When & why did you give up your 80’s hairstyle?

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lubeelubsodds@reddit

Went from 80s street punk hair to shaving it all off for a while in the early 90s (remember Susan Powter?) then grew it out to my waist and stayed with variations on that for a few decades. The hair spray, dippity do, PERM and bangs were a mercifully short middle school phase.

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d_lbrs@reddit

I didn’t give it up….it gave me up 😢

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RebelStrategist@reddit

I grew up. :) Realized I looked like a tool with a mullet. Got rid of it right after graduation.

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Any-Perception3198@reddit

Wanted to get a “Rachel” because it was the hot hairstyle once Friends became a hit. Like 1994.

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marcusbyday@reddit

It fell out

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greytgreyatx@reddit

Mine was longer. 1995. I'd moved from Arkansas to Las Vegas, NV and realized that I could stop with the teasing and then stop using hairspray altogether. It was another 3-4 years before I grew my bangs out and never looked back.

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battlesong1972@reddit

Somewhere around 2010 once the gray hair started growing in. I decided I didn’t want to try for the “old hippie” look

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keonni65bc@reddit

When "skullet" didn't hit right

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MaximumJones@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/6v4rnckbwllf1.jpeg?width=957&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=768c1577fd5a09abc7303c15931817fe3f8f4818 It's astounding, time is fleeting...

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

You’ll never guess who played that role in a Broadway presentation: >!Sebastian Bach.!<

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globalgayety@reddit

You mean...that's *not* Sebastian Bach?

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Battle_Known@reddit

Ouch. Heh.

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MaximumJones@reddit

I can totally see that happening 🤣

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theflamingskull@reddit

An acquaintance in high school looked, and dressed, like Riff Raff. The poor guy knew he was doomed at 17.

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MaximumJones@reddit

My best friend from high school (and throughout life) looks EXACTLY like Richard O'Brien (minus the skullet). Dude has pulled more poon than I ever will. I think GenX ladies just like that bone structure (that or maybe it is all that damn money he has as an aviation engineer). 😁

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fake-august@reddit

I went to school with his son…I never met his dad but his son was/is a sweetheart and seemed to adore his father (it was boarding school - we were all very close.

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theflamingskull@reddit

The guy I knew had the skullet.

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jazzbot247@reddit

Wow Michael Bolton looks like shit

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CynfullyDelicious@reddit

Baldness… takes its toll….

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

lol. I tried to grow one this spring/summer. My wife was threatening to kill me in my sleep and I just couldn't handle the hair touching my ears so it had to go. I had hockey hair, again it had to go when I couldn't stand the hair touching my ears anymore.

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Sweetcheeksmama@reddit

When I found out about the ozone layer. Had to let the Final Net go

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SkunkMonkey72@reddit

I ran out of hair on the 2000s.

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

I had to stop rocking the mullet when I started losing my hair. Close cropped brush cut kept me going for a while longer, but by 1996 I started shaving my head.

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Wonderful_Pain1776@reddit

United States Marine Corps

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Vegetable-Feature-85@reddit

Started to change it up my senior year. I swear everyone got crimpers for Christmas and I got tired of looking like everyone else and washing clumps of Aquanet/Stiff Stuff glue out of my hair. Then I got pregnant in ‘91 and my hair wouldn’t hold a curl for more than 10 minutes. For some reason perimenopause caused my hair to get curly so if I were to get bangs and more layers, I’d be rocking the 80’s look with no effort.

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LizTruth@reddit

My hair, no matter how hard I tried to give it body, was silky fine and straight as a pin. I quit curling & teasing my bangs when I went to college.

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BuzzFabbs@reddit

1990…got tired of hot rollers every morning just to end up with a ponytail and a headache by 2pm.

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MuttsandHuskies@reddit

Ponytail they’re higher or lower. If you reach back to the back of your head and find that little knot that sticks out, there’s a nerve right under there that is triggered by pressure and for some people at leads to headaches or migraines. So ponytail higher lower than that and you’ll be fine.

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PuhnTang@reddit

I’ve just spent five minutes feeling the back of my head and I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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MuttsandHuskies@reddit

It’s a tiny little notch with a little bump above it, about 4 fingers width up from where your head and neck meet. It’s straight up the center. One of my migraine doctors actually told me the ponytail I had on was causing the migraine I had right then. If you’re prone to migraines pushing in that area too much can trigger one.

