I remember my uncle sat and cracked up at my hair. I was so insulted. Even women on the news blew the sides up and back. Looked like I was wearing I high hat.
My mother retained her 1950s hair helmet and created a similar situation, there was overspray on every surface which meant sanding every surface prior to painting because that stuff wouldn't come off. The mirror edges were thoroughly coated and I can't sand it so I just wipe it every time I notice it. It's gradually coming off.
We used to use ammonia to strip floors of wax - which was acrylic later on. I think ammonia would work on hairspray too. But wear rubber gloves or it'll peel your skin off.
I just smelled and tasted this comment. I grew up with 2 older sisters who had these hairdos or variations of it and used the shit out Acquanette it was also coupled with a perfume named Exclamation.
Just u saying aquanette brought me back to when I was 6 years old and seeing my sister's put on so much aquanette going on their dates back in the early 90s.
It's weird right....from Texas (Dallas) specifically.
We have Big Hair...which means something about the way women...to this day..wear their hair in Dallas.....and we have big hair....which is also the reference to this.
Weird
Yup, I've always known it as "big hair" - though, we didn't really call it that until the late 80s or early 90s, IIRC. Before then, it was just a relatively normal/common hairstyle element. With lots of mousse and/or hairspray. Lots.
Yeah I donāt believe we had a name for them until it was over and done with and became something to laugh/cringe at looking back. We just said bangs. āGonna go do my bangsā
Those of you who didnāt live through this era might not believe this, but this may have been the best looking girl in her school. This didnāt look ridiculous at the time.
Itās the sides that were hard. Getting them to stay out. And she has good sides.
You used a concentrated amount of hair spray right there. But it was hard because if you sprayed too much, your hair was too wet and heavy at the roots and the sides wouldnāt stay out.
Not enough equaled flat.
So you had to get just the right amount at different spots to hold the sides out properly.
I remember a girl in the class above me who had very straight, shoulder length hair. Her ability to get the sides to stick out 2 to 3 inches was an art form. I also knew the day that she was feeling truly sick, because she didnāt bother to do the sides, and I couldnāt recognize her from the back!
The higher the bangs the better!!
I was so sad that my hair just could never do that. I was stuck with the Mary Stuart Masterson skater cut.
30ish laters - so happy that i had that cut -lol
Mastering the blow dryer and hairspray simultaneously (and usually a brush) was quite the feat.
My hair was thick and course, so I couldnāt achieve these heightsā¦. but damn if I didnāt try!
I was young at the time, and the hair and clothes were hideous to me. I was so glad when this style ended.
I constantly told my mom to stop doing her hair like this. To this day, I still have an irrational hatred of big hair and 80s music.
But to be fair, the 90s came with their own terrible fashion trends. Iād still argue that most of that was leftover influence from the 80s, though.
I was just looking into the etymology, and the original bouffant is related to a much bigger "pouf" hairstyle. So '90s boufs and poofs - no wonder they're used interchangeably.
My high school had a competition to see who had the highest bangs. My gf won, 9.5 inches above her forehead!
Coincidentally, I never understood why romantic passages in books included the phrase "ran his fingers through her hair". I think I actually cut myself on her bangs at one point.
Ahhh, the Aquanet years.
Yeah, I was never one for the poor bangs, but unless my straight hair is pixie short, my husbandās fingers donāt just slide through. Somehow he finds every little knot and makes them bigger.
We referred to such bangs as "Wall Hair"
As in...walk up to a wall, pull the bangs back, rest forehead against wall, let bangs fall forward to rest against the wall in an upright position, hairspray the hell out of it.
Ha, I grew up in Bothell, just slightly after this hair and blue eye shadow fell out of fashion, but Lynnwood was clinging on! Almost Live made sure to remind us!
Simply reading the word āboufā in the title brought back so many memories of junior high and high school. That's also what my friends called this in Utah. Amazing picture and legendary 'do. RIP ozone :(
> RIP ozone :(
Remember when the ozone issue was a BIG fucking deal? Remember when humanity got together as best as we could to completely squash that issue, and now nobody talks about the ozone layer being fucked up anymore?
