At least I never had this monstrosity of a bowl cut

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MJblowsBubbles@reddit

I remember these, and the female version that made you look like you were in Captain and Tennille.

My parents were silent generation and boys just didn't have long hair. I had to grow up in the 80s and 90s with a buzz cut while everyone looked like they were in a heavy metal band. Then when I was able to have long hair in my early 20s, work didn't allow it then I started balding at 23.

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eejm@reddit

Or that short, permed and fluffy mom ‘do that some people thought was just “adorable!” on their preteen girls in about 1985. Extra points if it was paired with giant, chunky, plastic glasses with the bow joints at the bottom of the frame a la Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.

No, I’m not bitter. But no one is allowed to see my 4th-6th grade school pictures.

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blackpony04@reddit

That's the Dorothy Hamill cut and there were guaranteed to be at least 3 girls per classroom with that cut from 1976 to 1984. It was replaced by the Mary Lou Retton cut.

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Cultural_Pattern_456@reddit

Unless you were a little girl like me and got the Florence Henderson shag..ugh.

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altnerdluser@reddit

Oh God don't even mention the Mary Hartman Mary Hartman cut. How cruel of my mom.

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Nostalgia_King@reddit

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altnerdluser@reddit

Why???? Who thought it was cute?

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Elowan66@reddit

Maybe I was too young, but I never understood that show.

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altnerdluser@reddit

I was definitely too young to understand. I only remember the hair unfortunately lol

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WalkingOnSunshine83@reddit

After lice went around my school, every girl in 3rd got a short & sassy cut.

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Glytterain@reddit

Everybody thinks it’s a Dorothy hamill but it’s really a Pete Rose.

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Moonshadow306@reddit

I remember her commercials for the “Short and Sassy” look.

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loony-cat@reddit

Yep, I had that hair cut when I was 8 years old. It was absolute torture when my mom blow dried my curly hair straight for school photos. Good thing the pics were taken first thing in the morning because my hair started curling up again at recess.

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TekaLynn212@reddit

Hamill cut has more of a wedge in the back. I was so proud of my Hammill hairstyle in third and fourth grade. I rocked bowl cuts and variants from about 1976 through 1980.

Before then, my hair was in natural curls and ringlets. Then it went absolutely straight in elementary school, hence the bowl cut. When I hit my teens, my hair started to curl again, and it's been in ringlets ever since. I couldn't rock a bowl cut if I tried.

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BumblingBeeeee@reddit

Interesting! My hair went through a very similar transition, except since my hair was stick straight until I got pregnant(hormones are wild) I had a succession of perms from about 84-92 😬

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SusannaG1@reddit

Heh. My father was a Silent, but he also had the "family ears" (on both sides, poor man) - they stuck out at 180 degrees from his head. He went to long hair as soon as the Beatles made it popular.

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No-Spite-3441@reddit

I had this but with red curls

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

I heard that screenshot as sung by a large, Scandinavian looking woman operatically.

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u35828@reddit

It's the unisex mushroom head.

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ILSmokeItAll@reddit

Looks like a cone head with hair.

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MaryBitchards@reddit

Aw. RIP Adam.

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eight78@reddit

Looks like the droid from Buck Rodgers came to life. “BeeDee-BeeDee-beep”

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Lostinaredzone@reddit

It’s called “the dick tip”, at least that’s what we called it.

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Five_Toes_Left@reddit

This haircut would have been impossible for me back then. My hair was way too curly at that age. Still, if anyone tried to perform this atrocity on my head I'd have probably figured out some kind of way to shave my head...even as young as I was.

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Numerous_Salt@reddit

The Ramones enter the chat.

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

I just died! 🤣🤣😆😆🤣🤣

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Elowan66@reddit

The G stands for genius. Hilarious show.

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TheAnalogDad@reddit

As does Brian Jones

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

One more, cuz ya deserve it! 💐

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SleestakWalkAmongUs@reddit

My brothers and I did, not that long though. I remember my mom literally putting a fucking bowl on my head...

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SpaceMonkey3301967@reddit

Penis head

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Consistent_Sale_7541@reddit

God that bowl cut was *awful.. just about every boy in tv/film had it.. not cute at all

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MidnightNo1766@reddit

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Lol! 🍄

Ok, stylists of Reddit:

How DO you get hair to do this?

