It’s bad enough that your mother dragged your naïve, no-say-in-any-matter 12 year old butt to some cheap ass hairdresser who gives you a soft pineapple perm.
She’s kept the damning evidence then hands it over to your husband for the both of them to have an entertaining giggle.
Thanks, Ma.
There was just something magnetic about potent perm solutions that I simply could not stay away from, obsessed in thinking it was the answer for overall super coolness. The 80’s was all about the big, bad hair, baby.
This was the piece de resistance. Taken circa 1987, my uber baggy purple pants matched my ice cream while my hair had more volume and height than any soft serve.
It took forever for the curls to grow out and the perm had dried out my hair so badly, my only option was to snip it all off.
And that my friends, saw my Bros look-alike days.
Still asking “When Will I Be Famous?”, it definitely won’t be for my grand choices in hair styles.
For all you smug GenY’ers who weren’t even embryos during the 80’s and have no clue who Bros were, let me educate you:
So, come on. Your turn. Send me your big bad hair photo.
I only have 5 spots this time. And I’m looking for people who haven’t been a Featured Flogger or taken part in the previous Name That Baby Flogger Game.
Send them through to: grace@withsomegrace.com
Go!
1. Follow With Some Grace.
2. Sign up to the awesome Digital Parents community ( if you haven’t already done so). DP was created by Brenda Gaddi who happens to be the creator of FYBF. She’s also created 4 gorgeous kidlets. In case you’d like to know. Or maybe not. But we’ll share that info just the same.
3. Add your post URL to the linky. Please only link up one post.
4. Grab the funky FYBF button and post it on your sidebar. Help spread the blogfloggin love.
5. Visit the blogs of your fellow FYBF’ers and share the comment love.
6. Share some more comment love. It’s proven to make your wrinkles disappear…overnight. #truth
Grace, thanks for hosting! I’ve had your button on my blog for a few weeks now but when I did a clean up overnight it kept coming up with errors, so I’ve taken it down and will put it up again when I have time over the weekend. Thanks.
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OMG. I could send you my big bad perm combined with big bad taffeta year 12 formal dress with big bad puffy sleeves and a big bad bow on the hip. I look like I jumped right out of The Wedding Singer! Also still waiting to be famous …
Gotta love Bros.
LOL
Cheers
Leanne @ Deep Fried Fruit
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Hey! That gave me a laugh for a Friday Morning!! Happy Friday to you xx
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You did 80’s cool to permed perfection Grace, any chance of a comeback?
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Love the ice-cream shot! My sisters all had post perm hair too 🙂
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Bros! I loved them back on the day – awesome flashback Grace. And as for the bad hair, who hasn’t had a hairstyle that they wish they could forget? My cousin used to tease my hair so I could look like Debbie Harry from Blondie and I’ll never forget the big fringe of the late 80’s/early 90’s….oh, the memories! Have a fabulous weekend.
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Ah I love it. Well you weren’t alone, I had a spiral perm, my hair was down to my bum. I’ll see if I can find a pic.
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What I dont get is how we actually thought we (and others) actually looked good. The baggy jumpers, pants and ill fitting skirts made us look enormous and then the hair on top – oh what were we thinking.
I haven’t thought of Bros in a long time, that at least brings back some fond memories of my stay in England 🙂
Becc @ Take Charge Now
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I LOVED Bros! I had their posters on my wall 🙂 And now I have that song in my head! Thanks for the giggle xx
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OMG Grace! I love your hair photos!! Awesomeness.
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Grace, you are gorgeous! I love your giant hair. There is no amount of treatment or product that could ever make my do look like that. I’m totally jealous! 🙂
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Oh great hair pics Grace! I used to let me post-perm tragedies grow out for years. I’d never have been brave enough to go the Bros! Well done!
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Ha! More volume and height than any soft serve! I don’t have a perm shot but I do have a quiffy fringe with the straight long hair, in a strapless, fish-tailed purple taffeta number from my Yr12 formal. Not exactly sure I’m prepared to share it!
What I AM prepared to share is my Bros When Will I Be Famous CASSINGLE!! Any takers?
