80’s Hairstyles

Explaining to today’s generation the hair fad called the Jheri Curl or sometimes spelled “Jerry Curls” can be a bit difficult, especially when you tell them about the work and mess involved in creating this memorable 1980s hairstyle. There’s the chemical process of getting a Jheri Curl hairstyle, as well as the excessive upkeep, and that can be a little…

The perm hairstyle has been around for a long time now. But even though it’s gaining in popularity again here, it really shone back in the 1980s. This was the time that it first got very popular, and it seemed like every school girl had one. But what is it? Why did it get so popular? And what made it…

Show today’s kids all your pictures during the 1980s and one of the questions that would invariably be asked would be about the big hair. What’s up with the big hair? So, how are you supposed to answer that? How do you explain the big hair to today’s younger generation? And how do you explain that even guys back then…

If you wanted to have the right haircut in the 1980’s you needed to have a side ponytail. Ok, so t this was a style that was exclusive to women, but it was one that became popular through-out the world. It was a change from the regular pony tail that always found itself at the back of the head, and…

If you were around in the 80s, you probably remember the rat tail haircut or “rat tails”. The rat tail hair trend though unsightly now, was actually fairly commonplace during the 1980s.  As well as big hair, mullets and pony tails, rats tails were a common phenomenon during the 1980’s. The rat tail haircut style was popular predominantly among teenage…

Right now it may be popular for men to have short hair with the occasional untidy part running through it, but way back in the 80’s, a lot of men had a ponytail. It was cool, it was hip, and it was the hairstyle to have. If you were a guy with a ponytail in the 80’s there’s no doubt…