Ugliest hairstyles in television and movies

Poor Ginger. She did not age well. Over a bit more than a decade, she devolved from America's sweetheart in the 30s to the hard dragon lady/gorgon of the 40s-50s. She became almost unrecognizable.

To OPs point, though, the hideous styling didn't help. (That collar!)

I nominate Joan Crawford's do in TORCH SONG. Human hair elaborately styled to look as wiglike as possible.

Here is flipped out, with Joan kicking up her heels.

Barbra in A Star Is Born. I know it was super trendy at the time, but now it looks like a bad wig.

Meant to post this at R3.

Mare Winningham mullet from Miracle Mile. Barbra's Bob Ross-inspired Jewfro from A Star is Born is a close second.

It gets even worse! Her character changes into a hideous polka-dot dress and her hair ends up looking OILY!

Speaking of wig hair . . . Debbie in Singing in the Rain

Ahem.

Joan Cusack's Working Girl hairstyle is OTT even for the late 80s.

Poor Mare Winningham. Has she ever had an attractive hairstyle?

A quick image search suggests "No."

Jodi Foster's hair in the second half of The Accused. Just . . . no.

All may pray to the Patroness of Hideous Hairstyles to find comfort

Jane Wyman. She looked so matronly and uptight with this frigid ‘do.

What do you mean?

What do you mean?

Charlize demonstrates that she is not Sharon Stone, and never will be.

oh yeah

AnnE Hathaway demonstrates that she is neither Charlize nor Sharon Stone.

Bow down, bitches!

I killed my hit TV series with this haircut.

This is one Scar-NO.

Vivian Vance in the Lucy Show and everywhere else. Amorphous is how I would describe it.

The 'purdey' - not quite ab fab

Bonnie Franklin. The Mushroom.

Was this even attractive by 70s standards?

I winz, no?

I spent my entire childhood wanting to cut off Carol Brady's weird bottom flippy layer.

No, No, NOOOOOO! NOW win!

Ginger was playing "girls" well into the 1950s (she was 44 during Tight Spot). The extra weight that she had on screen pretty much from Barkleys of Broadway onward didn't help, she was 5'4" IRL. The mole ages her too...or at least adds to the hardness of her look.

Characters onscreen refer to GR & Carol Channing as "girls" in The First Traveling Saleslady, also in 1955. It was only the year after Tight Spot when she played her first mother role, the mother of a teenager in Teenage Rebel.

Prior to that she played a lot of characters who were presumably childless actresses (Dreamboat, Black Widow, Forever Female, Twist of Fate) so she could be not 25 but also not explicitly in her 40s. And playing actresses excuses the artificiality that permeated her acting particularly in that period.

Yes, she looks her absolute worst in Tight Spot.

Carol Brady's hair was never considered attractive. I, too, was dying to cut off those wisps under the mushroom.

OP, I've seen "Tight Spot".

Ginger's style is not supposed to look flattering in this film. She has just gotten out of prison and the feds are trying to get her to testify against the mob. She's in witness protection.

She's a cheap dame.

Hardly supposed to be or look elegant or classy.

I just want to add that my grandmother Ginger was underrated. And that, in the thirties, Ginger was adored by all.

Ginger's strong points were charm, sass, and dance ability. She was never a raving beauty even in her youthful roles like Swing Time.

R33 I know, but It could have been slightly less hideous.

Alfalfa from "Our Gang."

R2, yeah Joan's hairstyle was bad in "Torch Song," but it was just as bad in "Harriet Craig."

I know Rob Lowe was a great gag character in Behind the Candelabra, but that hairdo was vomitous.

Ginger refused to cut her long hair for Tight Spot, so the hairdresser just did what she could. In many shots you can see most of it in a long braid and hanging down her back inside her blouse or dress......in most of the stills it is airbrushed out.....but you can't miss it if you see the film....

Ginger refused to cut her long hair for Tight Spot, so the hairdresser just did what she could. In many shots you can see most of it in a long braid and hanging down her back inside her blouse or dress......in most of the stills it is airbrushed out.....but you can't miss it if you see the film....

Ginger refused to cut her long hair for Tight Spot, so the hairdresser just did what she could. In many shots you can see most of it in a long braid and hanging down her back inside her blouse or dress......in most of the stills it is airbrushed out.....but you can't miss it if you see the film....

I swear I only pressed POST once....anyway in the clip you can see the braid a few times particularly starting at 1:51.

Wow, R38. I don't think I'd realized previously how iconic Joan's look in that film is.

She clearly inspired performance artist Klaus Nomi.

