SequentusBeta said:

we called that pineapple waves.

Alexander O'Neal

No pics of Beyonce with her bad weaves yet.

Can't have a bad weave thread without these two.

Britney Spears





Christina Aguilera

SCNDLS said:

LA Reid looks like SUPER ZESTY

bboy87 said:

LA Reid??? WHERE?!?!

KidaDynamite said:

the one in the red blouse


yes, I said BLOUSE

BlaqueKnight said:

We don't agree on much BlaqueKnight, but I agree with you on this. These hairstyles and clothes were apart of the 80's. I had some of these hairstyles and wore clothes very similar to the one's shown here. It was apart of my growing up.

SCNDLS said:

remember prince's finger waves in UTCM?

instead of waves, a hair net with little holes was used in the popcorn curl hairstyle.while the hair was still wet,the stylist would "bump" parts of the hair out of the holes of the net, sit under the dryer,curl the shag, hairspray and you good to go.

bboy87 said:

I could understand the rest, but what's so bad about the hair here?

shorttrini said:

I grew up in 80s too and there were good perms/curls/weaves and busted ass perms/curls/weaves. THIS thread is clearly about the busted ass variety. So unless you were a member of the busted ass crew I don't see what the big deal is.

SequentusBeta said:

PINEAPLE WAVES! I used to get those . The bump out the wave pattern with a cat tailed comb

Ottensen said:

Look, I'm concerned over here cuz I know how fabulous you are, but please say it ain't so.

SCNDLS said:

You just took me back to my pre/early teens, for real!!!

Girl, girl , GIRL...if I don't admit the truth, I am going to be hit by lightening before I can finish this post . But sure enough, I did try the pineapple waves...had to be in the early 80's maybe ...and you know how it was back then, this was a time when people still had the hair hook-up in somebody's house . I'll never forget, it was my big sister's best friend who my mom nicknamed Long-Legged-Angie. She was that tall, light-skinned-ed perfect body type who was homecoming queen, studying cosmetology, and popped her gum all the time. We lived one neighborhood over from hers, and I'll never forget,she used to have her mom's basement crackin' on Saturdays, she did uuurybody's hair in her neighborhood, and the few little black families in mine. She was STACKIN'dough (partly to pay for her wedding expenses to her miltary high shcool boo)...she used to slap all kinds of hairstyles up in our heads...crackin' that damn gum the whole time she was in your head with that comb! She'd be like;

"I know you seent this right??? (pop, pop)" ,

(handing you a magazine photo from some Black Hair Magazine, or worse some cosmetology show )

"you know this is the latest thing, right?"(crackle pop, pop)

"You needta come over and let me try this on you, just like a trial period thing" (pop, chew, crackle, pop)..

"..and when when you like it, I'mon give you the discount price next time (pop, pop)"

and then before you could get anything out in protest she'd be like,

[i]"Girl,please you got ta be adventurous, and try somethin NEW. Don't be stayin' in the same place wit'cho beauty regimen! " (blows a big bubble yum bubble to accent her point)

[/i]and sure enough she had every last one of us in care free curls, pineapple waves, lopsided hair cuts (I think OPTIMUM was the business back then), you name it. At some point in the early early 80's I'm sure I tried all three
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Ottensen said:

+ x a gajillion = I'm rolling over HERE!!!

Okay, so, ummm, Ottie . . . are you saying you rocked the lopsided, asymmetrical Saln 'n Pepa 'do too???

SCNDLS said:

I still think its cute

SequentusBeta said:

PINEAPLE WAVES! I used to get those . The bump out the wave pattern with a cat tailed comb

Hell, some of those curls y'all listed looked good for their day. Y'all need to come on down south and see some of these country curls. I'm gonna show y'all a rough looking curl and this picture wasn't taken 25 years ago, this picture is recent....Bobby Rush.....

Ottensen said:

...you got it ....my hair ran the gamut ..feather cut, dye, extensions,.shit, for awhile there i was rockin' the mini-fro ..i never had the pineapple waves but i did rock the finger ones back in grammar school.....fried and laid to the side.

BlaqueKnight said:

We don't agree on much BlaqueKnight, but I agree with you on this. These hairstyles and clothes were apart of the 80's. I had some of these hairstyles and wore clothes very similar to the one's shown here. It was apart of my growing up.

SequentusBeta said:

The FEATHER CUT!

I remember it took my big sister a MINUTE to let her feather cut go, and one of her girlfriends wasn't having it! One of her friends who used to work at the neighborhhod coffeehouse was like,

"Girl, when you gon' change this look? You walkin' around here with that same cut, lookin' like Always with Wings[/b] in here ....

...needless to say, she switched to whatever the hot look was by the next week. Is this btw, when we all started dying our hair that purplish/plum color?

I remember she worked that plum highlight dye into her regimen while my lopsided head discovered what I thought would be the joy of [b]Sun-In spray, later realizing quite disasterously that shit was NOT going to give my black ass any blond streaks what.so.ever

My damned head came out looking like Carrot Top after I used that mess.




You know what? The more I think about my 80's hair crimes, I just realized I seriously need to call my mama and see how I can confiscate all the pictures she has of me from age 12-15...

Ottensen said:

+ x a gajillion = I'm rolling over HERE!!!

Okay, so, ummm, Ottie . . . are you saying you rocked the lopsided, asymmetrical Saln 'n Pepa 'do too???

Even in the entertainment industry. Rememeber in the 1980s when the women wore heavy makeup and looked real pretty. Since the 1990s, they still wear makeup but they wear more "natural" looking makeup and the pale lipsticks. They look like ho's in training to become whores. Kinda like Beyonce.

SCNDLS said:

Yooooo my mom AND my godsister had this! (My mom had when she was pregnant with me and it grew out), my godsister held on to it for awhile though

Ottensen said:

.....Girl.you had me @ the "always with wings" line.... ..i'm sitting here thinking "..damn.she took it there?" .don't worry 'bout it. get your hair crimes expunged and/or sealed depending.......are we talking follicle felonies or matted misdemeanors?