Girl's Punk Hairstyles can be as outre or as chastened as the babe is adequate with. Because jailbait is an autonomous subculture, at atomic in theory, and because self-expression is a admired amount of the culture, both men and women can abrasion whatever hairstyle they want. Musicians like Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon and Debbie Harry, for example, accept actual boilerplate hairstyles; if they weren't famous, you wouldn't aces them out as jailbait or affiliated with the jailbait scene. Others, like Penelope Houston (The Avengers) and Soo Catwoman went for a added acutely jailbait look.
1970s Punk
Early women in jailbait were mostly bedfast to a few roles: groupie, adherent or advance singer. There were a few all-girl bands, like the Runaways, but a lot of 1970s bands were all-guy or one-girl.
Women who bankrupt the cast included Anya Phillips, a appearance artist and impresario, and Vivienne Westwood, appearance artist and cofounder of the allegorical London boutique Sex. Westwood generally absolute her hair then-unusual colors, like near-white blonde, and ablaze copper.
Most of the women in the aboriginal jailbait movement had bangs. It's true! Everyone from Patti Smith to Debbie Juvenile to Lydia Lunch to Nancy Spungen had bangs, usually with shoulder-length hair or an aboriginal Chelsea cut.
The UK jailbait arena had added hairstyle heterogeneity. Soo Catwoman comes to mind. So does Jordan. Poly Styrene, the Somalian-English frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, wore her hair in an afro, generally with a bow or chaplet (see the aloft video).
1980s Punk
Tish and Snooky's Manic Panic Hair Dye, opened in 1977, took off with the jailbait and goth scenes. Punks started dying their hair every blush of the rainbow, sometimes all at once. Women cut their hair short, baldheaded it off, or acicular it into a Mohawk. Beki Bondage (The Vice Squad) had high-volume, coiled dejected hair with white-blonde bangs.
For added jailbait girls and women, atramentous hair was the name of the game. Joan Jett, Siouxsie Sioux, Exene Cervenka and Lydia Lunch all had jet-black hair with bangs and layers framing the face. Jett wore chastening in a mullet.
In the mid-80s, Kat Bjelland and Courtney Love, who were again about 20 years old, took afterwards Nancy Spungen, by dying their hair platinum albino and putting it into ringlets. They aswell started cutting artificial bows and clips in their hair, to accentuate their kinderwhore aesthetic.
1980s jailbait hairstyles were adequately top maintenance. Big hair, annoying hair, and continued hair was in. With the accessible barring of skinheads, babe punks paid a lot of absorption to their hair.
1990s Punk
As grunge and anarchism grrrl took off, adolescent women started traveling for a beneath theatrical, added accustomed aspect. Although some women still wore mohawks and consciousness-expanding hairstyles, abounding changed to a added accustomed look.
Performers like Kim Gordon and L7 afflicted this added accustomed jailbait look, which was hard-edged after getting top maintenance. Part of this was abbreviate hair, either baldheaded or with bangs.
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