Maybe not the ugliest, but distinctive and memorable. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Nellie Oleson (Alison Arngrim) in "Little House on the Prairie." Variation on Cindy Brady.

Ginny Sack on The Sopranos

Poor Alice Faye. Was she the Mare Winningham of her era?

The woman never had a flattering hairstyle onscreen.

The center part is not your friend, Alice.

Im her early '50s Warners musicals, Doris Day was stuck with a hideous modified Mamie bob.

Carmela Soprano's hair was hit and miss. This was definitely a miss. I don't know what to call it. Semi-bouffant, helmet.

Betty Grable had some crazy pompadours in 1944.

Roseanne Conner, Frau Extraordinaire.

Poor Ginger had the worst hairdos ever in the 40s. This is from "Lady in the Dark," the abominable version of the delicate Kurt weill musical

Who's w/Joan at R21?

It looks like Renee Taylor....

Ginger again with Ray Milland in "Lady in the Dark."

Ginger again from "Lady in the Dark"

Angelina Jolie in "Girl Interrupted." Can also be categorized under "worst wig."

Everything is too obvious: Obviously a wig. The short bangs are obviously meant to symbolize "will cut a bitch."

Angelina's ham performance makes it even worse.

"Hair rats" are a girls best friend.

One more Ginger Rogers--keep in mind these are all [bold]different[/bold] hairstyles for the same film!

Alice Faye in "The Gang's All here."

Those mid-40s upsweeps were just not flattering, especially to women with coarse features like Alice and Ginger.

r55 It's the divine Virginia Graham.

Angela Cartwright’s “Penny Robinson” character’s Season 3 ‘do (1967-68) on CBS’s “Lost In Space” TV program.

Two years later, Betty wears a cheese danish.

I happen to be the height of Indianapolis working-mom fashion!

Hi, I'm Julie McCoy, your cruise director. You would be forgiven for thinking I'm a mischievous little '70s boy, with this haircut.

Courtney Cox Arquette in "Scream"

[quote] Charlize demonstrates that she is not Sharon Stone, and never will be.

Jesus, that haircut ages her by 25 years, at least.

Shirley Jones in her episode of "This Is Your Life"

It must have been during hiatus, which doesn't make sense because they surprised her as they were filming maybe a Partridge Family promo? I know she never had this hair on the show, thought it was pretty bad in the fourth and final season.

[quote] Angelina's ham performance makes it even worse.

Rumor has it her brother fucked her after they watched the movie together.

I don't understand Jolie's wig in Girl Interrupted. The movie is set in the late 60s. Nobody had that chopped-bangs hairstyle, especially not a hip druggie chick like Jolie's character. She should have had parted-in-the-middle Manson girl hair. If they had to give her bangs, they should have been eyebrow-skimming, a la Jane Birkin. Since it was a wig anyway, I don't know why they didn't go for something realistic.

Women want me!

Diane Keaton in "Marvin's Room"

More Diane Keaton in "Marvin's Room"

Hi!!!!!

Rachel Griffiths at the beginning of Six Feet Under. It got so much better.

So what we're learning is:

*no woman ever looked good with bangs

*no woman ever looked good with a mullet or a shag

*no white woman over the age of 12 except Bo Derek ever looked good with braided hair

*upsweeps only work if you have delicate features

R76, that doesn't look bad.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Gibson hairdo. I admit to a general dislike for Gibson hairstyles.

Aside from the up-do, DQMW had some great, long hair, on both men and women.

r11 Mare Winningham = potato with eyes

nothing is going to look good on that

Jane Fonda in California Suite

Ginger’s look really hardened by the mid 40s. Even by “Barkleys of Broadway,” she was looking thick in the shoulders & hard in the face. But yes, that hairdo at OP is a horror.

Can I play?

R83, you already did at R23, ScarJo.

Ginger was never a great beauty. Coarse facial features and excessive peach fuzz. Lovely dancer body though.

Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl"

Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"

Sean Penn, "Carlito's Way"

Tony Geary, "General Hospital"

Kiera Knightley had short hair when she made the godawful 2006 version of "Pride and Prejudice", and you can see the natural short hair sticking out from under the wig at the base of her neck whenever she's shot from the side or the back.

Gawd, I hate that film, and the non-period wigstyles don't help.

Linda Evans and Joan Van Ark had bad eighties coiffures...pinwheel bangs are never a good idea.

I still can't think of Linda Evans' awful 80s hairdo without remembering the memorable catfight on SNL between Linda (Pamela sue Martin!) and Joan Collins (Pamela Stephenson).

JOAN: "Now I know what your hair reminds me of! Café curtains!"

Here I am.

