The 80s!

Hey Y'all!



Ever since I was about 12 years old, I have had an unending, happy love affair with the 1980s and everything to do with it. I know that it absolutely all started with Michael Jackson. I had only been a fan of him for three years at the time, but I was really all about learning what I could about him and getting my hands on his music by any means I could muster.
And when I was 12, I started learning about the Thriller album and how it literally took over the damn world.

For a solid three months, I was on a Thriller bender. If you walked into my house, you'd swear it was 1983 because the Thriller videos were ALWAYS playing and the album too.
It kind of spawned off from that. I started mainly with people associated with Michael. Like Brooke Shields, I started looking at her movies. I saw Blue Lagoon and Pretty Baby. (PB really wrecked me at 12. I shouldn't have seen it that young) And I also got my hands on Prince's movie Purple Rain, on a whim, because my friend at the time was OBSESSED with Prince.
And Purple Rain changed my life.
when I saw Prince going wild with his guitar and all the club people in the cool outfits, I was like "Why the HELL was I born so late?" I mean I really think that the 80s and its creativeness and stuff is in the vein with what I like.



And I really liked Apollonia, she seemed so cool in the movie--she's one of my coolest Facebook friends now--and I really liked her style. Now I don't have the nerve to rock lingerie in public, but I liked the real clothes she wore, and I would in a heartbeat, throw on anything that she had worn because it was so unique.
I even dressed as Apollonia for Halloween last year--and the REAL Apollonia liked it!


I totally loved doing that kind of make up. It took a LONG time to put it all on, but it was perfect and my boyfriend nearly had a stroke when he saw me!
That's what I like most about the 80s. Like everyone looked sexy without really even meaning to, with the big hair and bold make up. I love to style myself in that way. I don't get to do it too often, but when I do it, I do it BIG.








I also like the music fromt he decade. I love everyone--Lionel Richie, Debarge,Guy, Vanessa Williams, Debbie Gibson, you name it. Music was great then, none of this watered down, Justin Beieber warbling crap that passes on the Top 40 now. People were masters of thier craft and did cool things.

Well, that's enough for now. I think I'll devote my next blog to the tv shows of the 80s I love. And there's ALOT!