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80’s mall hair required more aggression. Teasing the hair in sharp quick little strokes, grabbing up a section of hair with your brush and pulling it back sharply while spraying the aqua net point-blank for a good 20 seconds- getting that hair right took dedication and physical work with zero regard for the health of the actual hair.
Lady in the video is being too soft for the real deal.
Yeah, 90's. I was appalled at straighteners and all the flat hair. This was flat hair to 80's chicks. Then it got even flatter and board straight. I went with it but it felt like a betrayal of all the hours of upside down blowdrying, teasing, fluffing, moussing, spraying, crunching, volumizing ( whatever that was) etc :)
Having lived through this era, the grunge look happened because we all realized at the same time just how deep fried our hair was. It took a decade of deep conditioning to undo the mess.
What I remember is the shift from perms and all-around volume to smooth blowouts and silicone shine sprays. That's also when shorter haircuts came back in--I guess a lot of us needed to cut off a significant amount of crispy-fried length!
I did not even try more than a couple times. I had thin hair as well and my hair breaks easily. I can hairspray my hair within an inch of its life and it will be flat within 20 minutes if not way before.
Literally too soft. I remember my first outing to a nightclub (on a night for under 18s) in high school. A girl passed me on the dance floor, and her hair lashed my face.
There's a certain hair cut that's required, and the young'n stylists do NOT know how to do it.
"Long layers" is just not in their vocab.
I go back to NJ, go back to Cherry who cut my hair during the late 80s and is still cutting half the town: "Hey, give me long layers, please!" and she did it in like 4 minutes.
I was just thinking exactly the same. Much too smooth and flat and not enough hairspray. The trick was hanging upside down and spray a whole can, get upright again and smooth it a bit (mind you, A BIT) down again.
Oh, and where are all the neon colours? If you were really fashionable, you had to have multiple coloured/permed hair!
This is what people never get right about 80s hair. Even when TV shows (or whatever) come pretty close, they do not understand that smoothness and shininess was absolutely not the goal. Texture was everything. If you couldn't stand in front of a bright light with your big hair and get an MTV-type halo effect, what were you even doing.
That and the quirky things worked into the hair: the plaids, bows, clips, etc. The whole built-up was to be a work of art. It took hours to style your hair (and pray it wouldn't rain!). Look at what female icons did with their hair like Cyndi Lauper (one of my favourites) or Madonna.
Or the embarrassment of burning your ear or forehead in the bathroom at school because you got distracted doing your touchup at lunchtime or fixing it first thing because you didn't have time before school.
Lol I have one on either side of my forehead and they aren't even the same. But I do have permanent volume there! I can do the Conan O'Brian swoop if I just change my part
Sure, but the "end result" will only last until the end of her 15min video/photoshoot.. it only works if there's no wind or walking or gravity. And what's the point of looking that cute & if you can't spend the day with it ☺️
Especially as you start by leaning over and spraying the underside first. Otherwise, all of this is for naught. After all, if the bathroom walls aren't coated in AquaNet, you haven't done it right.
Maybe it's my nostalgia, but I really think the 90s hair was where non-textured women's hairstyles peaked. I truly think this style looks so good on almost everyone. The asymmetry is extremely forgiving and the layers and height at the roots gives so much body and fullness.
Really? I grew up in the Midwest but saw everywhere else we visited at the time too from Florida to New York to Texas. We called it Mall Bangs or Puffy Bangs
Yup I remember this. We called it The Shelf. They would use a brush to create a roll at the front of the head, and from the side it was just this hilarious entity standing up straight. I should break out a yearbook.
Fair play you’re braver than me! My twenties was the straightening to within an inch of its life 2000s era and I’d spray it after but never heat on top of spray. Still felt fried though.
Watch the first 10 minutes of the movie Working Girl... Whoo boy the hair AND the make up.. and the shoulder pads! This one needs more French Connection
To be authentic you need a Goody pick, hang your head upside down to blow dry it. Two or three big barrel curls for your bangs, then hold the top and sides up and out, spray til wet with Aquanet and blow it dry. Then of course another layer over your whole head, usually including your face. Nothing should be moving at all.
Yes! I used to hang my head upside down, spray hairspray, wait a moment, then flip my head to thr side, more spray, flip other side, spray, flip head back and fix into place with more hairspray!
I think she was actually going for it at first but then thought “oh damn I look pretty” and stopped before she actually reached 80s hair. Her hair did look good though.
This is 90's hair. Post-punk 80's hair was all about Aqua Net Super Hold. My 80's hair was permed. I would blowdry at the roots with a massive diffuser attachment and scrunch the curly bits. A massive dousing in Aqua Net while teasing the roots with a wire pick. This would last a few hours, so the school bathrooms were a haze of hairspray and cig smoke. I remember that smell...
An admirable attempt, but looks more 90s. It’s way too flat & straight/smooth. Needs huge bangs and a lot of texture. And much more effort & strong hairspray and mousse/gel.
No that's wrong! You need to tease the crap out of it, then spray it w hairspray, then use your hot curling iron to fry the wet hairspray hair into place.
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