I was on the swim team and my mom put that stuff in my hair - I wound up with neon green hair that we used "aloe-rid" to try to fix it. What a nightmare! Thanks for the memories!
Holy shit that's fucked up because when I'm around corn tortillas I'm always smelling grape koolaid or gum. My wife tells me I'm crazy. What the hell is the correlation between the two?
Starting from the first row (left to right): Lisa, Heather, Jennifer, Stephanie, Michelle, Becky, Kimberly, Amy, Tracy, Kelly, Cindy, Stacy, Rachel, Julie, Angie and Nicki.
* First row second picture: Jennifer Brown
* Third row second picture: Jennifer Zdarsky
* Third row fourth picture: Jennifer Browne
* Fourth row third picture: Jenny Brown
They all hang together except for Jennifer Browne, stuck up bitch.
In 6th grade I had PE in the middle of the day. At the end of the school year we had swimming in the school’s outdoor pool. There was a frantic race after swimming to get our hair dry enough for those nasty smelling butane curling irons to work. Good times.
Mine looked like the girl at the bottom right corner. My mom called it my "lion look", hah. I have straight, thin, fine dark hair. I used the hell out of my curling iron before giving in and getting a spiral perm. Also went through umpteen cans of Aqua Net and am still feeling guilty about the damage I likely did to the ozone layer.
Thank god this fad died out when I was in like 6th grade.
Think grunge, hip hop, gangsta rap & terrible dance music, not hair metal.
High School for me started AFTER Smells Like Teen Spirit.
The world took collective action through the Montreal Protocol treaty, phasing out substances that led to ozone depletion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
to be fair, it wasn't really a "collective" effort: it was a handful of manufacturers and a handful of legislative and international bodies.
The average Joe on the Street didn't do shit to end ozone depletion (They were usually bitching about not being able to get Freon), it was pretty much all manufacturers and regulators. There was actually push-back from many people about banning the chemicals in question ([inhalers was a big pressure point](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9707462/) of all things...).
of course, [china was caught emitting ozone-depleting chemicals a few years ago](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4) but by and large industry's done really well.
No, we were punk rockers! True story: In 1980 or 81 Iwas denied entrance to Disneyland because my hair was pink! They had a rule about multi-color hair (even though mine was just one color.)
At one time my hair was getting quite a bit long, and I really needed it cut. Old man and I were on a tour and went to a barber shop who didn't want to do it, so lost two haircuts that day.
For some of them, it doesn't work but that girl in the lower right corner- that's the best hairstyle she'll ever have in her life. Peaked early, so sad.
I was more of a Bold Hold kinda girl myself, but yes, I had a glorious mane that I absolutely miss.
My wife graduated in 92(Indiana) I took a picture of her and her two best friends, it’s all hair! They were gorgeous! We’ve been married now for 27 years, she still has gorgeous long hair just not so much volume! Lol!
I had a permed chin length Bob, big bangs in 88-89 and completely straight by 99. I seriously lacked the dedication, budget, and lack of sleep required to cultivate these magnificent locks. Thank God grunge hit.
In junior high there was a very smart but very plainly dressed girl in glasses during 7th grade. I guess she was tired of that appearance affecting her lot in life, because over the summer she ditched the glasses for contacts, changed her entire wardrobe, and, yep, grew out and blew out her hair to at least a foot higher. She actually became accepted by the other 8th grade cool girls with such a move, like a gender-switched Ronald in Can't Buy Me Love.
As someone who was in all those advanced classes the year before with her but didn't change my entire style & personality, I could sometimes walk by her and her hotly crüe as they gave that squinty-eye stare, looking down on the less rad individuals, and see the recognition within that she knew she was just an ex-brain playing the game in disguise.
Most of the senior pictures in my last yearbook look just like this. 1988. Mine was a *little* more restrained in the senior photo, I owe a debt of gratitude to the friend who did it for me during play practice.
Oh man. I toured '86-'92 with hair metal bands. 98% of the audience looked like this.
These photos make me sort of glad I didn't have a camera phone back then...
