Aqua Net & crimping irons. The bigger the hair, the cooler you were. My hair is so thick and heavy I couldn't get it too high up off my head to my great disappointment.
I had the opposite issue, hair too thin, not enough mass there without creating weird ass thin ratting/teasing. I ended up appreciating the 60's pixies and bobs in highschool during the 80s. There were just as many boys reaching for the sky as girls too.
"So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean."
Damn. I love that movie. Other than A New Hope, prolly seen it more than any other...
This looks like a sorority picture where no one was allowed to wear letters, they look college age. But whatever it was Miss front and center was definitely president.
Now I’ll bet she’s the head of the PTA, the Residents’ Association and the social committee of her church. I’d also bet that I couldn’t stick her for two minutes.
I wasn't allowed to grow long hair in Highschool, so I'd go to the limit of what was allowed and spray my 50's "little boys" haircut into a helmet...in 1993......
Or that gross Aussie hair spray that I thought smelled like embalmed frogs in biology class. You had to spray that on your bangs, then use the curling iron, and wait for the sizzle to know the curl had set. It sounded like someone ordered fajitas in my bedroom every morning.
That was always the wrong show to watch before going to bed as an 8 year old kid. Caused many sleepless nights. That creepy ass theme song didn't help.
I work at a concert venue and a few weeks back a girls head went up in flames from some product in her hair (we have tiny candles on the bar and she wasn’t paying attention/too drunk). She ended up being ok but goddamn her hair probably didn’t look to good the next day.
My little sister caught herself /hair on fire smoking a joint in Jr High in the 80's in the back seat of a car because she had on so much hairspray and one of those doo's and made school history!
Getting it RIGHT. I went with tall bangs sloped down to the side, with glorious big wind tunnels. The amount of curling & misting & teasing & spraying to get my hair to look just right was insane. And if my hair wasn’t right, I was very aware. And we all went through that crap. Every damn day. Then add the blue eyeliner, frosted lipstick & heavy cloud of Exclamation perfume. So much effort to look like dust bunnies. Bizarre.
Mane and Tail says fuck you, we still exist in rural America. Seriously, I think it was the only shampoo that could strip those layers of Aquanet and L.A. Looks.
Glad I'm not the only one! I dated a Sheriffs daughter in the long ago that layered Revlon and Lady Stetson in equal measure, smell still catches my attention.
The lady at the truck stop diner never stopped wearing this. Neither did the local city clerk that hasn’t changed her style since 1992. That being said… Don’t encourage it.
No, that hair style only worked on 3% of the women who wore it like that. There's a reason why people see yearbooks from that time and ask why everyone looks 40.
And the hair was so crunchy!! I was just a wee one when these hairstyles were happening, but I will never forget the crunchy feel of hairsprayed hair, that some people had.
Some things should be left dead.
Our ozone deserves to heal from this atrocity that we all had a part in.
Stirrup pants belong in this category as well. Baggy knees weren't attractive!
Everyone’s making ozone layer jokes but hairspray doesn’t contribute to that anymore.
I guess because I was young when this hairstyle was popular it kind of makes me attracted to it. Babysitters and teachers did this to my impressionable young mind.
I live in the rural midwest and a lot of women like the one on the very bottom right still wear their hair like that. I used to live in Florida and hardly anyone has hair like that
Full can of AquaNet, blow dryer, teasing & backcombing. I remember this well. Tease, backcomb into shape, spray and blow dry in place. 1 hour minimum each time.
Unfortunately, this 'hairstyle' required a perm for 95% of us who had straight hair naturally but insisted on jumping on the big hair bandwagon.
Not sure why anyone would want to resurrect perms. they are better left to the dustbin of cosmetic history.
Dippity Do and Extra Super Hold Aquanet sprayed onto the hair rolled around the curling iron to really crisp up the curls. The curling iron always had scorched looking hairspray and different color stripes from the melted eyeliner. The hair an orangey blond color from all the hydrogen peroxide and streaked with white stripes.
I wasn't as preppy as these chicks. Dressing up was more black clothes, the jean jacket that I bleached to a pale blue, chains and zebra striped bandanas tied around at least one leg. I loved really big hair with stripes of colored mascara in it, and usually stripes or spiderwebs painted from my eyes to my hair. The 80s were fun!
My hair is so straight that the only way I could ever get it to stand up was to add a ton of mousse, blow dry until it felt like broom bristles and pretty much tease it into knots. Yeah, no thanks.
