What is a hair trend of the past that you hope never comes back in style?

Oh lord I was born in the 80's but trust me grls some of them are coming back... or atleast trying too..... What about the slits in the eyebrows? Or the stair steps on the sides... or the shaved number on the back of the head?

SuperGrover wrote: LOL Purple! I used to wear my hair in a side ponytail! I have a photo of myself in 1989, wearing my New Kids on the Block t-shirt, and my hair in a high side ponytail. I think mall bangs are like when they're all poofy on top. Kinda like you have a Furby on your head or something.

Hey Supergrover, I was just reading this, and it is a bit old, BUT
I used to wear part of my hair up in a side pony-tail and the hair was CRIMPED!!! I was in the 4th or 5th grade or so...

Wow, Elisa is hot!! My least favorite style is dreadlocks. Buy some shampoo and a comb for crying out loud.

Elissa - Great picture... though we all hate it now... mall hair was hot in it day! And very hot on you tooo, how a about a picture of your post 80's style?

well i for one am not a big fan of poodle perms of the 80's. particularly with partial blow drying of bangs and sides. this goes for male or female. my wife and i would get ours done and look almost identical. i don't exactly know what to call it, but sometimes the stylist would use a curling iron vertically, one curl toward the face on the side just in front of the ear, then push back with a comb or pick and spray it stiff leaving a little hollow, and push the bangs up a little and spray them too, not really mall bangs, just a little poofy.
something else that was big then was for longhaired males and females to get wings layered on the top in front, not a mullet, they still had all one length on sides and back. then blow dry and curl the wings back, i think that this is worse than a true mullet.

Really, I like people to wear whatever hairstyle pleases them and would never presume to "ban" a particular hairstyle. Having said that, here is what I would rather not see come back:

(1) 70s-style male afro perms. I saw a guy on That 70s Show with a small one. I had one for a few months in 1979 that was big and fake looking. It was presented by my Mother as a way to get my Dad off my case about my long hair .

(2) BeeGees/CHiPs/BattleStar Galactica hair. I can't believe I used to spend hours in the mid 70s with a blow dryer and the then-new styling product 'mousse' trying to make myself have feathered, poofy hair like the BeeGees. Or StarBuck from
BattleStar Galactica. Sheesh.

I'd forgotten I'd posted here! Thanks all of you sweeties for the compliments.

Actually, I adored that hairstyle because it was so easy--blow the crown straight with a brush (took about five minutes), and it stayed healthy because it was short and always getting cut. Air dry the wavy long layers, no products. One spritz of Extremely Stiff Spray for the front, and I was ready to rock.

I forgot about Sonny Crockett, too. You guys crack me up. I will have to see what other weird 80's pics I can dig up.

And Tony--I just got engaged last Tuesday! But remember, in that pic I'm 22, and now I'm 37! I've changed a bit since then, though I like to think I now have better hair.

Love you guys

Elissa

Yes Lyris, the Zebra stripes and the big hair! Tee hee! Very 80s.
Still Ellissa is adorable.
By the way on the Diet board that Elissa moderates she mentions she just got engaged! So congrats Elissa!

Elissa thanks for making my day with that photo (and having the guts to post it! :-) Love the zebra stripes. But no neon colors or puffy painted sweatshirts? Come on! Actually, as awful as that decade was (despite the fact that something good did come out of it--me) I agree with Tina: You really pulled it off!!!!

I don't like the mullet. Those are probably the ugliest things I've ever seen. I also never like the ponytail on the side style. When I was little people tried to get me to do it.