The 80's Hair Daze

As with the desire to makeup your face to either attract, accentuate, or alarm, styling your hair can be just as fun and full of fantastic detail or total failure--if you try hard enough.

For whatever reason, the past few days hairstyles of all shapes and sizes have been unnecessarily catching my eye more than usual so I thought I would go through some of the best and worst out there that deserve a fair share of commentary!


Everyone who's anyone should be familiar with the infamous dude from A Flock of Seagulls.



Truly, that damned flop of hair was big enough to be a fifth band member. Esteemed credit must go to Mike Score, the lead singer of the band, who actually was a hairstylist prior to his career in music. To add insult to injury in this commentary on intense hairdon'ts, Score didn't stop with the flop in front, he eventually let it all hang out, and let me tell you, that wasn't any better.


Up next, we have little known disco/electro German pop band Silent Circle, probably best known for the song "Touch in the Night".



If you're daring enough, watch the video. Guaranteed, whether you care to know them or not, one look at the hair of the singer (particularly when he's moving from side to side), and you might make a decision to never revive your personal hairstyle choices of the 80's. Ever. Again.


Dead or Alive. Not the bouncing Asian titty fighting game, the band. I'm sure you remember them for the all-time good song "You Spin Me Round". I'm sure you wish you didn't remember them for frontman Pete Burns' hair.



I'm willing to bet if someone hogtied him and shaved the whole thing off, he'd probably lose five pounds in an instant. Needless to say, the continuously androgynous Burns hasn't stopped in his quest towards maintaining his status as winar for the ultimate hairstyle of yesterday. He just couldn't stop at his head, his nails had to get in on some of that action, too!


Speaking of the androgynous types, who could forget Bowie's bouffant blonde locks in Labyrinth?



Not surprisingly, this hairstyle was quite a hit with the ladies, and they wore it well to every rock ballad super concert they could get their boyfriends to pay for. Guranteed, after a good long sweat, every one of them would lose that precious Bowie-esque fluff in place of a more, used-to-mop-the-floor Taylor Dayne style.


Through all of this, I'm reminded, painfully, of a time when the style known as the "Noose Ponytail" was cool. Or at least, you thought it was cool cause it was on T.V.



If pigtails are a great set of handlebars, would the noose ponytail be considered something akin to a flat tire situation? Mull that one over for a minute.


And, while it is not apart of the 80's, it is wild hair nonetheless, and by far, my favorite.

Bless you, Wayne Static of Static-X. Bless you for staying consistent with your style, from one album to the next.



The guy's got gumption. I certainly can't pull off looking like Abe Lincoln after a fork-in-a-light-socket episode and rock it like no tomorrow. This man can. Props to him. He is my hero.