Remember blow dryers?

[+ friendofsheila]

Here's somebody (maybe you know who it is) performing at the Tony's in the early 1980's, having just spent 40 minutes or more with a blow dryer, a really stiff brush, and more hairspray than is healthy for even radioactive rats.

 

http://imageshack.com/a/img818/6938/bu40.png

 

He's also learned how to stand on stage by watching guys in hustler bars!

 

http://imageshack.com/a/img401/3986/fad.png

 

I remember spending way too much time trying to heat-style straight my rather curly hair back then.

 

Perhaps it's a blessing I don't have so much hair anymore!

[+ FreshFluff]

Remember blow dryers? These days, blow outs are big business.

http://blowpro.com/

http://www.thedrybar.com/

[whipped guy]

Perhaps it's a blessing I don't have so much hair any more!

Actually it's the best thing that ever happened to me... I can skip about four steps in the morning. Fortunately that leaves time for me to tend to other "body part issues" that have arisen... So most definitely a blessing of sorts...

[Decatur Guy]

Oh yeah. In the '70s, all teens and young men -- straight, bi or gay -- seemed to spend enormous amounts of time with their thick volumes of hair whipped into "fashionable" shapes by blow dryers.

 

I still have thick hair, but keep it cut pretty short. I just towel dry and it naturally dries very fast anyway.

[+ azdr0710]

FF: I honestly don't know what a "blowout" and a "dry bar" are...even after looking at those websites...can you explain?....thanks

 

I did the blow dryer thing back in the late 70s/early 80s mostly because everybody else did.....my hair has always been course and thick, so I ended up looking like I had a toupee on.....sticking my head out of a speeding car does not move any piece of hair one millimeter....

[+ FreshFluff]

FF: I honestly don't know what a "blowout" and a "dry bar" are...even after looking at those websites...can you explain?....thanks

 

 

A blowout is just a blow dry, and a blowout bar is a salon that only does blow dries.

 

Let me give a little background. The coveted Victoria's Secret hair in the photo below can only be achieved with a blowout (blow dry) with a round brush and a curling iron. It's very difficult to do that by yourself, especially with long hair. So in Manhattan and LA, and increasingly in other cities, routinely get their hair blown out 1-2 times per week--before dates or events, or just because. As a result, chains of "blowout bars" (like Drybar and Blow) have sprung up.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x8xj4zbwpbw/TyHhCvlSwEI/AAAAAAAADHo/obWbalN4ZkM/s1600/victoria+secret+hair+1.jpg

[+ azdr0710]

thanks for that thorough info, FF.....(like I really need to know!).....good-looking gal in the picture.....

[+ FreshFluff]

Az, I think that's Miranda Kerr, a VS model.

 

BTW, looks like FreshFluff has now achieved a new title:

http://mwiesm.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/baroness1.jpg

[+ friendofsheila]

Nobody remembers who the guy is?

 

I can't be the only person over 45 on the board.

[+ azdr0710]

even a Google image search produced nothing

[+ friendofsheila]

Clue: He's singing the lead in an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical in the picture.

[Scorpio]

Clue: He's singing the lead in an Andrew Lloyd Weber musical in the picture.

 

 

Fast forward to about 3:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXCFPaZfE8

 

It's Bill Hutton....not that i have any idea who that is.

[leigh.bess.toad]

Speaking of blow dryers, you are not going to believe it, but we were cleaning out the house and going through a drawer today we hadn't looked at in years. And found an old hair brush. A Conair hairbrush. The type that came with the Conair blow dryers. I remember buying a Conair blow dryer for my girlfriend at the time for Christmas in 1973. She loved it. 40 years ago. OMG I feel so old suddenly. I need a Geritol.

[+ Tygerscent]

I think a blow dryer is someone who sucks so many l#^ds out of you, you're shooting blanks~?

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[Irtwo]

Congrats, Freshfluff. Shouldn't Daddy give you a special "Baroness" title?

[Battle]

Gotta go with Bill Huttonhttp://www.playbillvault.com/images/whos_who/J/o/Joseph-and-the-Amazing-Technicolor-Dreamcoat-02-82-3.jpg

[Nvr2Thick]

Fast forward to about 3:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXCFPaZfE8

 

Brings a tear to my eye. All the worst attributes of musical theater distilled into one 5 1/2 minute segment.

[actor61]

"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat" was the absolutely worst show I've ever seen. And then there was a t.v. version with Donny Osmond and Joan Collins that was not to be believed!! Osmond toured with the show, and then they taped it for PBS, I think. I sat there completely mesmerized by the awfulness of it but couldn't turn it off. I know this isn't the Forum for a discussion of Broadway shows but is there ANYthing of Andrew Lloyd Weber's that deserved the accolades it received? By the way, Bill Hutton became a huge heartthrob as a result of "Joseph and the Dreamcoat" but then kind of completely disappeared. I remember seeing him on shows like "Solid Gold", etc.

 

As for blow dryers - I couldn't live without mine in the 1970s and 1980s. I actually set my alarm clock for 1/2 an hour before I really had to get up so that I would have adequate time to blow dry and style my hair in the morning. I used a round brush with a wooden handle and had mirrors installed in my bathroom so that I could see the back of my head as I rolled and blowed. Now, it's short and I swipe it with a towel after the shower and call it a day!!

[leeper]

Saw this production on Broadway and had a huge crush on Bill Hutton (and his hair). Back then I had a full head of blondish hair, but despite my efforts with the blow dryer never got it to result in the "hair helmet" that Hutton achieved in the show. I too wondered what happened to Hutton. The only other name from the cast that I recognize is Laurie Beechman, who did have a successful career until her untimely death. She now has a theater named after her.

[+ friendofsheila]

As for blow dryers - I couldn't live without mine in the 1970s and 1980s. I actually set my alarm clock for 1/2 an hour before I really had to get up so that I would have adequate time to blow dry and style my hair in the morning. I used a round brush with a wooden handle and had mirrors installed in my bathroom so that I could see the back of my head as I rolled and blowed. Now, it's short and I swipe it with a towel after the shower and call it a day!!

 

I spent way too much time blow-drying my wavy hair into a David Cassidy feather style, not realizing that it looked pretty good without all work.

 

Now I've got the same routine you do, A61.