Anonymous wrote:Well when I was young (millenial) men didn't dare wear their hair long. So I have no idea what their hair looked like

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Anonymous wrote:I don't thing hair changes that much in puberty, except some start to lose it. If a kid kept is short and then grew it out, you might suddenly see the natural texture.

The only guy I knew who's straight hair became curly had lost all of it in chemo, and it grew back curly, but then it eventually went back to his usual straight hair.

I actually know tons of women whose hair went curly during puberty, so I think you might be wrong. My 12 year old has always had wavy hair but it’s getting more curly as she goes through puberty - same thing my husbands sisters did.

My 8th grade son's hair goes from straight to curly each morning when he spends 20 minutes in the bathroom spraying the crap out of it with products to look like Farrah Fawcet.

It’s the current style to have a curly mop. Unless your hair is pin straight, it’s pretty easy to use product and scrunch hair to be somewhat curly, when it’s not too long. That’s what some of them are doing.
Until recently, most boys kept their hair shorter

Anonymous wrote:My stylist told me a lot of boys are getting perms now. Trendy.

Yup, I just asked my DD and she confirms this. At least at her middle school, the boys are growing their hair longer and getting body perms.

I just googled 80s men's hair.
Here you go.

Anonymous wrote:There are way better styling products and methods now for curly hair and we are not as forced to blow dry and straighten the heck out of our curls

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have thick straight hair. The younger one, 14, uses sea salt spray and crimps the end with a flat iron so it looks curly. It’s not.

But, yeah the messy mop head is all the rage at my sons’ high school.

This sounds like mine! He has always worn his hair long and now desperately wants the body some of his friends have, so he's tried all the potions and some of his sister's tools. Mostly it just looks like a mess

My daughter's bf swears his hair used to be stick straight, he's shown us pictures. It is curly now, he says it's his shampoo, but I'm thinking it's a puberty change.

My best friend’s teen boys have curly hair, really puffy, I don’t know how to describe it but like a mushroom head. So curly. I have seen other teen boys with mullets.

Not a fan but I don’t have to wear it.

There are way better styling products and methods now for curly hair and we are not as forced to blow dry and straighten the heck out of our curls

Because they had shorter hair, duh. Also, hair curls during adolescence.

My straight Asian hair went CURLY when I was 16. I ***LOVED*** it. Too bad it flopped back to straight a few years later!!!

Anonymous wrote:Style is longer now, so more noticeable. Also more BIPOC than before.

Another theory here, is that since it’s more stylish now, people embrace it and use hair product to emphasize and style curly hair instead of hair products to straighten hair as much as possible.

Anonymous wrote:I don't thing hair changes that much in puberty, except some start to lose it. If a kid kept is short and then grew it out, you might suddenly see the natural texture.

The only guy I knew who's straight hair became curly had lost all of it in chemo, and it grew back curly, but then it eventually went back to his usual straight hair.

Mine sure did (as a girl). My son’s did as well.

My kids have thick straight hair. The younger one, 14, uses sea salt spray and crimps the end with a flat iron so it looks curly. It’s not.

But, yeah the messy mop head is all the rage at my sons’ high school.

Anonymous wrote:Tell me that you didn't hang out with Black people and Latino People without telling me you didn't hang out with Black people and Latino people.

I am actually Latina! I am thinking back to my brothers’ and cousins’ hair as well. A little wave yes but not the extent of the curls I see now. I just visited relatives in Costa Rica and didn’t notice the curly boy hair there as much as I notice it my son’s high school. I think it might be boys at his high school have longer hair.