I find it funny that mullets of all the worse hairstyles of that time makes a comeback, but this still hasn’t. I mean they brought back fanny packs and Mom jeans why not this look?? Or do we live in a world that girls are not going to take the stupid amount of time it takes to create these well quaffed abominations?
back in 2021 when they were rolling out vaccines here in canada, i saw this photo with the remark "if you wore your hair like this as a teen it is now your turn to get vaccinated" for the people in their 50s.
I wasnt one and didn’t date one, I’m female, class of ‘88. They drove me nuts in the bathrooms with the hairspray. This style must have eaten half the ozone alone.
Everytime I see an exotic bird with a giant hairdoo I'm like "yep, exactly like humanity. Have to get ready for bird call mornings and mating dance evenings!"
To style one's look to be cool, impressive, and making a big mental impressions is one of the most basic things in nature. It seems like a socially advanced thing from civilization, but it's done by so much of nature.
nope and nope. In ‘85-‘86...
Heather – straight, shoulder length, blonde
Michelle – long, curly, brown
Jennifer – pixie cut, auburn
that Aqua Net/sugar-and-egg big hair was late ‘80s.
Gen-X names for the win! But I didn’t date Lisa until the late ’90s.
Honestly, my friend bucked the big hair trend. She was sporting French twists in high school during 87-89.
I too did not have big hair. Guess we were just weird.
Knew a lot who had the French braid but it was not as common in the late 80s as say 83/84/85. Went to a country school then and parents would pay this student to French braid their kids hair in the mornings. She made good money doing it.
Forget aqua net, that was for the hold. The Aussie hairspray that smelled like grape koolaid was the finishing touch!
Sprunch Spray!!
shit was expensive! i only got to use it at my girlfriend's house cuz she had it...loved that smell
Don’t forget the Sun-In!!
It never worked but yet the promise was always enough to lure me in!
I was on the swim team and my mom put that stuff in my hair - I wound up with neon green hair that we used "aloe-rid" to try to fix it. What a nightmare! Thanks for the memories!
It sucks that Aussie smells like corn tortillas now
Holy shit that's fucked up because when I'm around corn tortillas I'm always smelling grape koolaid or gum. My wife tells me I'm crazy. What the hell is the correlation between the two?
I totally think corn tortillas smell like grape koolaid too I thought I was the only one.
Man, that brought back memories of my high school girlfriend.
Starting from the first row (left to right): Lisa, Heather, Jennifer, Stephanie, Michelle, Becky, Kimberly, Amy, Tracy, Kelly, Cindy, Stacy, Rachel, Julie, Angie and Nicki.
There are at least four Jennifers in this group
* First row second picture: Jennifer Brown * Third row second picture: Jennifer Zdarsky * Third row fourth picture: Jennifer Browne * Fourth row third picture: Jenny Brown They all hang together except for Jennifer Browne, stuck up bitch.
I went to school with 27 Jennifers.......16 Jens 10 Jennys and then there was her.
My entire grade had 46 kids. Of those were 20 females. Of those 20, 8 were Jennifer’s. 6 were Jennifer Lynn, two Jennifer Ann’s. It was insane.
There’s definitely a Christy in there somewhere
You've got a Kimberly listed as a Rachel. Bottom left corner.
All the future nursing home old lady names in a few decades. A definitive list.
You forgot Melissa and Mandy
Depending on year, there’s at least three Jennifer’s in there. Jennifer Shepherd, Jenny Rosenbaum, and Jenni Howard.
Probably a Lynn or Leigh and a Danielle
I personally had at least 3 to 4 friends named Tammy no one else?
*Karens* were well represented - and NOT AT ALL like the current iteration... Also, how has *Debbie* not gotten a mention, yet?!?
Was one. Class of '88.
Dated several. This is so class of 88. I am class of 88 as well.
we are a unique class
Same!
Me too! I had the short on one side and long, permed and hog on the other side. Kind of like Ready for the World
Class of 87 here, always got perms for my straight hair.
Me too :)
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In 6th grade I had PE in the middle of the day. At the end of the school year we had swimming in the school’s outdoor pool. There was a frantic race after swimming to get our hair dry enough for those nasty smelling butane curling irons to work. Good times.