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knitnbitch27@reddit

Jesus! Let me stop pushing on it then. 😅

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BuzzFabbs@reddit

Currently growing my hair out from the Pixie cut I’ve had for 20 years. Nearly to the ponytail stage! Will definitely take your advice!!

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AnarchiaKapitany@reddit

It's 2025, and I'm still rocking the Frank Lemmer.

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JustAnOkDogMom@reddit

Never had 80’s hair. It was down to my waist and wavy.

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SparklyRoniPony@reddit

When I realized my hair wouldn’t conform to 80s style. Basically, I tried to do it: my hair said no, and that was that.

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FujiKitakyusho@reddit

January 1, 1990, because the 80's ended.

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godofwine16@reddit

It gave up on me. I had a glorious mullet at first then I let all the hair grow out and it was long enough that I had to tie it up into a ponytail and I think that’s what accelerated my hair falling out :( Now I wish I had any of those styles back

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ExhaustedMouse@reddit

I straightened my already straight hair as a teenager (ah, teen goths) and kept that up for ages. Now I rock a big perm with huge bangs.

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Careless_Lion_3817@reddit

So you went from 90’s onwards hair to 80’s hair…interesting choice

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ExhaustedMouse@reddit

I was never allowed to have a perm in the 80s because my hair was too precious apparently. So now I’m going back to the styles of all the women I thought were super beautiful back then.

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Fruitcrackers99@reddit

I’m intrigued by this big perm with bangs.

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Foreign-Cow-1189@reddit

Bring back those bangs and shoulder pads!!

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Careless_Lion_3817@reddit

You can have bangs anytime. Shoulder pads were and always have been a very weird fashion fad

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Perfect_Distance434@reddit

I’ve kept my bangs in various forms (now curly), but also I don’t yet need Botox. 😊

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Informal-Tour-8201@reddit

At least shoulder pads made it look like I had *actual* shoulders!

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analogpursuits@reddit

Meanwhile, my broad shoulders didn't have time for that shit. 🙄

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ssk7882@reddit

Mine either, but I did appreciate that for a brief time, sweaters actually fit my shoulders, since they were designed to fit those shoulder pads!

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ImmediateBug2@reddit

I never had an 80s hairstyle. My hair was long, no layers, no bangs and straight as a board. As soon as grunge rolled around, I was right back in fashion.

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Not_Half@reddit

>As soon as grunge rolled around, I was right back in fashion. I assume you stopped washing your hair at that stage. 😂

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Careless_Lion_3817@reddit

Grunge wasn’t hippie. Jfc . Do you know anything about the grunge scene irl?

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ObiWanKnieval@reddit

Grunge wasn't about being a dirtbag, tho. The style evolved out of punks growing their hair long.

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Not_Half@reddit

Interesting. I was in my late teens/early 20s in the 90s and would beg to differ, though. Not so much the girls but there were plenty of "dirtbag" looking young men.

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ObiWanKnieval@reddit

As was I. Statistically speaking, I don't doubt there were some unkempt, hygiene deficient young men into the grunge scene. But that's just the nature of certain young men no matter what genre they're into. Grunge bands and (their followers) usually had long hair, but they weren't unwashed hippies by any stretch of the imagination. They didn't live out of vans like Deadheads. Early grunge crowds were mostly well-groomed white suburban college kids with long hair and docs.

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ssk7882@reddit

Same here. I actually found it rather disconcerting to have my "hippie hair" suddenly become fashionable.4

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Careless_Lion_3817@reddit

I don’t think I have bc I never really had one

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Best-Theory-330@reddit

It fail out

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TimHuntsman@reddit

Baldness. Sad to say.

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DTW_Tumbleweed@reddit

Only after I learned that the oral steroids I had to take impacted the effectiveness of a perm. I learned the hard way as only patches of my poker straight fine hair took the spiral curl perm I so badly needed to look like a big hair bands fan girl. I think this was mid to late 90's. Think I changed my 80's makeup style then too.... I will never give up my 80's music though. I'll be blasting Twisted Sister, Def Leppard and Guns-n-Roses until my last days.

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desonos@reddit

I cut it all off when I went to navy in 96. Now at 51, I said I'm old and don't give a damn I want it back (without hairspray and such, natural). https://preview.redd.it/3i4gap2bpolf1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29ee597fd14fd15013d0c796911004c8d7d3e8cb

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Weekly_Barnacle_485@reddit

My head has now opted for bald.