I remember being a boy and telling my mom I hated her hair in the movie after we watched it.

She knew.

R5 I loved Jenny Stewart

The lesbian who played Jean on the Golden Girls.

Neely shows us how a fall should be worn...even when wasted...Lopez fall is damned ugly

R34, none of Ginger's five marriages, which all ended in divorce, produced a child. And she was a nasty, hateful right-wing cunt by the late 1940s.

Go blow something with a lit fuse.

Submitted without comment.

Whitney Houston relied on wigs and extensions way too much. Sometimes they overwhelmed her tiny head. Other than that she was absolutely gorgeous.

Preach r98. Ginger was a hater. Her Oscar was a gift. When she wasn’t dancing, she sucked.

Doctor Hoffman's weird looking hairdo in Dark Shadows. I was so glad when she finally got a haircut after Vicki came back from 1795.

What am I? Chopped liver?

I don't think Ginger was as bad as her mother. She remained friends with a wide variety of her peers including Bette Davis, Harriet Nelson, and Lucille Ball. I'm surprised that she didn't do more in tv--maybe she didn't need to.

Joan Van Ark, Knots Landing season 9

Courteney Cox, Scream 3.

I had the same haircut as R65

R105, I think she and Lisa Hartman used the same show hairdresser.

Is Courtenay Cox’s character supposed to have a moustache in Scream 3?

Every hairstyle Diane Keaton had in The Godfather movies.

Poor unfortunate Mara Hobel in MOMMIE DEAREST...

True, Ginger was not good at drama; but she was a supremely gifted comedic actress, and was absolutely hilarious in screwball films like [italic]Stage Door,[/italic] [italic]Bachelor Mother,[/italic] [italic] Tom, Dick and Harry[/italic] and (her masterpiece) [italic]The Major and the Minor.[/italic]

She was MUCH more than just Fred's dancing partner.

Jesse Camp, Superstar

Shelley Duvall's greasy bangs in The Shining.

She still has them but, thankfully, all eyes are drawn to her rack these days.

She gave me back my voice!

Dumb or dumber?

this lovable place needs my face

R23 She reminds me of a trailer trash teenager.

Cybill went from beautiful hair on Moonlighting to the equivalent of a male combover on her sitcom.

My mom and several of my aunts had this hair.

Bad hair, no hair, bad hair, bad hair

Shelley Hack had some hideous hairstyles, especially on Charlie's Angels.

Joan Lunden always had something strange going on.

r120

Lisa Rinna.

At least she was able to just run her fingers through it and go with Jack Jr.!

...for a little while.

Ugly '80s hair

Oh come now, r126. They looked like beautiful chrysanthemums!

Jan's payot

Bucktoothed, ubiquitous 1970s TV hippie/magician Doug Henning.

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Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange

A middle part another bad look for Joan in Ice Follies of 1939.

Barbara Stanwyck in Babyface

I think Julia Roberts genuinely believe this is a good look for her. She's done it in 3 movies.

She looks like a transvestite muppet.

Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan

One wishes--prays, even--that this was a bad wig, or even just some godawful hairstyle required for a character role....

But I think it's just Julia "being fun" on her downtime.

Has any actress at her level of fame and success ever demonstrated such a lack of taste so consistently for so many years? Just wondering.

Meryl Streep in the contemporary sections of The french lieutenant's Woman

Young Nicole Kidman au naturel back in Australia.

I really hated the way Jennifer Lawrence looked in the movie JOY. I understood that the character was supposed to be struggling and working-class (I think...), but J Law just looked trashy, greasy, bloated, and bleached out.

It felt less like a character choice and more that J Law couldn't bother brushing her hair.

R2 How do you know that wasn't a wig?

Nicole-Sideshow Bob

I would like to nominate Syphillis Schlafly but could not find a link that would just point to the photo of her. She must have used the same hairdresser as Donald tRump's mother.

No wonder she can’t land herself a husband!

Jill Clayburgh and Candice Bergen both had lovely heads of hair, but neither looked their best in STARTING OVER. It being 1979 explains a bit, but still...

Clayburgh, in particular, looks a little "special needs" in the film.

Sherry Stringfield’s return to E.R.

Diane Keaton in LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL.

Oy.

We could have a whole thread on the many mullets of Jane Velez Mitchell.

I win!

Another glamorous Lecy style

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Barbra in the deservedly forgotten ALL NIGHT LONG as a brassy blonde.

Nancy Grace's bleached blonde, fine-haired, teased helmet.

Consider me...

Tina bring me the fucking ax

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The Long Island look.

Hair like arrows directing the eye to her jaw and nose. How could this have become so popular?

