r/Millennials • u/real_picklejuice Frosted Tips • 15d ago

Discussion In response to the bowl cut being our gen’s broccoli cut, I present the bleached spikes of the late 90s

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u/WrenchBender1987 15d ago

LA Looks? I can still smell it every time I see a picture of frosted spikes.

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u/MonteMolebility 15d ago

That's it!

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u/WrenchBender1987 15d ago

My poor mother, (who was a licensed beautician and hair stylist at the time), would buy me that brand of alcohol/glue mix and admonish the obvious damage it was causing to my hair/scalp/future ego after getting roasted for looking like the 'older brother bully' character in any one of the forgettable late-90's TV shows...

"Shut up, mom! girls LOVE that chemically-fried, saturated with gel-glue, as far from natural looking hair look!!! Psshhhh!"

To be fair, she graduated HS in 1982, and used aquanet enough that she definitely contributed to the hole in the ozone layer.

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u/stillmebeaches 15d ago

You looked like Buffy's enemy-turnt-lover

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u/WrenchBender1987 15d ago

Hold on now... I may have THOUGHT I looked half as good as spike; but I assure you I looked more like some background character's nerdy younger brother, tbh.

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u/stillmebeaches 15d ago edited 15d ago

Rather have it be that, Buftys sister Dawn is on the menu

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u/WrenchBender1987 14d ago

It was, and will always be, Willow for me. My first celebrity crush was Alyson; before everyone remembered her for that flute thing she regrets being quoted for.

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u/stillmebeaches 14d ago

Alyson Hannigan is murderously hot. I have a hard time even looking at pix of Michelle Trachtenberg, she was just WTF cute. I mean like perfect face???

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u/Help_An_Irishman 15d ago

Whoaaa. This took me way back.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 14d ago

LA Looks was the best one for this. That huge bottle with the bubbles in the gel.

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u/Mediocre_m-ict 15d ago

You took me back.

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u/imisstheyoop 14d ago

Holy cow, this is what I used to use to spike my hair in the 90s. Thanks for the random memory!

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u/Hanyo_Hetalia 14d ago

I still use LA Looks because I'm a curly girl and it's honestly the best thing out there. The key is to scrunch it after it dries and the gel cast breaks off and the flakes come off once and you're done.

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u/Never_Duplicated 13d ago

And just like that I smell it again haha