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Uh, no. Plenty of young women in the '70s wore natural hair, whether it was kinky, wavy, or stick straight like mine. The early eighties was all about cockatoo bangs. I remember both eras well.
This. In the 70s I saw tons of natural hair - though not exclusively; Barbra Streisand perms definitely had their following, I had the look several times - but 80s hair was anything but easy, LOL. We were all teased, curled, sprayed and re-teased and re-curled and re-sprayed (several times) out the yin-yang. I remember all the girls with the curling irons for the bangs or the "wings" (I graduated in 1985) in the girl's room before school, at lunch and after gym and then after extracurricular activities if anything "fell" during all the activity, LOL.
FWIW, I'm watching Bill abd Ted's Excellent Adventure right now, which is from 1989. In the scene at the mall where Joan of Arc pushes the aerobics instructor aside and takes over the class, the class pretty much ALL has bad permed hair, LOL. I don't see the gigantic skyscraper bangs standing out in this movie, just the overall hanging straw permed hair plus hanging and somewhat poofy bangs, or else those wispy bangs that were quite a thing for a while.
In 1988 a college friend of mine traveled from VA to NJ to visit some friends for the weekend. The picture she brought back was hilarious. She had a short bob with flipped back bangs she did with a curling iron. They had enormous heads of hair, permed and teased up to heights of at least 4 inches, lengths of at least 12 inches, and width out to their shoulders. Seriously BIG HAIR.
I have curly hair but naturally its frizzy and really annoying so i do perm it so it lays right. Its not shirley temple curls, nor 80s style but better than it would be naturally. Now i have dreadlocks so its not curly!
By college (1995-1999), big, Whitesnake video, teased spiral perm crunchy hair was out, big bangs were long out, and most girls had some version of The Rachel, a straightened layered bob with volume, after Jennifer Aniston on "Friends."
This. In the 70s I saw tons of natural hair - though not exclusively; Barbra Streisand perms definitely had their following, I had the look several times - but 80s hair was anything but easy, LOL. We were all teased, curled, sprayed and re-teased and re-curled and re-sprayed (several times) out the yin-yang. I remember all the girls with the curling irons for the bangs or the "wings" (I graduated in 1985) in the girl's room before school, at lunch and after gym and then after extracurricular activities if anything "fell" during all the activity, LOL.
In the late 80s, early 90's (middle and high school, for me), any girl who was anybody had Conair's portable cordless curling iron that heated up (poorly) with little butane cells so they could fix their "wings" and bangs after PE. So much effort!
If straight hair had come back "in" without flat irons being commercially available, women would have found a way. My aunt used to iron her hair with a clothes iron, on an ironing board. That was in the 60s. She said some girls got smooth just-barely there waves (starting out with naturally curly hair) by coating the hair in setting lotion and setting it on beer cans with clips.
Blowing hair out while drawing a brush hard through it to get it straight has also been around for decades.
Yep, my mom had waist length flower child-turned folkie straight hair in the 70s, her young adulthood. She smoothed it by both ironing it with a conventional iron, and by using Campbell's soup cans as giant rollers.
I have wavy hair, and just mostly straighten it with a blow drier and paddle brush. I prefer it to flat irons.
In 1988 a college friend of mine traveled from VA to NJ to visit some friends for the weekend. The picture she brought back was hilarious. She had a short bob with flipped back bangs she did with a curling iron. They had enormous heads of hair, permed and teased up to heights of at least 4 inches, lengths of at least 12 inches, and width out to their shoulders. Seriously BIG HAIR.
That ^ is not altogether gone. It's just that they're all 50 yrs old now.
in some places in the south, it never went out of style.
"Higher the hair, closer to God"
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