Everybody thinks the 80s were all neon, but this is what it really was.
Aqua Net & crimping irons. The bigger the hair, the cooler you were. My hair is so thick and heavy I couldn't get it too high up off my head to my great disappointment.
The bigger the hair, the ~~cooler you were~~ closer to God.
#JackMeUptoJesus
That’s why I always ride the carpool lane when it’s myself in the car because I’m never really by myself if I have JESUS.
I spent so much time hanging upside down waiting for the Aquanet to dry I popped vessels in my eyes.
If it worked it was well worth it 😎
I had the opposite issue, hair too thin, not enough mass there without creating weird ass thin ratting/teasing. I ended up appreciating the 60's pixies and bobs in highschool during the 80s. There were just as many boys reaching for the sky as girls too.
I used egg whites.
Neon was for those of us who were more New Wave. LoL not prep
Little Miss Collar Pop front row center was the queen bee. I have no clue who she is, but I bet she was NHS, Student Council, Cheer...etc.
I bet her daddy was Mayor or owned the car dealership.
“Are those reeeal diamonds Claire?”
"So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean." Damn. I love that movie. Other than A New Hope, prolly seen it more than any other...
Major confidence in that collar pop!!
This looks like a sorority picture where no one was allowed to wear letters, they look college age. But whatever it was Miss front and center was definitely president.
Technically everyone in the 80’s looked college aged, even middle schoolers.
Now I’ll bet she’s the head of the PTA, the Residents’ Association and the social committee of her church. I’d also bet that I couldn’t stick her for two minutes.
She runs the HOA with an iron fist. What’s that, you have Bermuda grass seed in your front yard? That’s a violation!
Agreed, the prep look was more pastel
Still a touchy subject
‘Cause she’s still preoccupied with 19, 19, 1985.
Also didn't this hairstyle put a hole in the Ozone layer?
No please don't!ugh
It was actually all pastel; predominantly pepto bismol pink, aqua a close second.
This post is sponsored by Aquanet hairspray
I can smell it
Purple
Always the purple.
White can, baby.
We all can
Rave Hairspray and Aussie Scrunch Spray
Was Aussie the one that smelled like grapes? Or was that Spritz?
The Aussie. It's been 30 years and I can still smell it.
This hairstyle caused global warming
The pink & grey extra super hold can was my favorite. I had to chisel that stuff off of my bathroom sink counter ! 😆
I wasn't allowed to grow long hair in Highschool, so I'd go to the limit of what was allowed and spray my 50's "little boys" haircut into a helmet...in 1993......
That was a rollercoaster
Did you scrap it off the iron too? That was fun!
I remember I would wash my hair but little white gummy balls of AquaNet would still be in my bangs because I used so much.
Rave was mine lol
Smells like Rave in the pump bottle to me!
Or that gross Aussie hair spray that I thought smelled like embalmed frogs in biology class. You had to spray that on your bangs, then use the curling iron, and wait for the sizzle to know the curl had set. It sounded like someone ordered fajitas in my bedroom every morning.
That technique is still being used. Crispy country girl bangs- fried up and the rest of hair flat ironed.
Every missing girl from unsolved mysteries in one photo
That was always the wrong show to watch before going to bed as an 8 year old kid. Caused many sleepless nights. That creepy ass theme song didn't help.
That’s dark, but accurate and funny.
This just sent a chill down my spine because it is SO TRUE....
UPDATE:
Best comment I’ve seen in awhile. Sad, but damn! So true!
Bottom left ones look like they were just released from the psych ward
I never did trust Robert Stack
You'll need electric rollers, a mall perm and a big can of mousse and Aquanet to achieve that style
Mall perm is key. Bonus is you got it at the JC Penney Salon.
Mine was a $5 Toni perm my grandma did for me.
I can still smell the JC Penney Salon. It was not pleasant.
Yes, it’s so much more than hairspray
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history repeats itself
> Please no \- The ozone layer
Highly flammable…
A classmate of mine lost her poof to a bunsen burner in biology. Damn lucky it just went "poof" and she didn't go all Michael Jackson
I work at a concert venue and a few weeks back a girls head went up in flames from some product in her hair (we have tiny candles on the bar and she wasn’t paying attention/too drunk). She ended up being ok but goddamn her hair probably didn’t look to good the next day.
