• Retro bangs can be a modern fashion statement.valentine 2 image by anna karwowska from Fotolia.com
  
  Bangs---short, long, straight or teased---have come in and out of fashion for generations. To create any style of bangs, hair is sectioned in the front over the forehead and trimmed to the desired length. Retro hairstyles may require retro products and tools such as curlers, bobby pins or aerosol hair spray to accurately recreate, though most can be updated with modern products such as styling gels with maximum hold.
  
  

Flapper Bangs

• In the 1920s, young women commonly known as flappers set the fashion tone for the decade with short, bobbed hairstyles that often had bangs that covered most of the forehead. Also popular in the '20s were polished finger waves sculpted with hair wax. The retro flapper bangs of today are usually styled with maximum hold gel or mousse.
  
  

Bettie Bangs

• Classic '50s pinup bangs were popularized by model Bettie Page, whose long brunette locks were capped with trademark pin-curl bangs. Modern variations may be long or very short, falling straight across the brow line, but the traditional style made a "U" shape across the forehead, with the lowest point falling about halfway between the scalp and eyebrows.
  
  

'80s Bangs

• While in the '60s it was common for girls to keep their bangs neat and tease up the the hair on top into a bouffant, in the '80s, bangs defied gravity. Eighties "mall" bangs could be curly or straight, and sometimes had a short fringe across the forehead, with longer bangs teased up and back or to the side. To create the look, pull hair-sprayed or gelled hair up with a comb and use a blow dryer to set.