But looked okay on me. Told hairdresser to cut my hair in the style of Roxanne onTV serial, Dark Shadows.

We tried it out on our Barbies first by hanging them upside down. It worked and looked OK, so she said she wanted me to try. She hung her head over the side of her bed and I chopped away. Didn't quite look the same. It wasn't my idea so I didn't let her do mine. She spent a bit of time with our neighbor who was in hairdressing school to fix it up.

around all the gathered hair and cut right under the band and the hair fell back in place. Not what I was expecting.

me to come home and came out after I started bawling.

Prior to that we ironed our hair…

I thought I was very chic back in the 80s

OMG, I looked like The Bad Seed kid!!!

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I'm convinced that my parents purposely chose that look for me as I was regarded as the family trouble-maker. And thus, I was "the bad seed" of my family.

And they are still amongst us!

I would have had it collar length if she had let me have it the way I wanted it.

In the 90s my wife wanted me to grow it out enough to tie it into a ponytail and one night the older stepson came home with his head shaved and that's when I decided to grow it longer. I still have it in a ponytail, but the hairline is a little higher.

I can't believe I used to have it that long. Emulating my older rocker brother. It was uncomfortable and didn't look very good (because I put no effort in keeping it up). Not styled in any fashion just long.

I do have really good hair and only have a little gray even at 61. My mom, who had my type of hair, grayed suddenly around 70 so I guess I have that to look forward to. At least no balding for now (unlike my brother's monkey a__ on the back of his head (his words - not mine)).

with the ears cut out. It was all the rage in the 80's. Even my husband had a perm at the time.

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...up my forehead. I cringe when I look at elementary school pictures of myself.

By junior high, I had some say in the matter. Ever since, my bangs must be touching my eyebrows or I feel shorn.

Or it could have been when I used Sun In on my dark brown hair. It makes pretty highlights on blond hair, but turns brown hair to orange.

a good idea because my hair was (and still is) fine and unmanageable and I resisted getting it braided or otherwise messed with. So I had to get the pixie cut, absolutely hated it, cried and carried on, was mortified to have to go to school. I didn't look like a boy; I looked like a homely little girl with glasses and ears that stuck out. It seemed like it took forever for that disaster to grow out.

a short order cook in the college cafeteria and would end my shift needing to wash the grease out of my hair. So I went from shoulder length hair to a shag. My hair is thick and curly. It was such a mistake.

Growing it out was horrendous and I vowed never to cut it short again. So my hair length in the past 50 years has alternated from below the shoulders to waist length. It’s in between that now.

angles. It was awful .

She was gone for hours and then when she proudly strutted through the door my Dad exclaimed, "All that money just to look like you're going gray!"

Against her brunette hair it did look like gray throughout.
She never did it again.
Sounds like you just managed to lighten your locks to the orange stage. It needed serious toning. Most home streaks looked similar.

That is all.

for it.

burned and frizzed. :/

Thought I would cut it myself but after I got started, my hip steroid injection for arthritis went into a flare so I had to wack it off as fast as I could so I could collapse. There is no saving it - just grow it out I guess.

Had a D.A!!!!

That was enough. Harassed mercilessly. WTF??

I had it for the "rock star" look in an 80s band.
It was unpopular with the EVPs of the company.

Long full hair and a full beard. they made him cut it all off to a business man look.

Then Prince, then Michael, and other R&B stars.
Mine wasn't as tight, as I'm not black & it was long-ish.
In that last band, the look was Italian suits, so I cut it shorter (making the VPs happy), combed straight back.
I still wear it that way today, except I've got a 10" ponytail in back. That would have annoyed the VPs, too. But, I retired first!

The 80-85 gigs a year started bumping against an incessant travel schedule for my job.
I was 51 & it was getting to be too much. We were together 20 years, so it wasn't like we pulled the plug too soon.
The guys and I still hosted some jam nights after we wrapped it up, though.
I've done a few solo acoustic gigs & sat in on keys with a band who are pals of mine.
But, nothing regular.
I play for my own enjoyment & to continue to get better.
I have a list of songs I need to record, which I may do this winter. I haven't recorded in 2 or 3 years, so I'm due.

I wear it long and all one length. In the eighties I had it cut to my shoulders and permed. That didn’t last long.

French braids.

So I had wavy sections and straight sections. Luckily I was able to blow it all out straight and let it grow back.

I called the 1 800 #clarol phone number on the instructions and they told me what dye to get to reverse it. Worked like a charm.

Crimping. They still sell crimpers and crimped hair looks awful



I sported a 80's half pomp lob but with bangs for a brief time (think a slight punk style)



The rest of the 80's my bangs were teased sky high and the sides of my hair were teased it looked like I had wings and was about ready to fly away. Lots of teased hair volume, lots of hairspray. Bad hair day? Tease it some more and add more hairspray, make it higher ...it's fine

A lot of photos of those in high school yearbooks.

Apologies to the B-52s

After Star Wars was released in 1977, every guy my age (nine) in the neighborhood wanted to look like Luke Skywalker. So we grew our hair out in the classic 1970’s disco shag. My career military officer father complained, but didn’t force me to cut it.

Now that I’m almost completely bald, I wear my bald-fringe Marine-short.

When I was in the third grade, my mother let my high school age sister dye my hair blonde so that I could look like the coolest guy on TV, namely Illya kuryakin, the Man from UNCLE. I think I even had a turtleneck like he wore occasionally in the show.

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I have fine hair and I went to get a perm.

They left the crap in my hair too long and it came out sticking straight up and all frizzy!

I was so upset!

The "stylist" saw my expression and asked me what did I think.

I was speechless and then she asked me if I ever did acid.

I replied, "No I have not but after this mess maybe I should!".

Another big failure was the "box" haircut. Very short and popular in the early 1960s. It was a plain short haircut and made your hair look like a box, hence the name. Ugh.

That was at Penney's . Went to my regular and they fixed it.

My dad took a picture to remind me of how dumb it looked 😄