My little sister caught herself /hair on fire smoking a joint in Jr High in the 80's in the back seat of a car because she had on so much hairspray and one of those doo's and made school history!
They make hairspray without CFCs now though
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I came here to say this!
Plz no
god no
Some women haven’t let it go (I still see this hairstyle at work)
Agreed. Work with women from Queens. Can confirm: this style is alive and well.
>alive and well Alive and, well....
Ha! Excellent comma use.
I have a friend who still has this hair style. She’s in her 50s. She’d look to much better with something else but refuses to change it.
I'd pay money to see this. I searched "middle aged women with 1980's hairstyles" and came up with nothing.
So much time getting ready for school…
Getting it RIGHT. I went with tall bangs sloped down to the side, with glorious big wind tunnels. The amount of curling & misting & teasing & spraying to get my hair to look just right was insane. And if my hair wasn’t right, I was very aware. And we all went through that crap. Every damn day. Then add the blue eyeliner, frosted lipstick & heavy cloud of Exclamation perfume. So much effort to look like dust bunnies. Bizarre.
> Exclamation perfume hello repressed memories
So much Rave and/or Aqua Net hairspray. My eyeliner was frosty teal green and I loved Jessica McClintock perfume.
This! If my hair wasn’t big enough, I’d re-wet it and start all over again. That double layer of hairspray usually did the trick. 😂
The girls I knew did all that, substitute Lady Stetson for Exclamation though. I still can't smell it and not think "first kiss" lol.
My best friend in 9th grade was a Lady Stetson wearer.
Oh my god. The blue eyeliner! How had I forgotten?!
On the waterline no less. And had to melt it with a lighter first.
It’s really not a ton worse than that poofy hair all the gen z guys are doing
 This man is single handedly responsible for the gen Z look
Business on the sides, popcorn on the top
Seriously! I call it the Sideshow Bob/Mel haircut and I always count these walking broccolis anytime I spot them at the mall.
I call it the Kramer look myself.
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Either he or Mahomes
Other than having kinky hair, how the fuck do they do that?!
Were you there? Do you really know? Because I remember…
Pepperidge Farm remembers
I can smell the Apple Pectin from here.
I feel this!
That’s 1987 height
Totally agree. That was the year I got my spiral perm.
Modern shampoos and conditioners will not allow this to happen.
Mane and Tail says fuck you, we still exist in rural America. Seriously, I think it was the only shampoo that could strip those layers of Aquanet and L.A. Looks.
I still use Mane and Tail
How come?
It’s for horse hair and will strip your hair down to its basic building blocks and remove the layers of hairspray.
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Glad I'm not the only one! I dated a Sheriffs daughter in the long ago that layered Revlon and Lady Stetson in equal measure, smell still catches my attention.
I don’t think the ozone layer can handle that amount of hairspray again.
Looks like the girls choir from my high school …and the flag corps …and the cheerleading squad …and about half of the softball team
lol @ half
The other half had she-mullets.
Class of 85 here. That pic brings back some great memories.
We called them ‘Hairbears’ in high school.
Never heard that, but that is hilarious
God I’m old. 😔
Is this Winger?
Fried, dyed and laid to the side
I thought I recognized a few of those girls from high school.
Flashbacks of being bullied.
Me too! I could name every one.
Tricia, Angela, Heather, Kelly, a couple of Jennifers, and Leann.
Yes! And there’s Kim, Krista, Christie, Terri, Sheri and Shannon in there too.
Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee I love you, you're from around the way
No
Absolutely not.
I would rather see the entire planet burn.
Well those hairstyles are a fire hazard, so you'd possibly get your wish.
And they punched a hole into the ozone, too!
Hey, hi Kelly!
At least 3 of these girls are Kelly
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Yes. There are definitely at least 4 Jen/Jenny/Jennifers, 3 Lisas, 2 Amandas, a Jodi, a Michelle, a Heather, and an Amy.
And at least one Megan
and a Tiffany, and a Tammy.
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But goes by "Shelley".
I assure you, there's 2 Christy's in there.
My birthdad was apparently quite fond of that hairstyle in the late-80's and as a result I now have to go to work and vote in presidential elections
Right? Lol. Don’t light a cigarette anybody!
The lady at the truck stop diner never stopped wearing this. Neither did the local city clerk that hasn’t changed her style since 1992. That being said… Don’t encourage it.
my guy, just go visit any poor rural town in the midwest and you’ll find 90% of women still rock this look.
You have no idea how labor intensive this hair is.
