What is a hair trend of the past that you hope never comes back in style?
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Topic: What is a hair trend of the past that you hope never comes back in style?
Posted By: SuperGrover
Subject: What is a hair trend of the past that you hope never comes back in style?
Date Posted: April 18 2003 at 9:35pm
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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? ------------- "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32" |
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Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: April 19 2003 at 10:31am
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Oh, absolutely ANYTHING from the 80s! What a weird decade...the other day I saw someone with their shirt tied to the side with a scrunchie and I about passed out. The female mullet is a close second! ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
Posted By: Isla Q.
Date Posted: April 19 2003 at 11:33am
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Great topic! I think all mullets should be banned forever, male or female! Also: poodle perms, yikes! ------------- |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 19 2003 at 6:02pm
 Mall Bangs------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: April 19 2003 at 11:53pm
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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? ------------- "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32" |
Posted By: demodoll
Date Posted: April 21 2003 at 10:39am
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Frizzy perms. Yuck! ------------- "It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal |
Posted By: Tap Dancer
Date Posted: April 21 2003 at 8:37pm
Gotta agree about the mullet. They don't look good on ANYONE, in my opinion.  ------------- [IMG]http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n89/yerdumm/tapdancer2.gif" /> |
Posted By: MightyH
Date Posted: April 21 2003 at 10:17pm
| I'm glad the "Dirty Dancing" perm is out of style. Nothing was worse than seeing all these poofed out piles of curl on the back of a girls head. |
Posted By: papillon_purple
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 1:29pm
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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.  ------------- |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 4:03pm
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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. ------------- "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32" |
Posted By: papillon_purple
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 4:08pm
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aah.. poofy bangs.. yeah, I can totally see that... poofy bangs, side ponytail, leg warmers, big sweatshirt with leggings.. hehe.. ------------- |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 6:46pm
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LOL, I remember hair shows in the late 80's...We're not just talking poofy bangs...I swear some of the Hair Stylists had bangs 5" high...Straight up. High Hair! and S P R A Y E D to the maxx with PM's Freeze and Shine. ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: uzma
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 7:04pm
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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. ------------- Uzi |
Posted By: LiliBeach
Date Posted: April 24 2003 at 10:29pm
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Other "older" stylist in the forum will know this one. TRANSFER PERMS aaaaggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!!! Another one.........The Boz!!!! ------------- I am a professional Hairstylist/Haircolorist with 19 years experience. I have traveled all over the country for my advanced education. I am also a salon owner.:)........and I LOVE Redken!!! |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 4:55pm
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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*** ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 4:57pm
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BTW Lil, what is the Boz??? ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: LiliBeach
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 6:46pm
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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 am a professional Hairstylist/Haircolorist with 19 years experience. I have traveled all over the country for my advanced education. I am also a salon owner.:)........and I LOVE Redken!!! |
Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 8:31pm
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That's hideous! ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
Posted By: demodoll
Date Posted: April 25 2003 at 10:56pm
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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. ------------- "It is better to look marvelous than to feel marvelous" Billy Crystal |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 26 2003 at 7:35am
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LOL...Demo, I remember it well. ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: duke
Date Posted: April 28 2003 at 11:40am
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women: Permed afros, mall hair, crimped hair, big bangs, blatant mullets. Or perming as such, for that matter. It forces hair into the shape - well - permanently - and can damage it. men: the spiky look that seems finally to be creeping out of style Say, Sophie, what does your hair look like now? Was it different in the 1980s? |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 28 2003 at 4:36pm
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OK, let me state one thing very clearly, I NEVER had mall (the claw) bangs in the 80's...But I did have a perm all the way through the 80's right up until the early 90's. always long...long...long! Hey, I did hair...and in the 80's we permed everyone, I think it was a rule. LOL But now, my hair is just below my chin, long on top, layered and chunked out in back, and highlighted with kind of taupey honey color as I'm a level 3 brunette naturally. And, I like the a look of a lot of texture, so I love Styling products. Kind of messy looking really, but then I love that too! L , You Asked! L E W I also have to say...Duke Daarling... the Texture Waves (perms) that are coming out are really beautiful, But, it can be key that you find a stylist great at giving perms.  Cheers  ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: MightyH
Date Posted: April 28 2003 at 4:47pm
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I remember the Boz, that was awful. He used to paint colrs on the sides of his head (either red and white, the colors at Oklahoma, or blue and green, the colors he wore when he played for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks) Just AWFUL. |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: April 28 2003 at 9:41pm
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Wow! I never thought this thread would be so popular. You know what hair trend I hope DOES come back? 70's style Charlie's Angels dos. Is that called feathered?? Like the dumb sister on That 70's Show. I love her hair. Jackie on the same show has the same style, just different color. I imagine the style would take more time in the morning than I am willing to spend. Did any actual people achieve that style successfully in the 70's, or just TV and movie actresses with a stylist standing nearby at all times? ------------- "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32" |
Posted By: Isla Q.