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Haircuts of the 80s – shudder! I went in for a pixie cut and came out with a number 2 and a spiked fringe to my mother’s horror.
Love the Bros!
A perm that took a lot of energy and time to maintain – scrunching with mousse, gel and hairspray to get that big 80’s look……that was me. I think I am personally responsibly for destroying the ozone layer.
But no way could I send a photo in as I can barely look at it myself, let alone share with others!!!
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Oh, I remember that disaster time of bad hair years! The perm, then the really short boy hair cut.
Fortunately I don’t think I have any photos!
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Love these photos! You were so cool, not that you’re not now, but come on! A perm! My mum would not let me perm my hair even though I begged! Then at 15 I dyed it bright red. I’ll have to dig out some photos of my glorious undercut from 1990. I was so tough. Not.
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My hair has remained in the same tight pony tail since kindy.. how dull 🙂 Love your dos!
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Actually I thought your perm wasn’t that bad! 🙂 looking forward to this feature post on outrageous hair heehee
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Oh Grace, you are so brave. I’m still terrified of my school photos, as my mum was equally cheap! Conveniently I cant remember where any of them are, so I wont be able to send you one. Visualise this: red hair, short but huge volume, no cute curls, all frizz! Gappy teeth and some how my class was always first cab of the rank, so my eyes were always puffy and different sizes! Not a good look. Happy Friday!
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I had a perm in first year high school!
Really funny post Grace, loved that song! & fantastic pics XX
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Just sent you my pics, when you’ve picked yourself up (coz I’m sure you’ve fallen off your chair laughing at them), give yourself a pat on the back because you solved a little mystery for me! Hubster and I were trying to remember who sang “When Will I Be Famous” and I thought it was Mel & Kim but he was sure it wasn’t. It seems he was right … gahhhhhh …!
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Oh God, can I just say I am glad I’m not eligible for this particular photo op! I think bad hair was a pre-requisite for anyone alive in the 80’s! Thankfully I never got around to getting a perm, Mum wouldn’t let me, despite the fact that she rocked a poodle perm for many years! I was desperate though to have those special curlers you could buy to give your hair that perm effect, although I was never ‘lucky’ enough to get some, and I was big in to crimping though, loved to crimp my hair, or just my fringe! And OMG, the fringe wave, I used to use a whole can just trying to get my non-existent fringe into that big wave! After years of growing the thing out Mum was not going to then let me get a new one cut in just so I could hairspray it to within an inch of its life!
I love your purple pants by the way!
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the hubs had the bros haircut at one stage. he loved them!
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Hahahaha thank you for such a grand laugh this morning ! I think I might have to do a similar post , I have had some horrible hairdos as a kid thanks to my dad who had a weird notion about us keeping super short hair. Bizarre, I know!
I remember mum having a perm when we were little and lts just short hair and perms are a bad combo , we called her hair “crab do” for a long time! A couple of years ago when I decided to have a perm , I was thinking Kim Kardashian angel curls and the hair dresser was thinking 80’s style Janet Jackson, the result quite appalling 😛
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You crack me up Grace! Yep, I had the “big bad perm” when I was in high school too. I got a giggle from your “Bros” do too!!!
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Gee I miss big hair. I really do. I have an atrocious perm photo but I am not sure I am brave enough to share it!!
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I used to always get a bob cut which is bad for my hair type. My hair would fuz up and curl. So bad. Now I like it just under my shoulders. And no fringes. I was traumatised by my mum and aunty who used to always make a fringe for me and I hated it.
My daughter gave her self a fringe yesterday. Plus cut some hair from her little sister too. You can’t tell with the little one but with her I had to try fix it for her.
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For years, I permed my hair, and loved it, as my hair is so fine, I actually had volume. Almost wish it would make a comeback!
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Oh Grace LOL! You actually look gorgeous in the icecream photo with your giant hair!! Hilarious. I remember Bros well. I am old enough 😉 I couldn’t send you a big hair photo if I tried. I barely have two strings to rub together 🙁 Perm or no perm, nothings gonna change that … xx
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Freaking Fabulous hair. FABULOUS! xx
why is it that parents love to embarrass their children ?? perhaps we wont do that with our own kids…better double check i haven’t put anything up that does that of LM.
