Like Totally 80s: All About 80s Bangs
May09

Like Totally 80s: All About 80s Bangs

  The hair of the 80s was big and 80s bangs were big, too. Plus, the styles were practically endless. You could have stick straight up bangs, curly bangs, or flat bangs. Anything goes for the bangs of the 80s and this look back at all the looks will show you just tha. Barely There Bangs These bangs were easy because they were your hair, just cut into a few strands and left to their own devices. Wispy and full of life, these bangs...

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Which 80s Hairstyle Would You Like To See Make A Comeback?
Mar08

Which 80s Hairstyle Would You Like To See Make A Comeback?

What’s out of style one day always comes back into style eventually. From clothes and shoes to jewelry and even home furnishings. Even hairstyles make a comeback. Every hairstyle except those worn in the 1980s. The 1980s had some of the worst hairstyles in the history of combing hair. From bangs touching the ceiling to mullets hitting the floor, the popular hairstyles of the “Me Decade” are incredibly hard to look at...

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Two more 80s Goodies – Goody Hair Combs and Round Barrettes
Nov10

Two more 80s Goodies – Goody Hair Combs and Round Barrettes

Ladies, think back to your hair in the 80s before it was gigantic and shellacked with Aqua Net and Stiff Stuff. Let’s go back to the early 1980s, when you were crafting and wearing your ribbon barrettes, perhaps a tortoise shell plastic headband, or maybe even clipping a roach clip into your hair with some feathers and beads? (Did anyone else wear a roach clip in their hair? No? Anyone?) Think back to when you pulled back the sides of...

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Oh Goody! – The Goody Snap-Tight Barrette Card
Jun22

Oh Goody! – The Goody Snap-Tight Barrette Card

Fact: Hair and hair accessories were a big deal in the 80s. Back in the early 1980s, after the youthful look of pigtails with that big ropey colored yarn, but before the “cool” of ribbon barrettes and banana clips, girls across America were sporting these in their hair: the Goody Snap-Tight Kiddie Barrettes (yup, that’s the official name). These Goody Snap-Tight Barrettes were an everyday choice for my hair. And why wouldn’t you wear...

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80s Rat Tail Hairstyles – The Tale of the Tail
May05

80s Rat Tail Hairstyles – The Tale of the Tail

By Lori Ferraro When you think back to 80s hair, the first images that most likely pop into your brain are of us girls, with our giant, can-of-spray-a-day, moussed-up, permed, blown-out helmet heads, right? But . . . The boys of the 80s had some serious hair action going on as well. We’re all familiar with the decade’s most popular dude-do the mullet. I’d say 95% of the boys walking the halls of my junior high and high schools rocked...

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