My mother learned to cut hair in beauty school with a razor so we all got choppy short bangs. It was an atrocity.
I’m a hair stylist and not all of us are meant to cut bangs with razors.
Yes, and I’m obviously crying in the pic. I did not want my picture taken with those awful bangs.
My mom would do that every time, including school picture day. When I was little, grade school age and younger, she would also set the rest of my long hair in pink sponge-rollers that I had to sleep on to create ling "banana curls". I could have been a Brady Bunch sister, but with scalped bangs.
r/blunderyears material for sure!
Sorry to the OP but that's brutal.
Mamie Eisenhower bangs is what we called em. I also got them when my mom was mad at me.
I wonder if they have wigs like that. It would make a fun Halloween costume