However, I'm in the middle of reading So Long Insecurity so I figured I would just embrace my 'teen' self and move on.
I also realized I could title this post The One With All The Hair.
Geez.
As a ninth-grader ....
Maybe you're not familiar with the feathered wings. It took a lot of skill to 'feather' your hair back and keep it in place. Especially when your hair is super-fine and not meant to umm ... feather. This is where an extreme amount of Aqua Net comes into play. Maybe this was the 'Farrah' stage although I'm pretty sure that stage had long passed. I'm slow to jump on any trend :) (which makes me never in style.)In tenth grade ....
I fell in love with hot rollers. They were my friend.
And apparently Miss Clairol ultra-blond became a friend as well.Then came a hair revolution. It changed everything. It brought new heights to my otherwise flat, flat world. It was ....... the perm.
It rocked my super-fine hair world. Combined with deep blue eyeshadow, blue eyeliner and a flipped-up collar? Well, I was a fashion icon. 
Cathy and me. Notice the careful placement of my graduation cap.
The biggest lesson I learned about the perm: never let your mother perm your hair. Especially your bangs. And never let her color and perm your hair the night before the school pageant. It will only turn out bad. Your boyfriend will stare at you with mouth wide open and whisper, "Will your hair always be that way?"
Or, so I've heard.
I've had an epiphany today. All of the above could be the reason I am reading So Long Insecurity. Yay, for the book club! Can you hear the chains breaking?
Edited to add: Just got the following email from my friend, Barbara ....
When the Lord says he knows every hair on our head, he had his work cut out on you don’t you think?
Now, that's funny.
12 comments:
SO cute!! I'm proud of you...:) and I'm laughing because I could show you my old pictures and we'd look like the bobsy twins. I'm not kidding...my graduation cap was specifically placed in the exact same postition!!! :)
...with the help of alot of bobby pins...we had to protect those bangs , right??
love your LOVE posts :)
Traci
~hope you're headache free today~
That IS funny...love that email! I have some hairstyles that are less than flattering too. Did we REALLY look like that????????
First: You ARE and always have been absolutely gorgeous- perm, aqua net, stubble bangs (not pictured)- none of that matters!!
Second: Could you not have picked a better picture of me??? I look less than thrilled in that graduation picture- maybe it was because I was still nervous that they were going to pull me out of the line since I had missed 29 days of school that year! :-)
Third: I was hoping to see the Barbie Perfume Maker picture.
Love you bunches,
Cathy
Thank you so much for this post!! I really needed this after the week I have had!!lol!! Sorry, but I just recently posted a retro pic on my FB and it took me forever to find one that all my hair actually fit in the pic.....so actually I am laughing WITH you, not at you! And what am I talking about?? My hair is still big!! All I can say is 80's BABY!!
Pray you are feeling better!
Love & prayers!
you were beautiful then just like you are now! You know Im from Texas where BIG hair is still a fad....so I have nothing negative to say lol
love ya and hope ya feel better
princess
Based on her comment I have no idea I would love your friend Barbara.
I feel you hair pain,in our recent move friends found our early 90's engagement picture and I don't know that I will ever live down the humiliation of having our pictures passed around our Sunday school friends via iphone technology.
Love love love it!!
My cap was the same, almost sticking straight up!! ha!
And my mom permed my hair, including my bangs. Bless our hearts.
I love the flashbacks! I guess your husband is happy you did this after you posted the picture of him a few weeks back... :)
I could never get the blow backs going - but always kept a comb in my pocket to try! haha!!!
Oh, the fun of hairspray & how big hair COULD get!! Jersey Shore ladies had nothing on us in the 80's!!!! :)
Oh, my goodness....I just realized how much like you E looks! Take away the hair, and she is the spitting image of you. No wonder I think she's so gorgeous! Love your blog....you always find a way to make me laugh, as I can picture you 'telling' the story in your dry, humorous way....I hope your headache is gone now....
What's with all the talk about your hair? Let's talk about the cheerleading outfit! Love the shoes.
Honesty makes me admit to having the same ones...in light blue!
I love old pictures. Once I get everything out of storage, I will have to see what I can find!
Love ya!
Tracy
Oh my goodness......you mean to tell me hot curlers are not in style anymore? ha ha - I still use them today! I couldn't live without them! But I have never been in style - why start now! LOL
Hey Diedre... The more I read your blog (I've been wandering around just a bit) the more I wish I could have spent more time with you at the SMT thing! It was all such a whirlwind... esp. since I wasn't staying at the Omni. Anyway, I'm glad I got to meet you and look forward to reading your posts here and there. About a year ago my husband and I started working with the youth at our church and I have a LOT to learn. Blessings! (Oh! And I love the hair! They all bring back Aqua-Net scented memories!!! :D
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