Tonight's topic is 1980's hair. The 80's were my formative hair years, I went through my teen years dreaming of sky high tresses whipped up with Aqua Net and Tenex. Mousse wasn't just for dessert anymore! Gobs of gel made hair helmets and a few 100 shots of hairspray made those helmets impenetrable. One night I was feeling rather giddy and took a razor to my head and gave myself sort of a mini Mohawk that was easily hideable under layers of feathered camouflage. It worked but I learned one valuable lesson: Prell might be a good shampoo, but it's hell on razor burn.
Ahh 1980's on Long Island, where outfits were big and hair was even bigger! The 80's were also my formative music years. Nothing was better than New Wave stuff and my goodness could those people think of some really wild hairdos!!! Here's a bunch of my favorites.
The Alarm, a personal favorite. Give me love, give me hope, give me hairspray..
Alphaville. The guy in the middle looks sad, maybe it's because his hair went flat...
Bananarama! Poof! Poof! and Poof!
Depeche Mode made 80's hair really cool.
OK, the Flock of Seagulls dude wins the "How the heck did you do that" award this evening.
Gene Loves Jezebel. Yikes.
Teri Nunn of Berlin looking uber cool in her bi-color style.
Howard jones makes foofy hair look good. I saw him in concert in 1985 and throughout the show his do never went flat. Damn.
Kajagoogoo
Missing Persons, plastic boobies and big hair.
Boy George. Need I say more?
Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. That's the hairstyle I would have loved to have when I was 15. Neither my hair nor my mom would cooperate with me on that one...
Nitro. Never heard of these guys but when I saw the pic I knew it needed to be added to this blog. Wow. That's all I can say.
Poison. Purple jacket, check. Lipstick, check, Bracelets, check. Peroxide, check.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I like when the mohawk matches the jacket, don't you? That shows a refined sense of style.
Specimen. These guys weilded cans of hairspray as well as they weilded black kohl eyeliner. I wonder what happened to the Bat Cave?
No 1980's hair compilation would be complete without Robert Smith of the Cure.
Thompson Twins.
Queensryche. The lure of the aerosol can hit the Northwest too, not just the Northeast.
Strawberry Switchblade. Offray Ribbon and their local craft store must have wept when they went away.
And we finish with Vicious Pink and Yazoo:
It makes you want to go out and buy some Aqua Net, doesn't it?!
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