♪ Let's go to the mall ♪
- And get boyfriends!
♪ Let's go to the mall ♪
And get maybe girlfriends.
♪ Whatever you're into ♪
(upbeat music)
What up nerds?
Today we are traveling back in time to the 1980s.
The decade that I was born in, believe it or not.
Yeah.
Literally all of my life has been
devoted to the pursuit of hair volume.
I remember being a little girl
and my mom making me stand in front of her in the mirror
and she would take a round brush to my like
little short hair and try to give me volume.
But the moment I have any kind of shape, it just dies.
Okay, what is this doing?
Come on, gimme a second.
When I think of the 1980s I think of perms.
Like I feel like everyone had perms.
Madonna had a perm.
I know my mom had a perm at one time.
Should I get a perm?
No.
So I'm gonna watch some YouTube videos
that talk about achieving that 80s look.
And then I'm going to be using a vintage styling tool
to see if I can give my hair the volume that she deserves.
You've used this styling product before, right?
- [Megan] I haven't used it but it turns on.
- It turns on. (laughing)
So this is a 80s rocker hair tutorial.
Exactly what I want.
(squeaking)
So what I'm learning from this video
is extreme side parts are huge.
I think I'm definitely gonna go for
the brushed side thing here.
And then lots and lots of volume here.
I've learned three things from these tutorials.
I've learned that you need to slightly abuse your hair.
You need to rub it a lot, like rub it
so it makes this weird noise.
And I think that's to just kind of get it some texture.
I've learned that we're gonna have to tease.
Today we are using this.
The Speed Styler.
Leftover from the 70s.
Which I'm sure women in the 80s definitely used.
Is that Farrah Fawcett?
Is is Farrah Fawcett.
Oh my gosh, okay.
Wow, this smells like my mom's basement.
So this is essentially a hair dryer, yes?
That you put like a comb into?
(clicking)
Our producer, Megan, found this Speed Styler
from an antiques store in Seattle.
We're gonna use it on my baby hairs.
But first we're gonna wet it.
If this works, Megan, I'm gonna take this home with me.
(upbeat music)
So, a little background history for you.
Where we're going to is the coldest bathroom on campus.
It's freezing in here.
Do you not feel it?
- [Megan] No, this is the worst bathroom.
- It's the worst bathroom to poop in.
But sometimes you have to.
(splashing)
Am I doing it?
Step one, get yourself to look like a wet dog.
Step two, walk your sorry butt back to your set.
Step three, stand underneath the heat for a second.
- Boo! (yelping)
Step four, have Joyce scare the living hell out of you.
Maybe that's the secret for hair volume.
You just gotta be scared.
- Yeah, your hair jumped.
To full volume.
(groovy music)
- Devin needs help.
- Like this. - Oh.
Oh, yup.
Wow, Megan.
Look at this.
Okay.
(whirring)
(coughing)
I'm just gonna let it air out for a bit.
She's smoking.
Just a little bit.
All right, towel's off.
Woo!
Okay.
You're definitely getting that little 80s hair bend.
Up, do you see that?
That little curve.
I think we're getting there.
♪ Let's go to the mall ♪
I don't hate it.
Wait, do you see that?
I don't know if you know this,
but I think that's called volume.
(whooshing)
Really I'm making this video for the people
who don't know how to do hair, like myself.
I'm sorry if I'm--
(clattering)
Lost soldier.
Did we break it?
It's not turning on.
'Cause that's gonna help?
(laughing)
- No. - I killed her.
My hair killed her.
That's what happened.
I killed her.
Oh my gosh, she's dead.
Should we hold a funeral?
This is what this is like, my first--
(whirring) (yelling)
What, how?
(upbeat music)
What?
You think she's haunted?
- [Megan] Do you have a Ouija board in here?
- No, I don't have a Ouija board!
I barely have a hair dryer in here.
It could be haunted.
It could also just be overheated.
(whirring) We're back at it.
♪ Let's go to the mall ♪
Am I doing it?
