purplepolitician said:

I think he used wigs or extensions as early as 1984.

rdhull said:

The wig had too much reverb imho.

Thread of the year and comment of the year all in one place, brilliant!


EG

To answer this question, yes Prince probably would have changed his hairstyle if he was still alive. He was notrious of changing his style every couple of years, so this more than likely would of happened.

Did he use hair dye? Yes. He did have an image to up keep, not sure why he would dye a wig though.

The question of did he wear a wig? No one here was Prince's personal hairstylist, so NO ONE here knows. NO ONE. If he did? So what. If he didn't? So what.

People need to chill here when someone asks a question they feel is dumb, stupid, irrelavent, etc.. Just because you may think that way, doesn't mean you need to trash the person who posted it, if they have a question, they are within there right to ask it with non bullying responses.

Glad This Came Up I Keep In Contact With Kim Berry Through Facebook Messenger To Ask Her Tips That She Used With Prince During The Afro Stage Because I Am A Young Brother Trying To Get The Same Results And From What She Has Told Me It Was His Real Hair(NO WIGS!!!)His Hair Was Reddish Brown The Same As Half The Population Of Black Males And He Dyed It Black Even Looking At Pics Of Him In His Teens And Looking At Pics Of Him In The Beautiful Ones Memoir U Can See His Natural Hair Color Was Reddish Brown And He Didn't Use Typical Processed Methods With The Fro He Went The ALL NATURAL Route Looked At Natural Hair Videos And All To Maintain Up Keep And Plus I Think Considering That Was His Look When He Was Growing Up Part Of It Comes From Pure Memory

Hope This Helps

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TheKid777 said:

Glad This Came Up I Keep In Contact With Kim Berry Through Facebook Messenger To Ask Her Tips That She Used With Prince During The Afro Stage Because I Am A Young Brother Trying To Get The Same Results And From What She Has Told Me It Was His Real Hair(NO WIGS!!!)His Hair Was Reddish Brown The Same As Half The Population Of Black Males And He Dyed It Black Even Looking At Pics Of Him In His Teens And Looking At Pics Of Him In The Beautiful Ones Memoir U Can See His Natural Hair Color Was Reddish Brown And He Didn't Use Typical Processed Methods With The Fro He Went The ALL NATURAL Route Looked At Natural Hair Videos And All To Maintain Up Keep And Plus I Think Considering That Was His Look When He Was Growing Up Part Of It Comes From Pure Memory

Hope This Helps

[Edited 12/15/19 8:55am]

and there we have it! Thank you!

macaylasdad said:

To answer this question, yes Prince probably would have changed his hairstyle if he was still alive. He was notrious of changing his style every couple of years, so this more than likely would of happened.

Did he use hair dye? Yes. He did have an image to up keep, not sure why he would dye a wig though.

The question of did he wear a wig? No one here was Prince's personal hairstylist, so NO ONE here knows. NO ONE. If he did? So what. If he didn't? So what.

People need to chill here when someone asks a question they feel is dumb, stupid, irrelavent, etc.. Just because you may think that way, doesn't mean you need to trash the person who posted it, if they have a question, they are within there right to ask it with non bullying responses.

Well said. Way overdue. Thank you.

Prince was always preaching the message "be good to each other" !

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If Prince were alive,

would he wear tangas & jocks ?

...or changed for briefs and boxers ?

...or would he have plastic surgery ?

...or would he change 3rdEyeGirl for another old Power Generation or ex-Revolution ?

...or would he've done more remasters ?

Would he've emptied his Vault (for us) ?

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Who the fuck cares.

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I have it on good authority that in 2017 the afro was going to be straightened, leaving him with the Batman/Grafitti Bridge look. Would have been amazing to see that again.

By the way, when I say good authroity, I mean total speculation on my part.

leadline said:

I have it on good authority that in 2017 the afro was going to be straightened, leaving him with the Batman/Grafitti Bridge look. Would have been amazing to see that again.

By the way, when I say good authroity, I mean total speculation on my part.

I Figured He Would Probably Start The Process All Over Again Because What I Say Is That HE Came Full Circle And You Can Tell With The Hair He Started With A Fro And Ended With A Fro Like The Lunar Cycle Wouldn't Be Surprised If He Went Back To The PRINCE Album Cover Look Heck I Slick Think He Might've Went The Dreads Route Too

TheKid777 said:

TheKid777 said:

His Hair Was Reddish Brown The Same As Half The Population Of Black Males

Like Bob Georges' girlfriends' wig. The one eating up all the tv dinners.