Date Posted: April 29 2003 at 2:57am
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Didn't the Charlie's Angels look already make a comeback, a few years ago? Looks really hard to keep looking good by yourself, though. ------------- |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: April 29 2003 at 2:28pm
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Oh believe me, we had styling products strong enough to make that style work...PM's Freeze n Shine...comes to mind. The same stuff that made those Mall bangs stand straight up, LOL. What about the Grundge thing that was going on, late 80's...? I liked it. That's when the really fun and creative styling products started to come out. ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: Rachel A
Date Posted: April 29 2003 at 4:54pm
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OK...I wasn't born until 1984 so the 80s are not my most familiar decade. I just wanted to say how much I'm enjoying reading all this. This is a great thread!! ------------- "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" |
Posted By: LiliBeach
Date Posted: May 19 2003 at 2:12am
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Oh my, I saw an old trend the other day I completely forgot about.......the Chrissy ponytails....on Threes Company. Anyone remember these? ------------- I am a professional Hairstylist/Haircolorist with 19 years experience. I have traveled all over the country for my advanced education. I am also a salon owner.:)........and I LOVE Redken!!! |
Posted By: Taryn
Date Posted: May 19 2003 at 4:42am
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Oh my god... My mom used to style mine and my sister's hair with HUGE POOFY bangs in the 90's! And it was strictly an 80's thing too. I was made fun of for that to the point where when I got to school I would brush them down. Oy vey. I also used to wear side ponytails. Never again. |
Posted By: Karen Shelton
Date Posted: May 20 2003 at 6:26pm
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Hi all, Great thread. Been meaning to get here but never quite made it. First of, do you all remember the 60s prom styles where the girls had like 6 foot of teased and super sprayed curls that were sprayed so much that literally they could have hurt someone if they bumped into the curls? YUCK. And I remember the rat tails. YUCK YUCK. Finally, I heard that on Threes Company the reason that Chrissie wore that side ponytail was because something had happened and a big chunk of her hair was missing and the only way to cover it was to put the hair in the side pony. LOL. Makes sense to me. Best wishes, Karen ------------- That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger or drives you totally insane. :-) |
Posted By: sheryl soleil
Date Posted: May 21 2003 at 11:34am
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mullet on either guys or girls-the worst ------------- 21/33/38 2cCiii If you can't have the best, make the best of what you have~unknown~ |
Posted By: SuperGrover
Date Posted: May 21 2003 at 1:32pm
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Ew, I saw a guy last night who had his hair buzzed everywhere but on top of his head, where he had a braided ponytail about 6 inches long hanging down. Gross! This wasn't the first time I've seen this hairstyle though. I think it's a skater boy thing. ------------- "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." - Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street1b/N/ii ~ ??"/27"/32" |
Posted By: LiliBeach
Date Posted: May 21 2003 at 10:43pm
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Karen, that is very interesting. I wonder if it was burned from the on the scalp bleach frying on her head. ------------- I am a professional Hairstylist/Haircolorist with 19 years experience. I have traveled all over the country for my advanced education. I am also a salon owner.:)........and I LOVE Redken!!! |
Posted By: Elissa
Date Posted: May 22 2003 at 7:53pm
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I always hated the female bi-level--bangs, long and all one length in the back, with the sides completely snipped off right up to the back of the ear. Do you know what I mean? I also never liked the short permed afro look on men or women. BOTH of my parents had it (they got it together! How cute!) I had that Charlie's Angel's thing, and loved it, but it ruined my hair, blowing out the sides with the plastic brush every day :( Great thread! -------------  [/url]
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Posted By: Elissa
Date Posted: May 22 2003 at 7:59pm
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How's this for bad eighties hair? Look at that top! Not to mention that jumpsuit! and those brows! ------------- [/url]
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Posted By: Isla Q.