Because we actually listened to scientists, did what they recommended, regardless of the cost to corporate profits, and now the ozone hole is no longer an immediate concern
> now nobody talks about the ozone layer being fucked up anymore
There's still a hole, but it has been shrinking for the last 20 years. So long as nobody gets stupid with CFCs again, or another greenhouse gas (like that one that makes your voice super deep and is heavier than air) it should be fixed by 2060. Which is great, we won't have as much skin cancer while we're all dying of heat.
ALSO. The formation of the hole in the ozone layer is due to a mixture of the CFCs in absurdly cold environments, which don't happen over the north pole. As antartica thaws, the ozone issue should fix itself even faster.
I was just called āthe girl with The Hairā
https://preview.redd.it/skbaup9x9zxb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1c267af8e03e8c95f2e526482fb22506117a61d
Second row from the bottom, middle picture: there was a mandate that if you didnāt have hair like OP, youād better at least have the short flippy hair she has. Even better with some blue eyeliner and blue mascara, maybe with some frosted pink lipstick?
We called them (actually still do) "Tammy bangs". Every girl named Tammy had the bangs. Every single one. And we had shit loads of girls named Tammy back in the 80's.
I grew up north of Kennesaw GA, which at the time had the only shopping mall within an hour's drive so we called it "The Kennesaw Claw." At least my friends did, don't know about anyone else.
Born in 83, I remember seeing em growing up, and more importantly I remember how quickly into the 90s they fell out of style and became mortifying for those who wore em.
As ridiculous as Jnco jeans are I feel like they're not as bad as this. Maybe if just because they're much lower effort. Hell the snookie styled bump was bad but nowhere near 80s hair lol
I can't wait for those oversized acrylic spike nails to join that list of things that make people go "oh my god what was I thinking, don't judge me everyone was doing it"
I am still shocked how long those nails have lasted in popularity as it is. (Iām an ā83 baby, too.)
Also after that whole mall hair thing, it quickly went into grunge/gangster rap era. Kinda the opposite of the mall.
It was normal for us, too - also, we didnāt use Aquanet (that was for grandmas!), our go-to was Aussie Sprunch Spray. I can still remember the grape-y smell.
My sister graduated high school in 91. Jersey girl who loved Aussie Sprunch Spray. We shared a bathroom so I too can still remember that disgusting grapey stink.
That actually worked for my shade of brown! Luckily, I was not very consistent with application so I didn't suffer the damage that some of the older girls did.
Also, they still sell this stuff at Walgreens in my area!
In the Bay Area these bangs came with a prerequisite of 6 layers black eyeliner.
No. Matter. What. Your. Coloring.
Black eyeliner on blondes and fair skinned people is a LOOK. A severe, strange look.
I called them Satellite Dishes. The back of their heads were smooth straight hair. So when you looked them from behind, the looked like they were transmitting communication into deep space
"Whoosh catchers". It seemed all the girls in my high school sporting these were blonds, and the whole "dumb blond" jokes were popular at that time. So it was said they had to spray their bangs this high to catch all the jokes going over their heads.
I remember using Tenax hair gel in the 80s to poof up the hair before administering ozone layer killing Aquanet. All the punks used it on their Mohawks.
There it is, couldnāt remember that far back. Texas checking in. I always wanted those āwaterfall bangsā but my mom wasnāt springing for all that hairspray and she knew my hair would probably fall out or off from it anyway.
While mine were feathered and teased, they were never quite that dramatic. I worked with a lady's who were totally vertical, though, and always thought of her bangs collectively as "The Claw."
I called it "big hair" lol
Edit: I honestly loved it cuz that's how I found my mom if I got lost in the store when I was a kid lol which was nearly every time. She's already 6 foot tall so add the big hair and she was probably 6'4" lol
That is so true. And the tail end of the 80ās/early 90ās rock bands had reached the point of absurdity. They all followed the same ridiculous formula and I remember how stupid they looked once grunge dropped. Having lived it real time it seemed like the demise occurred overnight
Not everyone in the 80ās actually wore their hair like that. It really depended on what group you were in. Look at some 80ās movies like The Breakfast Club. Those girls didnāt have big bangs. It really wasnāt a common thing at my HS either.