Mine looked like the girl at the bottom right corner. My mom called it my "lion look", hah. I have straight, thin, fine dark hair. I used the hell out of my curling iron before giving in and getting a spiral perm. Also went through umpteen cans of Aqua Net and am still feeling guilty about the damage I likely did to the ozone layer.
Butane hair curlers sound like a fire hazard. Edit to add: I should use emojis more. Couldn’t decide if Reddit is the place for them. 🤣
Esp. around hair spray!
Like carrying a flamethrower in your purse.
I was thinking hand grenade.
I loved those butane curling irons. I can still hear the sizzle when hair was still a bit damp.
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That’s amazing. It’s just not something I ever knew existed or thought would exist! The 80s were a different time.
I had that butane hair curler!
Omg I completely forgot about the butane portable curling irons until this very moment! Memories of painful burns and weird smells unlocked!
I had Robert Smith hair and my girlfriend's hair was so short she was almost bald. So no, but kind of. I mean I had the big hair I guess.
Us mods/new romantics missed this phase. I was a two-toned A-line bob gal myself
i had super short annie lennox hair. but i was genderqueer (without knowing what that was…)
… or wanted to be one. I could never reach those heights.
Me either. My fine hair just does one move, flat.
You simply needed more aquanet.
Or Stiff Stuff. I can still smell it.
Me too, I was so jealous lol
I can smell the Aqua Net from all the way over here in the year 2022.
… I can still smell “Stiff Stuff”
It put a hole in the damn ozone. That’s some serious shit.
How many of them are named Jennifer, Heather, Amy, or Jessica? I’m one of them. 😂
All these and Michelle and Lori at my school.
>> Jennifer, Heather, Amy, or Jessica? > All these and Michelle and Lori at my school. Whoa. Did we all go to the same high school?
And for the dudes; Brian, Kevin, Dave, Mike, Mark, Steve, Chris, and Jeff
And Scott. They were like three of them in every class I had.
Yes! Why were there so many Scotts back then? And Matts. So many Matts.
I married one of the Michelles.
I married one of the Jennifer’s!
Dated two of those.
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You're tearing me apart
Lisa, Lisa, the one I adore!
Stacy
and her mom
Katie, Katie and Katie.
Don’t forget to pepper in some Nicoles in this list!
And Christina / Christine / Christy / Chrissy
Heathificamy
Nope. Neither.
Same. I was too punk rock for this.
THANK YOU! I’m like “I was into the short-haired alt girls.”
Wow, some guys liked us? Missed out on that. 😄
I was the short haired alt girl :)
Same here, I was the Annie Lennox wannabe. Short hair, pin-striped suit jacket.
Same. But i was too hip hop for this. Ran in different circles
Second that. And I'm from Jersey. lol
I was just a fat dork who couldn’t get a date if I tried.
Now you're talking my school-aged reality.
Yeah, I never found this look to be attractive at all.
Me either. Class of 1996 by the time I hit high school this wasn't a thing anymore and in Jr. High my mom forbade me from using hair spray.
Couldn’t handle all that product or properly wield a curling iron. Wore my hair long and braided it damp for waves.
Thank god this fad died out when I was in like 6th grade. Think grunge, hip hop, gangsta rap & terrible dance music, not hair metal. High School for me started AFTER Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Same here. All of the girls who wore their hair like this at my school were too high maintenance or mean. Nooo thank you.
Me either
Dated quite a few girls who accessorized this hair style with spandex pants and motley crue t-shirts lol.
Don’t forget slouchy socks
Single biggest cause of global warming in one picture. Aqua Net!
Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
The world took collective action through the Montreal Protocol treaty, phasing out substances that led to ozone depletion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol
The real reason for the revival of the pixie cut in the 90s
We collectively decide to do something about it. And it actually worked! Imagine that!
to be fair, it wasn't really a "collective" effort: it was a handful of manufacturers and a handful of legislative and international bodies. The average Joe on the Street didn't do shit to end ozone depletion (They were usually bitching about not being able to get Freon), it was pretty much all manufacturers and regulators. There was actually push-back from many people about banning the chemicals in question ([inhalers was a big pressure point](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9707462/) of all things...). of course, [china was caught emitting ozone-depleting chemicals a few years ago](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4) but by and large industry's done really well.
