The Sweet Hairafter

Our hairstory left off in 1987. I'll dive right in with the college shots.

Sophomore year. The perm has calmed down. But look out, she's feisty.

A friend dubbed these "tsunami bangs." Documented for 10 years in my passport.

Departing for a semester in Lancaster, England, fall 1989. But ruh-roh, I didn't bring a blow dryer with me, so I couldn't get the tsunami effect for my 14 weeks abroad (normal looking hair: not pictured).

This must be 1990 - spring of junior year or fall of senior year. Back to the perms. I really really liked that sweater. Would you say that's 3 inches of bangs?

College graduation, 1991. The beginning of growing out the bangs.

Spiral perms of the early 1990s: Do you remember me from Twisted Sister?

One could also put it up in a barrette with a kicky side-ponytail. Oh and I used to put brown stuff on my eyebrows.

A little softer, a little nicer. This was the last of the perms.

Then I straightened it (rather than let the spiral perm grow out). Ha ha. Someone entrusted me to cut the hair of their tender offspring, 1993. (I currently cut Shmooie's and HPR's hair.)

1994 and 1995. Spider-Man encouraged me to avoid "product" for the remainder of the millennium. Talk about spider sense!

Comments

[Patrick]

I think I first met you during the spiral perm phase.

I like your attempt at defiance in the first photo. Somehow, you're raised middle finger can't mask your wholesome North Dakota countenance.

[sgazzetti]

A couple of things:
First, are you familiar with the concept of bershon? I think you should be, as that topmost photo is dripping with it. I would link to both the origin of the word and the Flickr group (of course there is one), but your commenting system escapes the links.
2) I am glad to see that the resemblance between the 80's you and the 80's me has faded as the decade aged. In most of the 80's pictures here you look like a fugitive from the cast of "The Facts Of Life". But I mean that in a good way.

[SteveO]

ask not for whom the blog reader cringes
(s)he cringes for thee

[Ayubsarhady]

nice pic ur