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?

That’s exactly it - it’s gone from the rod straight look of the late hippy era to a toned down Farrah Fawcett style.

Nothing new under the sun and all that.

My ASD 13 year old won't leave the house without straightening her hair. Its not something she's learned from me as mine is curly

A 'blue rinse' used to be associated with old ladies but I see quite a few 'youngsters' with blue hair these days!

My guess is that the girl picked up the phrase 'nanna perm' from her mum. What goes around, comes around.

I think using straighteners to smooth hair is very different to the poker straight style that the OP is referring to.

I haven't seen anyone with obviously dead straight hair for ages now.

Yeah, given she is autistic I imagine she’s copied the phrase from someone older in her family. I’m autistic and it’s the sort of thing I did as a teen!

I don’t think there’s a dispute that straighteners are still used - they are, just not as much for that poker straight look. They may be used to curl, flick or curl under the ends, etc.

Apparently a side parting is the key giveaway for your age. It's middle parting or die with my 13 year old DD. I am delighted because I have a cow flick and have never mastered the side parting. I unintentionally gave myself a wolf cut last week...I think I look like a bit of a turnip so I am pleased I've accidentally become fashionable for the first time in 45 years.

It's so much easier to straighten my hair , 10mins max , and I go from a bundle of frizz to straight with a ponytail .

It's quite nice to have whatever hairstyle suits us , rather than what's in fashion and what's not .

Sorry but I think the OP is bollocks! My DDs are late teens and are always borrowing my straighteners.

Also 'nanna perms' is a phrase that hasn't been used for years. The whole soft waves is much more popular with millennial and older. The 90s and y2k fashions are still popular with the teens and straight hair was definitely a thing then.

And there's the slick back - which I am pretty sure is absolutely terrible for the hair and would give me a headache. I think they use gel too which is even weirder!

I live in the SE,dgd in a popular town fairly near me, she is 15, most of her friends straighten their hair,long fringe. A few that don't wear makeup, don't straighten. I remember the wash and wear perm in the 70s,no messing about with hairdressers..my late nan who was born in 1900 used to have perms in the 60s. I have a friend whos DM is my age 74, she still has an old fashioned perm and has left her hair grey, she's obviously happy with it, but people have thought she is MY DM!

Look this is ridiculous. Not you op. Just this. My hair, if left to its own devices would look utterly shite. It's not curly but mega frizzy. I would rather have decent looking tamed hair than hair of yeti proportions, even if this makes me massively unfashionable

This, I see loads of girls with straight hair/pony tails so I don't think hair straightening has disappeared.

Well, this is vile, though I don't think it was intended to be?

Wear your hair how it works for you. Screw them. Something that the premiers, and before them the blue rinse shampoo and set brigade got: you don't have to do what the teenagers tell you

I thought we were in an era of anything goes in fashion right now rather than single trends.

I hope the era of skin tight flesh coloured legging and bodysuits goes out soon though. As pp mentioning the unfortunate transparent material is at best unsightly walking down the street.

Even cartoons for kids nowadays would show an old lady with a perm. I think old white woman = late Queen

I go for a blow dry every Friday morning. Brew, catch up and my hair is perfect for days. I agree!

All the teens I work with seem to have long, mostly straight hair. I agree that dyed, shoulder length, poker straight hair is probably reserved for 50+ year olds as I'm that age and see it a lot in my age group. I'm not sure it's as identifying as nana-ish as a perm and blue rinse though!

My 17 yo still straightens her hair but she doesn’t leave it looking poker straight, she then flounces it up with curlers and socks etc to get it to look bouncy. But the straightening element makes it smooth and frizz free.

She uses my 21 year old GHDs to do the straightening bit.

She's right. The 90's/00's poker straight slapped to the head look is out. Straight with curled under ends, volume at the root and texture around the face is the new version of straight. Nobody is saying get rid of straighteners just the 00's straight look.

No, disagree. People working with their natural hair and face shape will always suit them more.

This x 100!

Surely our natural hair texture is supposed to suit us. I've always found fashion a bit nuts, even as a youngster. (Not sure what I'm doing here on the Style & Beauty board!) Fair enough if you actually love a trend and it suits you, but I feel a bit flummoxed by people who slavishly "keep their finger on the pulse" by wearing stuff that looks awful or doesn't suit them (barrel leg jeans anyone?) without thinking about if they actually like it.

It seems a bit emperor's new clothes. Still trying to make myself feel better about my dated low rent hair

That was a 70s Farrah Fawcett hair style

I've never heard anyone say that about hair straightening.

Who cares?! My hair is absolutely insane id just left to dry (it's thinning now so is just frizzy). I straighten mine but it's rarely straight for long.

I'd much rather not have to do it.

Don't remind me!

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