AnnE Hathaway in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (2008).

Unclear whether her character is just a bohemian hipster, emotionally unstable, or doesn't own a mirror.

Susan Richardson (Susan Bradford) of "Eight Is Enough." Many, many bad hair styles, all involving bangs (fringe). This one (two pony tails with some extra hair hanging free on each side) was maybe the very worst.

Another bad Susan Richardson hairdo involving bangs (fringe). *Sigh.*

“Silkwood” - both a film and the material in Cher’s wig.

I can’t believe it took till R105 to get to Joan Van Ark’s season 9 power mullet. That’s what I came here to mention.

You sure are some picky queens. I quite like some of these styles, eg some of the bouffants and the '40s updos. I think we can all agree that Mamie Eisenhower is the queen of hideous 'dos.

Claudia Winkleman

You have to wonder what's going on under there.

Melinda Dillon’s “1940s” hair in A Christmas Story. If an actual woman of that era had gone out in public looking like that, she would have been institutionalized.

Courtney Cox in Scream looks like she’s about to say ‘Men in dresses are invading my spaces.’

SMG in Buffy

Candice Bergen's Murphy Brown hair could never decide what it wanted to be.

R168.

The long hair suited her. In the final season I think she got an on-trend but way too severe for her late '90s pixie cut.

JvA at 1:03

Not flattering. She looked much better in the reshot opening for S10.

r165 reminds me of the Shorpies (?) woman from that xmas photo that used to be posted here every year. Completely out of place amongst the bobs.

This was a horrible, but much copied, style in the 1980s

Kate Capshaw has wide, flaring nostrils...

I like Scarlett Johanssen's shag/mullet/quasi-pixie cut.

....as posted at r23

Emma Stone - you is smart, you is kind, you is UGLY

Sometimes unfortunate hair distracts from other less-ideal features.

Oh the Eighties

Hasn’t this poor kid been through enough?

Some never change their look.

Party City Starfire.

R121 The hairstyle in that pic suited Julia Louis-Dreyfus quite well.

Hercule Poirot's secretary.

I almost single handedly depleted the ozone layer.

Why do people keep posting red carpet pics? We're not discussing the ugliest hairstyles in general! R177, R80, etc.

Barely recognizable.

Who's the old bag behind her with the helmet flip..

Red carpets are often televised...

Lulu changed her hair every five minutes yet she managed to keept it consistently awful in the 1970s.

Even after marrying a hairdresser (and with child in this video), it didn't improve.

Ernestine Tomlin, serving up some 1940s ugly.

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[quote]I nominate Joan Crawford's do in TORCH SONG. Human hair elaborately styled to look as wiglike as possible.

Maybe that's because it was a wig. Joan, in blackface, tore it off a la drag queen in the film.

Reba, wearing all the wigs in town.

Rogers changed her hair color NFR hair style frequently during her career,

[Quote] Joan, in blackface, tore it off a la drag queen in the film

Drag queens tear off their wigs a la Joan Crawford.

Joan wore blackface (!) and a terrible black wig in TORCH SONG for a musical number.

That's her own bright red hair underneath.

I think Debbie Reynolds (with tongue in cheek) called it "exotic" makeup in That's Entertainment Part III

[quote] Even after marrying a hairdresser (and with child in this video), it didn't improve.

Being with a hairdresser means nothing.

Remember that Barbra Streisand's most loathed hairstyles came from when she was with Jon Peters, who did her hair (dreadfully).

Speaking of curly perms...

Ginger perm.

I agree that a lot of those 70s/80s big curly hairstyles were/are pretty unflattering and strikingly anachronistic in anything set in another period. (IMHO, the 80s versions look much worse than their 70s counterparts).

But some of you should be consider: they're not all permanent waves. Any number of people actually have naturally curly/frizzy/kinky hair texture. I posted a photo upthread of a young Nicole Kidman: that is her natural hair, an uncontrollable halo of curls. She has pretty much destroyed her hair over the decades with straightening, bleaching, and other processes, and wears wigs on film and in public appearances.

People throughout history have had different textures of hair. TV and movies should reflect that.

R200 I wonder if Barbra had a rider in her contract allowing her to use her personal hairstylist in The Way We Were and other films, to maintain her image? Redford too - perhaps to fit in with Babs he had to keep his Beach Boys shag, while other actors had proper 1930s -40s styles. Bab’s hair and make-up gave the film an anachronistic feel, IMO.

More middle aged hair on Lu, from the early 1970s.

Redford notoriously refused to cut his 70s "dry-look" hair for THE WAY WE WERE. It makes no sense for his character as a student in the 30s, an officer during WW2, or during the Hollywood blacklist years. The look was entirely wrong.