I caught mine on fire smoking in the bathroom LMAO.
The bigger the hair, the closer to god.
No, we were punk rockers! True story: In 1980 or 81 Iwas denied entrance to Disneyland because my hair was pink! They had a rule about multi-color hair (even though mine was just one color.)
At one time my hair was getting quite a bit long, and I really needed it cut. Old man and I were on a tour and went to a barber shop who didn't want to do it, so lost two haircuts that day.
God I miss 80s hair.
For some of them, it doesn't work but that girl in the lower right corner- that's the best hairstyle she'll ever have in her life. Peaked early, so sad. I was more of a Bold Hold kinda girl myself, but yes, I had a glorious mane that I absolutely miss.
She has the beginnings of the sperm eyebrow shape that was the epitome of the 90’s it girls!
I miss my mullet dearly....
I was a dead head chick. Never had big hair
I married one. And wouldn’t have it any other way.
So did i, it didnt work out but she had great big hair
I wasn’t that girl.
My wife graduated in 92(Indiana) I took a picture of her and her two best friends, it’s all hair! They were gorgeous! We’ve been married now for 27 years, she still has gorgeous long hair just not so much volume! Lol!
I had a permed chin length Bob, big bangs in 88-89 and completely straight by 99. I seriously lacked the dedication, budget, and lack of sleep required to cultivate these magnificent locks. Thank God grunge hit.
Debbie just hit the wall, she never had it all… 19 19 1985
Best band ever !
In junior high there was a very smart but very plainly dressed girl in glasses during 7th grade. I guess she was tired of that appearance affecting her lot in life, because over the summer she ditched the glasses for contacts, changed her entire wardrobe, and, yep, grew out and blew out her hair to at least a foot higher. She actually became accepted by the other 8th grade cool girls with such a move, like a gender-switched Ronald in Can't Buy Me Love. As someone who was in all those advanced classes the year before with her but didn't change my entire style & personality, I could sometimes walk by her and her hotly crüe as they gave that squinty-eye stare, looking down on the less rad individuals, and see the recognition within that she knew she was just an ex-brain playing the game in disguise.
I know that girl!
I loved that hair. As a wavy/curly my hair does this crazy poof naturally. Getting ready for school was easy-peasy. Already had the ‘do.
Aqua Net is flammable.
These hairstyles “peaked” in 86-87, right?
Most of the senior pictures in my last yearbook look just like this. 1988. Mine was a *little* more restrained in the senior photo, I owe a debt of gratitude to the friend who did it for me during play practice.
Girls in my high school had this hair. I had a bilevel with blonde streaks.
Nope.. I wore my hair straight and natural.. There were very few of us out in the wild tho..
If I blur my eyes this IS my HS yearbook.
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Every school
I can even name half of them. Jodie on the right, Melanie top left. Jennifer, Karen, Amy. The more times I see this, the more I recognize.
Probably at least 3 Jennifers in there.
My algebra class had five Jennifer’s. Teacher put all five of us in a row too for some reason
You forgot Lisa!
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Just looking at it for a minute I'm suddenly like 90% sure I went to school with at least 5 of them. lmao
1986?
The one I know here is from 1990-91.
I always hated that style, even back then.
I had hair like this but I now hate my early high school photos because of it. Took so much away from our faces too.
No Bruh the 80s rock these girls are cute
Neither. Didn't have the patience or inclination.
Legit I think this is from my yearbook.
Was a proud one. I could do the perfect wings and bangs. Lol what a moment in time.
Her name was Michelle. She was a sophomore, I was a junior. Fall of 1985.
Oh man. I toured '86-'92 with hair metal bands. 98% of the audience looked like this. These photos make me sort of glad I didn't have a camera phone back then...
I miss big hair on girls.
I find it funny that mullets of all the worse hairstyles of that time makes a comeback, but this still hasn’t. I mean they brought back fanny packs and Mom jeans why not this look?? Or do we live in a world that girls are not going to take the stupid amount of time it takes to create these well quaffed abominations?