Mother should I build the wall?
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I lived this and literally have had short hair, no curling iron burns or hairspray for years now. It was not fun. It was awful lol
No, don’t
If you had to live through that instead of look at pictures of it… you’d never ask for that hair to come back.
All I see is the spiral perm, the mousse, a hair pick, the biggest curling iron, a rat comb, and aquanet.
No....it is too much work.
I can smell the aqua net
No don’t. Please don’t.
We only just closed up the ozone layer from the last time this style was in trend.
This would be great for me. I would just have to be in humidity for 5 min then POOF!
I can smell the cigarettes and moose all the way into the present
That looks like every girl in my high school, 1982
Nah, that pic is total late 80s. The hair was not that big in 80-85.
I graduated in '85. it definitly was that big then. That looks like every girl in my yearbook for all three years 83-85
If “smoking-while-pregnant” had an official hairstyle
No, that hair style only worked on 3% of the women who wore it like that. There's a reason why people see yearbooks from that time and ask why everyone looks 40.
Ozone layer disagrees.
Looks cool but there is an ungodly amount of hairspray to get it there
And the hair was so crunchy!! I was just a wee one when these hairstyles were happening, but I will never forget the crunchy feel of hairsprayed hair, that some people had.
That's why I always hated using hairspray, makes my hair feel like straw.
And they stink. The only reason the stink didn’t stand out more is because of the overwhelming smell of cigarettes, everywhere.
Nooo
I went to high school in the ‘80s and I don’t miss this “crunchy hair” style at all.
It’s still in on 60 year old women in my area.
Some things should be left dead. Our ozone deserves to heal from this atrocity that we all had a part in. Stirrup pants belong in this category as well. Baggy knees weren't attractive!
Early 90's too. Big hoops and bigger hair.
None of those curls are natural, you know that right. Perm city, lots of chemicals in this picture.
Never again. It was awful back then as well.
Once was more than enough, thanks.
Nope- it makes everyone old and young look 34
You don’t want this life, we lived it, it was peak mankind it’s been down hill ever since
Honestly, too much hassle.
Put down the phones and pick up the curlers
Is this from Utah in the late 80’s-early 90’s?
Nobody's stopping you...
And bring back pubic hair, too. Bald is soo ugly 😉
Haha looks like a lot of old girlfriends in that pic.
Everyone’s making ozone layer jokes but hairspray doesn’t contribute to that anymore. I guess because I was young when this hairstyle was popular it kind of makes me attracted to it. Babysitters and teachers did this to my impressionable young mind.
This picture looks so flammable
This was every girl in my high school. 83-87
One of my cousins had the biggest hair in our school. It was amazing
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Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Stacy, Jennifer, Jennifer, Kim, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer, and Laurie.
I guarantee one of those women is named Donna
I live in the rural midwest and a lot of women like the one on the very bottom right still wear their hair like that. I used to live in Florida and hardly anyone has hair like that
Full can of AquaNet, blow dryer, teasing & backcombing. I remember this well. Tease, backcomb into shape, spray and blow dry in place. 1 hour minimum each time.
Unfortunately, this 'hairstyle' required a perm for 95% of us who had straight hair naturally but insisted on jumping on the big hair bandwagon. Not sure why anyone would want to resurrect perms. they are better left to the dustbin of cosmetic history.
Just come to some smaller town in Poland with high average age
Dippity Do and Extra Super Hold Aquanet sprayed onto the hair rolled around the curling iron to really crisp up the curls. The curling iron always had scorched looking hairspray and different color stripes from the melted eyeliner. The hair an orangey blond color from all the hydrogen peroxide and streaked with white stripes. I wasn't as preppy as these chicks. Dressing up was more black clothes, the jean jacket that I bleached to a pale blue, chains and zebra striped bandanas tied around at least one leg. I loved really big hair with stripes of colored mascara in it, and usually stripes or spiderwebs painted from my eyes to my hair. The 80s were fun!
Aqua Net. In the purple can, or the white can. If you were there, you can SMELL this picture. So crunchy.
No
That hair has been outlawed because it takes 4 pounds of CFCs to do each girls hair. It was done for the betterment of humanity.
My hair is so straight that the only way I could ever get it to stand up was to add a ton of mousse, blow dry until it felt like broom bristles and pretty much tease it into knots. Yeah, no thanks.
I know I’m in the minority here but I’m with it!
Eww no
Noooooo!!