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_ism_@reddit

I couldn't even afford an 80s hairstyle till the 90s thank god i saved up for a perm and they went out of style by the time i had money for it.

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

Count yourself lucky. I was 5 to 15 in the 80s. My mom and grandma were obsessed with giving everyone home perms; including me

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Old-Sprinkles3135@reddit

I can smell that sweet ogalvie perm hmm.

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MeasurementStill5997@reddit

Aqua hairspray did me in

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doghouse2001@reddit

2000-present. It fell out. lol. Actually my 70s-80's hairstyle changed in '83 when I went to a conservative school that demanded buzz cuts. *That* lasted a year.

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ZorrosMommy@reddit

No idea when or why. Probably bc it went out of style!

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LayerNo3634@reddit

We went from teasing to a perm with a poof on top...then there were the bows in the early 90's

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BMisterGenX@reddit

Already by 1989 I realized that big hair was on the way out and cut my hair. One friend commented I was like Lindsey Buckingham when he cut his hair in the late 70s in his attempt to look new wave

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Chicagogirl72@reddit

Not sure but I’m still rocking my 90’s one

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NICEnEVILmike@reddit

I joined the Army and my hair got buzzed off.

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Big-Gazelle696@reddit

The Marine Corps took care of my 80's mullet real quick

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WileyCoyote7@reddit

The Navy for me, but yeah, a decent flat-top buzzed away in 30 seconds.

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Skatchbro@reddit

US Army here. Nothing takes care of a hair style from any era faster than a boot camp buzz.

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greg9x@reddit

And you had to pay for it ! 😄 But I was early for basic by a couple days, never felt so out of place having hair.

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tigelane@reddit

Air Force checking in. :)

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Ok_Peanut_6919@reddit

10/10/1988…US Air Force

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aprilmarina@reddit

1994 I think. Quit perming my hair, such freedom

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metoo123456@reddit

When I went to basic training in 86.

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squirtloaf@reddit

Early '92. I went from long hair black hair to short hair with alternating black and red manic panic parts. kinda had nineties hair fangs, but we don't talk about that now :)

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ekimdad@reddit

My forehead increased exponentially. About 1992 or so...

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parker9832@reddit

I joined the Navy, they shaved my unintentional mullet, and I never looked back.

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Virnman67@reddit

I rocked my mullet til about 90-91. I graduated college - cut my hair shorter - put on a suit - landed a bank mgt job 🤷🏼🤷🏼

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sadietdubs@reddit

![gif](giphy|7WUbQ8Zswvl3G) 1990. Took this CD into the salon and went from a long permed 80s ‘do into a chopped blunt Chyna Phillips pixie-bowl. Still wearing a pixie cut at age 56!

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sadietdubs@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/wr2k51dxjnlf1.png?width=3113&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc0306854af91e095a25b7da9e830bb478c0e299

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Ancient-Sink5239@reddit

I was always so jealous of the girls that could pull off the Chyna Phillips.

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Ancient-Sink5239@reddit

I grew my bangs out in 91/92. I was at the helm of that trend. 🙃

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SmokyBlackRoan@reddit

WOT!!! I am not giving it up.

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Over-Direction9448@reddit

I did the kinda tousled hair with bangs swept up ( Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks , middle aged Christopher Walken ) but it was appropriated by 2003 ish gay men No homophobia but I’m also not gay Had a midlife crisis and grew my hair long , lifted weights in my garage : long haired jacked guy 2007-2011 Cut that went back to 2003 gay guy product in bangs , high and tight 2017 discovered via a photo that I was thinning considerably and obviously on crown of head. Hemmed and hawed and denied and accepted. Have been #1 buzz cutting my hair every 2 weeks since. I’d like to think it’s kinda Jason Statham. Prob just 54 yr old suburban white guy . ITS ALL I GOT, MAN

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hifromhayden@reddit

Now we need a thread posting our 80’s hair !

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TheLastMongo@reddit

1990, when I enlisted.

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Nice-Reference1861@reddit

My last perm was in 1989. Once the last of it was finally chopped out I grew my naturally straight hair out and never chopped it shorter than my collarbone.

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Andovars_Ghost@reddit

When my hair gave out on me… 🥹

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BooRadley_Esq@reddit

About 89/90. Had a mullet, got a haircut and found out I looked better with shorter hair. The victory was short lived, I’m bald now.

