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?

My 15 and 20 year old daughters still use their straightners. I think that's her opinion.

Just not true, I'm 30 and have many friends in their 20s and some have straight hair, some curly. What has changed is that people with naturally curly hair are more likely to embrace it/there are products etc but many people still have straight hair. The nana perm reference is weird, a cultural reference before my time!

My hair is neither properly curly or straight but does have a slight wave. I gave up straightening it to go out, a few years ago, because it didn't "hold" the straightness iyswim and didn't seem worth the effort when it only lasted about an hour! Straightening it made it seem a lot softer though.
Ive tried making it curly with varying degrees of sucess but most of the techniques I've seen require putting multiple products (creme, gel etc) on your hair after washing, which I really don't like.

Delighted curls are back!!!!

Many women straighten their hair a bit to neaten it up. That's not the same as making it dead straight, which is very "2003 Girls Aloud".

Mind you, I imagine most of the posters on here (including me) are beyond the age of caring what a "no filter" (so, rude then?) teen thinks about our hair...

Oh dear. I have naturally poker straight hair. I've tried all sorts of things to get waves or curls or just a bit of volume but it lasts 20 mins max. Nice to know I look permanently "low rent" and like someone's "nanna".

Though like many other posters I observe my own daughter and her friends (particularly the ones from dance class) have very loooong straight hair in ponytails. So it's not quite like having a nanna perm!

They will take my straighteners from my cold dead hands, I hate my natural curls 😂

Oh the boy perms were a couple of years ago here. They have moved from that past buzzcuts, highlights and now on to some sort of frizzy looking llama style 😂

I straighten my hair (43) because it's just a frizzy mess otherwise and so does my daughter who is 15 and most of her mates do too and seeing some other posters saying the same I don't think it's anything like a nanna getting a perm is it? Anyway back in my day perms weren't a thing a nanna really had done lol it was getting a blue rinse, my daughter has actually got blue in her hair so maybe she is displaying nanna behaviour lol

Really?! But 15 years ago this look was still ubiquitous – I mean you still see it now but is less universal.

Ask them to curl
It instead. I do sometimes for a change.

I’m waiting for ye olde curtains to hit 😁

I agree. My DD always berates this style. She has a couple of curlers to soften the front but will sometimes straighten her hair. She wraps it in a cut up sock at night so it has softness, body maybe a hint of curl but not curls.

I'm 57 with straight hair and a middle parting because that's all it will do. I don't have a North Face puffer jacket though.

I thought it was all about wolf cuts right now, going by dd who is 20 and at university.

Whilst dropping my little boy off at school I see plenty of 15/16 year olds with long straight hair, then in the next breath I see girls with wavy ir curly hair. I don't think there's particularly a 'norm' for this age group anymore

This style is how may dd wear hers. I didn't realise that it was a wolf cut!

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Oh dear. I have naturally poker straight hair. I've tried all sorts of things to get waves or curls or just a bit of volume but it lasts 20 mins max.

20 minutes of curls, you're lucky to get that. I envy you 😀.

No, disagree. People working with their natural hair and face shape will always suit them more. Some people suit straight hair, it can look polished and classic and straighteners are a great smoothing tool whatever way you style your hair after.

That reminds me of Jilly Cooper's hair.

This reminds me of Farrah Fawcett -Majors in the late 70s! That shows my age, but it definitely looks like a return to late 70s/early 80s flicky styles!

I'm in my 50s and have never straightened my hair. I just don't like straight hair on me and if it dries relatively straight for some reason (it's that degree of wavy that is never quite the same twice), I will often wet it again to try to get it wavier. I don't think I see many people of about my own age who look as if they straighten theirs, but it certainly still seems to be popular among people in their teens and 20s. As such, I suppose that makes it the equivalent of the perms that were popular for people in their teens and 20s in the 80s, some of whom might be grandparents now, but I'm surprised perms are seen as particularly an old person's thing.

The teenage girl I know best at the moment (a friend's daughter) has long very curly hair and she seems to be at peace with it. Last time I saw her she was wearing two low and very curly buns. She's white, if anyone was wondering, and her mum and sister have straighter hair than her but not unnaturally straight.

Missing the point , but why would looking like a member of my generation be something to avoid?

My first thought is what a rude girl your friends dd is - my own dd's (one of whom is ND) nor my friends dd's would ever dream of being so obnoxious. Having ASD isn't an excuse to be a snotty little brat.

Secondly, she's talking shite bc as others have said most of the younger girls I see definitely still use straighteners. I'm lucky that my hair is naturally straight and I've never had to, they're so damaging.

And who wants to be following the trends of the younger generation anyway? They seem to just live in baggy jeans, baggy jumpers and trainers nowadays - I never see any originality - it's all so drab and boring.

DD19 regularly raids my wardrobe as I have much better clothes than her so I feel I can't be that dated!

She’s right, OP.

Keratin treatments to reduce frizz have replaced straightened hair, and curls are vouch more popular. DD works in a salon with a clientele that skews young and that’s what they are all about.