BOOK Pictures speak volumes about big hair days

LONDON (AP) -- Love it or loathe it, if you're over 25, big hair is likely a part of your past.
A new book offers the chance to laugh along with your fellow mane-lovers, suspended in time. If you can remember a time when bigger was always better and Stiff Stuff was a necessary beauty tool, reading "Big Hair" (Bloomsbury) by James Innes Smith might be a cringe-inducing experience as well.
Besides a short description on the book jacket, "Big Hair" has no text and lets the photos speak for themselves, documenting cutesy models in Dolly Parton-style curls, scowling faces peeking out from behind geometric new wave haircuts and aspiring Don Juans with thick feathered hair and mustaches.
The small volume is a campy dream -- even the inside lining of the book is lined with old newspaper ads for a Princess Diana wig, the "afro toupee" and a hair cover that protects huge hairdos during sleep.