Halloween Hair and Makeup from 1988: 10 Ways to Rock a Totally Legit '80s Costume - Makeup and Beauty Blog

January 27, 2022 Post a Comment

It's fun to call back of the '80s as a series of John Hughes films where cool kids cruised high schoolhouse hallways in preppy sweaters, chunky cable-knit vests and Members Just jackets.

Yeah…it soooo wasn't like that (well, not all the time).

For some of us who grew upwardly in the decade, it was also near obnoxiously large pilus, Esprit sweaters, Michael Jackson zipper jackets and scrunchies.

LOTS of scrunchies.

If you're thinking about dressing upwardly like an '80s girl for Halloween this year, you've come to the correct identify!

Pause out your Aqua Internet and Guess jeans considering it'southward fourth dimension for…

10 Ways to Stone a Totally Legit '80s Costume!

By the time we're done, it'll be 1988. 🙂

1. The Scrunchie

The '80s were a hair-raising decade. The bigger, the meliorate, and elastic was a daughter's best friend.

Short on fourth dimension to become ready for the big Halloween fete? No prob. That's what scrunchies are for. Kickoff, pump up your bangs with a firm hold pilus spray. Then, put your hair up in a high side pony with a ponytail holder, and decorate with a scrunchie in the color of your choice.

2. OPTIONAL: The Assistant Clip

The banana clip works like a combined ponytail holder and scrunchie in ane, but present they can be a lilliputian difficult to discover.

3. Find a Shirt That Matches Your Scrunchie

Important: Ideally, it should be button-down, oversized and hang down just above the knees — anything longer, and you chance concealing your tight acid washed jeans.

four. Don't Forget the Large Broach

For true '80s legitimacy, secure an obnoxiously huge broach to the top button of your shirt. CAUTION: Move slowly to avoid accidentally poking yourself with the pivot (yep, I speak from experience).

5. Squeeze Into Your Tight Pants

The tighter, the better. You'll know you've hitting that sugariness spot when 1) y'all take to lie downwardly to push button them, and two) you lot tin barely exhale with them on. Jeans or stretchy leggings (with or without stirrups) should practise.

vi. Peg Your Pants

If wearing jeans, you must — I repeat, MUST — gyre up your hem. Back in the day, we called information technology "pegging your pants," and it was washed to show off our…

seven. Slouchy Socks

The slouchier, the meliorate. ADVANCED: If you really want to wait your best, double them upwards with a 2nd pair in an alternating color, i.e., LEG I: blueish on top of red; LEG TWO: red on tiptop of blue. And when you're done, sideslip those feet into a pair of…

8. Canvas Shoes Without Laces

Honestly, it's a phenomenon I made it through the '80s without getting clocked by at least one airborne shoe. Lace-less footwear regularly flung off feet at schoolhouse dances and whatnot. I hateful you only expected to encounter Keds flying toward the bleachers; that'due south merely the way it was. 🙂

9. Bright Liner and Frosty Lips

We didn't vesture a lot of eyeshadow, lipgloss or blush back then. It was all about the vivid liner — teal, dark-green and imperial were my personal faves — and frosty lipstick.

One of my favorite looks from 1988: the bright purple eye and frosty pink lip. That's Urban Decay Bribe liner forth the lash line with Wink eyeshadow patted direct on elevation, Nix forth the waterlines, and Dolce & Gabbana Rosebud lipstick on my lips.

If you lot can't bear to skip blush (I don't like to), you can use a shimmery highlighter with but a hint of color. In the look below I'm wearing Urban Disuse Foam Highlight in Wicked.

Clockwise from left: Dolce and Gabbana Lipstick in Rosebud, Urban Disuse Show Pony Palette, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Heart Pencil in Zero, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Ransom, Urban Decay Cream Highlight in Wicked

Swatches from left: Urban Disuse 24/vii Glide-On Centre Pencil in Ransom, Urban Decay 24/vii Glide-On Heart Pencil in Zero, Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Wink (from the Show Pony Palette), Dolce & Gabbana Lipstick in Rosebud Urban Decay Cream Highlight in Wicked

10. Cruise with Crimped Hair

If you accept the time, crimp your hair. It was HUGE back in the 24-hour interval.

Unfortunately, I lost my crimping atomic number 26 somewhere along the style, but a Revlon iii-Barrel Waver ($20) will work in a compression.

A TIP FROM 2010: Before using the waver, protect your hair from estrus harm with something similar TRESemme Heat Tamer Spray ($5).

Of class, an '80s look isn't complete without gravity-defying bangs. Here the summit in my bangs and at the sides comes courtesy of Large Sexy Hair Spritz & Stay Hairspray ($fifteen) sprayed on the roots. Then, I lift the pilus abroad from the scalp with my fingers and dry with a dryer aimed at the roots (to lock the pinnacle in identify).