Nah. From his tracking record he would had change it to a different style if he had lived longer. I think that Afro was his full circle hairstyle.

thedoorkeeper said:

I believe he would have shaved his head. Maybe after he got out of rehab. Gone for some oversized sunglasses & put out a jazz album. I can see that look working.

Now, that's a visual!

PeggyO said:

thedoorkeeper said:

I believe he would have shaved his head. Maybe after he got out of rehab. Gone for some oversized sunglasses & put out a jazz album. I can see that look working.

Now, that's a visual!

There is one major tell a new hairstyle was coming, and that is the fact that a new guitar and bass, very different from anything in the past, were going to be a part of his next reinvention. The fretboard of that bass had led's in it, was going to light up everywhere he pressed, what a sight it would have been to see him play this.

leadline said:

There is one major tell a new hairstyle was coming, and that is the fact that a new guitar and bass, very different from anything in the past, were going to be a part of his next reinvention. The fretboard of that bass had led's in it, was going to light up everywhere he pressed, what a sight it would have been to see him play this.

Gettin into Electric Horseman territory here, P! Maybe he could have saved that for a Vegas residency .

Number23 said:

paddypurple said:

Do you think Prince would still have a fro if he was still here? If not what do you think his hair would be?

Jesus Christ. This is the worst thread idea I’ve ever seen - and I’ve been coming here for nearly 20 years, so I seen a few shockers. I remember back in the day we would discuss cool stuff like, for example, how he dropped that awesome bass track from Partyman to emulate the part with his mouth. About how no-one else in the pop world would have the balls to do such thing and release it as a single. Or the talent. About how he wouldn’t even mention things like that, how he would make you find them yourself, wee Easter Eggs in the music for the real heads. This...is shit. Sorry, I’m not trolling, but up your game. And, for the record, it was a wig. Nothing against that, but it wasn’t an Afro - it was a wig.

And what was under the wig, braids or shaved bald head???

1. Prince wasn't wearing a wig.

2. Prince wasn't losing his hair.

3. I believe Prince was coming full circle with his career. He started with an afro and he ended with an afro. Had Prince been with us still, I think Prince would have gone with the long locks like the "Prince/Lovesexy" look next and maybe he could have gone with the punk cut during the Dirty Mind era, and then cuts from the subsequent eras.

I only say this as it seemed Prince was rebooting his music/sound as if it were the beginning again. I think we would have gotten new tracks and updated vault tracks.

joyinrepetition said:

1. Prince wasn't wearing a wig.

2. Prince wasn't losing his hair.

3. I believe Prince was coming full circle with his career. He started with an afro and he ended with an afro. Had Prince been with us still, I think Prince would have gone with the long locks like the "Prince/Lovesexy" look next and maybe he could have gone with the punk cut during the Dirty Mind era, and then cuts from the subsequent eras.

I only say this as it seemed Prince was rebooting his music/sound as if it were the beginning again. I think we would have gotten new tracks and updated vault tracks.

There's no joy in the repetition of this subject over...and over...and over again.

joyinrepetition said:

1. Prince wasn't wearing a wig.

2. Prince wasn't losing his hair.

3. I believe Prince was coming full circle with his career. He started with an afro and he ended with an afro. Had Prince been with us still, I think Prince would have gone with the long locks like the "Prince/Lovesexy" look next and maybe he could have gone with the punk cut during the Dirty Mind era, and then cuts from the subsequent eras.

I only say this as it seemed Prince was rebooting his music/sound as if it were the beginning again. I think we would have gotten new tracks and updated vault tracks.

1 & 2 . Look a little closer...

LoveGalore said:

I promise that scraggly fro was not a damn wig. Prince had a hairstylist who could pick the wig out. That was a thinning, self picked, slept on afro cuz he was tired of spending a quarter of his tender-headed life in a damn salon chair.

You gotta wash and care for wigs and to me it looks like he did not. (as often as it needed)

He needed hair augmentation for the updo in early to mid 2000's. How can he then go to a wig with only small areas of 'scalp' showing?

Very few 57 year old men have hairlines like that.

Dream on, though.

PeggyO said:

thedoorkeeper said:

I believe he would have shaved his head. Maybe after he got out of rehab. Gone for some oversized sunglasses & put out a jazz album. I can see that look working.

Now, that's a visual!

Puh-leeze.

Let's open the Book of Victor, shall we?

I don't need you to tell me what clothes to wear
I don't want suggestions about my hair
If the whole world buys your bullshit I don't care
I'd rather put on something that you won't dare

*Drop gun mike*

Looks good to me, honestly I hope some of you are not serious about the wig, there is simply no evidence to support it.

bonatoc said:

PeggyO said:

Now, that's a visual!

Puh-leeze.