1970s Retro Hairstyles

Video Transcript

"The 70's hairstyles are really a lot of fun. I have shorter hair, so it was harder to demonstrate some of the styles of the era. One of the things that I went with, even though it is not technically hair, is a headscarf. Now, ethnic trends were huge in the 70's. It had really started in the 60's but took off in the 70's. I'm wearing an ethnic print scarf tied back. You can see from sort of the side it that it trails down my back. It is tied in, sort of, an imitation of how Americans thought that maybe a tribal woman in Africa would wear it. The trend for ethnic stuff wasn't really that genuine, but it was more of the idea that beyond America there were styles that were truer and more real. Sometimes, people would cover-up all of their hair with a hair-wrap like this. The other two big trends for hairstyles in the 70's was the long straight hair of the hippies worn completely natural with hippie clothing. No adornment, no products, really not anything in it. Of course, people, who didn't have naturally straight long hair, would iron it to get it to look that way. The last really popular look in the 70's, which is really fun, is the Farrah Fawcett flip. She was an actress on Charlie's Angels. This style involved flipping out the front of your hair. It was really nearly impossible for normal people to achieve, but people tried. They would sleep with soup cans around their head with their hair turned out that way. They might use a curling iron. They might go to a hairstylist and sleep standing up in order to have it, to have this perfect flipped out hair. Frankly, no one's hair really naturally falls that way and so the trend has died out really fast. "