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Sufficient_Judge_820@reddit

1990. I moved on with a 90s hairstyle.

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Igmu_TL@reddit

When I joined the military. I had a classic length (down to belt) and a beard length (straightened ) almost the same about belly button. Girls used to love playing with it to the point of inner annoyance. Then about a decade after my military service, but not as long as before. Finally, it just slowed growing, but not balding.

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OIL_99@reddit

Cuz the 90’s

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Putrid-Catch-3755@reddit

Buzzcut...never changed

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mavjustdoingaflyby@reddit

My three different colored Mohawk wasn't a good look in an office setting after I graduated in 88.

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ScienceMomCO@reddit

1989/90 during my junior year. I started growing my bangs out and by the time our senior year started, many of the senior girls had much flatter hair than the younger grades.

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ronnie-james-dior@reddit

Dropped the mullet in college in 1990 when I had a gay roommate and he advised me that it was not a good look for me. I’d been cultivating that thing for YEARS so it hurt a little to let it go.

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RedditGirl212@reddit

I still have it. Was awesome then and it’s awesome now :)

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Some-Library-4073@reddit

When I found out the aquanet I was using was killing us all.

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PinSevere7887@reddit

Couldn’t afford the weekly crate of Aquanet anymore. 1991 was the end of it lol.

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PahzTakesPhotos@reddit

Late 80s, like the latest of the 80s. I went to beauty college to do nails and if we had downtime, we got to be living mannequins for new stylists.

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redditwinchester@reddit

Always had long straight hair, no layers, big boy did I do my best with mousse and Aquanet! My current haircut is pretty 80s--it looks like Hopey in Love & Rockets

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lysistrata3000@reddit

Late 1980s. My thyroid crapped out on me, and I didn't have enough hair to do anything interesting with.

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ChrisRiley_42@reddit

98.. Because I had to have emergency brain surgery, and had my head shaved on one side, which looked ridiculous so I had my barber take the rest down to the same length when I was recovered enough to go out into the world again ;)

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shadypines33@reddit

My hairstyle was always changing, but I think around 1994 is when I started wanting smooth, styled hair. I blame Rachel Green.

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Grouchy-Walrus2600@reddit

Hair style requires hair.

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Sufficient-Pound-442@reddit

91 or 92. I was looking through my old yearbooks, and it seems like the “natural look” began coming in around 1991. Almost no one had big hair anymore.

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pokeysyd@reddit

Summer of 1994. It was long enough I could almost put it in a pony tail. Cut it all off with clippers. Hasn’t been longer than 1 inch since. Normally use the clippers with no guard every 6 weeks now.

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OhSusannah@reddit

My 80's hair idol was Chrissie Hynde. I asked for and frequently got that somewhat messy shag cut. It's low maintenance and never required spray although I would sometimes make it fancy with Dippity Do. That look stopped working sometime in the 2000's.

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GotchUrarse@reddit

Not sure it counts, but 52. Grew my hair out at 40. I've kept it long ever since. I look more late 70's/early 80's now than I did as a teenager.

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retro_lady@reddit

My answer is probably the same as OP. I mean my hair is till big, it's naturally curly and thick. Lol. But I don't tease it anymore.

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Bl8kStrr@reddit

I became a Marine

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mjh8212@reddit

My dad kept my hair short I never had teased bangs I never knew how or had hair long enough. I had boy haircuts. Then it grew out a little and I permed it big mistake I ended up shaving it off with a clippers down to one inch long.

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Grimol1@reddit

My hair fell out!

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mltrout715@reddit

Who says I did?

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MsTgr@reddit

In 1987, I entered the USAF for a 22-yr career, cut my long (feathered/layered) hair for half of my career, but even when I grew it out, I NEVER had the Aquanet version of my long hair.

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MaxHavok13@reddit

When and why are the same. I could see light reflecting off my just forming bald spot! Nothing is more sad than a man with a ponytail and a bald spot!

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knuckleduster1968@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/59qm3o286nlf1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=12501472916b29cf5a6fb573de965a42960587ac Dude...

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crone_Andre3000@reddit

I never had an 80s hairstyle...I was a bob girl from 1984 onward

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whatevertoad@reddit

Tbf bobs were also very 80s

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whatevertoad@reddit

Some random guy made fun of my hair at Disneyland my Junior year of highschool. I started toning it down after that. Then grew out my bangs. Then got The Rachel.

