Trapped in the ‘80s: This 24-year-old has big hair, vintage clothes, a Camaro — and makes her living from a decade she never lived in

Her gig is wholly rad.

A Staten Islander is making a surviving from her infatuation pinch nan 1980s — contempt ne'er having lived successful nan decade herself.

Content creator Violet Sky, who sports a teased-up perm and bangs and moreover drives a teal Camaro, ever dresses arsenic if she were going backmost to nan future.

“Every infinitesimal of each day. It’s conscionable my manner astatine this point,” Sky, 24, who has much than 324,000 TikTok followers, told The Post.

“I deterioration astatine slightest 1 portion of acid-washed denim a time — and I’ve been really into nan large hair.”

Since launching her Instagram and TikTok relationship @glitterwave80s, Sky, who uses her first and mediate names for her online persona, landed partnerships pinch aggregate ’80s icons — bands for illustration Def Leppard and Journey, TV shows for illustration “Married pinch Children,” clothing labels specified arsenic Esprit and arcade classics for illustration Pac-man.

“Everything I do to make money relates to nan ’80s successful immoderate way,” she said.

When she is not creating societal media content, Sky useful astatine nan thrift shop Flamingo’s Vintage Pound successful Chelsea, and besides does ’80s wardrobe consulting.

The erstwhile euphony manufacture awesome astatine SUNY Oneonta besides hosts a power show connected Staten Island position Maker Park Radio, spinning vinyl records only, and is besides releasing an ’80s medium this year, aptly named “The Sky’s nan Limit.”

From a young age, Sky believed she was calved successful nan incorrect decade — and her affinity for nan ’80s began erstwhile she discovered nan 1985 Sarah Jessica Parker movie “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”

“I fell successful emotion pinch nan soundtrack, nan manner and nan dancing and conscionable really bold and expressive nan clip play was,” she said.

Her parents, who she said “don’t really get it,” had thing to do pinch her obsession.

“I mostly sewage this from conscionable watching movies myself versus their influence, origin my mom didn’t look for illustration maine astatine each erstwhile it comes to nan eighties.”

In 2018, erstwhile she was elder successful precocious school, she launched @glitterwave80s and her level gained momentum successful 2020, aft a alien posted a screenshot of its floor plan connected Twitter and it went viral, racking up 100,000 likes.

Her most-watched post, pinch 3.2 cardinal views, was filmed successful an unrenovated Taco Bell successful Jersey City, wherever she had luncheon while showcasing nan restaurant’s teal, pinkish and purple interior.

“People miss erstwhile nationalist spaces were colorful. We unrecorded successful a world wherever everything is slow being painted grey and it tin beryllium really depressing to look at,” she said.

She besides launched her singing profession done her online platform.

The posts of her articulator synching to 1 of her favourite synth popular bands from nan era, Shy Talk, sewage nan attraction of its keyboard player, David Bravo, who invited her to put her vocals connected his unreleased tracks.

“All of [the songs] would person been mislaid successful clip if he had not reached retired to me,” said Sky, who hopes to prosecute a profession arsenic a media archivist.

She moreover became a meme from a photograph she took successful New Jersey’s Livingston Mall successful beforehand of a Spencer’s motion that hadn’t been updated since nan 80s.

“And [the meme] is like, ‘Only ’80s kids will ever retrieve going to Spencer’s.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean? I was calved successful 2000, and that’s me.'”

Although she buys a batch of her era-inspired clothing from Flamingo’s Vintage Pound, she besides scours different vintage stores successful NYC for illustration L Train Vintage, Spark Pretty and Beacon’s Closet to find brands for illustration Jordache and Gitano.

While thrifting, she besides picks retired ’80s decor for her bedroom.

“I person immoderate Formica furniture. I person a large 1992 Magnavox TV that I watch my VHS tapes on.”

Sky said her ’80s-inspired ensembles conscionable blend successful pinch NYC crowds.

“They don’t attraction arsenic overmuch because everyone’s dressing really eccentrically. So it’s benignant of nice.”