He's another natural redhead who has been peroxiding his hair for decades... which could explain the heinous bird's nest toupee he now wears in public.

Barbra's obsession with managing how she and her surroundings look is always a problem for her.

She thinks she has lovely taste, but she does not.

You bitches are slipping! I am the EVERLASTING IMMORTAL QUEEN of TV bad hair! I will never be defeated!!!

And resting bitchface.

THE GREAT GATSBY is a pretty bad movie, but it looks great, and Redford looks much authentic in it than he did TWWW. Right out of an Arrow Shirt advertisement.

Geri-atric curls.

"Jodi Foster's hair in the second half of The Accused. Just . . . no."

Actually, there was a good reason for that. Her character chopped off her in anger. I guess she was trying to make herself look less attractive. She'd been gang-raped, after all.

Colin Farrell's hideous brassy blond 'do in Alexander

True enough, R211, but it's a bad wig that screams "Bad Wig."

It tries to say "rape victim" and "cutely defiant all-girl New Wave Band" all at once, and it's as inauthentic as everything else in that overrated movie.

There is just so much that is wrong here.

Yikes! I'd forgotten about Susan Richardson's platinum blonde period.

So bad, so very very wrong.

R214, that's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Donald Trump

R27, don't make fun of my mommy!

June Lockhart in Lost in Space.

Yeah, Trump wins. He was a reality TV star, after all.

R206, that’s because Redford was and is an extreme narcissist who only cares about how good he looks onscreen. He’s a blandly handsome face who lacks true depth as an actor. And yes, his toupee is ghastly.

The worst wigs in movie history

Redford's rug looked especially bad in A Walk in the Woods

And then there's Maude.

Naomi Harper (Dorothy Lyman), Mama's Family.

This desiccated thing

Do erotic movies count?

Burt Reynolds' rug looked really bad in his later films

I can’t find a picture but Cloris Leachman’s Dorothy Hamill cut when she returned for the MTM finale. I’m not sure if she ever bad that cut toward the end of Phyllis but I’m sure one of you bitches would.

Norma Shearer from IDIOT'S DELIGHT.

I always thought Barbara Stanwyck's Double Indemnity 'do was unflattering

I like that, r231.

Obvious rollers 'dos have a quaint charm.

R232 - it was meant to be a cheap wig to show how tacky she was.

It's hard out there for a Norwegian Catholic.

Barbara in Double Indemnity. I love the outcry the studio had: "We hired Barbara Stanwyck and got George Washington!"

Norma Zimmer!

From "The Nanny"

Haha

That Girl

R240, absolutely not! She was adorable.

Agnes DiPesto on Moonlighting

What r241 said. I LOVED That Girl's 'do.

Chrysanthemum never would have had a bowl haircut!

Riding the bus to Mulletville

I sat behind that one night from LAX to DFW, R72

Truly amazing hair.

R227 That hair is necessary to draw attention away from what’s below.

R199, I think Debbie called it "tropical" makeup.

R212, I think Colin Farrell's bad blonde hair was the real reason Alexander tanked, and not the little bit of homoeroticism with Jared Leto. It was so hard and distracting to look at, especially for a movie that was nearly 3 hours long.

Judy's red wig in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS.

250 posts, and not one mention of Tyler Perry yet? His actors all have LEGO® hair. It just snaps on.

We should appreciate the classic styles. The best women don't change with every passing fashion trend.

Julia Robert's hair in "Steel Magnolias." She had a huge eighties do and then wore an awful short wig that looked nothing like her actual hair, which was curly and a different color.

Oh, Brendad! It looks like she clipped a curly wig to each earring and walked out the door.

While Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" drew mixed reactions (I alternated between loving, hating, loving ,hating...) for the life of me, I could not figure out why they went with this hairstyle.

It's inexplicable to me.

Joan Crawford really hit the skids "Autumn Leaves." This movie was much lower budget than her earlier films and it shows up in wardrobe and HAIR. The lighting is also makes her look really bad throughout. All this on top of her character being a dowdy spinster home typist before she desperately marries her nutty younger fella. I think of this movie of the start of JC's decline towards "Trog."

Doris

The weird mullet-y wig Richard Harris wore in Cromwell

Laurence Olivier in "Richard III"

Peter Sellers, "What's New Pussycat?"

R251 they did Mechad dirty in that movie. It's weird seeing him with hair.

Barbara Stanwyck's blonde wig in "Double Indemnity".

Don’t forget I Love You, Alice B. Toklas.

