31 Weird Beauty Trends People Grew Up With In The '60s, '70s, And '80s That Would Be Sooo Confusing Today

“My grandmother and great-grandmother tried to perm my mother’s hair as a newborn in 1960. It was ridiculous, but it was the ’60s.”

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"Oh Lord, it just occurred to me that you young'uns might not know what a negative is... LOL."

"I always say us '70s/'80s kids caused global warming thanks to all the Aqua Net! (Guilty!) Unfortunately, I'm only half kidding..."

"Nivea cream mixed with iodine as a homemade tanning cream was the craze in the '80s in Spain. I never tried it because I was having a hard enough time with suntan back then (I didn't discover I was allergic to the sun until a few years later), but most of my fellow 15-year-olds would slap that on and lie in the sun for a good couple of hours. They didn't get visibly burnt, just something between orange and brown. I wonder how many melanomas were diagnosed 20 years later. Being pale was practically a sin in the '80s, and there weren't even pale shades of makeup."

"She was so nuts about making my hair elaborate every day (while smoking a cigarette an inch away from my face) that my older sister tricked me into cutting it all off to make my mom mad when I was 7 years old, and that saved me."

"This was done at night before bed, and in the morning, you'd unroll and style your hair before school or work. (That's why you used the cushioned rollers — they were softer to sleep on.)"

"We used to slather ourselves with baby oil and lay out in the sun just hoping and praying to get that 'tropical golden glow,' but instead, we always ended up with blisters, second-degree burns, and peeling shoulders. Back in the 60s and 70s, there was no such thing as SPF."

"My mom used the big, frozen orange juice containers. 😂"

"Then, she would come them out — they reached her chin — put mousse in them, put in the pink plastic rollers, spray the heck out of them, and go to sleep. Every morning, when she got up, she'd roll them with a curling iron and spray them with hairspray while on the iron until they were crunchy. She'd end up with about six perfectly round, crunchy rolls. Then, she'd take a pick and pick them out. When she was finally done, she'd respray them. Sometimes, if she were going out, she'd repeat the process before leaving. I had a spiral perm and some curly bangs, but nothing compared to this — and I washed them every day!"

"She would get so dark, and I don’t remember her ever getting a sunburn."

"Perms were also a big thing. And big hair."

"Nowadays, I just use a disposable razor and some soap or lotion. Done in less than 30 seconds. I noticed the hair has gotten lighter over the years, so less maintenance."

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