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Haha Grace! I love your hair in this photo with the ice cream!
Perms!!! Try explaining them to the hair-straightening generation. “In the olden days, we used to like to make our hair curly and big, and used small rollers and chemicals to make it last”. I had a CORKSCREW perm. Remember them? I also ended up with Bros hair afterwards. We really should compare albums one day. xx
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I was so jealous of girls who had the corkscrew perm! I wasn’t allowed to get one!!
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Grace! This post cracked me up!
1 – Pineapple Perm, LOL! I’ve never heard of that term and now I can’t wait to use it in a sentence.
2 – Bros! My sister had/has a big crush on Matt Gos and still thinks her real destiny is to move to LA and marry him.
3 – I had big perms too, with hair down to my waist, a big fringe and a high butterfly clip. I looked hot.
Bring back the perm, I say!
xx
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I love the big bouncy perm hair. I would kill for volume like that!
Ahhh Bros one of my first crushes (after Rick Astley).
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I’m so glad I was young enough in the 80s to miss that phase!
That pic of you and the ice cream, looks like you should be in a Saturday afternoon special!
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Big hair! But very very cute! I had boy short hair at one stage. Looking back it was so severe for a little kid.
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Oh Grace! We could have been perm twins!!!! In grade 5 I had the most beautiful (looking back) waist length thick hair. A friend of mine had her hair permed and so I had to follow suit. Beautiful hair fried and cut to shoulder length. Fried a few more times. In grade 6, a hairdresser gave me that 1st photo hair cut. I sat in the bath for two days trying to comb it out. In grade 7 it was all chopped off. My hair has never regained it’s former glory since.
I feel your pain! I wish I had a good scanner so I could send you some of my shockers.
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Still giggling! And spent a good part of my day trying to find my Bros-inspired pic (complete with monobrow!) just for you Grace! You’re never the same after a Bros do! xx Maddy
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Thankfully for me I generally have only managed rather awesome hairstyles. Well at least in the photos!
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What a great topic for a post. It is hilarious and I’m nodding my head in recognition of times past!
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Oh I love it!! Very torn between the Bros look and the big Pineapple Perm!!! Both awesome 🙂
I had a big hair perm back in ‘da days too – she used some bits of cardboard so I have a very noice zif-zag effect! Hmmmm, tragic really!
Happy weekend lovely xxx
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I can’t say I had a perm or such a big bad hair day. The worst for me were my days of colouring and re-growth and then being not bothered to get it done again…. ohh those days…. xox
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Nice pants. If I came around on time, and had a digital photo to boot, I could’ve totally joined this FYBF. Unfortunately, I went “Bunnymen”, “Flock Of Seagulls” hair over the eye move. Next time – perm and all.
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Oooo I can’t believe I missed this when I was away last week!! GREAT do Grace – LOVE ’em!
I felt naked missing FYBF last week but back with a vengeance this week – Em x
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What a disaster! My hair had never been so dry, brittle, and breakable as it was after my bad perm! In desperation, my stylist recommended the Shielo products, specifically the Shielo Smoothing Collection. My hair is finally getting healthy again, and I am grateful! Noticing a BIG difference with the Shielo shampoo & conditioner, since it has amazon oil built into the product.
It has noticeably returned my hair to a soft, healthy-looking state once again.
Oh my! Grace your hairstyles are like taking a walk through the ages! A monument to the 80s! Thank you so much for linking up with The Lounge your support is so appreciated!
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I remember this post! The perfect story for today’s linky in The Lounge X
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I had a really, really tight spiral perm in the late 80’s – it was mortifyingly bad! I kept trying to brush it out but nothing worked. Your “soft pineapple” is way more flattering believe me. And I LOVED Bros – my sister and I used to fight over which one we were going to date when we grew up.
Thanks so much for linking and the shout out – perm or no perm us Lounge Lizards really dig your style Grace xx
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I had SO MANY hideous perms, the worst of which was a mullet-perm. Combined with all the crimes against fashion I committed it was quite a spectacle. Definitely old enough to remember Bros.
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I love the perm! I had a similar one myself. 🙂