Page 11 | Straightening hair is now seen as being like your nanna getting a perm

HashtagBlessedHashtagGrateful · 2025-02-25T00:31:13+00:00

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?

mummytalking · 25/02/2025 23:09

I never straightened my hair to be fashionable but to tame my wild mane! I also use my straightener to create nice waves. It was interesting recently when my 13 year old niece said to me 'I love your natural hair, I wish mine was like that.' Is thick big wavy hair fashionable?

sparrowflewdown · 26/02/2025 07:54

SerafinasGoose · 25/02/2025 22:38

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.

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I think she wears wigs now.

Whoopsididitagainagain · 26/02/2025 17:49

Imagine even caring.

NotVeryFunny · 26/02/2025 18:09

Babymamamama · 25/02/2025 07:37

It’s not true at all. I’m urban/central and around DD plus lots of DDs young affluent friends. Parents in fashion etc etc.... these girls all have the straight very long hair with central parting no fringe. It’s ubiquitous. They would consider that long Bob with fake waves at the front to be very “millennial” ie dated/old. Kind of newsreader style. When they are all getting ready for a night out believe me the straighteners are on.

This. I've seen middle part, poker straight long hair (70s style) everywhere in youngsters. In the 90a would have been side part usually. Although I did read yesterday that side part is coming back in.

All things 90s has recently been super fashionable (nit sure if it still is but I went into H&M a few months ago and I could have bought practically anything that I use to wear in the 90s in there!.

Anywho all these things go in cycles. I'll just carry on wearing what I like and l'll go in and out of fashion on and off. Not sure why not keeping up with trends needs the level of distain contained in many of the posts on this thread!

BigButtons · 26/02/2025 18:10

All the young things round here have poker straight hair

HowAmITheCatsGranny · 26/02/2025 18:22

I’m around a lot of young women 18-22 and I see a lot more of them embracing their natural hair.. whether that’s curly, wavy, straight, whatever.. I’m still traumatised by the 90’s though and can’t quite give up my straighteners! I do admire them though.

dutysuite · 26/02/2025 18:31

so why is every other video on tiktok of someone doing a “get ready with me” and straightening their hair! 😂

ThePoliteLion · 26/02/2025 19:02

Around here the lovely young lasses have long straight hair, often in beautiful condition BUT it looks entirely natural and is not poker straight, there’s a nice bit of movement going on.

ThePoliteLion · 26/02/2025 19:06

Christmasmorale · 25/02/2025 13:41

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.

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Where can I get hair like this?! Gorgeous. Looking despondently at my own

Beautifulweeds · 26/02/2025 19:14

Rubbish! In schools most girls look identical in their fashion of long, poker straight hair!

fetchacloth · 26/02/2025 19:27

User12435687 · 25/02/2025 07:18

Absolutely loads of the young ones around here have long poker-straight hair. Often in a low ponytail and with a north face puffa jacket or white fox hoody. So I'm not sure I'd agree.

Agree, same here really, although 20 years ago that would have been all younger women. These days, poker straight hair is still for the majority, but not all.
Many middle age women have retained the straight look too.

TheIceBear · 26/02/2025 19:52

Glorybox2025 · 25/02/2025 07:15

When we were teenagers our nannas were probably in their 50s. We are now 40s and 50s (90s teens) so yeah, it's kind of like our nannas getting their perm or weekly shampoo and set or whatever they did.

Speak for yourself. My mother was in her 50s when I was a teen. I don’t think of it as grandparent age

WutheringBites · 26/02/2025 20:00

Doggymummar · 25/02/2025 08:01

I can only speak from experience but my straighteners went in the loft a couple of years ago and I sock curl now. That's the style that seems to be all over social media. I hate it when my hairdresser straightens it in the salon, straight home to wash it.

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sierramiller · 26/02/2025 20:38

I wonder if perms will come back?

I had a spiral perm in the 80s

As it grew out it was straight at the roots but spurally towards the ends

TorturedParentsDepartment · 26/02/2025 20:43

Unorganisedchaos2 · 25/02/2025 07:47

They can pry the GHD's out of my cold dead hands

My teenage daughter did.

I now have no GHDs, so I bought one of the Shark multi-styler thingees instead.

LilySLE · 26/02/2025 23:57

Sorry, have I misunderstood? You went round to a friend’s house for dinner, had a bath and washed your hair at her house, and then went home to your house (not staying over)? If I invited someone round for dinner I wouldn’t expect them to have a bath while they were here so I feel I must be missing something!

hereismydog · 27/02/2025 00:08

LilySLE · 26/02/2025 23:57

Sorry, have I misunderstood? You went round to a friend’s house for dinner, had a bath and washed your hair at her house, and then went home to your house (not staying over)? If I invited someone round for dinner I wouldn’t expect them to have a bath while they were here so I feel I must be missing something!

What do you mean? It’s not particularly difficult to follow.

OP said she went to a friend’s for dinner. She also said she had a bath and washed her hair before she went. Presumably she ran out of time to straighten it before going to her friend’s house, so had to get home to straighten it before bed.

LilySLE · 27/02/2025 06:21

hereismydog · 27/02/2025 00:08

What do you mean? It’s not particularly difficult to follow.

OP said she went to a friend’s for dinner. She also said she had a bath and washed her hair before she went. Presumably she ran out of time to straighten it before going to her friend’s house, so had to get home to straighten it before bed.

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Oh… I read it as “before I went home”. 🙈 I thought it was odd 😂
Serves me right for looking at Mumsnet late at night - clearly too tired!

pollymere · 27/02/2025 09:56

I thought my hair was pretty straight anyway. I had it dried using straighteners at a salon and DS said it made me look my age (as in it was really ageing). It just took all the life out of it.

I use an air-wrap dupe to dry it at home. I think teens tend to wrap theirs around socks to dry overnight. Or use one of those silky bendy things to wrap their hair around to get light waves.

Lookingatabookshelf · 27/02/2025 14:55

Ah, looking at pictures of me and my siblings in 1992. I have long, centre parted, straight hair, with a bit of frizz and My sister has a 20s style bob and it's frizzy curls because her hair is naturally curly. We comiseated about life before hair straighteners or in my case just a serum to smooth my hair whilst drying it. When all us gen x are in the care homes the tunes of the 80s and 90s will be banging out and our long straight hair will be our trademark. With DMs and jeans to boot.