So, here they are in all their glory. Thank you to everyone who participated. Vote in comments and I'll announce the winner on Friday!
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And this one is just a bonus picture, courtesy of Tanya at Warcrygirl. How much do we love her? And how much did the dentist love the guy (guy? right?) with the shit-eating grin?
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2. Because she reminds me of myself when I was 9. And also - liquid liner, lol.
My lord. The 80s were good to NO ONE.
Am I the first one? Seriously? This makes me feel a bit better. I thought I was the only one with huge hair in the 90's. ;-)
This is pretty tough. My votes are for:
1. Number 2, the quintessential 80's girl
2. Runner-up for number 5, the total 70's sweet girl.
Aw, man... I missed it going back and forth between #2 and #5.
:-P
lol... these are hideously awesome. I say 1.
It has to be #1 because EEEEK! Scrunchy!!!!
I vote for #5. That is totally a Gunne Sax dress, isn't it?
OMG I vote for #6. That dress, that hair...ouch.
#1, because that was me at age 8. Totally. Except I had a Swatch phone.
#1 definitely. I looked like her in the 80's/early 90's...right down to the permed bangs.
lol These are great!!! I vote #1 or #2.
Oh, definitely number one. The scrunchy puts it right over the top. :)
#2... that girl is WORKIN it out and proud of it! :P
All are great pics! Kudos to the brave, funny women who shared them - you know we've all been there... My vote HAS to go to #1 - the scrunchie, the glasses, and the best part: the tie-dyed shirt! Add some stirrup pants and hightops and it could have been me!!!
1!!!!
Number 6 fer sure, like, I mean, gag me with a spoon! LOL. The hair and the classic puff sleeves on the dress...winner!
#1 beyond a doubt! lol Bad thing is, that is what I look like in the morning!
Definately the one where the are on their way to prom(?) umm, red hair means.....oh yeah, red dress, perfect!
Mandy in MN
I love them all and wish I had some of mine to post, the are all at my parents house and I wasn't able to get them in time.
You all are some brave ladies!!!
I vote for 2!
#1 - definitely. The scrunchy should be burned at the stake.
#3 - runner up (what happened to the other half of her hair?!)
#3
She just looks so painfully insecure, that and the hair. Flat on top and fluffed/backcombed on the sides and back. Add some glasses tinted blue at the top so it looks like she is wearing blue eyeshadow, and she could be my friend Brenda's sister Kim
#3...talk about a bad hair day
#2. Because of the belt scarf. Heh.
I gotta go with #2 also. She is HOT SHIT!!
At least she seems to think so. Plus, I feel her pain
#5 has way more pictures that are better than that one. Trust me I know.
Tatersmom
Number 1 !!!
For a second I thought someone broke into my mom's scrapbooking picture supply, because seriously, that is ME in 1992.
Ten bucks says she's wearing LA Gears.
Oh, without a doubt, #3. The hair, the "Hottie" shirt and that "You know you want this" look. Hands down winner.
Wow, I thought my house burning down in 1989 was a curse. When I remember my picture collection I guess it were a blessing.....
#6 totally for sure. LOL...
OMG that hair
I choose #6 because of her hair, it's perfect 80's!
Can we do another contest like this one? I didn't have enough time to find my pics! ::bummed out!::
Reiven
Number 6, totally!!!
Number three.
I know EXACTLY who you were trying to be. That's the samantha fox pose all over, and you even tried to poof the hair like hers. "awwww touch me! I wanna feel yer body!"
...and I only know because we all wanted to be her then and tried it too. (sigh)
~Mel
Oh, good lo'... If only I'd saved my prom picture, I'd TOTALLY win, no doubt about it.
I did not give my permission for number six to be published.
Oh, to be that skinney again.
AC
Dude I think that "guy" in Warcry's picture is actually Kristi McNichol.
Heh.
OK I will vote for #1
oh my gawd
3!!
#1, for sure. Love it!
I also gotta say #5.
My high school yearbook is filled with pictures like that!
Love the Farrah Faucett hairdo and the Laura Ashley dress with the pearls.
Classic.
Number 5, for me. Do you think the person misunderstood and posted a picture from them in the 1880's?
#1 that totally could have been me! Scrunchi, tie-dyed t-shirt, glasses, the phone, the look on her face!
Thanks to everyone for posting their pics!
Elizabeth
It has to be number 6! Bad perm, big hair........lol.
I'll vote for #1.
Bridget
My vote is for #1. Damn I wish I access to a scanner. I got some BAD ones.