I mean, that can’t just be the result of a regular trim, no?

How do you make it curl under so perfectly without hand tools and hairspray?

Dying to know; I’ve always been curious!

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YannaFox@reddit

I actually have two vintage 1970s/1980s hair cutting books that actually lay out this haircut.

Essentially, each layer of hair was cut slightly longer than the previous layer. The layered weight made the hair naturally bend or tuck on its own. I practiced the cut on a cosmetology mannequin and to my surprise, it worked.

Today’s stylist don’t cut hair like this anymore but it was a popular technique back then.

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

THANK YOU!

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YannaFox@reddit

You’re welcome. Here you go. I took a photo for you. Unfortunately the book is out of print since it’s from 1975. ☹️

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Wow! You are THE BOMB 💣🥰

Thank you again; I have so much respect for hairdressers; it requires such artistry and almost mathematical, engineering-like precision.

The ones who are great at it deserve every penny! 💇‍♀️

I would be TERRIFIED to attempt this!

But like you said, that’s why students start out in wigs

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YannaFox@reddit

If anybody wants the punk haircut, I got the instructions for that cut too!💯

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Consistent_Sale_7541@reddit

Yes please!

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YannaFox@reddit

Awww you’re so sweet. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I wish I were a cosmetologist. I’d have so much fun cutting and styling hair.

Back then, doing hair at home had become popular because going to the salon or hair dresser/stylist like the Baby Boomer generation had fallen out of favor with us Generation Xers since lots of things became available for at home use.

That’s why the 80s became synonymous with bad hair. Lots of at home perms, relaxers, bleach jobs, cuts gone wrong at home but we made it our own and owned it. Ya gotta love GenX for that! 😂

If you ever decide to try the cut, make sure you keeping cutting it the same all the way around the whole head.

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Amazing!

Maybe I’ll try for Halloween and be Kristen Wiig’s “Target Lady” character! 😂

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YannaFox@reddit

🤣🤣 That’d be hilarious and the perfect time to try it!

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YannaFox@reddit

How we thought we looked back then

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BumblingBeeeee@reddit

Well, as someone who suffered a mashup of this and the Dorothy Hammil, at the hairdresser there was a lot of tedious precision trimming/layering, followed by blow drying with a round brush. Since I was a kid, I didn’t dedicate my mornings to giving myself a nice blowout, leading to one side curling under and the other flipping up in opposition. It was definitely a look when paired with my favorite blue velour v-neck lol

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satyrday12@reddit

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Codex_Alimentarius@reddit

My hair late 70’s. Multiple levels..

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Training_Fill_7392@reddit

that is advanced!

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Codex_Alimentarius@reddit

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

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Codex_Alimentarius@reddit

Thanks! The orange carpet blows my mind.

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Disastrous_Bell705@reddit

Nicholas!

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SakaWreath@reddit

Ahh yes. The “my mom is a huge fan of Smurf architecture” cut.

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nerdrific@reddit

Oh I did. In 1983 or so, I was pre-kindergarten

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Hedge_Sparrow@reddit

Holy shit this just made me laugh! Nice work!

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Effective_Device_185@reddit

Poor bastard

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Velouria91@reddit

I went through the 80s with bad mullets, awkward layers, and one ridiculous frizzy perm. But thank God, I never had the bowl cut.

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pigprof@reddit

Knob.

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jonesiekay@reddit

It’s the 70’s “mansard roof” of haircuts.

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AffectionateNerve861@reddit

It's my money, AND I WANT IT NOW!!!

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BaconIsInMyDNA@reddit

My parental units always got me the "Dorothy Hamill" and I HATED it sooooo much. I didn't have pierced ears until I was 10 and was ALWAYS mistaken for a boy!

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Mom threatened me with the Hamil “wedge” frequently. Thank God I talked her out of it. I had to go either way a Brooks bob instead, until I was old enough to to grow out and start doing my own hair

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SusannaG1@reddit

I got a Louise Brooks bob right after I came home from the hospital after my stroke - so, so much easier to take care of than what I had previously, and I think it looks good.

