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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 18:15:38 GMT
The reason it is a peeve is due to the number of people who think that their 1980's hair is still acceptable in 2017. My 2nd sister in law apparently thought she was Farah Fawcett and it was a real ordeal for me to be seen with her in public in Paris.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 19:06:20 GMT
I think we now need a thread where we all post pictures of ourselves from the '80s!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2017 20:06:48 GMT
Ha ha ~ I never had 80s hair. Also, always took the #%^&* shoulder pads out of my garments, since I naturally have Rita Hayworth shoulders.
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Post by rikita on Feb 17, 2017 0:13:38 GMT
my hair was fine in the 80s, but i liked wearing big hats.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2017 1:13:36 GMT
Hee hee ~ what a cutie!
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Post by fumobici on Feb 17, 2017 3:39:43 GMT
80s photos? Gawd, I hope there aren't any. I don't have any at any rate. Good thing for hormones or none of us of a certain age would have got laid.
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Post by chexbres on Feb 17, 2017 10:55:08 GMT
I often see "women of a certain age" wearing neon pink or blue dye in their hair, which is usually cut pretty short, but not always. Surely, they can't all be lesbiennes. I'm wondering if they are British, since this form of self-expression is more tolerated there?
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Post by tod2 on Feb 17, 2017 17:30:05 GMT
Oh just come to South Africa to see the hoards of "elderly" (old farts) who think neon pink or blue or green hair is so youthful! And all have to be put on one head of hair. Gone is the "blue rinse" - As in Mrs.Slocombe, "Are you being Served?", or in my young days the popular colour, Titian.
FYI: Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (pronounced [titˈtsjaːno veˈtʃɛlljo]; c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian /ˈtɪʃən/, was an Italian painter
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 17:51:34 GMT
Well, I don't have any '80s shots on this computer, but I will find one soon!
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Post by lagatta on Feb 17, 2017 18:10:09 GMT
I look fine in my 1980s passport photo, and my Italian student card. I've never used much "product", but my dark hair was very curly-kinky, and a bit of a mane. What defines a silver mane? My hair has mostly gone silver, grey, still some black underneath, and I still have a lot of hair, though obviously less than when I was 20.
Although I have Victorian sloping shoulders (very awkward for carrying stuff, and for keeping bra straps up), I always removed the 80s shoulder pads as well. I hated them.
I think the late-middle-aged to senior women with short hair partially coloured punky think they are being cool, but they are copying a trend that actually goes back to the 1980s, and even the late 70s in London. To be fair, it is very hard to find looks that aren't "too young" or geriatric-elasticated bus-tour group when one reaches a certain age. It is a challenge.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 17, 2017 18:38:40 GMT
I think the late-middle-aged to senior women with short hair partially coloured punky think they are being cool, but they are copying a trend that actually goes back to the 1980s, and even the late 70s in London. To be fair, it is very hard to find looks that aren't "too young" or geriatric-elasticated bus-tour group when one reaches a certain age. It is a challenge. There's a woman about my own age at the dog park who sometimes dyes her hair interesting colors like blue and pink, or blue AND pink, and I quite like it and think it looks great. I like people who refuse to act their age.
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Post by htmb on Feb 17, 2017 18:48:32 GMT
I'm all for it, too. Whatever people choose to do to their hair is fine with me, for the most part. However, I do find toupees quite unnecessary and a bit annoying.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 20:01:09 GMT
The only thing I find a bit strange are the elderly Asians of both sexes in Vancouver who decide to dye their hair jet black, then think better of it and leave an inch or three of snow white regrowth. Not terribly natural looking, or quirkily fashionable, just supreme I-don't-care-style.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 20:43:26 GMT
When Carrefour opened their first hypermarkets in China (they now have 228), the first two things that they learned were 1) they had to have fish tanks full of live fish in the fish department and 2) they had to increase the offer of men's hair dye tenfold.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 18, 2017 1:00:24 GMT
Carrefour must be an absolutely huge firm; they also have a lot of super and hypermarkets in South America. How about Africa?
Even the small Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Cambodian markets in my neighbourhood sell a lot of that hair dye. They don't have the live fish tanks, though they have very fresh fish with a fast turnover. For the fish tanks I'd have to go to Kim Phat, a way north and east of my place, or to the old Chinatown. They seem very popular.
Fumobici, it is absolutely none of my business what other people do with their hair. But I remember how I hated the "Farrah Fawcet" look, even at the time. It isn't so popular here - but white manes are, among those with such hair. I want to point out that I'm just talking about the hairstyle, not laughing at someone seen as a "hick", and who died relatively young of a horrible disease.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 18, 2017 2:30:48 GMT
I'm all for it, too. Whatever people choose to do to their hair is fine with me, for the most part. Even MULLETS?!?!
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2017 2:46:43 GMT
Why should I care how someone wears their hair?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 3:55:01 GMT
Coincidentally, today I saw a heavy tourist woman who had a big section of curly bangs -- they went from her rather high forehead back about midway to the crown of her head. Those were pure white. The rest of her short, but not super-short hair was a very bright auburn.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 18, 2017 10:58:46 GMT
Htmb - I do sometimes care in a revolting kind of way how someones wears their hair. Only because they can't see how utterly ridiculous they look, only us with eyes trained on what their eyes are not! They should be forced to wear a rear-view mirror on a headband
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 18, 2017 14:03:54 GMT
I often wonder with people like that if they look at themselves in the mirror in the morning and think, "Sheeeit! I look hot!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 14:37:22 GMT
Now you made me go and dig up some old passports. Here are 3 previous incarnations of myself in 1978, 1981 and 1990. I don't have to worry about the hair anymore.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 16:20:47 GMT
The last one is the classic passport picture -- the one that makes the government agent want to pull you out of line as you're so obviously guilty of something.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2017 16:47:30 GMT
My thought, too. Member of the French Mafia? Drug lord?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 17:07:21 GMT
That face wouldn't be out of place in the shadows of a group picture with Putin.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2017 17:17:10 GMT
What does that say about friends who have traveled with him?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 17:38:43 GMT
Well, he doesn't look shadowy or criminal in real life! He's more like a grownup version of the boy in the 1st pic.
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Post by htmb on Feb 18, 2017 17:41:33 GMT
Yes, I would completely agree. Here me with my '80s hair.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2017 19:09:55 GMT
Oh, I don't think that's 80s-ish ~ it might be a tad fuller than is currently popular, but is more like classic pretty curly hair.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 19:14:31 GMT
I knew those girls. They were never available to go out anywhere "because it takes 4 hours to dry my hair."
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Post by mossie on Feb 18, 2017 21:15:04 GMT
I have struggled to find pictures, I have been the family photographer. But have raked this out from the early '70's with my children. the youngest was born 1968 to give you some idea.
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