Never too young to get started on the big hair

[Elle]

http://www.etsy.com/listing/74675392/th ... 2Fclothing

Big hair and a smocked dress with crosses. It's the hair that caught my eye first.

[FloraDoraDolly]

It's a baby picture of Erin Bates!

Seriously, that hair ain't that big. You young whipper snappers do not remember the 80s!

[nomi]

I don't know, look like she's got a pretty good start on her Bangs of Righteousness.

[Elle]

It's a baby picture of Erin Bates!

Seriously, that hair ain't that big. You young whipper snappers do not remember the 80s!

Is that?! Seriously I thought of her immediately and thought there was a resemblance, but thought it was a newer picture of someone who's a kid right now.

LOL, for the 80's that wouldn't be big! Holy cow my own hair in the 80's...and my bang.... Thinking this was a kid today is what made me think big hair!

Are you sure it's Erin though? The listing called her Charlotte. Middle name?

[FloraDoraDolly]

No, it's not Erin. I was joking because it does look so much like her.

[Buzzard]

50 bucks for that dress? They inhaled too much hairspray!

[Oddeverything]

Aww... She's cute.

I'm in my 40s, and when I was a little girl, my mother would tease my hair and then spray it, putting an Alice band over the middle so that the back pouffed out like Snooki but way worse. It was not as appalling as it sounds but I sort of cringe when I see pictures of me in my Christmas dresses.

So what I'm saying is, it could be worse. As poufy as that little girl's hair is, she still looks better than I did and I was the child of a Southern Baptist in Dallas.

Also, sorry for making this all about me.

[Elle]

Aww... She's cute.

I'm in my 40s, and when I was a little girl, my mother would tease my hair and then spray it, putting an Alice band over the middle so that the back pouffed out like Snooki but way worse. It was not as appalling as it sounds but I sort of cringe when I see pictures of me in my Christmas dresses.

So what I'm saying is, it could be worse. As poufy as that little girl's hair is, she still looks better than I did and I was the child of a Southern Baptist in Dallas.

Also, sorry for making this all about me.

I was a child of the 80's and my hair WAS as bad as it sounds! I have Southern relatives, so you can imagine....

You're not making this thread about you. It's a thread about big hair and kids, and you and I both had big hair as kids. Loads of hairspray, rollers, curling irons, more hairspray... My bangs, when straight, went to just below my nose. When all teased up, I could see without having to smack them to the side. I don't share those pictures, even now. I felt stupid then, feel stupid still now!

[Dinaberries]

I was a child of the 80's and my hair WAS as bad as it sounds! I have Southern relatives, so you can imagine....

You're not making this thread about you. It's a thread about big hair and kids, and you and I both had big hair as kids. Loads of hairspray, rollers, curling irons, more hairspray... My bangs, when straight, went to just below my nose. When all teased up, I could see without having to smack them to the side. I don't share those pictures, even now. I felt stupid then, feel stupid still now!

I was also born in the 80s, and my mom would make my hair look quite a bit like that little girl's. My hair is now thick and wavy, but it was really straight when I was a kid, and I hated sitting still while my mom curled, teased and sprayed the crap out of my hair. And I remember her making me scream when she'd curl my eyelashes for my ballet recitals. She'd pile the makeup onto my face for my recitals too.

She's a beautiful child, though. I think it's a shame when people try to mess with the natural beauty of a child. One of my friends has a daughter with gorgeous, curly red hair, but whenever I go to stroke her hair, I can feel how hard it is with hairspray. :(

[Witsec7]

50 bucks for that dress? They inhaled too much hairspray!

Latraviata's smocking is of a finer quality and much higher skill level than that dress.

[ladypuglover]

That is a very darling little girl but I have to agree that baby has nothing on those of us who were teens in the 80's. If you were a teen girl during that time you had to buy at least one bottle of Aqua Net a week and nothing to say about the mouese and gel we would use. If in a car and your hair didn't hit the roof then you were having a bad hair day.

[Wolfie]

She's a beautiful child, though. I think it's a shame when people try to mess with the natural beauty of a child. One of my friends has a daughter with gorgeous, curly red hair, but whenever I go to stroke her hair, I can feel how hard it is with hairspray. :(

Having been a child with wild, curly hair, I understand the hairspray. If my mom hadn't hairsprayed my hair I'd have had a tangled mat by the end of the day. My hair is now only wavy, but it can still be wild, and I'll go to brush my hair out in the middle of the day to find that it's tangled without anything that would have caused it.