Oh, wow.
So it smells like burnt hair in here.
Probably 'cause this thing is older than I am.
(record scratching)
Wow, this thing is older than I am.
Respect.
She's off again.
Look, this looks pretty voluminous, right?
All right, so teasing your hair.
Teasing 101.
You just grab a piece and you just go like this, right?
Let me reestablish this side 80s part.
There we go.
Oh.
I like the artform of teasing.
'Cause you're essentially just making chaos in your hair.
And I appreciate that.
You're creating problems and then smoothing it over.
And then not talking about it.
Problems, problems, problems, problems.
Talking (bleeping), spreading gossip, spreading gossip.
No, it wasn't me, it wasn't me.
This entire time.
I'm innocent.
Wow.
This might've actually worked.
(whooshing)
Wow.
Is she gonna turn on?
She's back, she's back.
Ah, look at that bump.
Look at it.
It's a hill.
All right, as it stands right now,
I'm kind of looking like a pissed off soccer mom.
And I'm trying to look like
a pissed off soccer mom from the 80s.
Okay.
Then we're just gonna spray it.
(coughing)
Am I beautiful yet?
We've teased her, we've heated her up,
we've put her in warm temperatures.
Now I'm just gonna start to mistreat her.
And just give her a little texture by pinching and rubbing.
Pinch, she's pinching, she's rubbing.
She's pinching, she's rubbing.
- [Megan] You know what you look like right now?
- Who do I look like?
- [Megan] You're looking less glam Farrah Fawcett.
And more the mother from Edward Scissorhands.
- They're both from the 80s though, right?
I never promised to look glam.
I just promised body.
You know.
I can't help if my crazy (bleeping) comes out.
Is it good?
This is good.
I'm just making land masses with my hair.
Which I've never been able to do before.
Thank you Speed Styler.
I think I went to sleep in 2019,
and I think I woke up in 1989.
So we're here for the long game.
We're gonna see how long this hairstyle lasts.
If she doesn't last that long it's my hair's fault.
If she does, it's the Speed Styler's fault.
(rock music)
- Looking pretty good, Meg Ryan.
Look at that.
It's not as poofy as I thought it would be.
It really actually is more modern than you'd expect.
- [Devin] Your hair is looking good, by the way.
- Thank you, I just got a haircut.
- It kinda looks like bedhead.
- She looks like 80s hair though, right?
Like 80s bedhead.
- Yeah, yeah.
Like if you went to bed and woke up in the 80s.
- We did not promise 80s glam.
We just promised that it'd be 80s hair.
- Yeah.
- I don't think I am mad at you in this.
'Cause I get that it's, you're trying something,
you're doing something.
- I'm, Curly's not mad. - Do you know what I mean?
Like you're trying something.
- You're just supportive of me
trying something new right now.
- But if this was like you being serious,
you were like, this is my new look
and being serious about this right now.
I'd be like, oh, maybe let's reconsider.
Do you know what I mean?
Wow, what fun.
- I actually styled it with an 80s tool
called the Speed Styler.
- What does the tool actually do?
- It turns on when she wants to.
It smells like your mom's basement.
And she heats up your roots so that you get more volume.
- Do you think I could use that?
- Curly if you want you can.
So I just walked by one of our HR reps, here at Buzzfeed.
And she gave me a little bit of a...
Her gaze said to me, I know it's a Monday,
but are you doing okay?
It's been about, I would say, two hours
since the volume was injected into my head.
It's definitely fallen.
She's fallen, look at her.
Look at her.
It's, I told you this would happen.
What are you gonna do?
So it's the end of the day.
And as expected, she's a little tired.
She's wilted.
But I learned a lot today.
I'm definitely going to be stealing that hairstyler.
You know what, I am happy that I was able to achieve
the volume of my dreams for at least part of the morning.
So traveling back to the 80s to find my
perfect hair volume, lady tested, lady lifted.
(upbeat music)
(whooshing)
I'll tell you one thing,
80s hair is not great for the environment.