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?

Same, when I worked in a public facing job, which I did till September ‘24, it was long, poker-straight, centre parted hair. Worn with gym leggings, white sports socks pulled up and trainers.

I think what defines my age (apart from the wrinkles 😂) is my insistence on not having socks showing, can’t stand it so I still wear invisible trainer-liners.

My 19 year old hasn't got the memo. She hates her curly hair and straightens it every day.

Tasteful highlights, shiny, always cut with layers etc.

Well anyone who wants to can wrestle my GHDs off me, but I advise them to check that I am dead first.

I don’t know where you got long bob from.

It’s all about long hair - poker straight vs natural looking waves. The former is very much dated now. But obviously some people naturally dead straight hair.

But who even does that anymore? I haven't seen that ultra-straightened girlband look for years?

This is what I think of when I think of hair straighteners.

I haven’t used my GHD in years.

It's not THAT funny!

Curtains have, my 23 yo has had them in varying lengths now for a few years.
He also mixes in some of my DH old jumpers, jackets etc from the 90s to his own clothes. He has good style (maybe because the 90s were my teen era!)

I loved my perm in the 90s, it was fab! My gran and mum also had perms. I would get another perm in a minute if it could look more natural. My hairdresser never uses straighteners now, only blowdrys my hair so it looks more natural.

DD is 18. She washes her very thick, course hair & lets it dry over a few hours. Her hair is growing out from a style at the moment so it's kind of wolfy but not by design. She's never used straighteners. Her friends have different hair, long, short, braided, coloured...there isn't really one trend that they are following.

I was an avid user of straighteners until recently. I also have thick hair, not quite straight, but not quite wavy, which can get frizzy. I use a heat protector on my hair for blow-drying but the straighteners have fallen out of favour. A barrel brush seems to smooth it out a bit too. I am now the "put it in a clip" or "put it in a bun" camp. (It's long) I think the "poker straight dyed within an inch of its life" look in my generation of 90s teenagers is quite out of date now.

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

And modern kids will know they're called perms? Honestly I think OP had an opinion and is disguising it as a comment from the yoof.

Going off topic slightly here but what about those really thick dark eyebrows? What's the deal with them now?

Its all about the heatless curls or wavy/curly blowouts (think 70s style blowdrys)

Some young women are starting to get perms now although I don't think that's as popular due to most people being able to achieve the look they want with heatless curls

So if you have your natural colour hair cut bluntly you have cheap hair? Good to know.

I get lists of compliments on my darkish straight blunt cut hair. Next time I’ll say ahh but it’s only cheap

I guess it depends on the age group?

We pass a large secondary school on the school run, most of the girls have very long, poker straight hair. They rarely wear it up.

Something I have noticed, is more girls/women having more natural colour. Less highlights, less extreme colours. Blocky/chunky highlights were popular in my youth.

When I was at high school, (late 90s/early 00s) all the cool , popular girls had perms or poker straight long hair. Lots of us used to wear it up a lot. too. Scraped back with two front pieces dangling at the front (sprayed with hairspray for extra staying power😆)

My point @User12345678 was rooted in thinking it's inappropriate to show your ladygarden on the high street, but whatever...

Or anyone above the age of about 11. Those bouncy sausage curls are very Dorothy Gale: not very becoming on grown women or even older girls.

My hair is still lost in the 80s. Loose curls meets shaggy waves are what nature gave me, so I'm stuck with it. The only good news is that this is about as low maintenance as it gets. I don't own a hairbrush and last used a hairdryer about three years ago.

These things go in cycles, like jean styles, perms are coming back and poker straight hair out. That sort of Appleton sisters look.

Why do pp keep talking about socks? What do you do to your hair with socks please? So confused...

Can't read past page one, strong Mumsnet bingo. A sporty niece, a frightful sight in (gasp) The North, has anyone's 6ft rugby playing son got involved?

My daughter and all her friends have straightened hair in a middle parting. I think the middle aged look is more the long curled bob as in Susanna Reid

Its all about the heatless curls or wavy/curly blowouts (think 70s style blowdrys)

Yes. Straighteners are used to make curls/waves these days.

My hair is naturally poker straight - I've tried putting in waves and they just won't hold and fall straight out. I'm also blonde. But I'm not going to be dictated to about what looks good or bad by a generation obsessed with trout pout lip fillers and ridiculous fake eyelashes. They can fuck right off with their world view on what looks good. I respectfully disagree.

My hair is poker straight naturally. I've never got it to curl or crimp or have a wave. Well for 2 minutes until I move my head and then they uncurl and it's poker straight again.

@viques I love that, I'm going to nick it. 'you'd better check I'm dead first'😎