Sharon Stone (Ginger), "Casino," 2nd half of movie. Looks like a spherical helmet. Also looked very dry (in need of conditioning) and very wig-like. (In the posted photo, "hair" doesn't look that dry.) Sharon (& her hair) looked so much prettier in the first half of the movie.

Forgot to add, below the spherical helmet, there were flipped wisps of hair, a la Carol Brady. Horrible.

R264

Take your pick.

A classic

A DL fave, so bad it's good

Liz tossed off a few doozies in her day

Simplicity itself

For a hairstyle that makes a beautiful woman look unattractive, I go with Jami Gertz's hairstyle in Twister

For British soap fans of a certain age, Coronation Street's Deirdre Barlow had an iconic bubble perm in the 1980s.

R270 - been there, done that . . .

Luther: What's that on yore hed!?

Eleanor Parker, however beautiful, had a bad hair moment from time to time.

The red streaks don't hold up. But neither did her character calling Freddy a certain word starting with f.

Betty Buckley in Carrie

Harvey Keitel in "Taxi Driver" . . .

Lou Ferrigno, The Incredible Hulk

Taylor Lautner in Twilight

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Phyllis Diller

Doris Day reportedly hated the "lacquered" hair she had to wear in a lot of her films. A down to earth gal, she hated its phoniness. She hated a lot of the clothes she had to wear, too.

Elke Sommer, "Deadlier Than the Male"

r63 In space, no one can do your hair.

Not even a gorgeous man can pull this off. Robert Wagner looking a twat.

Garbo's corkscrew curts in some scenes in Camille. I couldn't find a good image of them. I don't know if they are historically accurate for a Parisian courtesan living the demi-monde of mid-19th century but they are too harsh on her.

Garbo always had hideous hairstyles. And hard, drawn-on makeup. I"ll never understand why she was considered a great beauty.

Meant to write corkscrew curls ...

R264, that awful wig takes me out of the second half of the movie, but only for a moment. Sharon is so good! And she looked stunning in the earlier half.

For Jane Wyman, every day was a bad hair day.

MSNBC's Joy Reid. No wonder she hates gay men if she listened to whatever queenz recommended she wear that... thing on her head a few months back. Eeeek!!!

I think a lot of hairstyles now are really gross.

Gary Oldman's cruller-like coiffure in Dracula (1992)

Thoughts?

I like Elke's 'do at r284.

SO much expertise in this thread! It is humbling.

I agree. Elke's do is cute.

....

Here's a shot of Garbo in Camille

Isn't Mare married to former hottie Ed Harris? How did she manager that?

R289, me either...Garbo or Dietrich, I never got the attraction.

To be fair the 50's was not a good hair decade. The Mamie Eisenhower cut was prominent, followed by the hideous bubble helmets of the 60's.

r302 If she is, Ed's a bigamist.

Oh, another homely one R305. I always get those two actresses mixed up.

Ginger looks like Patricia Arquette in that first picture.

Sideshow Bob

Brendan Fraser has ugly hair in numerous moves but the fried mop in Encino Man takes the cake.

Mare was quite pretty in Turner & Hooch, and I loved her hair in it...

where's the love, bitchus?

R289/R303 But both styles were appropriate to the film - 289 is from Ninotchka where she's supposed to be a dour, severe, style-free Soviet commissar.

Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' Camille (and Garbo in Cukor's @ R301) was a courtesan - that's how hookers looked then - with the 1840's version of big hair. At least as interpreted by MGM.

This bitch

Ain't it purdy?

Take Me to Church.

Season 3 Jim Halpert. Krasinski wore a wig that season.

"Garbo always had hideous hairstyles. And hard, drawn-on makeup. I"ll never understand why she was considered a great beauty."

Look at her FACE. It was perfect. As for her hairstyles...well, they were the work of the hairstylist on the film. And the makeup was the makeup look that was the style in those days. But no matter what she had to wear or what makeup she had on she always had THAT FACE. It was glorious.

R311, Johnny has always had shitty hair.

One of my favourite threads, so not to side track it too much. Yep, Garbo always had shit hair in every film. Unlike every other actress living She wouldn't do any photo shots other than contractual ones connected to the current film she was in so there are very few natural Garbo photographs. This last ever screen test of her bucks the trend. Asked to do it because she had been away from the screen for years and in her 40's she did her own hair and makeup. This clip is 70yrs old now. I think she still looks stunningly beautiful.

Johnny Depp's bob in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Javier Bardem's bob in No Country for Old Men.

R214, there’s even worse hair in the second reunion movie. Check out Willie Aames’ mullet! I hope the stylist responsible for that monstrosity was run out of Hollywood.