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UserPrincipalName@reddit

If you bruise the cap, it will stain purple and it should have a sticky, slimy cover on top when it's fresh. Most importantly though, it spore prints purple. Be careful you don't mix it up with a gellerina autumnalis, they look incredibly similar.

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OldSkoolPantsMan@reddit

Does this almost count…? Bonus points for the Star Wars tshirt on photo day I guess… 😋

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LeadershipNo8763@reddit

The “mushroom’s dick” cut.

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deludedinformer@reddit

I always picture Larry David singing this jingle ever since he did that episode of Curb 😂

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Timely-Youth-9074@reddit

My bro had this haircut.

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PsamantheSands@reddit

I cried every time I got the Dorothy Hammill.

I’d tell the hairdresser what I wanted. He’d look at my mom and she’d give him the nod and the Dorothy Hammill it was.

Cried. Every. Time.

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No-Brick6817@reddit

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No-Brick6817@reddit

I literally had this haircut, my whole childhood probably until around the seventh grade! The barber, my parents took me to, would not ever listen to me. and would always give me the same haircut.

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Cheechjohns@reddit

It’s such a spectacle of a hairstyle

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Willkum@reddit

It was called a Prince Valiant. Although this guys is longer than normal. All those hippie moms got very into folk stuff so the medieval haircut returned plus it was really easy for mom to cut it for you and save the barber expense.

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Limp-Insurance203@reddit

Nicholas and that idiotic haircut was my least favorite character on 8 is enough

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FocalorLucifuge@reddit

This is the Twiki haircut. From Buck Rogers.

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urbanlife78@reddit

A well documented history of this haircut

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Boshie2000@reddit

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saint_ryan@reddit

I had the Nicholas Cut.

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JerewB@reddit

It's that goomba again!

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JankroCommittee@reddit

I did. Sigh

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In_The_End_63@reddit

Yah, my bowl was never that bad. It was really just a transition from the quasi regulation cut I had in early elementary to the skater look I had from \~ 4th grade until late HS. Then I went punk.

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shf500@reddit

Every time I think of "bowl cut" I remember Sam from Diff'rent Strokes.

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YannaFox@reddit

How we thought we looked with it back then

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YannaFox@reddit

How it looks to the new generation

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BornTry5923@reddit

Is that Zac Efron?

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BornTry5923@reddit

The Pete Rose

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Hemicrusher@reddit

I went to a party in Northridge in the early 1980s, and Adam Rich was there. He was an arrogant asshole, and pushed this girl I knew onto the ground and spit on her. Fight broke out with a bunch of jocks from Chatsworth High protecting him, while he hid in a bedroom.

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Fit_Subject_3256@reddit

I can confirm he was a literal dickhead!

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Hemicrusher@reddit

I had a few run ins with child actors at parties in the early 1980s. Once, a few friends and I went to a party we heard about, and when we got there we were told we weren't welcome, which happened sometimes. So we went outside and stood by our cars waiting for other friends that were running behind. So, Todd Bridges comes out with some big ass bodyguard looking dudes and he tells us to leave. We tell him that it's a public street and we will leave as soon as our friends show up. Todd runs back in the house and comes out with a large handgun...I think it was a nickel S&W M29 and starts pointing it at us and saying he will kill us if we don't leave....so, we bailed.

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Divtos@reddit

Good thing, he went to jail for stabbing a guy. Or was it just threatening? I don’t recall.

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CalmChestnut@reddit

I last saw him in an interview relating how he was freaking out about an episode he wanted to skip doing because he had been molested as a kid in real and had secret trauma. Guess he never received therapy to help him ...

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Goddamn! Willis didn’t PLAY.

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philistus@reddit

In about '85, i was 14, sitting at the bus stop with my friend on Plummer and Reseda. Right in front of us a cop pulls over a black convertible late 60's Mustang. Immediately me and my friend recognized the driver as Todd Bridges. The other two guys looked like big bodyguards! After some pleading the cop told him to step out and he cuffed and arrested him. One of the other dudes in the car hopped in the driver's seat and drove away. Todd went to jail. Me and my friend were like, "Did we just see Willis get busted?"

