Sunswept
Posted on February 14, 2011 by promtacular! in 1990s Prom, Aquanet!, perms, Shine On! | 2 Comments
Year: 1990
Elesha writes: “I am wearing my finest, yes, a “shiny” strapless green prom dress that had matching shoes, but one doesn’t think to look, as they are scared STIFF by my hair. Too much sun-in?”
To the best of my recollection, we haven’t had a notable case of Sun-In on Promtacular! yet, which is quite astonishing. Sun-In, for those of you who don’t know(?), is a spray-in hair bleach that was supposed to react with the sun to give your hair a delicate, “lightened by the sun” look. Except it turned everyone’s hair a sickly orange. Just how orange? Depended on what color your hair was to begin with. I know this? Because EVERYONE tried it, and many of us tried it more than once.
Notice how Elesha’s hair isn’t NOT blond? But isn’t really NOT orange, either? Ah. Sun-In. ‘Twas magical.
I heart Elesha for also adding a perm and spray (and possibly mousse, who’s to say) and going with the full-on sideswept ‘do. WAY TO COMMIT!
As for her dress, well. It is the shiny. I’m just a little disappointed that it is so plain. I mean, when dress is so iridescent it looks like it might be cellophane it certainly doesn’t also need lace and bows and ribbons. But that’s never stopped dressmakers in the past. So all things considered, this shiny dress is practically conservative.
I wish we could have seen the shoes.
I’m sorely disappointed by the backdrop. It’s totally, totally fine.
I do LOVE the expression on Elesha’s date’s face. It’s as if he’s saying, “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEY.” Maybe he’s trying to figure out if the dress really is made of cellophane?
See, now, this backdrop annoys me more than most of them, simply because OF COURSE all the guys are going to be wearing black tuxes. And they are going to be put right in front of that black piano. And all of them are going to look like a floating head and hands, because they will blend right into the background, like this guy does.
Ahhh Sun-in. A cruel joke for those of us with almost black brown hair… Although I had a perm at the time so I clearly wasn’t that concerned about the do’ I was rockin. And that poor guy looks like he’s sporting a Kid-N-Play hair do and a ginormously wonky shoulder.