Talk:Big hair

This article was nominated for deletion on 22 March 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

What the hell!?

Is this article needed? (usigned comment added by User:Blackfield)

Seems kinda trivial, but there's quite a few articles on specific hair styles. Rklawton 20:29, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't consider "big hair" a specific hairstyle.--Blackfield 18:34, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you are doing a project on fahsion history, and the styling of hair and how it has changed, this article is very useful. And if you didnt think so why did you look it up in the first place? I just think someone should add how people in the 18th century got their hair like that, that's why i looked it up.

And if you read the article your implied complaint is answered. Exploding Boy 19:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article is stupid. Who has ever had the need to find information about "big hair", and if you mean that the articles deal with different hair styles, there are already articles that deal with them exclusively.--Blackfield 19:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Who has ever had the need to find information about "big hair"

I would think that an individual looking for information on the history of hairstyles or hairstyling (or even fashions from the past) could find this informative. --Ethii 10:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the article is ridiculous. Someone oughta nominate it for deletion. I would if I could be bothered! Damiancorrigan 23:17, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image

To avoid an edit war, I will post here. I believe that Monica Lewinsky is not the ideal candidate for "big hair" as is believed by a certain editor. I think someone such as Dolly Parton would be a better candidate for an image in this article. I'd like to change this as it seems reasonable enough. --Ethii 17:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I checked with Google - and you're right at 10:1.Rklawton 19:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is stupidstupid.--Blackfield 15:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History

Should be some pointer to historical "big hair" -- the 1770's put the 1960's to shame... Churchh 14:09, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Second this, large wigs and big hair were popular throughout time and a section for say, 17th century hairstyles would be informative. --Ethii 09:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Claudio

Why isn't there a picture of Claudio Sanchez in the article. I think he pretty much defines big hair in the 21st century.

Because this article is ridiculous.

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Point of view

This article has a POV problem. (Pardon me for being testy about this as it's a lifelong pet peeve!) The majority of white people have naturally straight or wavy hair, and think of "big hair" as a fashion statement rather than a hair type. But millions of people all over the world, of various ethnicities, have naturally voluminous hair. Try Googling "big hair don't care", "jewfro", or even just "curly hair" to see what I mean. So casting it as an artificially created style rather than a natural trait leads to all sorts of annoying misunderstandings. Unless you go to great lengths to flatten your hair, it's labelled "80s hair" or "hippie hair" or "country music hair" etc. Or it's mistakenly seen as "unkempt", or even threatening. This girl, for example, was threatened with expulsion for wearing her hair in its naturally voluminous state: [1] So IMO this article needs to be rewritten with that in mind, or deleted. MopTop (talk) 19:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So-called "racist" remark about white people

Someone changed this:

"Big hair is commonly seen as artificial or trendy by white people, of whom only 15 percent have curly hair.

to this:

Big hair is commonly seen as artificial or trendy by some people.

and claimed in the edit summary that the original was "racist."

1) The 15 percent statistic is not "racist," it's just a statistic with an inline citation to back it up.

2) The sentence makes no sense as edited, because the context is lost.

3) The fact that white people are often clueless about big hair is evidenced by the very fact that I had to add a section called "Naturally voluminous hair" to this otherwise clueless article. I also cited other examples in the text. And by the way, I'm white myself, I just happen to have naturally big hair and grew up hearing clueless comments about it from other white people. --MopTop (talk) 22:45, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

60% of humans have curly hair?

It's citation is not a credible source, naturallycurly.com. 70.123.36.85 (talk) 13:15, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]