We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Big Hair Quotes from Tiffany Darwish, Paul Gilbert, David Luiz, Limahl, Mariah Carey. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
It was not appropriate for me to wear anything like a bustier or to be sexy. It was big hair and hoop earrings and jean jackets.
It took me years to get my hair right… after years of perms, conditioning… Nirvana came out and it wasn’t cool to have big hair anymore. It was just a horrible injustice.
When I was young, I was a kid that never stopped. I wanted to do everything; a lot of energy. I didn’t have this big hair. But I was a happy person.
I’m the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience ‘hands up who had big hair in the 80s?’.
Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
The beehives from the ’60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the ’80s wasn’t.
I was on ‘Junior Star Search’ when I was 10 years old, in the acting category. The adult version of ‘Star Search’ didn’t have an acting category, but for the kids, they had an acting category. It was the strangest thing. It was full blown 1980s, with big hair, mullets, and the whole deal.
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
Acting is all about big hair and funny props… All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
I’m really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I’m from the South – I like big hair.
I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.
Electro ’80s is very popular in Australia. Like, you get a headache if you walk into a mall with the number of girls and boys that are wearing big hair, leggings, headbands. You feel like you’re back in the ’80s.
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.
Vitiligo is just another difference, like freckles, big hair, tiny ears Everyone has differences.
I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.
I’m known for my big hair and curls.
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
Growing up, I had really big hair. Giant hair. As I got older, the goal was to make it smaller – I wanted to look like everyone else. So I got a weave. I would manipulate my hair and try to make it straight.
I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the ’80s. It was all about power women.
It was simple reality – most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock – great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.
I was born in the ’80s, so I don’t really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic. And so those artists – Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston – you still hear those songs all the time. And there’s such a distinctive style – the clothes, the shoulder pads, the big hair, the perm.
And when power ballads come back, we’ll get big hair again.
