Hair In The 1980s Essay

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Hailee Stewart Phase 2 January 1, 2015 Hair in the 1980's During the 1980's there was a wide range of popular hairstyles. Such as the side pony tail, the jersey bangs and how could we forget the mullet. In the 80's it was all about big hair and what was then and now. The 70's was the hippie era where everyone was calm and cool and your hair resemble your aura. The 80's wanted it bigger and more edgy where a lot of feathering and jagged hairstyles came in. A popular way to create this big hairstyles was but layering the entire head and setting in in rollers to create curl and volume then topping it off with some more than necessary back combing/teasing. A lot of women took to the oh so popular perming as an everyday hairstyle. In an article I read it states that," The much higher the hair at the back of the head was, the more confident and stylish the women became." In the 1980's skin tone, hair texture, nor age mattered …show more content…

In the 80's both men and women had spiked hair. During this era it was more seen as the punk look and on the edge. More popular with men and young boys than with women who preferred to keep their hair at a slightly longer length. One of the popular spiked up hairstyles was the Mohawk. Which consisted of the sides from the temples all the way back to the nape of the hair to be shaved till there was little to no hair, leaving the top all the way to the nape longer. In order to style a Mohawk you would blow dry the hair straight up using large amounts of gel and hairspray to keep it sticking straight up all day long. Once again this was a more common hairstyle to see on men. Sometimes to add a bit more edge the hair left down the center would be colored. Sometimes just coloring the tips would make it slightly more edgy. In this era it was also popular for those who had curly hair to wear it in the all natural style known as the Afro.

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