No one on the planet had this hairstyle in the 80's. She looks like the flying Dutchman.

R157 My God her nose is massive in that picture. It looks like a boxer's nose. R176 Why does something look off about her teeth? It looks like she has railroad track braces but she doesn't. R186 That slicked back look NEVER looks good.

Thanks for posting that, R319. I've never been Garbo's biggest fan, but for a woman aged 43-44, she is stunning. Beautiful hair and skin. Just luminous.

Did someone say ‘mullet’?

Richard Harris in Cromwell

I adore Judith Light but her hair styles throughout the run of Who’s The Boss were generally awful. Can a hair stylist can be a size queen? Bigger, bigger, BIGGER!!

Dermot Mulroney in "About Schmidt." Caveat: this hair style was *supposed* to be ugly. Balding, graying mullet with horseshoe moustache. During the movie, he also wears his hair in a pony tail. IIRC, he wears a fanny pack at times as well. I saw this movie with a friend who wasn't familiar with Dermot Mulroney. I told my friend that DM was actually very good-looking and my friend refused to believe it.

That wig Shelby wore for her kidney transplant makeover. Hideous. Julia needs lots of hair to cover that horse face.

R328 And was it always green??

Lauren Graham consistently had bad hair on Gilmore Girls. Especially the hair extension seasons.

One of the few British remakes where the leading ladies were better looking than their stateside counterparts.

A lot of hair covering her face actually emphasises Roberts' outsize features. They need room.

What's that R333?

A lot of the hairstyles on this thread were SUPPOSED to look bad. The look was meant to be comedic (Peter Sellers) or to represent someone who was mentally disturbed (Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men") or someone with little means who had little access to good hair stylists (Roseanne Barr).

The pic of Roseanne Barr posted up thread was actually one of her better hairstyles on the show. Her first season perm was bad (though Laurie Metcalf’s was worse) but there was also the straight, jet black, Native American look she had after one of her plastic surgeries and thIs orange bird’s nest when she was heaviest

Joe Exotic's mullet

David Spade's enormous mullet in "Joe Dirt." It was hilarious.

I'd like to add Bridget Fonda, and later Jennifer Jason Leigh, for that awful carrot-top whatever-that-was in Single White Female. I know it was the style back in 1992, but it's really distracting, as Fonda is such a beautiful woman. I miss seeing her in movies. But man, that haircut... those sideburns!

What the fuck was wrong with whoever thought the brimless top hat look was attractive?

Maureen Stapleton in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom gets a makeover which includes Ronald McDonald color hair.

Almost everyone in the show Unorthodox.

Yay or nay?

Tart.

The ‘80s were cruel to us all ...

Not Woody’s best look.

Frau ‘do.

The Mom.

Moms.

Wallis Simpson hair.

....

Honestly, just pick a random clip from any 80s movie

So true ^^^

Speaking of Woody....

Brittany Murphy in her last films had long blonde hair extensions with dark roots supplemented by drag queen makeup thanks to hubby Simon Monjack.

Here's an example - trailer for Megafault.

did I miss this one?

Sean Connery's long gray ponytail in Medicine Man

Ginger's hair in ops picture may be bad but that's really a pretty good movie. Low budget noir but she and Brian Keith kept it interesting

Marcia Clark

Sheena Easton, For Your Eyes Only

[R126] They look like butch drag kings who happen to be working at the Kmart checkout line. OMG.

What was the deal with all those man-perms? I hated it on Mike Brady and I hated it on McCormick.

Miss Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

Big O´s anything you can do i can do better- big hair battle with Miss Taylor

Oh, this is bumped up.

If anyone's interest here's a great piece on Ginger I posted in the other thread.

There were some bad styles on The Golden Girls.

Like in the Rites of Spring where they all get that old lady cut that didn’t look too different to what Rue and Bea were wearing two seasons prior.

Lucille Ball still having her hair that bright clown orange despite being in her seventies on Life with Lucy.

I have nothing to say about these hairstyles...because I'm too busy laughing hehe

I HATE Mark Harmon’s hair on NCIS. I have no idea why they take a reasonably attractive older man and give him that part-down-the-middle haircut that is easily twenty five years too young for him. Most men his age would part their hair on the side. Hell most young professional men part their hair on the side, so you know a man over fifty with a head full of silver hair wouldn’t do it. But it’s the most annoying thing in the world. I can’t even watch the show because his hair is so annoying and distracting.

Here

r26 Ill up the bet and give you Ms Toni Tennille sporting that same hideous hairdo

Ms Tennille did not want to show it off...here she is

Janet Jackson’s Karen in For Colored Girl.

