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  1. Although I look bald there is actually some fuzz on top of my 67 year old head that justifies my occasional trips to the barber. (My forehead extends to the back of my cranium.) Is there a critical mass of hair essential to reach such high teased splendor? If I was able to tease the fuzz, would it still be invisible? Would the ladies swoon anyway? In other words, is teasing in my future?

  2. Check out a high school or college year book from the Sixties. Don’t know how the ozone layer survived.
    Just for grins, youtube Brothers Four, the original group. There are a couple of vids of them in concert in the Sixties. The camera pans the audience.
    What rapt attention.
    I figure, with a couple of hundred guys killed a week in VN, riots and burning and assassinations and the roof about to come off, it was a good thing to disappear into “four strong winds” or its like. And check out the hair.
    I always preferred the long hair, easy curls. Easy to me, anyway.

  3. Vanderleun is just waxing (pun intended) nostalgic for Brylcreem, D.A. haircuts, and teased hair a la Liberace.

  4. This brought me back. My older sister had curly hair and did the coke can thing in the late 60s. I had straight hair and did the curiling iron think in the 70s to emulate Farrah Fawcett. We are never happy with what we have.

  5. I started reading this thread with the anticipation of seeing a picture of Neo with teased hair. Once again she teased me down the path and left me waiting and wondering when.

  6. I have fine, wavy hair, longer than most of those pictured (except for the Ronettes and Marie Antoinette). And when my locks choose to do their own thing, there isn’t much I can do to stop it. Being a dude, I have no time nor inclination to apply any sort of iron or external heat to it. I’ve learned to live with it.

  7. I don’t miss the teased hair from that era, but I am fond of the era’s girl groups such as the Ronettes and the Crystals, who made simple tunes much better with their harmonizing. One of the links said that Ellie’s group ( with one male) did a version of Da Doo Run Run. I hope that turns up on YouTube some time.

    I remember my sister with the curled hair look. It was called an “Anglo.” Some things are best left in the past.

    The beehive-type hairdos persisted in TX long after they had gone out of fashion in the rest of the country. That earned TX the nickname of “big hair country.”

  8. Twenty years old, dark-hair teased like Susan Hayward, 5 feet tall, size 1 and built like a brick house – that was my wife when I first laid eyes on her December 3, 1985. Come to think of it, she hasn’t changed much…urrh ‘cept she’s slips into a sexy size 6 nowadays.

  9. I had fine, straight, flyaway blond hair in a “high and tight” that I’d Brylcreme straight back; until last year when I saw a photo of me that looked like I was trying to comb it back over a bald spot (that I didn’t even know I had)….

    I loved Brylcreme and Top Brass, and I assure you: they are available at every military post, base and camp all over the world.

    Then I shaved it all off. Not with a razor, but with clippers. Using a razor to shave your head is more work that having hair!

    I was an Aqua Velva and Brylcreme kinda guy…. Now I’m just an Aqua Velva Man.

  10. I had long blondish hair and had permanents to make it straight. I never used coke cans… it was frozen OJ cans for me.

    My father always tried to make me feel good. He told me he liked girls with curly hair… I told him I didn’t want a guy his age.

    Later, when I was protesting the long skirts he wanted me to wear, I said they made me feel like an old maid and he said he liked old maids. My mom said she wished she’d been one.

    Life was fun in those days.

  11. Baldness is freedom. Embrace it.

    Once a week with Braun clippers–that’s it.

    Fortunately, by dint of my Scandinavian heritage, I have a handsome dolichocephalic skull.

  12. Speaking of skirts….
    My wife had one left over from college in the Sixties.
    Our daughter, then in jr. hi., tried it on. “Mom!” Scandalously short.
    As my wife said, trying to sit down both gracefully and modestly was a chore.
    Not my problem.

  13. LOL,
    One of the previous posters summed it up well, tease! Let’s see a few pics of our gracious host as a tender young blossom. She certainly has no need, but full grown she could get by on looks alone. 🙂

  14. Can’t find anyone who knows how to do an “Artichoke” anymore. It’s obviously a layered cut, but no one will even try it.

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