Are perms coming back???????

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  • HealthyWarrior
    HealthyWarrior Posts: 394 Member
    I personally miss my spiral perm. Once my hair gets down mid-back length I'll be at my hairdressers spiraling it up again.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    If Perm means Permanently Bald, then , YES!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    If Perm means Permanently Bald, then , YES!

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  • ACepero79
    ACepero79 Posts: 711 Member
    All hair?
  • Keiras_Mom
    Keiras_Mom Posts: 844 Member
    My 8 year old daughter just asked me this morning how old she has to be to get a perm. :grumble:
  • Carissa145
    Carissa145 Posts: 604 Member
    I'm not getting one, ever. My hair is naturally "wavy", so I guess easier for me to choose a style to go with.. Straight or wavy, anything goes.

    Same here. I'm happy with my hair :)

    me too....

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    no perm for this guy anytime soon...

    The little guy could get one!!

    he has his mom's hair...all I have to do is get it wet and it curls right up...we live in the desert so it's not an issue, but when we go to more humid environments it gets all crazy curls just like mom.

    Aww that's sweet :)
  • 777Gemma888
    777Gemma888 Posts: 9,578 Member
    OP My friends younger sister who is 24 is getting a perm on Sat. What? Aren't they from the 80's? Are they making a comeback? She has beautiful straight hair and I think a perm will ruin in!

    The perm, straight or curly, was never voted off the island or left the building, hence the Chinese migration to Atlanta, taking over from the once black-owned, black dominated industry. Curly hair or straight hair - big business, no matter the race.
    ninerbuff November 07, 2013 11:52 am
    African Americans and others have been perming since the 70's till now. Don't think it ever left.

    True. ETA: The Paris Fashion Haute Couture shows, minimum Chanel, featured the frizzy long hair. Tight spiral curls, teased to distraction. Vogue Mag, last year, the extreme of perm, the 'fro ~ Gaga. Where art meets fashion and fashion is art, but art and fashion imitate life.
    MayraH26 November 07, 2013 12:10 pm
    Lol, yup. Straight perms. Did one recently. Not thrilled about it, but I have otherwise crazy curly hair. So they're used as relaxers not just to make nappy messes, lol.

    Growing up predominantly British Commonwealth, a perm was always about taking one's natural state of hair, to a curlier texture. It wasn't until a show covered by Tyra Banks via Oprah's Show and Chris Rock's documentary, whereupon I learnt, that hair straightening is also a perm. In that regard, it certainly hasn't left now has it? No matter the race classification, White, Latina, Asian or Black, et al, the Japanese Hair Straightener made billions in the US from women who'd straightened their natural hair and their extensions. Now for some, the new product is the Brazilian Blowout. The new and improved Brazilian Blowout is the Keratin treatment. All to achieve one ideal ~ straighter hair strands.

    Being raised in the world of Ayurveda, this was all new to me, including how women have morphed into the hair pieces, the clip-ons, the crown attachments, the differences and the similarities between extensions and weaves; All a learning curve for some of us. The beauty business delineated in terms by race-centric marketing and usage for the buck$$. Extensions ~ White dominant. Weave ~ Black dominant. I never quite understood the statement, as a child, watching some TV and movies, when they'd say, "If you don't have it, fake it." If you don't have long hair and you want it, there's always extensions. Something that would've proven helpful to me growing up, post the mourning period ceremony or where I'd differed from my sister, where my hair was pruned to bald because of boy problems. A wig would've worked. Extensions. Glue it on! I would've done it, straight or curly, boom ~ but no! Being a woman and our hair ... Does it really matter? Hell yes. Choices, options with styling. The perm is here to stay. Doubt very much the straight perm is ever going to leave, making a soft face more angular or a curly perm, to soften a hard face.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I really want the feathered look of the 80's to come back! Seriously, I do.

    :heart:

    I know a lot of people who think it has. Or that it never went away ...
  • DamePiglet
    DamePiglet Posts: 3,730 Member
    I also have a 'perpetual perm' - beachy waves one day, much curlier the next.
    I used to try to fight it but then I decided that it's just too much of a chore.

    A couple of my female co-workers got body waves (perms) a few months ago, but neither perm lasted.

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