HAHAHAHA! OMG, those are great! Hey Tatersmom, recognize the blonde in the group pic? Everyone's fave Amazon! And the guy with the shit-eating grin? I slept with him about 10 years later.
#1 cause man she could be me.
I like number 3 the best!
It has to be #1. Look at the phone, it has a cord attached to the handpiece? Who ever saw such a thing?
There are 5, count em 5 mullets in the last picture AND no two are the same color. That's got to be some kind of record.
#5 for me.
I would have DIED for that Gunny Sak Dress! Died for it. I had to settle for a prairie skirt and a poofy top. No wonder I'm screwed up.
#2 - because of the liquid eyeliner tatoo and the 'tude that just radiates from the photo.
#1 is a very close second, howevah.
Got to be #2. Liquid eyeliner and attitude!!!
Okay - I was going to vote for #1 cause of the scrunchy but then I looked at the prom picture #6 and hello? All that teased out hair and those sleeves? Definitely gets my vote.
And I agree with Margaret - the 80's were good to NO ONE.
#5 please. And I wore the dress in your church pic to the prom.
#5. Why, you ask?
GUNNE. SAX.
'Nuff said.
I'm going for #2! the liquid eyeliner puts it over the edge for me!
My vote is for #1 she reminds me of a few of my girl friends back in the day. LOL. I wasn't brave enough to post any of my 80's 90's pics so cudoos for the ones who were.
Chris
Definitely the prom picture! I love the guys' cumberbuns that match their date's dresses. The puffy sleeves and huge permed hair is classic too!
Adrienne, MN
#6 I had that hair too ACK!
My real favorite is the bonus picture...haha...but I vote for #2!
#5
I had a dress just like that when I was in junior high.
Back when I lived
in a little house
on the prairie.
OK... It's a hard toss up between one and two. #1 just looks waaaaay too much like ME when I was growing up (YIKES!) but the face that #2 actually POSED for it and WORKED IT gets my vote.
>>>> #2 <<<< go girl! Rock On!
#1 because that outfit was totally something you could have spotted me in back in the day, lmao. I had such a collection of hypercolor shirts and tie-dyes....oh lord the 80's/90's were crazy! :P
#1 - OMG I laughed out loud.
Kristin in NC
63 people and no one voted for me in my Sears grade school graduation dress..bummer.
Oh well.. I totally vote for #2.. Cause I think I had that striped shirt..
Although I love the Little House look. I have to say that I have REALLY good pictures that aren't scanned in the computer yet..
I loved the 80's.
#1
I gotta tell you, #6 scared the hell out of me with all those people's faces smudged out. Reminded me of a horror movie I saw once (can't remember the name) where a certain camera made the people that were about to be caught by the horror. Crap! What was the name of that stupid movie. That is going to bother me for the rest of the day now.
Oh ya, I am supposed to vote aren't I? #5 because that was my hair (except mine used to be blond. It's sort of gray now).
#5, please.
#5, I think the little house look went out in the 1800's. lol
I'd have to say #3 - becasue, seriously - that just cracks me up. She's wearing a HOTTIE tshirt with that hair! (I'm sorry whoever it is)
Huh. Well...I still wear my hair in a pony with a scruchy...NOT that high mind you. Is that bad? I mean, they still sell them and all..
Ok, so #5 gets my vote. was she wearing a chastity belt as well? Good christ...
Also, I SAW THIS TOO LATE! I was a cheezy Jersey Girl Heavy Metal Maiden Wanna-be But My Mommy Wouldn't Let Me! Please extend the contest or do it again! I wanna go through my old pics and submit one!!!!!
#2. For the combination of bad fashion items.
I vote for #6, that was what the 80's were all about (unfortunately). Wish I had access to my old pics, I could've found a good one - remember tube socks and running shorts??
OMG!!! I am totally going with #3. The look... and the pose says it all... she really thinks she is a hottie. I am rolling on the floor.
Not that I'm saying that she's not a hottie... I'm sure one of the later decades made her a hottie.
#1 for sure!!
NUMBER 1!!!!!! The epitome of the 80's.
oh lord - #1 hands down!!
I'm going to have to go with #3, cause she scares me, just a little.
Number 2.
Just because.
I would've died to have hair like any of the chicks in #6. I can still smell the scent of Rave in the air.
#4
because it is available as a choice and it would explain where your use of language came from
I'm going to have to go with #1 with the Prom Queen as a close runner up. Love it! Too funny.
--K-A
i love number 2, and think i have a pic of myself like that. also the wedding photo, i think someone might have borrowed it form my album (i married in 1992 and my hair was BIG!) but my vote... yeah number 2. the eyeliner tattoo!
