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What the hell happened in the 80s
Apr 18, 2018 8:53 AM
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Organoleptic
"I have a great idea! Spray some glue on my head!" .... "Say no more fam"
GUTZandRAGE
I don’t see the problem.
kbkx5
I lived in a sorority house in the South with 32 girls in the late 80s, you’ve never seen Aquanet, perms and frosting kits in such abundance
IcePubez
katy was in the prime of her career since the 80's? nice
williamross7
O LOOOOOOOOT of cool shit. It was tubular, man. Spicoli ordered pizza, Video Killed the radio Star, Atari consoles, Jordans, Ladies in 1/2
williamross7
spandex everywhere, big hair, the second summer of love, Max Hedroom, big guitar sound, Rap was born, Pagers. A damn fine decade indeed!
tipsymcstagger1
Gatoechado
If you gonna use a comb over do it flamboyantly !!!!
RedRiotUnbreakable
Fuck you cunts I like my curly hair and I think it looks hot on women, mind you I think I think a woman with a trash on her head looks good.
glowwinghot
There was a conscious rejection of anything "natural" looking or sounding in the 80s. It was about breaking with the past and being "modern"
3MsAndaJTL
This. And also everyone wanted to appear preppy and rich, for lack of better wording
confanity
Reagan.
selkieselk
Spiral perms, Shockwaves hairspray, crimpers, back-combing. It was epic :D
spattr
Mousse and lots of it.
circlebreaker
*perming intensifies*
pseydtonne
This! Mousse! The crunchy look, where you ddidn't even finish combing it in!
PablooNeruda
Madonna effect
DianNaoChong
You can see painted pictures of young men in colonial days+ with crazy gigantic colored wigs. They peacocked too. Look at greasers and perms
eichhoernchen
And it didn´t stop at the hair. Make-up. Clothing. Musik. The shoulder pads *shudders*.
TheDreadPirateWestley
Larrry
Farrah Fawcett to anything else is a let down
amatte
Yea... That's about right mid 80's everything went to shit list is too long to display with the internet and free trade agreements
getadogupya
The perm!
orderofbears
when baby boomers started to control media.
imgurisgo
oh my god please stop this crap about Baby Boomers it's getting really old.
TheToofFairy
Hair gel, blue eyeshadow, thick black eyeliner and puffy sleeves: and that was the men !!
thefreedomfry
They traded all their fashion sense for musical talent.
Zixtank
Poodle rock and drugs. Lots of drugs.
ThySausagePrince
Seriously, how has no one said "hair mousse", it was literally invented in the 80's.
HarperValleyPTA
I was class of ‘85. I can verify it was a crazy time. Great music though.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
No argument from this milennial.
3MsAndaJTL
My brother class of 85, me 89. It was the best times of our lives!
HarperValleyPTA
Amen to that brother. Higher than a kite beginning with 1st hour!
3MsAndaJTL
Lol, I held back on that until the 90's, & my brother never has. But we drank and partied like the devil! Everyone I knew did, though ;-)
naturalle
Blow dryers!
3MsAndaJTL
Yes, blow dryers happened. Even the boys used the blow dryers
thegonzoesquire
Sooo we arent gonna talk about how those look just like some of hairdoos Ive seen lately....
HellenicTaxCollector
MTV happend
Cattrina
Yeah, and Madonna
3MsAndaJTL
And David Les Roth
DustyShane
My dad swears bybthis. He said fashion, hair and how people acted changed right after MTV.
HalfGlassOfCrap
That's partially correct - in the 80s music videos became a thing so now all the crazy artists had a visual outlet to reach masses
HalfGlassOfCrap
Btw 80s were amazing - these pics are quite biased there is a lot of 80s perm that's cool + David Bowie and Billy Idol mmmmm
RustyNeX
50s they had war 60s kids rebelled against their parents and had "free love" result, baby boomers had a lot of unwanted kids. kids acted out
3MsAndaJTL
What makes you think the kids were unwanted
RustyNeX
People wanted the casual unprotected sex, they didn't realise that meant kids
3MsAndaJTL
Wait, what?
RustyNeX
Teaching sex education during that time wasn't a high priority
3MsAndaJTL
I think there many less "unwanted" kids then there are now. Sex wasn't free, and having children wasn't a bad thing. I don't think they ever
3MsAndaJTL
thought of their kids unwanted. I think that it a definition that modern times has unfairly saddled then with.
3MsAndaJTL
*they're. (My fingers get ahead of my brain, even though this is my first language) (well, my only language... but it happens)
NotaCop12345
Actually...the war you're thinking about was in the 40's. And when all the men got home they got it on! Resulting in the baby boom.