Vanessa's Gumby-inspired hair from the latter seasons of THE COSBY SHOW.

Denise also had some funky 'dos!

R259 He looks like Lord Farquaad.

It's a toupee R372

R335 It's the British remake of WHO'S THE BOSS? entitled THE UPPER HAND.

Elaine Benes (Julia Louis Dreyfuss), Seinfeld. Ugh.

Jerry Seinfeld's mini-mullet.

Gary Sandy / Andy Travis on WKRP in Cincinatti. The middle part on a long, skinny face.

Joseph Gordon Levitt in Third Rock from the Sun.

Loni Anderson on WKRP. Ugh! Halfway between helmet and cotton candy. Bleached and damaged blonde. Should have just used a good wig. (I'm assuming that's her real hair.)

Great movie but Millia Jovovich was given the worst hairstyle ever.

Mila's hair was great, what did you expect her to wear, long curls?!

R384 Andy's hair was the envy of every junior high and high school girl AND boy in America at the time.

Fuck I loved Gary Sandy’s hair, face, body and 📦. I wouldn’t have changed a thing about him.

Nobody cared about Andy's hair. They were too busy looking at his painted-on jeans.

Gary Sandy had fantastic hair . Everybody on the planet wanted fly backs . You had to have really thick hair for them to look good,and thankfully I did. I never blew it dry either,Id just tie a bandana around my forehead to give it lift and brush it constantly till it dried . I had some huge hair with no product . Of course now I dont have enough to make a wig for a grape. Ah time,such a cruel taskmaster.

So pretty

Haha R392 my husband did that same trick with a bandanna. His was to tame his curls (silly boy!) and keep from having "mushroom hair" as he called it. He is bald now too and I love him just the same. :)

Reason I brought up Gary Sandy was b/c someone, upthread, mentioned Mark Harmon and the middle part. Gary's hair part was off-center.

I know that everyone was getting a perm in those days, but I think a perm looks better on longer hair rather than short hair.

Mare and Imelda Staunton remind me of each other. Both have those little brown berry eyes.

Elaine had weird hair for a NY gal. She looked like she had pentacostal/FLDS hair.

The girls who worked at Publix in Florida all had that hair. I used to call it the "tidal wave" R398.

There was a Seinfeld episode, pre-text-messaging days, where the Elaine & Kramer, etc., were supposed to meet at a movie theater & couldn't find each other. They each asked around: "Have you seen a guy ..." Kramer described Elaine as having a "wall of hair" and "face like a frying pan." Elaine described Kramer as having a "horse face."

Speaking of Mark Harmon he went through a perm period in the 80s which wasn’t his best look. I think he originally did it to play Ted Bundy but he kept it for another movie role too.

I seem to remember an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine described Kramer as a tall doofus with a bird face and bride of Frankenstein hair.

Lucille Ball aged 15 or 20 years between the end of ILL and the Lucy/Desi comedy hour.

I did not like the up-dos on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. I think it was just a bad era (Gibson hair) for women's hairstyles.

Not sure if this has already been mentioned.

It was never flattering but any woman of that time period, and it certainly didn’t help Stockard who was already 15 years too old for the role.

Jared Leto in Panic Room. What the fuck was up with those cornrows?!

James Earl Jones in Conan The Barbarian (1982), sporting the "Janeane Garofalo"

Hahahaha R407. Uh oh I hope you didn't just open the Janeane Garofalo can of worms on DL. It's a thing.

So basically no hairstyles are appealing. No bobs, no long hair, no center parts, no up-dos, no perms, no feathering, no bangs, no blunt cuts, no at the ear, or the cut is too young looking for an older person or to old looking for a younger person. So what would please you bitches?

DL's secret hair preferences:

At least Jane's do looks much prettier than Joe Lando's, R404

A bit like her Somewhere In Time do.

Jane was luminous^^.

The 50s/60s were the absolute worst for hair. 70s were better than we had the 80s big hair but I'd almost rather see that again that the limp, flat-ironed look popular today and fancied by Gwynnie and Ivanka. Time to break out the hot rollers, bitches.

[quote] I HATE Mark Harmon’s hair on NCIS. I have no idea why they take a reasonably attractive older man and give him that part-down-the-middle haircut that is easily twenty five years too young for him. Most men his age would part their hair on the side.

r372/r373 - yes! He looked really good on this People Magazine cover from last year. I can’t imagine NCIS’s hair person is advising the awful hair part in the middle is a good look for him, so what gives?

R375: She was a major inspiration…

…to Adam Rich, who copied her hairstyle while he was on [italic]Eight is Enough[/italic].