Date Posted: May 24 2003 at 7:10am
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OMG, Elissa, I love it! It's so 1980s! Not bad eighties hair, it's eighties hair. You look like one of Sonny Crockett's conquests in Miami Vice or something! ------------- |
Posted By: Sophie
Date Posted: May 24 2003 at 3:04pm
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Haaaa! Isla, you hit on it exactly, I had forgotten about Sonny Crocket...loafers, no socks, pastel suits, three day beard, perfectly highlighted hair....soooooo coooool!!lol. Elissa, you were the perfect 80's woman...how old were you there?? We were all so cute in the eighties! Well, at least we were cool! ------------- Sophie http://salonwest.proboards34.com - http://salonwest.proboards34.com |
Posted By: tony9999
Date Posted: May 25 2003 at 8:39am
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Ellissa you look great in 80's hair... You married? ------------- Change is good for the soul and fun to talk about! |
Posted By: Unregistered Guest
Date Posted: May 29 2003 at 4:20pm
| 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. |
Posted By: tina m
Date Posted: May 30 2003 at 8:45pm
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Elissa. I HATE BIG PUFFY HAIR!!! It is sooooo goofy! -( I am 27 so I remember it from when I was a girl)-. .....But you are just such a doll in that photo Elissa!!! You look SOOOOO INNOCENT! ... Just the girl next door, ever-so-cool, sweet and stylish with her big, big hair! Tee hee! I love it Elissa, even with that hair you are so pretty and innocent looking! You are just darling!!! ------------- tina |
Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: June 02 2003 at 7:38am
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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!!!! ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
Posted By: claribuzz
Date Posted: June 02 2003 at 12:48pm
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the 80s style yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk rat tails i still see it in fact i still see men with the hairstyles from the 60s,70s,80s, I mean we all know that trends repeat itself but we altered it a little bit so it looks modern but these people looks like they got lost in the past ------------- ARGHH |
Posted By: tina m
Date Posted: June 03 2003 at 8:21pm
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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! ------------- tina |
Posted By: Jennifer
Date Posted: June 04 2003 at 8:05am
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Mullet (*especially* with permed hair on top, straight on the bottom) has to be number one. Honestly, the look immediately erases 30 IQ points from the wearer! Bowl cuts are another. Too much like Hitler, in my opinion. Frizzy perms scream HELP. I was also never particularly fond of purple or pink spikey punk mohawks. ------------- |
Posted By: Elissa
Date Posted: June 05 2003 at 7:07pm
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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 ------------- [/url]
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Posted By: enfys
Date Posted: August 13 2003 at 10:05am
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i'm kinda late posting, but I'm new so it's not my fault. I'm fifteen, so I can't remember the 80s, but I have seen photos etc, and have to say that any type of tight perm stinks. In my opinion anyway. They always seem to look really frizzy, and on television the bright lights show up all the split ends and snapped hairs perfectly. Naturally curly hair looks lovely and shiny though .------------- http://www.myspace.com/waltzin_with_the_open_sea - http://www.myspace.com/waltzin_with_the_open_sea Ah-ha, a place I can soon add hair pics...once I do some |
Posted By: Gollan
Date Posted: August 16 2003 at 10:48pm
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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 http://www.geocities.com/bgsongs/001barrymic.jpg - BeeGees . Or StarBuck from http://battlestarfanclub.com/battlestar/photos/bgpic7.jpg - BattleStar Galactica . Sheesh. ------------- |
Posted By: grant
Date Posted: August 18 2003 at 1:18pm
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I hope rat tails never come back in style. I'm sorry if people here like them, but every time I see someone with a rat tail I want to cut it off. lol ------------- |
Posted By: pogopossum
Date Posted: August 25 2003 at 1:17am
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Endlessnite
Date Posted: August 25 2003 at 7:03am
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What about the beehive?? Yuk. I don't like a lot of the styles from the 50's and 60's. Do not like the Charlie's Angels look either. Crimping hair is back in, believe it or not! I actually like it, but not when the whole head is crimped. The partially crimped head looks nice sometimes. ------------- BR, Endlessnight |
Posted By: Hal
Date Posted: August 31 2003 at 5:06pm
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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? ------------- |
Posted By: Elissa
Date Posted: September 06 2003 at 7:56am
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Posted By: jonny
Date Posted: September 07 2003 at 12:35am
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Wow, Elisa is hot!! My least favorite style is dreadlocks. Buy some shampoo and a comb for crying out loud. ------------- jonny |
Posted By: dianefromcanada
Date Posted: September 08 2003 at 6:18pm
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rattail is the worse ------------- dianefromcanada |
Posted By: Laine1998
Date Posted: September 21 2003 at 8:39am
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... ------------- |
SuperGrover wrote:Posted By: C-Lamb
Date Posted: September 22 2003 at 4:11pm
you look like courtney cox abit. :) ------------- |
Posted By: freedomseekngrl
Date Posted: September 22 2003 at 8:20pm
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? ------------- Freedomseekngrl |
Posted By: Blah blah chick
Date Posted: October 25 2003 at 11:45pm
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mullets and those short/uneven bangs. nuff said ------------- "Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful" -Annette Funicello |