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…think they invented and we’d never understand…as if we haven’t been there!
Today I had a cluster of teenagers outside the shop with various hairstyles and colours, looking all moody and rebellious. I went to take my shop sign in and glanced across to have one of them call across “what’s the matter darling, haven’t you seen a green mohican before? Shocking innit?”
“Seen them? we invented them! only we didn’t have all the fancy hair gels you have now. We used to use sugar and water or a bar of soap or if you wanted to colour it at the same time then egg white and food colouring. (pointing at one of the guys with spikes all over his head) I used to do my hair like that, had it purple for a while, then blue, and then yellow when the bleach didn’t work properly!”
Cue three teenagers coming in to ask whether I was serious and whether I really had been a punk and did the sugar and water really work and how much sugar to water… :lol:
@jen_jen wrote:
…think they invented and we’d never understand…as if we haven’t been there!
Today I had a cluster of teenagers outside the shop with various hairstyles and colours, looking all moody and rebellious. I went to take my shop sign in and glanced across to have one of them call across “what’s the matter darling, haven’t you seen a green mohican before? Shocking innit?”
“Seen them? we invented them! only we didn’t have all the fancy hair gels you have now. We used to use sugar and water or a bar of soap or if you wanted to colour it at the same time then egg white and food colouring. (pointing at one of the guys with spikes all over his head) I used to do my hair like that, had it purple for a while, then blue, and then yellow when the bleach didn’t work properly!”
Cue three teenagers coming in to ask whether I was serious and whether I really had been a punk and did the sugar and water really work and how much sugar to water… :lol:
Sugar and water? On your hair? :shock:
Never heard of that before and no I wasn’t outside your shop. :P
Yes, sugar and water then the hairdryer – it dried stiff and held the spikes in place. A pain in the summer though, wasps homed in on it and if you got too hot it melted. Soap was reasonably effective but if it rained you’d get soap in your eyes. You could nab your mum’s hairspray but it took cans and cans of the stuff and just wasn’t cool.
The whole idea in the punk era was to achieve the look without spending loads of money, no designer labels with ready made rips and designer safety pins. :roll:
Kids who go hurtling down the pavement on their skateboards, doing jumps off the kerb then look back in a “bet you wish you could do that” kind of way.
A friend whose husband had been a keen skateboarder in his youth was telling me how the other day a teenage lad had been showing off to his mates in the park but wasn’t really very good. He almost went straight into them and her hubbie said “for gods sake give that here. This is how you do it” and proceeded to show them a few tricks. He walked off with them looking in admiration and saying “I wish my dad was cool like that”…but as she said, they didn’t see him hobbling around in agony for the next 2 or 3 days! :lol:
many a time I left red and green over some blokes shrt at the last night at end of the night..had no crazy colour back then eh? would sure cool ther ardour though.. :wink:
I used egg-white, vinegar and lemon, and numerous food colourings! I must have stunk like a skunk! (That is skUnk, not skAn’c’ btw!) :lol:
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