Do You Regret Some Hairstyles From Your Past?

My highschool years was shoulder length hair, then a perm. I was always told I looked like Peter Frampton.
For graduation I shocked everyone by showing up with with a New Wave/Punk style short spiked hair 😀.
Then in my 30's 40's let it grow and it was down past my belt line.

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Eventually shaved it all off and donated it so that a wig or two can be made. Kept my hair short ever since
 
QuietByNature said:
My highschool years was shoulder length hair, then a perm. I was always told I looked like Peter Frampton.
For graduation I shocked everyone by showing up with with a New Wave/Punk style short spiked hair 😀.
Then in my 30's 40's let it grow and it was down past my belt line.

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Eventually shaved it all off and donated it so that a wig or two can be made. Kept my hair short ever since
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This is how long my hair is now.
My hair is really wavy 2b curly though. 3a.

My most worn style was a Farrah Fawcett hairstyle
 
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The "Bouffant" and "French Twist" and "Beehive" that we thought we couldn't go to prom without in the 1960's.

I think the one I regretted the most was when I was going as the Bride of Frankenstein for Halloween and I teased my long hair into a huge towering hairdo with white lightening streaks ala the Bride in the original movie. It looked great, but trying to brush it out the next day was a nightmare. I swear I lost half my hair.
 
A lot of people told me I went bald on top because I wore a ball cap practically 24/7 for so long. If that's true, I regret wearing it so much, but I'm pretty sure baldness is genetic.

My hair went through some weird phases while I had it. It was pretty straight when I was a kid, turned wavy when I went through puberty, got super curly after I took up salt-water scuba diving, and then went straight again when it started thinning...but only on the top. When I let what's left of it grow out, it's curly in the back and straight on the sides.

It's like my hair couldn't decide if it was Jewish or Irish, and it finally just gave up and fell out.
 
Murrmurr said:
A lot of people told me I went bald on top because I wore a ball cap practically 24/7 for so long. If that's true, I regret wearing it so much, but I'm pretty sure baldness is genetic.

My hair went through some weird phases while I had it. It was pretty straight when I was a kid, turned wavy when I went through puberty, got super curly after I took up salt-water scuba diving, and then went straight again when it started thinning...but only on the top. When I let what's left of it grow out, it's curly in the back and straight on the sides.

It's like my hair couldn't decide if it was Jewish or Irish, and it finally just gave up and fell out.
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My youngest son had gorgeous thick hair as a teen and even his half sister who was a beautician said of the 3 boys, he would be
the one to keep his hair. She was dead wrong, The one we all thought would bald 1st still has all his hair, the other 2 shave their heads
now to to balding. He began losing it at 30 yrs old, just like his Dad did.
Greg-JrYr.jpg greg.JPG NOW, he wears the cap.
 
Because I have fine hair, my hairdresser said I should get a "soft perm" to make it look thicker. I agreed to it, but I noticed my scalp was starting to burn and asked her to remove the lotion. After she washed it out and started to comb it, much to my disgust the curls were frizzy and as she applied the blower it became super curly, and I looked like Idi Armin's wife. When I got home my boys burst out laughing and I almost cried. It took me 2 months of constant brushing before it started to look reasonable. Never again will I be talked into something.
 
Nathan said:
No regrets, but I sure don't miss all the Butch Wax and Vitalis we used to dump in our hair. Sometime in the 70s the "Dry Look" became popular, and I maintain that to this day.
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Nathan...I too used those same products. I cannot recall when the 'dry look' came in, but when I started with it my hair was over my ears and down on the neck of my shirt collar. That was all we were allowed to have in high school and after that I went back to a more traditional trim, not short, but no hair hanging over my ears or collar.
 
@Timewise 60+ , When I got out of the Army in 1972 the shift to the dry look was in progress, My hair would look like a rat's nest if it got past my collar, so I just wore a traditional cut. During the Covid lockdown, when going to the barber was a huge pain I let my hair grow out. Same problem only worse- a gray rat's nest.
 

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