Top 7 Women's Hairstyles of All Time

PA News and Observer | 4/25/07 | Pissant Sasoon

[pissant]

Straigtened, flat, messy and spiky. What a load. Hollywood types today spend almost as much as John Edwards on their hairdos, only to have them look purposely tussled as if they just rolled out of bed. No style, nothing to complement them. Granted, long gorgeous hair is nice anytime----if its combed. But the gals I grew up watching on the tube or in some cases, dating, at least took the time to try to be pleasing to the eye.

Enough grumbling. Here are the top 7 sexiest styles of recent decades, in no particular order.

7. The Farrah look. Feathered, thick, and nice to sink your paws into. A late 70s phenom.

6. The Farrah Plus. Bigger, better and fluffier. best exemplified by Stephanie Powers and my 10th grade girlfriend.

5. 1980s "every hair in place" Perm. Even the wind did not effect this style.

4. The bob. Not the modified, modern, messy pseudo bob, but the real thing. Neat and short.

3. Updo. Not just for special occasions. Hot all the time. With infinite variations of the theme.

2. Boy cut. Also worn most exquisitely by one of the greatest all time beauties, Audrey Hepburn.

1. The Flip. Laura Petrie and Emma Peel. No more needs to be said.

[pissant]

Additions welcome.

[Rummyfan]

My all-time fav....

Well, and maybe Sophia Loren.

[pissant]

Audrey, Sophia AND Maureen Ohara. All had great hair BTW.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I wear my hair like my great great grandmother....Makes it a classic, I guess....

[cajungirl]

Heh,,I have had about all of them. Love the modern bob however.

My first “beauty shop” cut was an Italian boy,,just like Audrey Hepburn. I was disappointed I didn’t look like her.

They missed the biggest of all time,,the PAGE BOY. Who could forget June Allyson and her fab pageboy. I loved mine every time I had it.

And braids and pony tails,,how did they forget the ponytail?

[pissant]

Yes, had I grown up in your grandma’s day, I’d probably have included that. LOL

[truthkeeper]

While I was reading the list I was thinking, "Well, where's the Flip?" Definitely number one. I always wanted one, but being a curly-haired girl, couldn't do it.

Of course I was in heaven when the Farrah came out. At least that one looked great on me!

[M203M4]

What about the landing strip?

And then there is the "fell asleep in a gutter wearing a bedsheet around my neck" look. :(

[pissant]

LOL. And a sock in her hair.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Although currently only on a comic character, it's a hair style that women can strive for:

[pissant]

I’d love to see a return of the flip. had a Brit gal in one of my college classes that sat in front of me. Not healthy. LOL

[BigBlueJon]

[LibFreeOrDie]

What, no Bouffant or Beehive?!?!?

(Those ‘dos were a lot of work!)

http://www.hairarchives.com/private/archivesnew.htm

[pissant]

Ugliest woman - ever.

[truthkeeper]

I tried everything to get one, including setting my hair with Dippity-Do and using orange juice cans for curlers. All to no avail...a little humidity and ZAAAPPP....Orphan Annie again.

[pissant]

I liked this one from that site.

[hole_n_one]

Hamel looked yummy with her wedge........

[truthkeeper]

Is that Inger Stevens?

[truthkeeper]

I had forgotten how pretty she looked with that ‘do. She really did have great hair.

[pissant]

She STILL looks great

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

What, no Bouffant or Beehive?!?!?

See post #10.

[pissant]

Don’t know, but I like the 60s looks.

[pissant]

LOL

[cajungirl]

I love the wedge! Forgot about it but I still have a bit of a bob-wedge.

[cajungirl]

They missed the “pixie” which my hairdresser told me was coming back this summer.

And the pponytail,,probably one of the most popular ever.

[SittinYonder]

ROFLOL!

[pissant]

“They” is me. LOL. I love short hair on gals, but not the pixie, at least as I remembered it.

[truthkeeper]

Forgot about it but I still have a bit of a bob-wedge.

I still have a bit of the Farrah...it's still the only cut that looks good on me!

[BigBlueJon]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....or something like that. $400 goes a long way.

[hole_n_one]

“They” is me

See author........

Pissant Sasoon

lol!

[pissant]

When you spend 3 times as much as your wife, you know you got problems.

[truthkeeper]

If I could look like Audrey Hepburn I’d cut all my hair off too. Gosh, she was beautiful.

[eleni121]

How about Veronica Lake's hair:

[pissant]

My other life. LOL

[pissant]

Or for that matter, Veronica Lake herself. Zoinks. Lauren Bacall also wore her hair that way for a while.

[Loud Mime]

These people are hairspray amateurs...

[pissant]

Taht is a hilarious picture.

[Loud Mime]

Yeah.....keep the matches away...... foof!

[pissant]

Watch out for Eagles nesting as well.

[mozarky2]

I saw some pics of Marge on a certain website once...let me just say that, well, her blue hair is natural...in other words, the carpet matches the drapes.

[pissant]

Yikes. TMI

[martin_fierro]

I like a little French Twist now and again.

(and -- oh yeah -- the hairstyle, too)

[pissant]

Yep. Both.

is it safe to assume you are not in Uraguay?

[eleni121]

I rather admire males and their presentation myself. I just think Lake’s hairdo was spectacular compared to some of stuff I’ve seen in the last 30 some years.

[pissant]

Yep. It’s a good look.

[beebuster2000]

male hair presentation:

just because

[fortunecookie]

Thanks! Aaaah, the Farrah, favored by guys for their girls everywhere. Not that we need proof.

Audrey Hepburn was just so lovely -she ‘made’ that hairstyle. Not many can pull it off.

Aaah, brings back memories. In high school, my sister talked me into getting the Dorothy Hammill cut. Not my best look. I grew it out into a Farrah special, then into the 80’s perms. I also sported the Jackie Kennedy bob as a preschooler.

There - that’s better. ;-)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

not my grandma’s day...my great, great grandma’s day...(very long, parted in the middle, pulled up into a bun or a pinned up braid. Haven’t cut it in 12 years)

[pissant]

60% of the gals in HS had some version of the Farrah look. I talked my GF in my senior year to go for sumthin like this, instead. Though not as messy

[pissant]

Not even a trim? Wow. 3 days to dry, I bet. LOL