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KafeenHedake@reddit

What’re the odds that he would have shot you if you responded to his threat with “Whatchu talkin’ about, Willis?”

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Fit_Subject_3256@reddit

He was a real poseur so the odds are slim 😝😝😝

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Fit_Subject_3256@reddit

Admitting I just checked out your profile - I think I do know you!!!! Did you hang out at the Cathay?

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Hemicrusher@reddit

Yeah, I hung out there all the time. That and the Fetish on Sunset.

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Fit_Subject_3256@reddit

I thought so! I remember you!!!!!! You prolly don’t remember me. I was VERY young, bopping around the Cathay, Fenders, Perkins, Vex, Anti Club, the Starwood, Santa Monica Civic and the Olympic for “big” shows. I was a baby!!! But you were very kind to me. I was a mess. Please feel free to message me if you ever want to laugh abt the bad old days. Nice to know there’s another survivor of those times still around. Feels like everyone else died off 🖤

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Fit_Subject_3256@reddit

I was born in 1970 and grew up in LA (hell we might know one another!) so I’ve def been to some similar parties. I went to school with a few child actors too. I didn’t have direct Todd Bridges exposure but one of my exes did and his descriptions of him sound very similar to yours! I’ve always heard he was into guns and was always trying to look like a bad ass. So your story definitely checks!!!!

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silliestboots@reddit

Well, he died from a fentenyl overdose last year. So I guess it all evens out.

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CalmChestnut@reddit

What? I hadn't seen.

Turns out he was molested as a child, possibly in Hollywood, and he was feeaking out internally hoping be wouldn't have to do the episode about a pedophile on the show bc of sexret trauma. Odds are he didn't receive the therapy he needed.

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marrkeer@reddit

Yeah, seriously! WTF is up with the bangs back then? John Denver also had that silly look for a while.

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CalmChestnut@reddit

Had to have some sun protection back when no one had high spf

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

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The Mushroom Wedge Cut was oddly unisex! 🎯

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

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RabbitsAteMySnowpeas@reddit

Hey Mikey! He Likes It!!!

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Craig1974@reddit

He's got a head shaped like a Rolo.

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IndustrialJones@reddit

I had something close to that but it was more like bangs and then it dropped down on the sides. Probably why I shave my head now

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Velocitor1729@reddit

We called it "the mushroom."

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ghettoblaster78@reddit

It’s a goomba from Super Mario Bros.! I actually had a slightly shorter version of this hairstyle. I got rid of it when I turned 8–because eight is enough.

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Mookeebrain@reddit

It's better than the broccoli.

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MelonElbows@reddit

2 barbers went missing trying to trim that jungle. Their families are still holding out hope.

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blackpony04@reddit

Apparently that was called the Page Boy haircut after illustrations from the middle ages per his wiki. I can't say I knew of anyone with that cut, and I remember as a kid thinking it was a bad haircut when Eight is Enough was still on the air.

He had such a sad life story and I have to think the bullying he got from being on the show made him have a chip on his shoulder for the rest of his life.

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candleflame3@reddit

I didn't know he died!

Quite a few cast members from EiE met with tragic, premature ends. 😢

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SnarkyGinger1@reddit

Love…love will keep us together. Think of me babe, whenever…

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

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I will! I will! I will!

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pinkfootthegoose@reddit

This hid and haircut always reminded me of Twiki from Buck Rogers.

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ThankTheBaker@reddit

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CreatrixAnima@reddit

Can we talk about Dorothy Hamill?

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MadMatchy@reddit

That's no bowl. It's a space station.

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2cats2hats@reddit

Or a mushroom in an unreleased Super Mario video game.

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MadMatchy@reddit

Mote accurate. But then I couldn't have pulled out the Death Star crack

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idontcarethatmuch@reddit

Lord Helmet

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W0gg0@reddit

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My Shwartz is bigger!

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BigConstruction4247@reddit

I had this glorious haircut.

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HardworkingBludger@reddit

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Bidi bidi bidi

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kevlarus80@reddit

Hello Buck!

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Uuuuugggggghhhhh@reddit

Bowl shite!

