Our Most Pinned Stories
Thank you to all our readers that care about the 80s enough to share our site on Pinterest! We love Pinterest too; keep on pinning and spreading the 80s love around. To help you out, we’ve rounded up a list of our most pinned stories from last week to help you find awesome 80s inspiration whether you are planning a party, looking for a costume, trying to find the perfect 80s flick for movie night, or just traveling down memory lane....
Van Halen’s 1984 Thirty Years On
If you weren’t fetching chips from the kitchen or taking a bathroom break during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII (the Raiders killed the Redskins that year), you saw the famous Apple commercial that introduced the Macintosh computer. The tagline at the end read, in part, “[y]ou’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ‘1984’.” With respect to the late Steve Jobs, the release of Van Halen’s 1984 was, for me, why the year was not one of...
Adam Ant 80s Costume Idea
By Lori Ferraro I LOVED ADAM ANT. I was introduced to his antmusic during the dawn of MTV – I specifically remember seeing the video for “Stand and Deliver” and being instantly intrigued and of course, instantly smitten. The music was so cool, so different; I loved the drums, the harmonies and the dramatic lyrics about “dandy highwaymen” and “prince charmings.” *Sigh* Adam Ant was dreamy with his new wave/colonial/military inspired...
80s Earrings: Lacquer Lightning
By Lori Ferraro So, I have a confession to make. I have always been, and forever will be . . . an earring junkie. Look at my current collection, which has recently been pared down: My collection has always required a “rack” “holder” or an “over-the-back-of-the-closet-door-vinyl-thingy” that I had back in the 80s. In the little pockets of the over-the-door-vinyl-thingy (I think that was the technical name for it) you could find a...
The Return of Big Hair?
I spy with my little eye: mousse, gel, teasing combs, and (gasp!) perms? Is the flat-hair era dead at last? It’s an 80s girl’s dream come true! Celebrities Go Big With Hair Celebrities are boldly going where many of us have gone before—into brazenly big hair territory. Here’s a look at some trendsetters who are inflating their locks for that sexy, fluffy, decidedly THERE hair we loved in the me decade: Lady Gaga sported an enormous...
