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

I was just remembering crimped hair the other day. I once crimped my hair for school picture day in junior high. Late 80s. I thought it looked so cool.

What was everyone thinking back then? We WANTED to look like frizz bombs? And it took FOREVER to do your whole head of hair.

What hair trends of the past do you hope to never see again?

Great topic!

I think all mullets should be banned forever, male or female! Also: poodle perms, yikes!

Oh my. Yes, there are too many women still going around with the female mullet. Long in back, short and poufy on top. I guess that's a hard style to rid yourself of. No real option but to cut it all short.

Do people with mullets not have mirrors or something?

Gotta agree about the mullet. They don't look good on ANYONE, in my opinion.

what are mall bangs? are they bangs that are cut straight across? i've actually never heard that term before..

but my thing: side-swiped pony-tails.. I remember that was the way I would wear my hair to school. move most of the hair to one side of the head and make a ponytail that would jut out from one side of the head.

aah.. poofy bangs.. yeah, I can totally see that... poofy bangs, side ponytail, leg warmers, big sweatshirt with leggings.. hehe..

That spiky thang that Bowie had going on - and half of London followed suit.

Much stiffened by the sneaky use of Mothers' Elnett and usually allowed to collect dust and dirt.

Teenagers who didn't care to maintain it would come to school having slept on the (previously) crisp spikes. They would have flat parts where they had slept on it. Then the girls (for it was mostly boys who took up this style) would try and help their class-mates resurrect the fallen, flattened spikes with diluted glue.

Don't laugh - we didn't have gel in those days and our pocket money didn't extend to cans of hairspray.

Please God, never again.

You mean when we transfered hair from rod to roller before Neutralizing? Good consept, But what a pain In the ***!

Hey, what about Root perms?? We would wrap the hair just at the base and leave the ends out...with some kind of spray conditioner on them...And if it wasn't long enough for that we would use a specially designed end wrap (Plastic coating on one side and minerals on the paper side) to keep the solution from curling the hair.

All this so the hair would have lift at the base and straight spiky ends.....Those darn 80's again.***sigh... those were the days***

The Boz was a popular haircut made famous by the football player Brian Bozwell. It was spiked on the top with buzzed sides and a thick rat tail in the back.

Ding, Ding Ding This hairstyle, circa 1984, was what started the rat tail craze. When I started doing hair in 1986, it was stongly stated that the rat tail was OUT. Gee, think of all these idiots out there wearing a style that is almost 20 years old.

My son has a kid in his class with this very same haircut, to me, this is just plane child abuse!!!

RatTails ugh!!!! Don't you just wanna grab your scissors and sneak up behind people!!!

I have also heard mall bangs referred to as the claw. Because they were sprayed into a spikey claw shape sitting on your forehead. My husband used to say they were so sharp they could cut someone. I managed to maneuver my hair into that style but I had to spray it so stiff that it could not be moved at all. Someone asked me to push my bangs up to look at something on my forehead and I couldn't. They were too stiff.