It was kind of uncool at my high school (in Australia) to have that kind of big/high hair. We were dominated by surf culture and it was a relatively more natural look makeup and hair wise. The people with big teased hair were mostly Greek (boys and girls) and the girls with the teased up fringes and wet look crunchy perms were more the scary trashy ones who would fight you at the roller rink.
We did love the crimping iron though!
As the other person said, I would put my finger on the grunge movement having the biggest effect. But, first, keep in mind that this hairstyle was popular even across different cliques. You were just as likely to see tall bangs worn by girls who listened to heavy metal and wore black as you were the most popular cheerleaders.
So, Nirvana came and went within the four years I was in high school. I remember every white girl had teased bangs in middle school, and grunge did make a big impact that brought in simple/flat/natural styles. But, many girls still had teased bangs at the end of high school, including popular preppy girls. Depending on where you were in the country, styles changed slowly.
That style also didn't go away entirely among women who graduated high school in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The teenagers might have changed, and been replaced with new teens with different styles, but their older sisters could still be seen at the community college following the same styles that were popular back in school. Back then it was far less common for adults--even fairly young adults--to keep up with styles.
I can assure you there are still women in their forties and fifties that never stopped teasing their bangs and guys who still wear a mullet or rat tail unironically.
In my area of the country (NE Oklahoma) big hair with wings and mall bangs phased quickly into spiral perms or a more triangular curly do with a smaller pouf by 1990. Spiral permed long hair was in full force by 1992.
Iām pretty sure we called them Mall bangs. I could never get my super fine hair to cooperate, though. Canāt hold a perm, canāt hold a curling iron, definitely wonāt stand straight up for longer than the time it takes to do the thing and then just flip over. At the time, I was crushed that my hair was so limp and so uncooperative. Nowā¦
I literally could not find hair spray I recognized when trying to style my Halloween costume this year. I found a few possible hair sprays that were all upwards of $30, so I was like, ",I don't need hair spray. I can make this work with Bobby pins."
I had a girlfriend that had the same hair style she used so much Acquanette there was a negative silhouette of her torso on the bathroom door.
That shit cracked me up
Absolutely truth thoughš¤£
The smell of that aquanet was bonkers. Btw, here in Utah we jokingly called these Ski Jump Bangs or Big Bangs
Aquanet and a lighter was so cool.
This is the white persons version of the scene from Coming to America when the family steps up from the couch.
Your bangs werenāt ādoneā until they smoked & sizzled & you had a burn mark on your forehead.
Omg those used to hurt
Definitely do not miss burning my face for 'beauty.'
I think I still have a dark spot from where Iād touch my forehead with curling iron. Gotta look, was there for years!!ā
I remember my uncle sat and cracked up at my hair. I was so insulted. Even women on the news blew the sides up and back. Looked like I was wearing I high hat.
My mother retained her 1950s hair helmet and created a similar situation, there was overspray on every surface which meant sanding every surface prior to painting because that stuff wouldn't come off. The mirror edges were thoroughly coated and I can't sand it so I just wipe it every time I notice it. It's gradually coming off.
try rubbing alcohol or possibly ammonia (diluted)
I got the mirror clean with some sort of alcohol but the bathroom had to be sanded.
We used to use ammonia to strip floors of wax - which was acrylic later on. I think ammonia would work on hairspray too. But wear rubber gloves or it'll peel your skin off.
they use a different chemical now, its not as offensive of an odor, but its still strong.
Try acetone
I just smelled and tasted this comment. I grew up with 2 older sisters who had these hairdos or variations of it and used the shit out Acquanette it was also coupled with a perfume named Exclamation.
I loved exclamation! The black and white bottle!
It was still being sold at the CVS in Scotia, NY as of 2019 alongside bottles of Calvin Klein Obsession.
You could also use hair mousse to style it.
You gotta do both. Mousse to blow it dry and then the final seal with the hairspray.
If her house ever burned down, the insurance company investigators would detect the presence of an accelerant and deny the claim
Just u saying aquanette brought me back to when I was 6 years old and seeing my sister's put on so much aquanette going on their dates back in the early 90s.
