Me circa 1996There are somethings that just shouldn’t ever make an appearance ever again, take for instance the 80’s bangs phenomenon. What were we thinking? If you didn’t have the bangs bigger than your head or your body then you just weren’t cool. It is so sad that we rocked these bangs all the way into the mid-90’s. Again, what were we thinking? I know what I was thinking….Man I’m cool! LOL Look at those bangs, look at that perm. Its utterly priceless. You couldn’t get away with rockin’ a do’ like that now-a-days.

The bangs were even glorified when I was the captain of the cheerleading squad of my overly strict Christian school. Who thought knee-length cheerleading skirts were hot? Well they were hot but not in a good way.

Cheerleading Captain smallest on the teamAs I look back on my youth, I can’t help but wonder “What was I thinking?”. But one thing remains the same, no matter what I will never…
1. cut bangs ever, EVER again and if I do think about it please remind me of the disaster that occurred in ‘96
2. get a perm because no matter how precious life is I do not want to look like a drowned poodle ever again.

But the question remains the same today as it did nearly ten years ago. Will we look back on this time, ten years from now, and ask ourselves the question “What were we thinking?”. What styles do you think we will be making fun of in ten years? It is kind of hard to wrap your head around this concept because at the time of the 80’s bangs and huge shoulder pads we thought we were the “it thing”.