Straightening hair is now seen as being like your nanna getting a perm

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So says my friend's gorgeous but no filter ASD daughter! I was there for dinner tonight, had a bath and washed my hair before I went. As I left I said I needed to get home to straighten my hair before bed. And then she came out with this! I mean, I'm not that bothered if it is because my hair is a mess if I don't straighten it tbf. But... is it?

They prove the point that if you don’t update your style since your teen years or 20’s that it ages you, no matter what age you are now. It’s a clear illustration that a more modern hairstyle takes years off them.

My point was that they probably wouldn't suit the straightened teen style that is popular right now. And they shouldn't try to.

I mean some women might suit it but not all of us!

Erm they’ve also edited their faces!

Curls and waves are definitely more in. Unfortunately for me I still need to use straighteners from the root and to give a halfway decent canvas then wave from the midlengths. I wish o could get away with not straightening but I would look like I had been dragged through a hedge backwards every day.

Honestly I came to the conclusion to embrace what you have rather than waste time ruining your hair for what you have not. In the era of curly perms and Afros I spent a fortune getting mine done to find my hair didn't 'hold' a perm (am sure they've improved since) . So being straight is fine. I refuse to damage it by heat or even blow dry it now (though I might turn the car vents on it on hot on the way to work as it stays damp for hours after a shower), it's an amazing time saver. I just remind myself I don't have to look at it.

😂 yep me too!

So all the teenage boys who are having their hair permed - very on trend at the moment - are also like Nana?

Really, it's just one person's opinion.

I consider what's in style but it's for consideration only.

I have seen some awful looks when women try too hard to go with trends. Just because a hairstyle or clothing item is in fashion doesn't mean it will be flattering on everyone.

I don't know where you're all getting your info from. Of course straight hair is in (I've attached image of current Gen Z "it" girls Rose, Zendaya, Latto and Bella Hadid - all with straight hair).

It just depends on how you style it - voluminous straight hair is out out - it has to be thick, sleek and flat at the top. Volume on the top of straight hair is a huge no and old fashioned - volume is for curled and wavy styles.

Also out is straight hair with a side part - middle parting or off centre mid part - but no actual side partings allowed. Unless it's a side part with a 90s bun or ponytail combo - that's allowed.

There's not really a hair trend at the moment except that side parts and fringes just looking old and dated.

That's only because of the side part/fringe combo and the streaky highlights. Put a mid parting on her in a natural colour and she would look like a Gen Z girl.

DTS are in y9, I wake up to the smell of burnt hair every morning. They all have poker straight long hair here. Don't get me started on the eyelashes, keep thinking it's spiders.

They look like old pics of Bella and Zendaya, check out more recent hairdos. As for rap princesses as a bastion of chic - Hell no.

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Except for Zendaya's one which is from a year ago at Paris fashion week, the of the photos are taken from posts within the last month on Rose, Latto and Bella's instagram accounts. Also I intentionally picked pictures from their normal day-to-day hairstyles rather than red carpet looks.

Red carpet hair doesn't necessarily show what's in fashion but just what someone with model looks, bone structure and designer stylists can pull off. The red carpet hair styles are meant to be "out there" and not something emulated by fashion conscious young women in everyday looks.

And the fact that you are mocking the concept of a "rap princess" being a style icon shows just how out of touch you are. Your tone is pretty offensive to be honest.

Even if they’re recent they’re not the whole story - my pics show them wearing their hair with wave and volume - it’s pointless to deny the shift towards more natural less ironed hair. Of course red carpet hair reflects fashion.

I was into rap when it started, possibly before you were even born. So I can say with confidence relatively few female hiphop artists have been truly chic.

Anyway this is the most ridiculous teenage conversation.

At one point she was but I think lots of mascara and an eye lash curler some days. I think eye lash extensions will be the next thing for us too….. Another bludy expense 🤨🤣

We often want what we don’t have.

If she were a teenager, I'd understand completely but she's 57 and, from what I can remember, she only stopped a few years ago.

I wonder if she was advised when she was young that she wouldn't get as much work with curly hair?

That’s so last century is what my dd says!

I’m not going for this and dd hasn’t asked. We spend enough on her tbh… and she doesn’t need lash extensions. Her actual eyelashes are spider length!

I’m sure you are right about the unfashionable element, but it’s perfectly true that some people’s hair looks a mess if it’s not straightened (or styled in some other way). If I just blow dry my hair or leave it to dry naturally, it looks dreadful. Like I’ve stuck my fingers in a socket. Always has. The invention of GHDs in my late teens was practically life-changing!

I do prefer my hair waved admittedly, but it’s so much more time consuming and so I often just straighten it 😩

Well, this thread has ageism, racism, classism, ableism. Lovely. Par for the course for MN, sadly (and obviously many individual posts have none of the above).

In terms of what is fashionable among young people, I would say that long straight hair is still the favoured look. I'm a university lecturer, and in my observation the majority of women students still wear their hair that way. Wavy and curly hair seem the minority, though these styles certainly are present. Shorter hair may have started to make a tentative comeback, too.

My own hair is naturally straight and I do use a straightener a few times a week to tame the frizziness, especially in rainy weather.

Those fiery red curls were stunning. She looked like no one else on earth. Why she would transform this to a far less unusual, straightened, blonde, ubiquitious 'do' defies my reasoning altogether.

She'd be beautiful no matter what she did, but to my mind she looked far more individual as her natural self. Individuality is beauty.

You know what, I'd forgotten she had red hair too! Absolutely stunning. I remember reading interviews and hoping someone would ask her, 'Nicole, why did you do that? Did someone tell you to do it?'
But they never did.

I agree. The teens have straight hair and older (20s upwards) have the tonged look (which I think also looks really dated now). I don't know where hair is going next...maybe shorter styles will return.