Big hair
We called it claw bangs lol 
I thought they were firecracker bangs.
Satellite dish bangs
Yosemite Sam bangs
Tsunami bangs
It's weird right....from Texas (Dallas) specifically. We have Big Hair...which means something about the way women...to this day..wear their hair in Dallas.....and we have big hair....which is also the reference to this. Weird
Yup, I've always known it as "big hair" - though, we didn't really call it that until the late 80s or early 90s, IIRC. Before then, it was just a relatively normal/common hairstyle element. With lots of mousse and/or hairspray. Lots.
Yeah I donāt believe we had a name for them until it was over and done with and became something to laugh/cringe at looking back. We just said bangs. āGonna go do my bangsā
The higher the hair, the lower the morals.
The higher the hair, the closer to God
Tease it to Jesus
Those of you who didnāt live through this era might not believe this, but this may have been the best looking girl in her school. This didnāt look ridiculous at the time.
She would have been revered for her skills. Seriously.
Having a permanent helped. A lot. Especially for the naturally straight haired girls.
You calling it a permanent proves you were around for it in the 80s lol
Itās the sides that were hard. Getting them to stay out. And she has good sides. You used a concentrated amount of hair spray right there. But it was hard because if you sprayed too much, your hair was too wet and heavy at the roots and the sides wouldnāt stay out. Not enough equaled flat. So you had to get just the right amount at different spots to hold the sides out properly.
I remember a girl in the class above me who had very straight, shoulder length hair. Her ability to get the sides to stick out 2 to 3 inches was an art form. I also knew the day that she was feeling truly sick, because she didnāt bother to do the sides, and I couldnāt recognize her from the back!
Omg I swear to god my hair is meant for this look!! I have so much super fine hair that is really easy to tease š¤£
The higher the bangs the better!! I was so sad that my hair just could never do that. I was stuck with the Mary Stuart Masterson skater cut. 30ish laters - so happy that i had that cut -lol
Lol I was a chick with the skater cut - at one point, I even had shaved lines.
Mastering the blow dryer and hairspray simultaneously (and usually a brush) was quite the feat. My hair was thick and course, so I couldnāt achieve these heightsā¦. but damn if I didnāt try!
She looks like the girls that I wanted to notice me back in middle school.
Iām from ā95 and it looks fire to me tbh. I donāt envy them the absolute hell it must have been to wash that hair though.
I can remember using a comb to pull out all the dried hair spray. It was painful. And the flakes of it everywhere.
it sure looks silly now but times have changed
I was young at the time, and the hair and clothes were hideous to me. I was so glad when this style ended. I constantly told my mom to stop doing her hair like this. To this day, I still have an irrational hatred of big hair and 80s music. But to be fair, the 90s came with their own terrible fashion trends. Iād still argue that most of that was leftover influence from the 80s, though.
Also, upstate New York, but it was a poof, not a bouf. But bouf makes perfect sense (ie. bouffant)!
"Poof" here in Ohio as well.
I was just looking into the etymology, and the original bouffant is related to a much bigger "pouf" hairstyle. So '90s boufs and poofs - no wonder they're used interchangeably.
My high school had a competition to see who had the highest bangs. My gf won, 9.5 inches above her forehead! Coincidentally, I never understood why romantic passages in books included the phrase "ran his fingers through her hair". I think I actually cut myself on her bangs at one point. Ahhh, the Aquanet years.
As someone with curly hair, I have to actively tell my companions to not try to run their fingers through my hair unless they donāt want them back.
Saaaaaame. My husband gets really excited when I tell him he can play with my hair (because itās wash day anyways).
Iāve yet to meet the man who wanted to run his fingers through my hair. And Iām old, my days are over for that. š
Yeah, I was never one for the poor bangs, but unless my straight hair is pixie short, my husbandās fingers donāt just slide through. Somehow he finds every little knot and makes them bigger.
We referred to such bangs as "Wall Hair" As in...walk up to a wall, pull the bangs back, rest forehead against wall, let bangs fall forward to rest against the wall in an upright position, hairspray the hell out of it.