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Ok-Writing9280@reddit

In the 80s

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Msfracture@reddit

lol same.. started growing my bangs out in Dec 1993, no more time spent on my hair just grew it out down to my butt

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MyriVerse2@reddit

My HS had a strict short haircut rule. The moment I graduated, I grew it long and still have it.

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HonoluluLongBeach@reddit

When I got married in 1993

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trelene@reddit

I could never get my hair to do the hairstyles that were in fashion. My hair has pretty much never been in fashion. That used to bother me a bit back in the day; not at all now.

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OoklaTheMok1994@reddit

Around age 25 when nature took care of it for me.

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OrillaMAUS@reddit

I was supposed to do that?

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Lemgirl@reddit

1989 because they raised the price of Aqua-net.

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literarycatnip@reddit

This is such an interesting question! I had hair eight inches high and bangs like B cups when I got to college in 88 but never really considered when that degree of hair attention and product stopped... but by 1992 my hair was all one length. Maybe I was saving my product money for booze? I don't even remember it happening

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annemarizie@reddit

So embarrassing to see pictures with my Joan Jett hair

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ljinbs@reddit

1989. Got my long spiral perm cut off to look more professional for interviewing. Went with the typical bob and hated how short it was.

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Substantial-Run3367@reddit

1989.. I joined the Army and went to Germany.

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Sea_Ganache620@reddit

Had long hair as a teenager in the 80’s. Got a job that insisted no long hair on men. I cut the front short, kept the back in a long ponytail I could tuck into a collared shirt. I didn’t invent the mullet, but wore one for awhile out of necessity.

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YouDontKnowMe4949@reddit

I will let you know when I do.

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PrisonNurseNC@reddit

I didnt have 80s hair. My hair was long and braided.

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Not_Half@reddit

I had a Princess Diana, and grew it out, only to proceed to a Sinead O'Connor buzz cut in the early 90s. I seriously thought about going back to the buzz cut during Covid when all the hairdressers were shut. 😂

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skinisblackmetallic@reddit

Started growing it all out around 91. Shaved the sides in 92. It was pretty long when I shaved it all off in 95.

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Commisceo@reddit

Army took my mullet.

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MyNameIsNotDennis@reddit

I didn’t give up my hair, my hair gave up on me.

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Dismal_Estate9829@reddit

Just before freshmen year I shaved my mullet off and only left a rat tail for the ladies to braid and bead. 🤣

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Wyzard_of_Wurdz@reddit

I never did.

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vivacycling@reddit

When my hair gave up on me and all went away

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Key_Zucchini9764@reddit

When: late 90’s Why: Male pattern baldness

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Specialist_Stop8572@reddit

I was a child in the 80s, I don't want to look like Rudy Huxtable now!

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GenXer-Bitch@reddit

Gave it up in the 90s, but see many older realtors still rocking some 80s hair! Not sure why it’s so popular with realtors around here 🤷🏼‍♀️

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deedeejayzee@reddit

I got pregnant in 1991, in perfect time for grunge to start, lol. My hair was tamed after high school and I started working in 89, too

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wuzzatt@reddit

Ran out of dippidy-doo & Aquanet!

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wuzzatt@reddit

Too hard to find dippidy-doo & Aquanet!

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tanukis_parachute@reddit

When the business part in the front went bankrupt and closed up shop.

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3_Libras_@reddit

😆😆😆

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SamWhittemore75@reddit

You assume too much!

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3_Libras_@reddit

1990-ish. I stopped curling/teasing and began wearing it straight.

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JudgeJuryEx78@reddit

My perm grew out right around '90, so probably then.

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whistlepig4life@reddit

Had long hair. Gave it up when I joined the Army at 17. Never went back.

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1159Funkbubbles@reddit

I remember it fondly, it was December 31st 1989...

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theothershuu@reddit

1986, joined the military. Not may hair style choices there

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brezhnervouz@reddit

Never had '80s hair'. I did buy a Wahl clipper though and have used it ever since

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BoldBoimlerIsMyHero@reddit

I kinda changed my hair gradually every year. I never did the big 80s hair. I had the Joan jet kind of hair then let the layers grow out by the time I graduated high school. I did get a perm but it was like waves and I never hair sprayed it into big hair.

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CazzoNoise@reddit

Had to let the mullet go...frosted tips was in and I always stayed on top of the trends.

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BaileyD77@reddit

I had the stripes and a rat tail. Just grew out of it.