DongSayaDae
OrangeJesus
How do you know they weren’t talking about Korea? That happened in the 50s. Korea was nam before nam
Squossifrage
Korea was nothing like Vietnam. The Korean war was UN-sanctioned and widely considered “just” in the public opinion, at a time when (1
Squossifrage
anti-communist sentiment was high. Korea was also an independent, allied country which had recently been liberated from Japanese (2
Squossifrage
occupation, whereas Vietnam was a former French colony which had been ravaged by a war of independence before the West installed a puppet (3
HeroinAddictedJesus
Cocaine.
NeroSphere
Username kinda checks out.
Badsequence
Came to say the same thing. Cocaine and cheap hair spray/gel.
RachTrap
dude, cocaine was being enjoyed back in the 1800's.
tiduszecht
KingsOfWinter
Thisismyusernamenotyoursitsmine
The 70’s has a bunch of it too
JackReacher92
Exactly
MPinky
Cocaine and Hairspray.
horseheadfleshwizard
And post modernism, a heady and dangerous combination if ever there was one
8outof10cats
DranoBowelfoy
Cocaine and Humidity.
TheLordGodAlmighty
Vinegar and oil
iAmNature
Clapton knows what's up
ThySausagePrince
To be more correct, hair mousse was invented in the early 80's by L'Oreal.
HornyGifKing
Sweet sweet cocaine
frageeelay
Aquanet.
nooonooooooweeeezingthejuice
That's what I was looking for...
selkieselk
I was a kid back then, but can confirm that yes, everyone was coked off their fucking tits =)
UpVoteDragons
I love hpw the first comment I see is what I thought.
RLTNY
I was gonna say electronic music but damn aight.
Queuellioklif
Came here to post the exact same response
1PunMan
Jesus knows.
youremyboyblue123
corvoalchemist
He is riding the white pony as we speak.
NightShiftNerd
It's a hell of a drug
happyjuly29th
LSD.
CanadianMadCow
"C'caine? What does it do?" "It turns all your bad feeling into good feelings. It's a fucking nightmare!"
HeroinAddictedJesus
I swear this is a criminally underrated movie. It's dumb but so funny.
CanadianMadCow
Beatles! Stop fighting here in India!
BRASSMONKEYTHATFUNKYMONKEY
Scarface
RickdiculousSquancher
jghaverty8888
god damnit it happened twice!
M0rgue
Holy shit
mans51
your cocaine line..?
ThrobbinHoodz
Perfect. I sat here and thought and then laughed
shesmydisease
If no one else said it, I was gonna. I heard the blues brothers movie had coke factored into their budget.
tipsymcstagger1
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/12/drugs-john-belushi-making-blues-brothers
frogjammies
Whooooaaa
IWillBeGladWhenIDie
Literally the first sentence! Wow
HeroinAddictedJesus
Maybe that's how they paid Belushi.
rakkadimus
It's how they kept him in set.
ShouldersDeepInAHorse
I think you mean how they kept him in Line.
TheInventor
I was around in the 70s & I remember punk. Trust me, 80s got nothing on that. I also remember some stupid ass styles from the 00s.
gh013
Ramen hair
jarrettbrown
Scene also happened in the 00s. I still can't tell the difference between a man and a woman,
DocWino
I’m sorry my friend but the rock that came out of the 80s was some of the best made.
DumbAssRehyphenations
*some stupid ass-styles
lolaluftnagel
Yeah i was thinking: this is missing some stuff from the 70s and everything after the 80s. Theres a progression to the crazy hair
toffeecoffee
Egg white, the choice hair styling product before gel and mousse became popular. Scary stuff.
SgtKnux
What about styles today? https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/getty/463543843.jpg
3MsAndaJTL
One of my damn kids did that, but not as large a section. But she does hair, so I guess it more normal for her to change it up constantly
SpikeTheGoat
Friend of mine did something like that to her hair sometime in the 90s, though hers was less wavy and more straight.
sixothree
I remember the overwhelming sentiment in the 80s that 70s hair was awful. Ugh I hated growing up in the 80s.
3MsAndaJTL
I loved it. But I never had crazy hair or mullets. Had the best time growing up, but I agree with sentiment that 80's screwed up the world
3MsAndaJTL
(But it actually started in the 60's.... the 80's was just the backlash to the 60's and 70's)
dreadmad
And the 60's were a reaction to the 50's/40's... and so on.
3MsAndaJTL
Agreed. "Progressive Rebellion" :-D