# Doper women: What hair crazes did you participate in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272 "2010-01-24T20:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/21 "2010-01-25T20:38:48Z")
Egad, the Dorothy Hamill! Why’d you have to go and remind me ☹ I had a Mia Farrow cut that was cute but it turned into a Halle Berry as it grew out (which is all well and good if you have a face like Halle Berry. I do not). I never had the big perm with bangs but I did wear my hair like [Sara Gilbert](http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/pv/Sara%20Gilbert-9.jpg) for a few years in the '90s. And I know I’m not the only one to commit [this travesty.](http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5286481/314365-main_Full.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/22 "2010-01-25T20:44:57Z")
Dorothy Hamill in grade school, spiral perm in HS and college, and those banana clip things in college. [http://www.liketotally80s.com/banana-clip.html](http://www.liketotally80s.com/banana-clip.html) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/23 "2010-01-25T20:56:57Z")
Having a head of thick curly hair means that most trendy styles have never been doable for me. Of course, during the eighties, my type of curls became fashionable and I did wear the long (and BIG) hair of the day, but no poofy bangs. Other than that, I’ve gone with simple, wash-and-wear hair. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/24 "2010-01-25T20:58:04Z")
In the 80s I had this asymmetrical thing going, I pulled my hair back hard with a clip on the left with a really deep part so it sort of cascaded to the right. Kind of like [this](http://www.haircutshairstyles.com/img/photos/full/2009-06/peaches_geldof_80s_inspired_long_hairstyle313.jpg), but my hair was very thick and wavy. It was huuuuge. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/25 "2010-01-25T20:59:34Z")
mohawk, 1986 😃 ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/26 "2010-01-26T20:16:56Z")
I tried to make my hair conform to the Aniston, but to no avail. My hair hates to conform to anything but a limp, straggly mess. Which is why I’m intrigued by the Bump-it. Can anyone recommend it? Tell me I don’t need to tease my hair for 10 minutes to get a subtle Snooki pouff!! ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/27 "2010-01-26T20:41:10Z")
I had a few perms in the 80s, including a spiral or two. But I sent out the 80s with a fabulous she-mullet! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/28 "2010-01-26T21:19:26Z")
My hair has almost always been unfashionable. I did however briefly toy with a shoulder length flip a few years ago. My mother insisted for years that I needed a perm. My hair was short. It was awful. Even if perms came back into fashion I wouldn’t get one. The flashbacks of that smeeeeeeelllllll (and the result come to think of it) are enough to last me the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/29 "2010-01-26T23:02:56Z")
Yep, I had “the Rachel” in college, and if I do say so myself, I looked pretty cute. In high school I alternated between straight hair and perms. (1992 – '96). It wasn’t too poufy or anything, fortunately. My main reason for perms was the fact that my hair is so freaking fine and straight, it has no body whatsoever. Junior high, however, I was all about the “mall claw.” I used to tease the living crap out of my poor bangs. I sprayed so much hairspray on them that I’d get little flakes of spray in my vision sometimes. Basically, I’d roll my bangs on tiny rodded curling iron and spray it while it was on the rod. I’d have to PULL it off, and it’d be sticky. Then I’d just tease and pouff it, and spray it again. Terrible. By the end of 9th grade, I finally let my bangs grow in and that was the end of the mall claw. Nowadays, I just keep it layered and sort of between my shoulders and my chin, although I think I’m going to try and let it grow long again. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/30 "2010-01-26T23:54:09Z")
I had a crush on hair-do “Mindy” has here (Pam Dawber) when I was a lad, I don’t know what if anything you would call it but I am a sucker for bangs. [![](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4307183261_127da746a7_o.jpg) ](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4307183261_127da746a7_o.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/31 "2010-01-27T02:32:38Z")
I used to have something like the Dorothy Hamill when I was in like seventh grade, until I finally figured out that my hair couldn’t actually do that and look good. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get my hair to not be curly–so finally I stopped trying. Now my hair looks…nothing like any celebrity’s. Layered and shoulder-length and curly. Dunno that I can find one that comes close. I think in the future I might do a [Winona Ryder](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/w/winona_ryder/thumbnails/tn2_winona_ryder_4.jpg) pixie cut. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/32 "2010-01-27T12:14:56Z")
Until puberty my hair was straight, but it stopped being so the summer before eighth grade, and has been wavy ever since. Just before then hair crimpers were popular, and my friends and I all did it in sixth and seventh grade. Fortunately, that was over with by the time my hair decided not to be staight any more. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/33 "2010-01-27T15:27:16Z")
[Wendy Melvoin](http://www.celebtna.com/thumbs/Wendy_Melvoin.jpg) I had this hair, but longer and not quite so teased out. I don’t have any pix of me, though. I was a huge Prince fan. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/34 "2010-01-27T16:42:19Z")
I had “the Rachel” a few years ago, and then a plain old shag. At one time, when my hair was red, it evolved into a 70’s David Bowie mullet, in the Diamond Dogs days!.. When I was young I had the parted in the middle long straight hair, mostly because I was lazy. Then I had the long thick bangs and strove mightily to get that teased bump at the crown like Jean Shrimpton and Jane Asher… Then in the 80’s I had a Nina Blackwood body perm, bleached hair with black roots - my GOD, I looked hideous (though I felt kewl)…Now I have, I don’t know, a mid length thing cut in layers, sometimes it waves up and sometimes it just hangs there straight. Though that’s because I’m still lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/35 "2010-01-27T17:02:39Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > [My version of the Farrah Fawcett](http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z300/romansperson/pics%20of%20me/me1980ish.jpg). I kept that style for quite some time, but looking back at the photos now, I can’t believe I had that much hair! (Thinks back to teenage schoolboy crushes) Lookin’ good 😃 As a guy I’m sporting a nice, even, 1/16" buzz all the way 'round. Not a fashion choice, just complying with the inevitable (genetics)… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/36 "2010-01-27T17:24:34Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > I think in the future I might do a [Winona Ryder](http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/w/winona_ryder/thumbnails/tn2_winona_ryder_4.jpg) pixie cut. I never thought to name it, but this is what I have now. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272/37 "2010-01-27T18:54:49Z")
I had a bi-level in high school. It actually wasn’t bad on me - I wish it were still fashionable! LOL! Now I have the standard Suburban Mom Short cut, with just a touch of the old Kate Krest (Short hair spiked up at crown of head.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-women-what-hair-crazes-did-you-participate-in/526272.md?page=1)