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YannaFox@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Didn’t have this cut but knew plenty of kids who did. Even Joey Lawrence rocked it as a kid.

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YannaFox@reddit

Dorothy Hamill enters the chat 😂.

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RRtexian@reddit

I wanted that cut soooo bad because the cool rich kids at schoold sported them. Not to mention Twiggy on Buck Rogers. My mom was still stuck un the 60's so I could only get the Leave it to Beaver haircuts.

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Zeveroth1@reddit

Bowl cuts where my mom’s expertise. Dads was a buzz. No in between until I got to high school

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irate_alien@reddit

how did this even work? no cranium is shaped like that

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Cronus6@reddit

Lucky you.

I had something very similar to this.

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EdwardBliss@reddit

My aunt cut my hair like this

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DiscountEven4703@reddit

Damn it Nickolas

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Captain_Scarlet27@reddit

The Shroom.

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Vorian_Atreides17@reddit

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BaconToTheBaconPower@reddit

Reminds me of Mushroom Boy from Kids in the Hall...

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Antigonus-One-Eye@reddit

I believe international treaties banned that haircut in 1994.

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Serious-Knee-5768@reddit

I totally rocked the "Nickolas!" I just watched a few episodes of 8 a few weeks ago. Not as good as I remembered it, lol.

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PrivilegeCheckmate@reddit

I'mma use the compensation money to buy back my [Big Wheel.](

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ElectricTomatoMan@reddit

Glans cut

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hermiodle@reddit

Yes Nicholas had the hair but the six creepy sisters kept me tuning in each week

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JackTrippin@reddit

It's like a penis head

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LoveIsTheAnswer-@reddit

Like no other haircut in history ever has been.

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sawyer_whoopass@reddit

Based on another comment here, it was fitting for him.

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OtterMumzy@reddit

Equally suited for boys and girls!

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qgecko@reddit

Mom tried. But from early pics of me, I’m lucky she didn’t quite get it.

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Rainsmakker@reddit

Luckily I have curly hair…my brother though, lol

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doghouse2001@reddit

My little brother did. Ha Ha.

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evilBogie666@reddit

Wish I could se I’ve never had it. Thanks mom. I hated it. 😐😐

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DelcoPAMan@reddit

Oh right, the annoying kid from Battlestar Galactica.

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Ok_Stretch1046@reddit

I thought every gen x boy had this haircut at some point.

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dreadfulwater@reddit

I'm already hallucinating staring at that mushroom head.

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linuxgeekmama@reddit

I think that kid might be from France.

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MrsHorrible@reddit

I'm entitled to lots of compensation for the "Dorothy Hamill" haircut. Ugh.

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BigMoFuggah@reddit

That haircut eventually killed him.

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thatlastrock@reddit

Ah the good old DH cut.

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Mastodon996@reddit

I used to call that the Dutch Boy

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MasChingonNoHay@reddit

😂

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loquacious_avenger@reddit

Our haircuts consisted of mom brushing our bangs forward, placing a strip of scotch tape just above our eyebrows and cutting it off. Usually on a Saturday evening just after we polished our church shoes.

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PicklesAndCoorslight@reddit

My mom would actually put a bowl on my head to cut my hair, lol. Wasn't as bad as mushroom kid here, but, it was kind of funny.

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happyme321@reddit

Two of my younger cousins had this haircut around the time it was starting to go out of style. One of my aunts (who was a teenager at the time), took them to get buzz cuts when she was babysitting them. They were so happy because it was summertime and hot out. I think their mom cried, but the kids liked it and they never grew it out like that again.

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Primary-Demand6040@reddit

So many kids had this cut when I was in elementary school. Blond kids looked like a mushroom outbreak on the playground. Always reminded me of the oompa loompas from the original Willy Wonka.

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bulanaboo@reddit

Pics to prove

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valencia_merble@reddit

7 year old boys and 30 year old women had this haircut.

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Icy_Independent7944@reddit

Lol! 🍄

Ok, stylists of Reddit: How DO you get hair to do this?

I mean, that can’t just be the result of a regular trim, no? How do you make it curl under so perfectly without hand tools and hairspray? Dying to know!

I’ve always been curious!

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