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nutmegtell@reddit

I’m not 15 anymore lol

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wjrj@reddit

1990 , I joined the Navy, never went back .

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ChrisKetcham1987@reddit

Ooo! I think it was right around 1994. I got a new stylist, and told him to cut my hair however he wanted, "just don't make me look like the Friends."

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Extra-Blackberry-984@reddit

The 90’s came and I got a spiral perm! 😂

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Street-Quail5755@reddit

I still have a mullet. Why do you ask?

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thejake1973@reddit

The Army took my hair. lol

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thejake1973@reddit

The Army took my hair. lol https://preview.redd.it/czkqqcshhmlf1.jpeg?width=613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6ce8f6f4dacf9543a66f91acf91b5f1922a6434a

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savedbytheblood72@reddit

I still have somewhat of a mullet. Only trim and not as over exaggerated. I'm grateful I still have hair. But the shaved waves and lines had to go.

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External_Roll1046@reddit

Started going bald in the 90s. Long hair and a huge bald spot was not a good look. At first I just got a short hair cut. But eventually I gave in and started shaving my head. Saves me a fortune on haircuts and shampoo.

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Slim_Chiply@reddit

Never, I guess. I keep my hair a bit shorter (for business reasons and severe inertia problems getting to the barber), but I haven't really ever changed my hairstyle. I get my hair cut and then go around until my SO says I'm starting to look like the Wild Man of Borneo again. I get cut again after some point and the cycle continues.

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hundredpercentdatb@reddit

I turned goth and ditched the claw bangs circa 1991

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Just_Plain_Beth_1968@reddit

Which 80s hairstyle? I've changed so many times I'm finally back to the shag I used to have when I was in high school. We used to just call it a shag, now it's a wolf cut. Or whatever else they're calling it now.

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porcelainvacation@reddit

I went bald in 1998.

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phizappa@reddit

MPB

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genxreader@reddit

1992. Was about to graduate high school and the girls were no longer using the hot rollers. I cut my long hair shoulder length and used a round brush to smooth it out. Been curler-free ever since!

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nixtarx@reddit

Cut the back off when people started making fun of mullets. Started shaving my head when the receding developed into having a little island tuft in the front. Why tf can't it at least fall out EVENLY??

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Jumpy_Cobbler7783@reddit

I was bald a couple years before the 1980s so my son had to take the mantle: https://preview.redd.it/jhont4kxemlf1.jpeg?width=490&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94dcf2b6dfc9b9de8ab1c8116e07ce5f6d270d8e Easter outing in 1993 🤭.

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Firm_Accountant2219@reddit

When I started applying for jobs after I graduated. The spiky punk look didn’t sell.

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Fluffymanolo@reddit

I graduated in 1992, and I didn't tease or hairspray the crap out of my hair the last two years of school.

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insecurecharm@reddit

Shortly after graduation in 1991. I did Madonna's Express Yourself era bob for a while, until my perm finally grew out. It's been variations of straight bobs ever since.

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MNConcerto@reddit

In the 80s because it was time to.stop torturing my hair.

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DeFiClark@reddit

Still rocking something very close to the #6 on top #4 all around I did from 83 on, but I gave up the flat top before 1990

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Kiss-the-vat@reddit

I ALWAYS had 80's big hair for my entire life, naturally thick and very curly by Mother Nature herself. I didn't need to do anything to achieve that look, didn't even need hairspray. Everyone envied my 80's hair and asked where I got my awesome perm, and I would say it's NOT a perm, it's my natural hair. That brief moment in time was fantastic for me and my tresses.....then came the 90's and the straight look was back in style.

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RAbites@reddit

Me too

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catshark2o9@reddit

In the early 90's. I still see ladies my age with their spiral perms. I didn't even know they still did that.

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RAbites@reddit

Mine just looks like a spiral per. That's just the way my hair grows.

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EdamameWindmill@reddit

I was all counter culture in high school and did my hair in 1920’s styles. When I got to college I lived with a bunch of hippies, so……

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Quintipluar@reddit

I don't know but whenever I visit Walmart I'm reminded there are many people who never gave it up.

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samizdat5@reddit

Oy. So many people. Geez. Get a new hair style. Just for fun!

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HandleAccomplished11@reddit

Bwaaahahahha, very true!

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MissHell303@reddit

Bwaha! I have a bright red Mohawk right now

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The_Motley_Fool----@reddit

80’s!?! I’m still parting it down the middle with it feathered on both sides. And yes, I have a tortoise shell comb sticking out of my back pocket

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Significant_Ruin4870@reddit

I suspect we might have gone to the same junior high.

