Features of women's hairstyles of the 80s

The eighties of the last century are characterized by a huge number of experiments. Music, fashion, literature - everything was swamped with a wave of creativity. Role and rock stars, movie actors were role models, and any fashion trends were immediately transferred from the catwalks to the streets and became elements of street style. Craftswomen sewed dresses for themselves like those of the heroes of the beloved TV shows “Santa Barbara” and “Dynasty” and looked no worse than movie stars, despite the lack of choice of fabrics, outfits and opportunities. Women's hairstyles of the 80s are as diverse as they are interesting. For good reason, after three decades, the fashion for them (in a modernized and improved form) has returned again. After all, it was a decade of absolute freedom of creativity. 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 bouffant, “babette” and densely colored eyelashes), nor in the 1970s (times of long straight hair, divided into parting), this was not the case, there was always a single tendency. The period from 1980 to 1989 gave us the "Aurora" - a landmark haircut of the decade, hairstyle under the “page”, the most fashionable “sessun”, “mallet”, “cascade”, perms, “she-wolf”, “rhapsody”, “gavrosh”, high tails (sometimes false) and even (in the late eighties) - shocking mohawk.

It should be noted that the period of the greatest "riot" both in fashion and in makeup and hairstyles began in the post-perestroika period in 1985 and gained momentum until the crazy nineties. Until 1985, everything in clothes and haircuts was much more modest and conservative. After perestroika, Soviet women saw fashion magazines - not only “ours”, but also foreign ones. Such names as Valentin Yudashkin and Vyacheslav Zaitsev appeared in the Soviet fashion, inexpensive and bright jewelry made of plastic gained immense popularity. In clothes, the emphasis shifted to the shoulders, a clear waist was no longer mandatory, and if there was a desire to emphasize it, this was also done with the help of a hypertrophied wide belt.

Sleeves appeared - “puffs”, dresses with a lowered shoulder, the length of the “mini” was unusually popular. The word "too" 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 in the arm, if combed then full length of the hair, if blush, then to the temples. In makeup, by the way, mother of pearl and a riot of colors reigned - shadows were applied before the eyebrows, at least 3 different colors had to be combined, blush was used either bright pink or no less bright coral. Of course, in this form, few (with the exception of the most desperate fashionistas) risked appearing at work or at school, as they usually dressed up at discos, parties and holidays.

• "Cascade" is a popular hairstyle, a symbol of the disco style. It was performed on medium length hair. At its core, the hairstyle is a straight and torn "ladder" with a short-cut crown and top. Open whiskey and ears are required for this haircut. Strands can be stacked in different ways - leave straight, curl on curlers or curling iron, comb and fix with varnish. If the hair volume was not enough - after the haircut they did a perm, filling the gap. Rarely did anyone go with straight hair without fleece, since the hairstyle required a volume that could be obtained either by thick hair from nature, or this very fleece from roots to ends.

• “She-wolf” is one of the modifications of the “cascade”, moreover, universal for both women and men. The haircut is named because of its resemblance to the scruff of a wolf. It gained 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 “she-wolf” is a large number of thin milled strands sticking out along the entire length of the hair.

• “Aurora” is a haircut, as well as a “she-wolf”, popular among both women and men. It is performed on the basis of the cascade, the front and top hair is short, the back is elongated. Aurora is characterized by smoother lines than a cascade.

• “Mallet” is perhaps the most iconic haircut in the history of the 1980s. It was dared only by desperate fashionistas who were not afraid of public censure. The crown in the "mallet" was cut short, and the hair on the remaining parts of the head grew to the shoulders and even to the shoulder blades. This is how rock musicians, popular singers, Hollywood actors and ordinary people cut their hair (mostly, of course, young people).

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

• “Sessun”, “hat” and “page” are not accidentally combined by us. All of them are performed almost identically, with a perfectly flat line. What are the differences? "Sessun" suggests that the bangs are cut in the shape of a semicircle, and on the sides the hair is slightly shorter than the back. Haircuts under the “page” provides for even bangs, and all other hair. The hair line goes, as it were, in a continuous circle. Hairstyle "cap" opens the neck, while the hair is approximately the same length in all parts of the head.

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

And you don’t need to injure your hair, combing it from roots to ends and pouring an incredible amount of varnish, because at your disposal are tools for root volume, thermal protective compounds, styling mousses, sprays for forming curls and a ton of other things that not only fix the hair, but and look after the hair.

If you are the owner of a haircut, then your disco-style hairstyle is combed up and fixed hair, like those of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Jones in the movie Saturday Night Fever. In the crown part, the hair needs to be combed at the roots, first using the tool to add volume, and then curl a little with forceps, fixing the result with varnish. The hair on the sides and in the back of the head is pulled down with a hairdryer and a round brush.

Volumetric hairstyles in the spirit of the 1980s. need the right frame. The clothes created based on the motives of this decade are now sold more than enough - these are mom jeans, and banana trousers, 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 jewelry. Let us dwell on each item.

Eighties - the time for "plush" elastic bands for hair, headbands, originally intended for aerobics, shoelaces woven into braids. All this should have bright "acid" shades. You can style your hair and cover it with a gas scarf on top, wrapping it in the manner of a turban - this is also very fashionable. The “right” sunglasses for creating the image of a girl from the 80s are “aviators”. After the movie “Top gun” was released with Tom Cruise in the lead role, “aviators” were wildly popular. If this model does not suit you, take any smoky glasses covering half your face, it will also be very in the spirit of the eighties.

The jewelry of that bright decade is experiencing a real boom. Vintage brooches, clips, rings of leading fashion houses, appearing on sale among collectors and experts of that period, are sold among fans like hot cakes, despite the significant cost of jewelry. Their beauty, relevance and relevance are not in doubt. As for the inexpensive, so-called mass jewelry, which is sold in chain stores, underground passages, on Internet sites, it is even more in demand due to the modern fashion for such accessories, and because of their budget cost. A pair of plastic earrings will cost you inexpensively, and it is thanks to them that the image will get complete.

See how to make an 80s hairstyle in the next video.