I love big hair. And I do NOT love that I keep reading about the return of big hair accompanied by a picture of some skinny girl with bone straight hair with a poofy hair-bump on her crown. This is NOT big hair.
Big hair is …. well, it’s big. Bump hair is poofy, not big
Big hair is …fun. Bump hair is the vanilla of hair stylin’
Big hair …. is wild. Bump is anything BUT wild, it’s sedate. It’s the like the meemaw of hair stylin’
Big hair is NOT bump hair. I lived through the big hair era. I had big hair. I can do big hair. I understand the mindset behind big hair.
Big hair involves a much more than height at the crown . Big hair is about backcombing (aka teasing), lots of super stiff hair spray, and mousse – lots of mousse. Volume was the name of the game. The bigger and wilder the better!
Bump hair is about teasing the crown of your head and smoothing your hair straight. This is NOT big hair. This is straight hair with a bump in it. 
Big hair was almost universal. There were big hair icons. One of my favs —
Morgan Fairchild – she could wear her some big hair!
There were hair rock bands — I don’t see any bump hair rock bands. Wait…. there was the B-52s. No. That was an 80s band with 1960s hair.
The band Poison rocked some serious hair. Their makeup was a bit over the top, but that hair…. oh my — that is BIG hair~
Big hair, I miss you. I miss the wild days we shared. The dizzy days when I hung my head over to dry all that hair. The days of choking on the lacquer-like spray stuff. I sport flat, plain hair these days, but in my heart I still have unruly curls, scrunched, bunched and moussed hair that is spray into submission.
To all those magazine people who continue to tease me with the headline “Big Hair is Back” — please stop. Flat, smooth hair with a Bump-it in place is just bump hair. When the hair is big, wild, outrageous and just plain fun let me know.
While we’re talking hair stuff, whatever happened to the banana clip?
I cannot believe you left Reba off of the “big hair” post. She was QUEEN of the big hair in 1992.
Oh, and we are on day 2 of weather too cold to wear my new Volatile flip flops. Mother Nature is messin with fashion & we’re about to have a come to Jesus meeting.
I had big hair (I’m not ashamed to admit) and several banana clips (I’m ashamed to admit I owned). That is so funny!
Back in the 80’s I had straight hair and got perms–remember when. Now I have this wavy, semi-curly hair that is not ever permed. Not sure if the perms made a permanant change to my DNA or if having babies put some curl in me but now I have big hair whether I want it or not. Hard to straighten in out so sometimes I don’t even try!
I’ve never been able to accomplish BIG hair on my own (well maybe semi-big hair). I think I could use the bump though and get a little volume. 🙂
I’m ashamed to admit that I still have a banana clip. It cries out to to me from the deepest recesses of my bathroom cabinet. But, it remains ignored. I think I;ve moved that thing to new homes no fewer than 8 times! One day…one day…
I’m not understanding why there is such a big issue over a simple hair product? Just because it says “big hair” doesn’t nessacarly mean it has to look like you stuck your finger in a light socket. In the era of the 80’s yes, wearing the hair teased out everywhere (not just from the top of the hair) was considered “big hair”, but we are not in that era anymore. Not to mention the hair bump came long before the wild 80’s hair. The hair bump is most deffinately retro and has been worn in the past by Jackie Kennedy,Audrey Hepburn,and has recentlty been popularly re-created by Sarah Palin. Times change and with that follows new fashion.There is no need to criticize something that has had a successful reappearance from the past and is very popular throughout many different age groups. Just be hopeful that since this hair style has returned to the fashion world,that maybe one day what you consider big hair will come back in style as well.