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Significant_Ruin4870@reddit

My hair wouldn't hold a big 80's style if you threatened its very existence. It vanquished perms and aquanet without breaking a sweat. It sneered at gel. I wore it either long and straight (no bangs), or in the mid-eighties I cut it to a long layered bob.

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CyndiIsOnReddit@reddit

My hair routine meant getting up at 5 am and first straightening then hot rolling then pulling each roller and straightening again, then using the crimping iron strategically for maximum "lift". When I started working in pre-k classes in a hot sweaty school I would just pull my hair up curly and do the bangs up tall, but by the mid-90s I was working construction and I just kept it braided. It's still braided, but if I keep it down I'm letting it be curly and natural.

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Magik160@reddit

When it decided to leave me

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acreekofsoap@reddit

What do you mean by “give up”? Bowl cut until I die!

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Onerustyrn@reddit

Army. I had the mullet with a perm.

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AreWeFlippinThereYet@reddit

1987, when my kiddo kept pulling it

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jazzbot247@reddit

I went to a private all girls school with smart kids and rich kids. All the middle class smart kids had the teased up hair, and all the rich kids had the smooth sleek bob haircuts or just long smooth preppy hair. So I rocked the teased hair for my tribe until graduation in 1993.

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Phobos1982@reddit

I’ve had the same hairstyle my whole life.

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Thunderpuppy2112@reddit

About 89

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Mysterious-Taste-804@reddit

I started toning it down in 91-92 school year and my bangs were fully grown out by junior year in 1993.

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GenXgirlie@reddit

I have a client who’s maybe a couple years older than I, so probably mid-to-late 50’s, and she *still* rocks the mall bangs. It looks so strange!

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Jennis8108@reddit

1993. I stopped fighting my naturally straight hair, got the Brenda Walsh bangs, and all of a sudden i stood out among the big permed curly girls and found my look.

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Ember357@reddit

But did you immediately segue way into the flip bottom bob with the smoothed over bangs on an off center part?

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Fritz5678@reddit

Somewhere around 90 I went to get a body wave. The hair dresser messed up and it was the tightest poodle perm ever. I could do nothing with it except pull it back in a head band. Took years to grow out to a decent length. Never permed again, never wore bangs again either. Of course, I did rock a Rachael for a while there. Then a flip.

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sarah-vdb@reddit

The bangs were mostly gone by the time I had senior portraits done in 1990, then I grew everything out and have had the same basic haircut (long, some layers, no bangs) ever since. I started playing with color instead.

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CougarStef@reddit

My grandmother owned a beauty salon when I was growing up, so I got perms for free. I gave up the big hair after I moved away for college (early 90s) and found out how much they cost.

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Jwheat71@reddit

When I joined the army.

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BobsleddingToMyGrave@reddit

I grew my hair out. I had the huge aquanet poodle look until my senior year, then I went to a simple Bob. That 70's Farrah Faucet feather look lasted much longer on me than it should have.

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Fogsmasher@reddit

Because my hair gave up on me

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EuronIsMyDad@reddit

When I lost my hair

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alegna12@reddit

I started college (in the 80’s) with a mullet. I finished (in the 90’s) with basically a triangle of hair and bangs (think Alice from Dilbert but tone it down a bit).

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JustFaithlessness178@reddit

When I got the "Rachel" instead!

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berkeley_solipsist@reddit

I had a mullet up until 2000-2001. No one ever mentioned they were "out" and I'm a fashion moron. Hell, I've always been 10 years behind.

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Battle_Known@reddit

I had the most cringe worthy haircut. Not just a low key mullet but a full on bad bleach job, spikey on top, with with 2 parallel lines shaved into the sides. A lot of effort just to look like an asshole. My school had a canned food drive with different rewards for hitting increasing goals of cans collected. For some ungodly number far in excess of anything that had ever been collected before, I said I'd cut my hair. The student body rallied to eliminate a true eyesore from the universe and smashed even whatever that lofty goal was by a significant margin and they gave the the gift (although I wasn't smart enough to recognize it as such at the time) of a normal haircut rather than the "Hey look at at me! I'm an asshole!" beacon that I had attached to the bowling ball that I insist on calling my head. Sometimes the universe conspires to save you from yourself, so thanks Universe. I owe you one.

