Tina Turner’s Hairstyles Through the Years: Straight Tresses, Curly Bobs and Spikey Hair

Tina Turner, who died at age 83 on Wednesday, wasn’t only recognized as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” for her standout hits and ever-evolving edgy fashion but also for her hairstyles. Turner’s hair was often styled as a direct extension of her talent, representing her fierce stage presence and emotional resilience throughout life’s hardships. The Grammy-winning singer was known to wear wigs and went on to embrace what the world would remember as one of her most popular hairstyles: spiky, gravity-defying hair. RELATED: How Tina Turner Made Hanes Hip, Plus the Singer’s Other Noteworthy Ad Campaigns In an interview with ABC News in 1985, Turner detailed the “recipe” for her signature hairdo, saying “You sort of got to wash it and let it dry, naturally. Then after that, you have to, what I call ‘fork it up.’ You’ve got to sort of tease it up.” Ahead, here is a deeper dive into Turner’s hairstyles. 1968 Tina Turner performing live in 1968 on the ABC TV series “The Hollywood Palace” in Los Angeles. In the ’60s, Turner started to fully embrace wigs after a disastrous trip to the hair salon, which was reenacted in the 1993 biographical film titled “What’s Love Got to Do

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