FASHION, SWEETIE

’90s Antennae Hairstyle Back to Remind You of Just How Uncool You Were in the ‘90s

You can run, but you cannot hide behind these thin, face-framing tendrils of hair.

Julis Rei
The Haven
Published in
2 min readMay 23, 2021

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Photos by Boris Smokrovic and Olena Sergienko on Unsplash (Edited by author)

Sorry to bother you, but that trend of pulling two antenna-like strands of hair from your middle part to hang limply on your face is back, baby! But it didn’t return alone — oh no, it came bearing a sharp reminder of how impossibly whack you were in the ’90s. What’s that sound? It’s probably your yellowed, curling dELIA*s catalog gently weeping in the attic.

Maybe no one else remembers that your AIM screen name was NickCarterBbyGrL00, but this hairstyle does. And it will not let you forget it. A/S/L? Sure, it’s Always/Super/Losery.

Ugh, and remember that one time someone wrote in the slam book that you were uggo, because your butterfly hair clips weren’t sPaRkLy? Well, now you do. Antennae hairstyle slapped you across the face with that memory. Hard.

Oh, and don’t forget about when you tried to hold Jeremy’s hand at Gameworks, but he “too slow’ed” you and ran his fingers through his floppy hair and high-tailed it to the air hockey tables instead. Oucheroni. You cried in the bathroom as you reapplied your flip-up Bonnebell LipShades lipstick…

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