My Yearbook Photos...Very Scary

Okay, so I just could not resist. I saw the link to this site on http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/, and the photos that one of her readers had created of Ree. So, so funny. I just had to do some of myself.

And they are so funny, they bring tears to my eyes. For someone who was born in the 80s, 1950, even 1970, is ancient history.

This is me in 1950. What is sad about this, is that I knew a girl in high school who had the exact same hair style...
This is me in 1952...apparently I let my hair grow a little...I actually like this picture. I would have made a cute 1952 woman--although I am unsure of what mud puddle I fell into to get my chin this dirty. This photo also reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time--High Road to China (yes, mom, the one with (swoon) Tom Selleck). In this picture, I would have fit into the cast quite nicely--although I am pretty sure the time frame of the movies was 1910's.

This next picture really, really cracks me up, because I am pretty sure that there is a picture of my mother-in-law (sorry, DeeDee), with nearly the exact same hairstyle and shirt. Although I will emphasize that the picture was not taken in 1958, more like the 70s. She would die if you thought she was an adult in the 50s!This one is even better--this is how I imagine the traditional students on campus see me--school marm Kathryn. Although I am quite sure that even in their view of me, I do not have two left ears...
This next one depresses me. And while I think that my mother-in-law (once again, sorry) also has a picture with this hairstyle...it is not the hair that depresses me. It is the fact that I am pretty sure that while I am pregnant this is how fat and distorted my face looks. :( (I have mentioned that we are not having any more babies right?) Another scarily-realistic school marm picture...I must have had face-lipo since the last picture...

Seriously, if I could ever get this much volume out of my hair, I would wear it like this next picture everyday. I mean it, everyday. But as it stands, I my hair would need some serious ratting and about 20 gallons of hairspray to look like this. Okay, maybe 30 gallons--on my wedding day, I think there was 20 gallons of hairspray on my hair, and it still did not have this much volume.
Okay, so this next one, although it is supposed to be in the 70s, I had this hairstyle just a couple of years ago...what goes around comes around.

Okay--now I am going to pick on my Grandma Billie for a minute (I love you grandma--I really do--but everyone gets picked on!)--she had hair like this and apparently a serious fascination with Cher because many of the pictures of her from when she was young looked as if she was a Cher impersonator!

Now back to picking on mom. She not only had a hairstyle like grandma and the picture above, but also much like the next picture--although longer, and much more Farrah Fawcett. In fact, my Aunt Diana told me just the other day that my mom had the most perfect 70s hair and that everyone wanted to look like her...
I really have no words for the next one, other than, what were those women thinking? This is supposedly from the year I was born...thank God I was too young to remember...
Ha, ha, hee, hee. I know a woman who looked just like the picture below. Although I will not name her because I do not know her that well, and the way blogs go...you just never know who might stumble upon this...(I only harrass people I know and love!)


Okay, so I had hair like this, or at least made a fourth-grade attempt at hair like this. I remember tying my long t-shirt in a side knot, and then using a brush to hold the sides of my hair out, spraying, spraying, spraying with hairspray to create, as we called them, "Bat wings."
This next one--is my cousin Heather. Really--her senior picture looked just like this!!!
The next one, 1998--I had this hairstyle. Gigantic forehead and all. I think I could probably dig up a picture of me that looks just like this. Trust me, I have since repented and thrown out all of my curling irons--actually, I used hot velcro rollers and curling irons...
And I had this hairstyle too...my bangs weren't quite so fluffy...once again, my hair does not have enough volume, but they probably would have looked like this!

I did dig up a picture of this hairstyle. I mean, check it out, bangs and all!
Here is the picture that I used for all of the pictures above...even this style is somewhat regrettable...thus my newly-cut bangs. (Not full-forehead, just straight-ironed side bangs...you know, stylish!) But really, how long do you think it will be before all of these layered, straight-ironed looks are made fun of? Well, I'll just have to destroy the pictures before my kids see them!