80's Hangout

     Everyone knows that the teenagers of this generation is totally different from the teenagers back in the 80's. We speak different slang, dress different, and even spend our free time at different locations. During the 80's, the 'popular' place to hangout was the mall, pizza places, video arcades, and bowling alleys. Now days teenagers don't hangout really at any of those. I mean yes, we do sometimes go to the mall but that's normally for shopping or to go see a movie. If we go to a pizza place it's normally for food not to hangout. Some people go bowling but that's only if it's midnight bowling. It's so crazy to think that even just a couple of years difference, teenagers hangout at totally different locations. The teenagers now just hangout at a friends house or outside. 

The popular hair style of the 80's

    

     The 80's hair style was the biggest difference compared towards the 70's or the 90's hair style. I mean yes, there are some that are literally the same but at lot of them totally went 360 compared to what they were once. This was one common hair style. Girls would wear giant headbands or bows in their hair.

     Another major hair style would be when girls would go big with their hair. My mom told me she would at least go threw a can of hairspray every two weeks. She said, "The bigger, the better,". Girls would either crimp, straighten, or curl their hair and then tease it like no tomorrow.

     The most simple one was this hair style, where they would curl/blow dry their hair back. It was popular in the early 70's.

1970's fashion for girls

    

      One of my favorite generations for fashion is the 70's! It's just so different. During that time is when everything in the fashion world was starting to slowly change. A lot of girls wore different things, which is in every generation to be honest. The most popular trends were girls wearing dresses. Girls were starting to go bolder with the length. Sometimes they would wear shorts this short also. When they did, it was mostly girly. So pretty much a lot of flower pattern, natural colors, or a simple but yet interesting pattern. 

      

     The 'party' look was mostly short dresses but
 with more of an interesting look. Some girls would go all out and be bold with prints for the patterns or animal print. Then other girls would just go with more of a simple look with more dresses like the girls in the picture on the bottom row.









   


     A lot of girls did the whole 'protest outfits' therefore, it was simply like this. They were just light, natural, simply colors/designs.

     This style was very common. It was more towards the late 70's that it came around to becoming popular. Bell Bottoms were very popular back then. It's simply just normal jeans but at the end of the pant leg, it flares out. It's like our normal flare jeans but there's more 'flare' added to it.

80's Fashion

One of my by far favorite topics to talk about is fashion. More pacific, 80's fashion! The main reason why I love it so much is it can range from basic to over the top, and it was still acceptable and super cute! One of my favorite types of 'styles' back then was the 'simple' look. Which is more of the grunge look of the 90's but more girly to it. So you can describe it as the 'tumblr' look. If you've ever watch the Breakfast Club, the character, Claire Standish. Which is played by Molly Ringwald. Her look is any movie she's done during the 80's is the look I'm talking about.

                                     

Another really popular look was more of the effortless look. Which was more towards the late 80's also during the early 90's as well. This look was more of band shirts, logo shirts, with cardigans, blazers, or a jacket wrapped around the waist. 

Another main look during that time was the sort of the 'party look/every day look'. Which was which either a lot of natural colors or more of a 'out there' look with brighter colors. 

The most common and the most style that mostly every one remembers. Most people just think that girls only in the 80's just wore bright colors and leg warmers. Yes, that is true but not twenty-four-seven. This look was also another popular trend. Which included, leggings, leg warmers, big earrings, bright make-up, and bright colors. 

Hair Styles: 70's

The 70's most popular hair styles were so different yet so similar. From having straight hair, to being parted right in the middle. The hair styles normally either had long bangs to either side or just straight up bangs. The hair was normally very, very long. Sometimes almost to her hips.

A lot of girls have hair styles like this back in the day. Most popular was having the sides of her hair be curled backwards.

Some girls even started the whole 'big hair' thing. Which also started the 'big jewelry' trend. 

The last major type of hair do that girls rocked back in the 70's were the Afro.

Cell Phones: 80s vs 2015

Cell phones are used almost by everyone now days. We never forget them. They are attached to our hip, like an extra arm. When we loose it, we freak out. When we break it, we get so mad that some of us even cry.

Our whole lives are on our phones. Some do our taxes on it, plan our meetings, and even what's going to happen in five weeks. It's crazy how attached we are to our phones. It's nice to have them, but at times I feel that it's way too much. If you think about the future, either we are going to become too into our phones or lay off of them more.

If you think about it back in the 80's-early 90's phones were around. But they were those big block phones. That mostly only rich people had phones. In order to use it, you would have to make sure the antenna was up.

Now days, you don't have to have an antenna. It could work perfectly fine without one. Cell phones have evolved in so many ways. So have people, we act differently towards it then what teenagers in the 80's would have acted like.

If we have evolved this much within this small amount of time with cell phones, imagine what our children will be like. It has gone from block phones, to iphones, then who knows? We could have a phone were you press a button and a hologram appears instantly. Or you can get transported by saying into the phone where you wanna go.

It's just so crazy how much we/cell phones have changed by themselves. Having cell phones have changed up for good. We will depend on them for everything and it will always be that way.

Teen Pregnancy in General

Teen pregnancy in the United States is a big deal now days, I walk around my high school. I seen normally about three to five pregnant teens a year. It's so weird to think. I mean, teenagers that are aged from fifteen to eighteen are becoming parents. We are still kids ourselves and you're about to become a parent. 

I don't mind teen pregnancy, I just think it's a scary thing to do. I personally feel if you do become a parent at a young age, it's okay. The only thing that's wrong with it is how you make decisions after that. That little bundle of joy is counting on you to save the day every time. Don't fail.

It really bothers me when other judge mental teenagers talk so much crap about teen parents. Saying how, they never accomplish anything. They will never amount to anything great. You know what's so funny? IT ALL COUNTS ON THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE. It would be the same if you didn't have a kid. Everything in life determines on what you do next. So, no, it really DOES NOT matter on if you're pregnant or not. If you really want some thing, you'll do whatever it takes.

Being a result of teen pregnancy, I would have to say it's really weird. Everyone talking about how teen pregnancy sucks. Yes, there was difficult times. Yes, some of my life sucked. But, like I said it all determines how bad you want things. Once my mother got older, things started to turn around. I'm not saying life was so bad, we lived in a box. It was never hard like that. Just the fact that my dad was never around also, so that was always a plus.

What I'm trying to say is I'm a result of it. I'm doing pretty good in school, and in life. I'm going to college in the fall and I have a wonderful job. If there is anyone expecting a child soon, just do your best and don't listen to anyone. Coming from a kid being the result of that, everything turns out fine.