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Bright lipstick, bright eye
shadow, big jewellery and big hair were all the rage in the mid 80's. Short hair behind the ears
with height on top (poufy) were definitely the thing. Big gaudy earrings and as many bracelets
as you could fit on your wrist.
The early 80’s involved bright
neon colors such as pink and green on your clothing color, your hair pieces, shoes and
jewellery. The brighter the better.
The invention of hair gel
brought a shift away from the hairspray 60s hairstyles the parent's of the 80s kids wore. While
in the 70s it seem the straighter and less styled look prevailed. No hairspray, no gel, and no
big hair.
But, in the 80s for men it was
cool to wear gel to spike up the hair or to get that 50s look that was popular in movies like
"Back to the Future" and "Peggy Sue Got Married". More movies made the 50s hairstyles popular in
the 80s such as "La Bamba" and "The Buddy Holly Story".
The eighties hair for girls was
big. Big in the front for women. An overall big hairstyle like on designing women or spike up
bangs. Quite a bit of gel and a hairdryer for a good 80s hairstyle for women. Colored hair was
very normal. Dale Bozio of the band "Missing Persons" had pink hair in 1982 and Cindi Lauper had
all kinds of different colored hair from pink to purple.
Short hair for girls, cut above
the ears and short in the back with a little poof of top, but slick on the sides was really cool
in the early 1980's (ie. Pat Benatar, Sheena Easton), but as the 80's progressed hair became
bigger and bigger and blonder and blonder.
A bottle of peroxide was the
cheapest way to bleach your hair. The accessories remained large throughout the
decade.
The 80's had preppy boys wearing penny loafers and oxford shirts all
the way to boys wearing lip-gloss and eyeliner, jewelry, skin tight pants and of course very big
and long hair. As the late 1980s decade rolled around boys began cutting their hair above the
ears (mullet). (See Pretty in Pink movie).
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