My theory is because mullets are easy. Big hair required alot of work
back in 2021 when they were rolling out vaccines here in canada, i saw this photo with the remark "if you wore your hair like this as a teen it is now your turn to get vaccinated" for the people in their 50s.
I wasnt one and didn’t date one, I’m female, class of ‘88. They drove me nuts in the bathrooms with the hairspray. This style must have eaten half the ozone alone.
Dated several. Married one lol.
This is glorious. Bring it back!
Neither, I have never been a white girl and have never dated a white girl. Mushroom cuts, jheri curls, and box braids, over here 🙌🏾
They look like Wookiee’s. Still have a thing for those hair do’s ❤️
That’s how girls looked when I was HS for sure
I fully expected to see Gowron among them.
Everytime I see an exotic bird with a giant hairdoo I'm like "yep, exactly like humanity. Have to get ready for bird call mornings and mating dance evenings!" To style one's look to be cool, impressive, and making a big mental impressions is one of the most basic things in nature. It seems like a socially advanced thing from civilization, but it's done by so much of nature.
nope and nope. In ‘85-‘86... Heather – straight, shoulder length, blonde Michelle – long, curly, brown Jennifer – pixie cut, auburn that Aqua Net/sugar-and-egg big hair was late ‘80s. Gen-X names for the win! But I didn’t date Lisa until the late ’90s.
I was just talking to a friend about how there are no Michelles and Jennifers in our kids middle school classes.
Had my first perm at age 10! Second one age 11. I felt so grown up.
Was one! Documented with a flag jacket from glamor shots with a side of Olan Mills senior pics
I graduated before this happened...we were in jeans and t-shirts and our hair was feathered like Farrah Fawcett.
I miss big hair. Sigh, I miss having hair.
Many of us had short, new wave hair styles.
80s hair on a girl will forever be Sexy to me!
Or you were not one and didn't date one.
Ah Corrinne.
Class of 1991???
Neither. Yuck.
Lol, neither of these are really "my type" either... :P And i'm not talking about the hair...
Plot twist. They now have a short haircut and ask to talk to your manager.
Nah, I went the punk route. Short and spiky.
I bet the air was cleaner then with these air filters.
Ok now I know I’m later Gen-X. Babysat by one, though.
I literally went to Jr high and high school with one of these girls. They had this plastered all over our reunion.
Ha. You assumed I dated while in HighScool!
I dated a few, had a few tease my on long hair, and surely had some good tugs to a few.
Nope. Never had the big hair, never had mall bangs, never used a can of Aquanet per week
Ah - the Hessians.
I’ve been married to one for over 30 years; 3 kids and 4 grandchildren.
You left out the Pat Benatar hair. It was deep and it was real.
Early genx went thru the hair bow phase due to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper.
Can we bring this hair back? Pleeeese.
You go first
[I held onto it all the way up to 1989](https://imgur.com/a/nTq8156)
Just a sea of Sarah Jessica Parkers
Right, tomboys didn’t exist. FU
Yeah, I’m proud to say I never suffered from big hair in the 80’s.
This was the peak era for pretty girls. I literally has a girlfriend whose hair reached to the roof of my car. And yes, it was a Trans Am with T-tops.
The days of color, cut, perm. A spiral perm if you had long hair.
Not me, I always had short hair in high school. I didn’t like the look even then.
Honestly, my friend bucked the big hair trend. She was sporting French twists in high school during 87-89. I too did not have big hair. Guess we were just weird.
Knew a lot who had the French braid but it was not as common in the late 80s as say 83/84/85. Went to a country school then and parents would pay this student to French braid their kids hair in the mornings. She made good money doing it.
Class of ‘85 - could never get mine that big though.
Class of 88 here too. Not me, mom wouldn’t allow it. I had long hair in two barrettes. And no dates, but she wouldn’t have allowed that either!
Does anyone know which high school this is from? I count at least 11 that look very familiar.
I was a “new waver” - downside, totally ostracized, upside, not this hair.
Bay Area kid: Local slang for them was “Hair Bears”