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Full_FrontaI_Nerdity@reddit

I still wear mine the same except my bangs are less poufy.

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Winter-eyed@reddit

After I graduated and got a job a close friend convinced me me to bleach my hair. (Horrible idea) It was awful and I cut off the fried ends and grew it out blending the mess with highlights until it was healthy again. By then I was pregnant and cut it shoulder length for convenience and stick with a variation of that

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AnitaPeaDance@reddit

College. No time. No money. And, honestly I looked silly trying to rock those big hair style with my baby fine hairs.

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Proud__Apostate@reddit

Gave it up after high school. It was way too time consuming & ridiculous looking.

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Intrepid_Card8858@reddit

I either had crazy unstyled hair or side shave with rat tail, etc. in the 80s. Went through a bunch of different colors and styles over the years. Stopped dying my hair a few years ago. I have circled back around to crazy unstyled hair and it works for that witchy vibe I'm going for.

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FlaviusPacket@reddit

Parted in the middle and feathered? Kinda went punk. A little punk. Ok a lot.

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Impressive-Safety191@reddit

Went to colander couldn’t afford the aqua net

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LeatherAppearance616@reddit

I went to college in a place with 90% humidity, aqua net lost that battle, reinvented myself as a fresh faced, natural haired, makeup free beach girl.

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Ok-Ear9289@reddit

Ran out of hairspray‼️

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arioandy@reddit

Flat top went 15 yrs ago

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11CatLady@reddit

It just happened organically...circa 1991 to 1992...

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Acrobatic_Bell6777@reddit

My parents still refer to my bangs as shark fins when reminiscing about that time hahaha so much effort to make them as high as possible

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MienaLovesCats@reddit

1990 at 15 and moved to a more trendy city

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Fulghn@reddit

That was 30 years ago when I went off to sea to become a pirate. My hair started jumping ship in my late 20s. https://preview.redd.it/iehebqcfzllf1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b1886825e91c4d53911197fe952782c89dfe5f9

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Ealthina@reddit

Finally cut my long hair in about 2000

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ApprehensiveBus3302@reddit

Still haven’t.

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dodadoler@reddit

Can’t find enough hairspray

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Catfiche1970@reddit

I started listening to different music in 1991.

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kermitsfrogbog@reddit

I'm not sure I ever really did. Granted, I don't go out of my way to tease it anymore. That ended by the mid 90s. But my hair is so curly naturally that if I grow it long, it can't help but try to keep that 80s vibe going all on its own.

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Tpellegrino121@reddit

Never! The mullet rules! Business in the front, and a party in the back! Ok, except the “party in the back” has been virtual since 1989

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geoelectric@reddit

I cut my mullet (a la Russell/Swayze, not Cyrus) unfashionably late in the 90s. It was well after 1995. I’m not proud of this.

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mldyfox@reddit

Never really had one, lol Never could get the big hair thing to work on my head, so wore a ponytail all through high school. Now I keep it somewhere between my jaw and shoulders so that it doesn't get caught on my laptop bag strap

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speed_of_chill@reddit

When I joined the Navy right after high school. Did a 4 year enlistment, got out and grew my hair out again, only this time there was no mullet. I just looked like a Lynyrd Skynyrd reject. A few years later I re-upped in the Navy Reserve and have been rocking the medium fade ever since.

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boilersnipe@reddit

Boot camp

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TheRealEkimsnomlas@reddit

I fell for the mullet look briefly in the very early 80s and liked to pour hydrogen peroxide on it in random ways. Sort of a Kajagoogoo if they were made of zombies or monsters. But when I went to college it was just too difficult to do anything other than a sorta midlength shag, and that's what it was from then on except growing it long in the mid 90s for a bit.

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HerNameIsVesper@reddit

Several decades later, I have reclaimed my 80s do. I am now proudly rocking a pixie cut with a side shave.

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RDOFAN@reddit

1979

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rangerm2@reddit

I told my wife she'd look younger if she wore bangs. She does. As far as myself, parting my hair in the middle is something best left behind. I part mine on the left side.

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lscraig1968@reddit

I finished college at the end of 91. Got a job where I had to wear a jacket and tie to work. Mullet didn't fit....

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IceSmiley@reddit

I won't speak for myself but my dad had a bouffant 80s hair style into the 90s and and he was a salesman and if his team met a quota they could shave his head! They did and he was bald a bit but just had a short style to this day

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