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I had to do it, it flashed me back to all my Catholic school upbringing. Baaadd flashbacks!!!
1st choice would be #2.
2nd choice would be #1.
Such great pics. I remember those days. Ugh....
I vote for #3.
I vote for #3 mainly because she had the guts to wear that shirt.
#3 because she is just. so. emo.
Number 1
I remember those days
Number 2, totally.
#3 is amazing! The pose, the eyes, the hair, the shirt. I love it!
Number 5, 'cause Laura Ingalls wants her dress back...
#1 - the clothes, the hair, the COUCH!
Has to be #2. Luv the "tude"
Tell Chris, hope he's feeling better, must be the Mississippi crud.
Bet you didn't know how many people just luv you and your family.
Fellow Mississippian
Linda
#3 because of the 'tude.
Dear g-d, please don't let the "what once was in fashion comes back in fashion" edict ring true for the 80s.
Eek. Awkward teen years + the 80s = me.
ultimately, my vote goes to #6. Even though only one person's face is visible, look at all of those 'offenders!'
Ha man, I read your blog but never really comment, but I HAD to comment this- number 2, without a doubt. I still draw "tattoos" these days.. my mam told me if I can put up with one for a month, she'll buy it.. she never did!!
I vote for #6 because I had the same kind of poofy hair and poofy sleeves at my prom! The photos with the big owl glasses came in close because I had the same ones. Apparently there was only one style of glasses back then and that style can be summed up as HUGE!
I have to go with #6 - they all look so "hot" and "cool" but I must say that if the bonus picture was in the running it would be my choice. The mullets. So cool!
#3. Because she's fierce.
#5..I'm sorry..the hair, pearls, itty bitty flower print..it's just all kinds of bad
I'm voting for number 3. And I think the girl in number 5 stole my dress. I swear I had the very SAME one.
Oh yea. #6. I can relate too well to that one!
If I had to pick the one who looks most like I did, I'd say #2.
But for the contest, I say #3 all the way. Hottie!
I have to vote for two choices. Number 2, because she obviously thinks she is so totally cool (didn't we all?), and Number 5, because she's so cute, plus I had THAT blouse and THOSE pearls and similar hair :P.
# 3
with #1 runner up! roflmao
#2
Number 2? hahahaha! The best.
Number 5 gets honorable mention because I think I had the same dress.
J.
It has to be #2 with the dark pantyhose and big glasses. Totally me circa 1986. To this day I refuse to buy "coffee," "taupe," or even "suntan." "Nude" and "Beige Mist" all the way. And SMALL glasses.
#6 gets my vote.....so much hair "Jacked up to Jesus aka....Fort Worth Hair"
Without a doubt #5. "The pearls just make the outfit" She said with Carson Kressley flair.
#1 could be from today with the resurgence of tie dye and they STILL SELL SCRUNCHIES!
Now I have to go back and look at some of my baaaaaad 80's fashion.
"Anonymous said...
I did not give my permission for number six to be published.
Oh, to be that skinney again.
AC"
Ok, so I can't really tell if this is serious or not, but these aren't the initials of the person who sent me the pic, so I'm confused. And I asked and got permission to post it..? If you are the owner of this pic (#6) and you'd like it removed, please email me at boobscontact@gmail.com and I'll take it down immediately.
#1 all the way because OMG - when the page loaded I thought somehow you had gotten a picture of ME freshman year of high school. Ahh, 1986! YUCK! :-)
Thanks for the memories - I think!
tcottontail
OH MY GOD
My poor poor eyes. #1 All the way. Looks just like my 6th grade school picture. Yikes. What the hell where we thinkin?
#2 for me.
#1 is runner up.
I've gotta go with #1. That's the epitomy of the 80's right there.
#5 for me. I think I owned that dress
OMG #1 the glasses, the hair, the sweater
Oh they are all so painful. I say 6 then 1. You can't beat and 80's prom pic.
I will go for ..... #1.....
#1. No contest, honestly.
#2
#2!!!
#6 - just like my junior high dance!
#3 definitely--gotta love the hair.
#5 could be me & it was! LOL same pose and everything!
#2.
It's all about the pout. (That rhymes.)
Wait. I changed my mind. #1.
I would be the girl in #3.
I blame the perm my grandmother forced upon me for the awesomely horrendous hair!
They dye job was all me though, totally.
I also used to have a copy of that picture that my uncle had photoshopped so the shirt said Fatty instead of Hottie. Oh, how I love my family.
Better late than never.
I definitely vote for #5.
Just because.
Katey2
It really sucks that I missed this one. I really DID have a purple mohawk in the 80s. :)
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