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Women: how long did it take you to do your hair when you were a teenager?

Asked by JLeslie (65743points) January 7th, 2020 from iPhone

In the morning before school, and when you were going out at night.

Did you use curlers or a curling iron or flat iron?

Did you perm or straighten or color your hair as a teenager?

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Patty_Melt's avatar

My hair feathered great.
About half an hour.

Dutchess_lll's avatar

Only used a curling iron. Never occurred to me to color my hair. Hadn’t heard of a flat iron or I probably would have used it. That straight indian hair was the rage. Headbands looked stupid on poofy hair! I thought.

anniereborn's avatar

I was a teen in the 80s, i’d say my hair was kinda poofy, but not “big”. I washed it in the shower every morning and then blew it dry. Once that was done I used a curling iron. Probably took me about 30 minutes from that point. I got perms and “body waves” back then here and there.

Dutchess_lll's avatar

@anniereborn it finally hit me in the late 90s that I actually had pretty great hair. Just mousse, scrunch and Go. It pretty much looked good whereever.

anniereborn's avatar

@Dutchess_lll Once I got into my 30s my hair got thicker and it’s been pretty great ever since. I just wash and go. No mousse or anything. My hair is awesome at 51.

SergeantQueen's avatar

0 time because I brushed it and went to wherever.
I have straight hair and I always shower at night because it takes FOREVER to get dry. Literally took my hair stylist almost 20 mins to dry it completely

longgone's avatar

Just the two minutes for brushing. I have curls, but gentle rather than corkscrew. With the right cut, it needs very little maintenance. I didn’t like my hair in highschool, but I’m happy with it now.

jca2's avatar

I used to use a blow dryer and then a curling iron (this was toward the end of the 70’s and into the 80’s). I would also occasionally get a body wave (which is actually a perm with a looser curl). That was trendy when I was in my teens.
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If I used the curling iron, I’d have it heating up while I dried my hair. It probably took ten to fifteen minutes between the dryer and the iron.

My hair was always straight.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

I couldn’t tell you how long as time stood still, much like my hair after all that Aquanet….
I have had perms before, which defies logic as my hair is pretty wavy without that kind of “help” lol
I didn’t color my hair back then. Sometimes I will nowadays but I don’t have a lot of grey. I secretly wish I had my husband’s silver color.

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