Features of female hairstyles of the 80s

The eighties of the last century are characterized by a huge number of experiments. Music, fashion, literature - everything turned out to be overwhelmed by a wave of creativity. The role models were pop stars and rock stars, film actors, and any fashion trends were immediately transferred from the catwalks to the streets and became elements of the street-style. The craftsmen sewed dresses for themselves like those of the heroes of the favorite Santa Barbara and Dynasty serials and looked no worse than movie stars, despite the lack of choice of fabrics, clothes and opportunities. Female hairstyles of the 80s are as diverse as they are interesting. Not without purpose, after three decades, the fashion for them (in a modernized and improved form) has returned again. After all, it was a decade of absolute creative freedom. New, sometimes grotesque, exaggerated forms, volumes, colors were invented.

One of the hallmarks of women's hairstyles of the 1980s is diversity. Neither in the 1960s (the era of backdrops, “babett” and thickly painted eyelashes), nor in the 1970s (the time of long straight hair divided by parting) there was no such thing, there was always a single trend. The period from 1980 to 1989 gave us a “Aurora” - a landmark haircut of the decade., hairstyle under the "page", the most fashionable "sessun", "mallet", "cascade", perm, "wolf", "rhapsody", "gavrosh", high tails (sometimes overhead) and even (in the late eighties) - shocking mohawk.

It should be noted that the period of the greatest "rampage" in both fashion and makeup and hairstyles began in the post-perestroika period in 1985 and gained momentum to the insane nineties. Until 1985, in clothes and haircuts, everything was much more modest and more conservative. After perestroika, Soviet women saw fashion magazines - not only “ours”, but also foreign ones. Names like Valentin Yudashkin and Vyacheslav Zaitsev appeared in the Soviet fashion, and inexpensive and bright plastic jewelry was very popular. In clothes, the emphasis shifted to the shoulders, a clear waist ceased to be mandatory, and if there was a desire to emphasize it, this was also done using a hypertrophied wide belt.

There were sleeves, "puffs", dresses with a lowered shoulder, the length of "mini" was unusually popular. The word “too much” will be correct in order to characterize the fashion of those years: if the belt is wide as a corset, if the chain is thick, if it is thick, it is the entire length of the hair, if it is ruddy, then up to the temples. In the make-up, by the way, mother-of-pearl and a riot of colors reigned - the shadows were applied to the eyebrows, it was necessary to combine at least 3 different colors, the blush was used either bright pink or no less bright coral. Of course, in this form, few people (except for the most desperate fashionistas) risked appearing at work or at school, as they usually dressed up at discos, parties and holidays.

• "Cascade" - the most popular hairstyle, a symbol of "disco". It was performed on medium length hair. At its core, the hairstyle is a straight and torn “ladder” with a short cropped top and top. For this haircut open whiskey and ears are required.Strands can be laid in different ways - leave straight, curl on curlers or curling, comb and fix varnish. If the volume of the hair was not enough - after the haircut, a perm was performed, filling the gap. Few who walked with straight hair without a fleece, as the hairstyle required a volume that could be given either by a thick head of hair by nature, or this very fleece from the roots to the very tips.

• "Wolf" - one of the modifications of the "cascade", and universal for both women and men. The haircut is named because of its similarity to the wolf's scruff. Received immense popularity after 1985 due to its aggressiveness, which gave it to the owner of assertiveness and strength (of course, visual). A distinctive feature of the "wolf" is a large number of thin milled strands sticking out along the entire length of the hair.

• "Aurora" - haircut, like the "wolf", popular with both women and men. It is performed at the base of the cascade, the front and top hairs are short, the backs are lengthening. For the "Aurora" is characterized by smoother lines than for the cascade.

• "Mallet" - perhaps the most significant haircut in the history of the 1980s. Only desperate mods, not fearing public censure, ventured upon it. The top of the head in the "mallet" was shortly sheared, and the hair on the other parts of the head was grown to the shoulders and even to the shoulder blades. So rock musicians, popular singers, Hollywood actors and ordinary people (mostly, of course, young people) were cut.

• The high “hedgehog” is a fashionable hairstyle that has become a softer version of a mohawk that appeared a little later. The hair in the temporal and occipital parts was cut short and combed vertically upwards, while in the frontal area they were left slightly longer. This made it possible both to curl a curl in front and comb it. The whole structure was fixed with a thick layer of varnish, otherwise it would not last long.

• "Sessun", "cap" and "page" we are united by chance. All of them are performed almost the same, with a perfectly flat line. What are the differences? Sessun assumes that the fringe is cut in the shape of a semicircle, and the sides are slightly shorter than the back. Haircut under the "page" and provides for smooth bangs, and all other hair. The hair line is like a continuous circle. Hairstyle is a "cap" opens the neck, the hair at the same time about the same length on all parts of the head.

The lush mane of well-groomed curly hair is what comes to mind when you say “disco-style hair”. Of course, if the length allows you to make curls. If in the 1980s in the USSR, women only had hair curlers and a hairdryer, now you can create the curls of your dreams with the help of forceps. For authentic styling in the spirit of the 1980s, it is better to make curls smaller, with the effect of natural curls.

And you do not need to injure your hair, combing it from root to tip and filling it with an incredible amount of lacquer, because there are tools for basal volume, thermal protective compounds, styling mousses, sprays to form curls and a lot of other things at your service. and take care of the hair.

If you are the owner of a haircut, then your disco-style hairstyle is combed up and fixed hair, like John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Jones in the film “Saturday Night Fever”. In the crown part of the hair you need to comb at the roots, after using the means to give volume, and then curl a little with forceps, fixing the result with varnish.The hairs on the sides and in the back of the head are pulled down with a hair dryer and a round brush.

Bulky hairstyles in the spirit of the 1980s. need the right framed. Clothes created after this decade are now sold more than enough - these are mom jeans, banana pants, voluminous pullovers, mini skirts, and leggings. However, there are details that form the image completely. These are unusual hair accessories - elastic bands, ribbons, headbands, as well as sunglasses that complement the ensemble, and, of course, large and bright costume jewelry. Let us dwell on each item.

The eighties - it's time to "plush" hair ties, headbands, originally designed for aerobics, laces, woven into pigtails. All this should have bright "acid" shades. Hair can be laid, and from above to cover with a gas scarf, having wound it in manners of a turban - it is also very fashionable. The "right" sunglasses to create an image of a girl from the 80s are aviators. After the movie “Top gun” starring Tom Cruise, the aviators were wildly popular. If this model does not suit you, take any smoky glasses that cover half of the face, it will also be very much in the spirit of the eighties.

The jewelry of that bright decade is now experiencing a real boom. Vintage brooches, clips, rings of the leading fashion houses, appearing on sale from collectors and connoisseurs of that period, are being sold among fans as hot cakes, despite the significant cost of jewelry. Their beauty, relevance and relevance is beyond doubt. As for the inexpensive, so-called mass jewelry, which is sold in chain stores, underground passages, on the Internet sites - it is in demand even more due to the modern fashion for such accessories, and due to their budget cost. A pair of plastic earrings will cost you cheap, while it is thanks to them that the image will receive completeness.

How to make a hairstyle in the style of the 80s, see the following video.