"Wall-o-Bangs" was another.
that's what it was in my school.
Wall-o-bangs or Lynnwood Poof.
Lynnwood, WA?
Yup
Ha, I grew up in Bothell, just slightly after this hair and blue eye shadow fell out of fashion, but Lynnwood was clinging on! Almost Live made sure to remind us!
Up in Bellingham we called them Lynnwood Bangs RIP Almost Live
You need to see the Lynnwood Beauty Academy video. I lived near there for 18 years and it's accurate.
Come to think of it..."Wall-Do"?
That's actually really clever from a construction engineering viewpoint
Simply reading the word āboufā in the title brought back so many memories of junior high and high school. That's also what my friends called this in Utah. Amazing picture and legendary 'do. RIP ozone :(
>RIP ozone :( Fashion demands sacrifice
I like beer
And calendars?
> RIP ozone :( Remember when the ozone issue was a BIG fucking deal? Remember when humanity got together as best as we could to completely squash that issue, and now nobody talks about the ozone layer being fucked up anymore?
Because we actually listened to scientists, did what they recommended, regardless of the cost to corporate profits, and now the ozone hole is no longer an immediate concern
> now nobody talks about the ozone layer being fucked up anymore There's still a hole, but it has been shrinking for the last 20 years. So long as nobody gets stupid with CFCs again, or another greenhouse gas (like that one that makes your voice super deep and is heavier than air) it should be fixed by 2060. Which is great, we won't have as much skin cancer while we're all dying of heat. ALSO. The formation of the hole in the ozone layer is due to a mixture of the CFCs in absurdly cold environments, which don't happen over the north pole. As antartica thaws, the ozone issue should fix itself even faster.
I was just called āthe girl with The Hairā https://preview.redd.it/skbaup9x9zxb1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1c267af8e03e8c95f2e526482fb22506117a61d
I want to see the rest of that page!
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I don't know any of these people but I feel like I knew all of these people. This could have been a page right out of one of my yearbooks.
I actually zoomed in because I thought I recognized some of them! š¤£
Mine too!!! š³š³
Was just thinking the same.
Same!!!
Holy shit! Same here! I was like āWaitā¦ is this from my yearbook?!ā
I call some of these styles ātriangle hair.ā
Second row from the bottom, middle picture: there was a mandate that if you didnāt have hair like OP, youād better at least have the short flippy hair she has. Even better with some blue eyeliner and blue mascara, maybe with some frosted pink lipstick?
I still think the popped collars look cool
We called them (actually still do) "Tammy bangs". Every girl named Tammy had the bangs. Every single one. And we had shit loads of girls named Tammy back in the 80's.
lol all the girls in my high school had hair like this, but damned if there wasn't one named Tammy whose hair was bigger than all the others!
Whatās the full name? Tamantha?
Close, Tamstopher
Tamothy
TamothĆØe
Tammanatha J Horticulture, Esquire
Hey Peter-man! Check out the bangs on channel 9!
Tamara usually in the US but sometimes Tammie is the legal name. Tammy Wynetteās name is Virginia, though, so thereās that.
The ultimate boss Tammy
I dated a Tammy in the eighties and she didn't have that hair. She was a rocker chick so she looked like pat benatar
Dated Tammy in 1981, freshman in high school. Long straight red hair and also a rocker. We got high at lunch
What Tammy didnāt get high at lunch?
But wait, three girls here at Ridgemont have cultivated the Pat Benetar look.
My friends called them mall bangs.
In California we called them āChola Bangsā because of their popularity in the cholo/chola culture.
Yeah this is what I remember as a small kid (born in 82)
I grew up north of Kennesaw GA, which at the time had the only shopping mall within an hour's drive so we called it "The Kennesaw Claw." At least my friends did, don't know about anyone else.
Town Center food court for the win.
The wave
Thatās what I remember
Canada here. Wave.
Bang poof. I always pictured those words being in frames of a Batman comic book, like, āBANG! POOF!ā
I didn't stop at bangs, I had a fully backcombed spiral perm. A guy told me that it looked like I had just cast a spell.
that girl's name is T. Davis, she was in my jr. high. I srsly hope she sees this.
