Bad Hair

Rating:
Summary: Picture = 1000 Words
Review: The fact that there are no words to go with this collection of fashion cul-de-sacs improves the experience. Strictly an impulse purchase, but one to display openly with pride. Guaranteed to crack a smile and jog a memory. Spot your friends - compare to your yearbook. Enjoy!

Rating:
Summary: Funny... but not ideal.
Review: This book is cute and funny...
but lacks a few things:
A. commentary (or any words for that matter.) the visuals are funny, but with hilarious commentary would be better.
B. modern hairstyles are missing.
C. names & dates & locations - to place the styles

It could have been so much more... but is cute nonetheless.

Rating:
Summary: Funny... but not ideal.
Review: This book is cute and funny...
but lacks a few things:
A. commentary (or any words for that matter.) the visuals are funny, but with hilarious commentary would be better.
B. modern hairstyles are missing.
C. names & dates & locations - to place the styles

It could have been so much more... but is cute nonetheless.

Rating:
Summary: The funniest book you'll ever SEE (not read)
Review: This is the funniest book you'll ever SEE. You can't really say READ since there is no text. This book lives up to its name: it's just, soley, only comprised of screechingly funny photos of people with reaaaaaaaally BAD HAIR.

Most of these unexplained pix clearly come from old hairdresser photos or product books put out by hair products. Most of the photo subjects are supremely self-absorbed -- thinking they look handsome, beautiful, cool but actually are, to use a modern word, "dorky."

The humor is not only in the truly rotten hairdos, or rather, the hair-don'ts. What's funny is how these folks think they look so good, proving that some peoples' taste lies exclusively in their mouths. You will be convinced that these model photos are really stills from Saturday Night Live or Mad Magazine -- but, no, these models enjoying Nirvana (how "great" they look) and the horrors on their scalps are for real.

SO THE QUESTION IS: What use is a book that has no text and that only shows vile and putrid hair? Well, it makes a good and unusual gift. It's hard to see anyone selling their copy since it is the perfect "bathroom book" (right next to the mirror). Some of these follical creations are unfortunately not out of style. Looking at it will boost anyone's self-esteem (unless they are in the book). And if you have enemies give them a copy, paperclip a page and say, "Hey, I saw this and it reminds me of YOU!"

So remember, this is a book you won't have to read -- just look at...and you'll laugh (unless you see an old photo of yourself or see a hairstyle that looks like what you have today).
Bad Hair is just that -- a book of photos showing bad hair, proof of the eternal triumph of bad taste and a convincing argument that, in some cases, Bald is indeed Beautiful...

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Summary: A Professional Speaks Out
Review: Whatta scream! It surprised me that there are so many men's hairstyles, but this is a funny book, nonetheless. I do think, though, that there could have been some more modern atrocities included with the 60's and 70's hairdos. To me, it seems natural that the worst looks would have come out of those decades. Everything else seemed ugly, too. I also noticed, in reading the credits in the back of the book, that some of the 'bad hair' came out of some of London's hippest salons. HA!