The NYT tells us, in an article illustrated only with an old image of a woman with her hair set in hot rollers.
In the comments section, just about everyone says, What the hell? It's an article about hairstyles, but you don't have any pictures of the hairstyles? The readers want to know what's being talked about — "the return of really big hair." Really? What does it look like? You need rollers for that?
What seems clear to me, though is that the editors think it's charming that something old is new again. Rollers! You'd think they'd be dead and buried forever, but here these kids on TikTok are doing their hair with rollers. Look: rollers!
From the article:“I would say that for the past year, and particularly the past six months, I’ve been over messy waves, and I became really obsessed with perfect, bouncy ’90s blowouts,” said Bella Cacciatore, 25, a beauty writer at Glamour magazine. “After a decade of super-lived-in hair being what’s in, it feels so cool and fresh. It also makes me feel pretty after a year of topknots. I tried a blowout with a round brush and couldn’t get it right, so I decided to try rollers after seeing them on TikTok.”
Now, some of us readers see that and just think it's interesting that rollers seem like a fun experiment, when we remember that they were a complicated ritual. We used to feel that we were lax if we just slept in our hair without putting it up in rollers. Lesser women went out shopping with their hair in rollers. They were the butt of jokes. Classy women went to salons weekly and sat under driers with their rollers. Magazines were full of diagrams showing the pattern of rollers for the various hairstyles. All that seems so unfortunately old to those of us who remember, and it's nice to see it from the perspective of someone young who is free of a memory of the rigors of rollers.
But it seems that most readers care about the end result more than the means to get there. What is this "really big hair" that you say is back in style?
By the way, like that Glamour writer, I too am "over messy waves." I am so tired of the bedraggled this-way-and-that hanks of hair I see on women newscasters and movie stars. It looks so depressing and unprofessional. Is it ever even real hair? I don't know, and it's distracting and boring to think about.
“A lot of folks are looking to the supermodel heyday of the ’90s for inspiration,” Mr. Angelo said. “I’m thinking of that iconic Cindy Crawford swoop, which is all about rollers — and which she still rocks, by the way!”
Okay, that makes sense. I can picture Cindy Crawford. But she's sure not what comes to mind when I hear the phrase "really big hair."
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When i was watching CBS's advertizement for facebook; the main thought going through my head was
That lady Needs to brush her hair.
Jeez. I remember rollers as part of the landscape of growing up. My mom, two sisters. Seems like someone had rollers going on, with the shower cap-style hair dryer that had the hose attached, coming out of their head. What a...as you say, ritual. What a load to have to do just to go out.
We had hair parted on the side. That was it. Until the early 70s and the part shifted to the middle. And that was it until the work world when it shifted back to the side. And that was fine until it all fell out and I realized I should have shaved my head years earlier because being bald is so much easier than anything. Especially rollers.
I cannot believe those things are back.
The really big hair was in the 80's.
Concentrated Orange Juice cans for BIGGER waves!!!
Really big hair: like Trump?
Ugh. I remember women of all ages, but particularly my older sisters, using rollers back in the 60s.
It was quite a sight, particularly for those unfortunates who had to wear them while out in public. I seem to recall they would wear something like a plastic bonnet over them, as if that was a better look.
Fairly natural look is best.
Problem is that too many women have let themselves be led by the style preferences of gay MEN stylists. Even before, too many women has gotten swept up in the trends.
I watch these movies from the 50s and 60s and all the women have this HIDEOUS and UNATTRACTIVE look where their hair is cut just below the ear, inches above the shoulders. They look like quasi-men. Then compare the women in the big star Hollywood movies to the film noir B-movies -- the women in the big Hollywood movies, with the big stylists on the crew, all are far less attractive than the noir actresses who are not all decked out.
Today, women of a certain age get talked into old-lady-hair that is likewise short, but the longer natural style is more flattering and attractive.
"Really big hair" ?
You are just trolling for another "link this to Trump" comment, aren't you? :)
Were the commenters able to to connect hair rollers to Donald Trump?
My French wife of 50 years (today) has never used them. Amen
Somewhat connected to the return of Big Hair, several of the Players on social media note that women have stopped shaving their pubes and are going full bush.
Someone will soon be marketing rollers for that.
Ha ha. I checked (when writing the post). They actually didn't connect this one to Trump.
big hair + ugly clown blouses. Sounds great.
Bob Boyd is correct...the '80s was where the big hair was at...throw in some large, padded-shoulder jackets and some cocaine and you're got yourself a party : )
Crockett and Tubbs anyone?
The fad that needs to change is the excessive makeup fad with the huge, gaudy fake lashes and "contouring" spackle. As an individual's look that can be fun and original, but when everyone looks like that, the world looks crazy. It's cosplay everywhere you turn.
In U.S. South, the higher the hair, the closer to heaven. Think Dolly Parton.
The higher the hair, the closer to heaven. Think of Dolly Parton.
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