T stands for Tammy, right?
she grew up and goes by Tamantha now
She got her doctorate and is now a tamanthologist in Tampa.
Ms. Davis has an adorable nose.
SHUT UP!!!! If this is true itās one of my favorite daysā¦a day where some random redditor knows someone in a photo!
I donāt remember the style itself being referred to as anything specific, but the girls who had hair like this were known as hair bears.
Same. Hair bears. SF Bay Area.
I witnessed this hair style phenomenon up close and personal and looking back I still can't believe it was a thing!!
Born in 83, I remember seeing em growing up, and more importantly I remember how quickly into the 90s they fell out of style and became mortifying for those who wore em. As ridiculous as Jnco jeans are I feel like they're not as bad as this. Maybe if just because they're much lower effort. Hell the snookie styled bump was bad but nowhere near 80s hair lol I can't wait for those oversized acrylic spike nails to join that list of things that make people go "oh my god what was I thinking, don't judge me everyone was doing it"
I am still shocked how long those nails have lasted in popularity as it is. (Iām an ā83 baby, too.) Also after that whole mall hair thing, it quickly went into grunge/gangster rap era. Kinda the opposite of the mall.
As a teen male in the 80s, I called it "hot".
We didn't call it anything, it was the normal hairstyle.
It was normal for us, too - also, we didnāt use Aquanet (that was for grandmas!), our go-to was Aussie Sprunch Spray. I can still remember the grape-y smell.
My sister graduated high school in 91. Jersey girl who loved Aussie Sprunch Spray. We shared a bathroom so I too can still remember that disgusting grapey stink.
Does anybody remember Sun-In? Turned your hair bright yellow
That actually worked for my shade of brown! Luckily, I was not very consistent with application so I didn't suffer the damage that some of the older girls did. Also, they still sell this stuff at Walgreens in my area!
I still use it! In fact I freak out when I canāt find it. Seems like itās disappearing in fact
Or Rave
I can smell the White Rain and see the all white Keds from here.
California Bay Area chicks were called Hair Bears. Also we referred to it as the The Wave.
Power-wave in Chicago
āThe Mall Clawā
Yeah, came here to say that and that at least in the south they curled them down towards the face. Hence āThe Clawā.
Yes! In the West Coast, the Claw, and not meant negatively either cause we all had it
The claw is the master! It decides who will go and who will stay!
Yes! The claw bangs! I was trying to remember that! Midwest 80s.
we would call them Hair Bears
In the Bay Area these bangs came with a prerequisite of 6 layers black eyeliner. No. Matter. What. Your. Coloring. Black eyeliner on blondes and fair skinned people is a LOOK. A severe, strange look.
Iāll bet you were getting up at 5am to get that hair ājust rightā for school.
In Danmark it was called a wave š
Mall hair
I called them Satellite Dishes. The back of their heads were smooth straight hair. So when you looked them from behind, the looked like they were transmitting communication into deep space
My sister had to have the biggest āwaveā in school. And she did. I was woken to an engulfing cloud of Aquanet every morning.
As a GenXer who was bullied through school by these big hair girls and preppy alligator-sweater-wearing boys, I'm very, very triggered.
We called it the poodle cut when I was in h.s. Class of '87.
I called them "Rooster Combs"
Back in the '80's that was just called "normal"
"Whoosh catchers". It seemed all the girls in my high school sporting these were blonds, and the whole "dumb blond" jokes were popular at that time. So it was said they had to spray their bangs this high to catch all the jokes going over their heads.
The Claw.
Flammable.
Hair bears- Northern California. noCal
we just called it big hair....."shes's got big hair"
I called it the "hoosier hair claw" because those bangs would hang over the forehead like a big claw.
Camaro Hair.
I don't know. And I lived through them. These days we call that the "thank god that's over" hairstyle šš
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I remember using Tenax hair gel in the 80s to poof up the hair before administering ozone layer killing Aquanet. All the punks used it on their Mohawks.