[Wolfie]

That is a very darling little girl but I have to agree that baby has nothing on those of us who were teens in the 80's. If you were a teen girl during that time you had to buy at least one bottle of Aqua Net a week and nothing to say about the mouese and gel we would use. If in a car and your hair didn't hit the roof then you were having a bad hair day.

Sattelite bangs.... (and of course this was before those mini dishes that we have now.)

[Dinaberries]

Having been a child with wild, curly hair, I understand the hairspray. If my mom hadn't hairsprayed my hair I'd have had a tangled mat by the end of the day. My hair is now only wavy, but it can still be wild, and I'll go to brush my hair out in the middle of the day to find that it's tangled without anything that would have caused it.

Ah okay. I didn't realize!

[Three and Done]

That is a very darling little girl but I have to agree that baby has nothing on those of us who were teens in the 80's. If you were a teen girl during that time you had to buy at least one bottle of Aqua Net a week and nothing to say about the mouese and gel we would use. If in a car and your hair didn't hit the roof then you were having a bad hair day.

Aqua Rock! That stuff was something! My friends and I all had huge hair in the 80's - makes me cringe now!

[ladypuglover]

Sattelite bangs.... (and of course this was before those mini dishes that we have now.)

I think it was in the late 80s or early 90s that young women used tooth paste to get their bangs to stand straight up in the air. I had spent my whole teen life trying to avoid having bangs that looked like I had slept on my face and had 8 inches of bangs standing on end. Think of a mohawk but it is your bangs standing on end. :shock: So I just had to say no to that fashion.

[ladypuglover]

Aqua Rock! That stuff was something! My friends and I all had huge hair in the 80's - makes me cringe now!

I think we had to grow that stuff out of our hair as you really never could get it out no matter how many times you washed and repeated.

[SealFan1963]

That toddler is beautiful. I hope they get the baby's crossed eye fixed.

I got married in early 1993 just at the tail end of the big hair days, the maid of honor and I didn't fit into her car after we had our hair done the day of my wedding. We had to squish our hair and re-poof it once we got to where I was getting married. My hair hadn't been washed since the morning before because slightly dirty hair holds a style better.

[ADoyle90815]

I think it was in the late 80s or early 90s that young women used tooth paste to get their bangs to stand straight up in the air. I had spent my whole teen life trying to avoid having bangs that looked like I had slept on my face and had 8 inches of bangs standing on end. Think of a mohawk but it is your bangs standing on end. :shock: So I just had to say no to that fashion.

One thing I remember in the late 80's was those satelite bangs, but we would curl them so you resembled a Peanuts character. Naturally, the Aqua Net would be used so no matter what, the bangs stayed upright.

[Dinger]

What a pretty little girl :clap:

I find the amount of jewellery that the other little girl is wearing quite alarming though; far far too much for a child of that age IMO

[constantgardener]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -back.html

You ain't seen nothing until you've seen a Gypsy First Communion dress (scroll down past the wedding dresses!)!

[Guest Anonymous]

You young whipper snappers do not remember the 80s!

Oh, but I do. The big hair (I called Aqua Net teh super glue for hair), butt ugly clothes and makeup, and the hair bands. I was a huge Bon Jovi & Def Leppard fan back in the day. Actually I think Jon Bon Jovi is still looking fine!

[Guest Anonymous]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1348164/My-Big-Fat-Gypsy-Wedding-Forget-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William-back.html

You ain't seen nothing until you've seen a Gypsy First Communion dress (scroll down past the wedding dresses!)!

Actually season 2 of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding premiered last night. It's like somebody put Toddlers & Tiaras, the Duggars, Say Yes to the Dress in a blender and came up with this hot mess of a show. I just can't take that show seriously.

[latraviata]

Latraviata's smocking is of a finer quality and much higher skill level than that dress.

Thank you!!!

[Sola]

Ah big hair in the 1980's; oh how I remember thee :lol: I am 'blessed' with curly hair so I was in my element with big hair and lots of hairspray! Like Genie I was rocking Bon Jovi with the best of them! For my shame I also rocked Stryper as I wasn't quite the out and out atheist that I am now....

I like the dress on the little girl, not quite sure of the crucifixes though :shock: I mean seriously, if you think about it, you are putting the symbol on a dress, a symbol which represents the agonising, slow, torturous death of someone. Inappropriate much?

Like others here have said, Latraviata's smockings are the best. I would love to have her skills; I can do pretty much anything with fabric but the ability to smock has passed me by.