Girls world - I really wanted one but my mum said they were sexist. She joined a women’s consciousness raising group and got Andy Pandy dungarees and read spare rib after she divorced my dad. It was very annoying having an 80s woke mum when I just wanted a disembodied head to paint.
what about the chopsticks perm? Remember that? Alan Soh.
I had a spiral perm when I was 23. Reason being my pal was getting married and unfortunately I met my first serious bf through her. She was going out with his pal, I went to school with her and he went to school with my ex.
Anyhoo. He dumped me twice then wouldn’t leave me be. And then he suggested getting back together for a third time.
What he didn’t tell me was that he met someone else in the interim and she was at the wedding. But sadly only at night. So I had to endure 3 hours of patronising conversation with him.
Because as the universe would have it. My pal sat me next to my ex at the wedding.
She didn’t mean it and said sorry and it wasn’t her fault but that was toigh going.
And then we all went outside and we had a photo as a group that I didn’t want to be in.
When I look at that photo I looked great but I was so miserable. And I got the perm because I knew in my bones that wedding was going to be a horrible day
I kept it for about 20 years then I ripped it up. The photo.
I didn’t go near him or his pals or his new gf at the evening do. I actually boldly gave my nunber to one of a group of lads that he knew from holiday about 3 years earlier. Not out of spite. It’s just really hard to deal with an ex in your face all the time
(And of course when he and new gf split 3 years later he was at my door again)
Funny how hairstyles can bring back memories.
tit ones
That perm took about 3 years to drop out of my hair as well.
When you split up with someone in a town my size it’s like the sparks song this town ain’t big enough for both of us.
The wedding was also a disaster and was always going to be. My pal got divorced and married to someone else in the space of 2 years.