Anonymous wrote:Well, I've seen many photographs of Victorian era ladies' hair, and it generally looked very dry and frizzy to me, except for at the scalp, where it was flat and slick with scalp and applied oils. It must have stunk. I know they didn't wash it often, either.

I have naturally thick, shiny hair. It definitely looks best when shampooed every day or every other day if I don't work out.

I HAVE noticed that every person I have known to be doing the "no poo" method OR white women who decide to wash their hair only once or twice a week THINKS their hair is "healthier", but it always looks flat and dull and there is sometimes a smell.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

But, but ... Molly Ringwald's hair! No, I know what you're saying. But those girls had perms and teased out their hair and then hairsprayed it to death. I feel certain it felt disgusting to touch.

Women were washing their hair pretty much every day then. (That started in the 70s.) In fact, hair that was flat instead of full and big was thought to look, and actually be, dirty.

Years ago, when my daughter and her friends started straightening their hair, I wondered why they wanted their hair to look flat, and thus, dirty.

Styles change. It wouldn’t be surprising if big hair becomes a thing again in our lifetimes.

Yes, dirty or "lank." What was undesirable became the norm.

Straight hair is the norm in humans. Curly/frizzy is the outlier, due to the hair being misshapen and not cylindrical but having flat sides.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

But, but ... Molly Ringwald's hair! No, I know what you're saying. But those girls had perms and teased out their hair and then hairsprayed it to death. I feel certain it felt disgusting to touch.

Women were washing their hair pretty much every day then. (That started in the 70s.) In fact, hair that was flat instead of full and big was thought to look, and actually be, dirty.

Years ago, when my daughter and her friends started straightening their hair, I wondered why they wanted their hair to look flat, and thus, dirty.

Styles change. It wouldn’t be surprising if big hair becomes a thing again in our lifetimes.

Yes, dirty or "lank." What was undesirable became the norm.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

But, but ... Molly Ringwald's hair! No, I know what you're saying. But those girls had perms and teased out their hair and then hairsprayed it to death. I feel certain it felt disgusting to touch.

Women were washing their hair pretty much every day then. (That started in the 70s.) In fact, hair that was flat instead of full and big was thought to look, and actually be, dirty.

Years ago, when my daughter and her friends started straightening their hair, I wondered why they wanted their hair to look flat, and thus, dirty.

Styles change. It wouldn’t be surprising if big hair becomes a thing again in our lifetimes.

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Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.

But, but ... Molly Ringwald's hair! No, I know what you're saying. But those girls had perms and teased out their hair and then hairsprayed it to death. I feel certain it felt disgusting to touch.

Anonymous wrote:Watch an 80s movie or TV show and marvel at the big, often frizzy hair that was acceptable and even desired back then.