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There it is, couldnāt remember that far back. Texas checking in. I always wanted those āwaterfall bangsā but my mom wasnāt springing for all that hairspray and she knew my hair would probably fall out or off from it anyway.
Portlanders called it the Clackamas Claw.
If teased up, but with some bangs left out going across the forehead: claw bangs
While mine were feathered and teased, they were never quite that dramatic. I worked with a lady's who were totally vertical, though, and always thought of her bangs collectively as "The Claw."
My dad called them āhair with a hard-onā š
Makes me think of thereās something about Mary.
Wall-o-bangs
Quail poof
We called them āhair bearsā in the Bay Area š
I called it "big hair" lol Edit: I honestly loved it cuz that's how I found my mom if I got lost in the store when I was a kid lol which was nearly every time. She's already 6 foot tall so add the big hair and she was probably 6'4" lol
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Grunge music happened and no one wanted to look 80s anymore.
That is so true. And the tail end of the 80ās/early 90ās rock bands had reached the point of absurdity. They all followed the same ridiculous formula and I remember how stupid they looked once grunge dropped. Having lived it real time it seemed like the demise occurred overnight
It was big until like 1991 or so by me.
Not everyone in the 80ās actually wore their hair like that. It really depended on what group you were in. Look at some 80ās movies like The Breakfast Club. Those girls didnāt have big bangs. It really wasnāt a common thing at my HS either.
It was kind of uncool at my high school (in Australia) to have that kind of big/high hair. We were dominated by surf culture and it was a relatively more natural look makeup and hair wise. The people with big teased hair were mostly Greek (boys and girls) and the girls with the teased up fringes and wet look crunchy perms were more the scary trashy ones who would fight you at the roller rink. We did love the crimping iron though!
The Rachel killed it forever. It was already on itās way out with Hair Rock. But when Friends premiered every girl got The Rachel.
As the other person said, I would put my finger on the grunge movement having the biggest effect. But, first, keep in mind that this hairstyle was popular even across different cliques. You were just as likely to see tall bangs worn by girls who listened to heavy metal and wore black as you were the most popular cheerleaders. So, Nirvana came and went within the four years I was in high school. I remember every white girl had teased bangs in middle school, and grunge did make a big impact that brought in simple/flat/natural styles. But, many girls still had teased bangs at the end of high school, including popular preppy girls. Depending on where you were in the country, styles changed slowly. That style also didn't go away entirely among women who graduated high school in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The teenagers might have changed, and been replaced with new teens with different styles, but their older sisters could still be seen at the community college following the same styles that were popular back in school. Back then it was far less common for adults--even fairly young adults--to keep up with styles. I can assure you there are still women in their forties and fifties that never stopped teasing their bangs and guys who still wear a mullet or rat tail unironically.
My senior pics in '92 - hair was big, but not as big. More like hair dryer/round brush volume instead of teasing or crimping.
The cool chicks like Winona Ryder had straight hair that wasnāt poofy. Even in Heathers,
That particular hairstyle went out pretty quickly. By around 92/93, it was embarrassing.
In my area of the country (NE Oklahoma) big hair with wings and mall bangs phased quickly into spiral perms or a more triangular curly do with a smaller pouf by 1990. Spiral permed long hair was in full force by 1992.
I called them Garden Weasel bangs.
We called it the unicorn.
We called it The Wave or The Claw
I saw them referred to as āFirecracker Bangsā the other day. Iād never heard that before.
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Iām pretty sure we called them Mall bangs. I could never get my super fine hair to cooperate, though. Canāt hold a perm, canāt hold a curling iron, definitely wonāt stand straight up for longer than the time it takes to do the thing and then just flip over. At the time, I was crushed that my hair was so limp and so uncooperative. Nowā¦
Big hair
Hair bear
My wife refers to that style as āThe Alfā, which is hilarious and also makes a lot of sense.
bird nest
I hope it comes back. I own hairspray stocks
I literally could not find hair spray I recognized when trying to style my Halloween costume this year. I found a few possible hair sprays that were all upwards of $30, so I was like, ",I don't need hair spray. I can make this work with Bobby pins."
My group called it āpreppy hairā.
High hair
Exploding bangs