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Short, tight curls with a poodle cut known as "short bangs" were very popular, favored by women such as first lady Mamie Eisenhower. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] Henna was a popular hair dye in the 1950s in the US; in the popular TV comedy series I Love Lucy , Lucille Ball (according to her husband's statement) "used henna rinse to dye her brown hair red."
A women's hairstyle where different sections of the hair are cut at different lengths to give the impression of layers. Liberty spikes: Hair that is grown out long and spiked up usually with a gel Lob: A shoulder-length hairstyle for women, much like a long bob, hence the name. Mullet: Hair that is short in front and long in the back.
Women's hairstyles became increasingly long in the latter part of the decade and blunt cuts dominated. Blunt cuts of the late 1980s brought long hair to an equal length across the back. Bangs were popular, with "mall bangs", attributed to teenage girls who frequented shopping malls , were styled by ratting bangs into peaks or mounds, and then ...
A young man wearing a mohawk Paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in 1944 Girl with rattail mohawk, 1951 Ukrainian Cossack musician with chupryna or oseledets. The mohawk (also referred to as a mohican) is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair in the center.
Close-up photos show the punk ant. It has a jet-black body with a row of bright yellow-orange hair sticking up along its back. Henderson described the insect as “the world’s most punk rock ant.”
Elly Jackson of La Roux wearing her hair in a quiff. The quiff is a hairstyle that combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flattop, and sometimes a mohawk.It was born as a post-war reaction to the short and strict haircuts for men.
Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [11] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa.
In the 1980s, feeling that the afro looked dated, people began to cut their afros off in search of something new to go along with the new sounds of the decade. The shape-up was first introduced in the mid- or late 1980s. Influential hip-hop artists such as Eric B, Rakim, and Big Daddy Kane popularized the high-top fade with the shape-up. [2]