Permed hair advert

I've never permed my hair but my daughter decided when she was 16 that 'everybody' was doing it. Her hair was quite long and the effect wasn't too good to put it mildly. But my dear Mum had her's permed all her life, every three months I think it was. When she had a period of illness and couldn't have it done, I thought her hair looked so much better straight but she wouldn't have it and had a perm again as soon as she could.

My 94 year old Mother in Law still has her hair permed regularly. Same style that she has had for at least the last 60 years. My daughters did persuade her to let her rather brassy blond colour dye grow out. She looks much better with the silvery colour she is naturally now.

I remember my Dad perming my hair for me when it was fashionable. I would have been about 16, it may have been a Toni or Twink.
It was very successful 😀

I had my first perm in about 1978, I was 13. Me and my friend had it done together at a hairdresser's. The hair was layered and permed, then we'd put our heads upside down and scrunch it up with mousse, the "shaggy" look!! My mum (not a qualified hairdresser) used to give my auntie and nanny a perm (Pin Up) every couple of months, and a weekly wash and set in her kitchen. Phew the smell of ammonia from those perms made your eyes water 😂. My mother-in-law still has her hair permed at home (she's 94) by a hairdresser, then set, she wouldn't look right with straight hair, the coiffured look suits her and it makes her feel good to have her hair done. The hairdresser said that perming isn't part of the hairdressers' course nowadays, it's an optional extra. I'm surprised young girls don't have perms any more, or even a demi-wave as they used to call it, it really does help to keep the curls in whether you set it on rollers, blow dry it or tong it.

When I was about 8 or 9 my mum loved the advertisement in the cinema or woman’s magazine, it was for ovaltine I think
A girl with plaits and a very curly fringe supping cold ovaltine through a straw
My fringe was getting long , I don’t know whether it was to grow it out or she genuinely thought a curly fringe would suit me , but she home permed my fringe ! It wasn’t great and luckily my hair grew quickly, so it wasn’t pulled back into my pigtails ,
Luckily no photographic evidence exists !

I had one or two perms in my mid-late teens. I had dead straight thick very fine hair. If I had a light perm, the weight of my hair pulled it out within a week or two. If I had a stronger perm, my hair frizzed. As I said, I only ever had one or two perms.

My mother had naturally very tight curly hair, she never had a perm!

Ahh I think I remember that advertisement.
After having a straight bob all my days, was talked into having a perm. I walked into class at college to sit my exams, every one cracked up. Couldn’t get rid of my perm quick enough 😂

I had a perm in my 30s . I came home with my newly permed hair to be told by my young sons that I looked like Kevin Keegan, a footballer at that time, with big curly mop of hair.

I had a perm once. I looked like a poodle. Never again!

My mum had her her permed every 4 months and I have had a perm too when I was in my twenties. I have natural wavy hair and I don't suit the straight bobs that are fashionable now

Oh aggie that made me smile 😃.
I had a perm once, it fell out within a week. Went back to complain, hairdresser asked if I was pregnant no I said got my money back.
Found out a short while after I was expecting 🫣

Had my hair straightened but never permed. Wanted a Mary Quant style as a teenager but had to live with naturally wavy/curly hair. Still do but have embraced it as I have got older.

Am I the only person who has always been uite happy with my hair in its natural state? Yes, I did have a couple of perms in my teenage years, but this was just part of the experimenting stage one goes through at that age.

My hair is dead straight, with a double crown so it always falls over my face so I have always had a fringe and was a very dark brown, with red glints in summer, which again I never wanted to change.

I had long spiral perms in the 70s, and loved them. They took ages to take, as my hair was poker straight, but once done they took no maintenance - I washed my hair, turned my head upside down, shook it a bit and that was that.

I had a couple of perms at separate salons in the ‘70’s with mixed, but disastrous results! I approached a different Nationwide salon for some remedial work and was told my hair was far too porous to take any kind of perm. I’d had the same trouble with colour - even a mid brown came out black, so it all made sense. I stayed with that salon until the stylist retired last year.

My hair doesn’t perm . I tried it twice in the 80s , I was after a Banarama vibe and it just dropped out and left my hair very dry . My natural hair is poker straight .

I'm the odd one out I think.I have a soft perm every three months and a trim at six weeks. My hair is very fine and straight I'm happy with it and friends and family say it suits me.
My hairdresser is very reasonable and charges me £47 for a cut and perm. I'm 82.

MissChateline

I had a perm once. I looked like a poodle. Never again!

You and me both! Went to a new hairdresser who assured me that a 'body perm' wouldn't give me curls but would just add more body to my poker-straight hair! Fast forward a couple of hours and I could have entered the poodle class at Crufts! Never again! Good job it was the 80s when big hair was a thing.

Justwidowed

I'm the odd one out I think.I have a soft perm every three months and a trim at six weeks. My hair is very fine and straight I'm happy with it and friends and family say it suits me.
My hairdresser is very reasonable and charges me £47 for a cut and perm. I'm 82.

My friend has a root perm on her straight, layered hair. It seems to work well, no curl, just lifts it and gives it body.

back in the 60's perms were the norm, my mum always had her hair permed, short curly, I used to do a home perm for her , then I remember a time when young men had their hair permed, I've had a few in my 20's, usually my friend did mine and I did hers, my friends hair was thick and looked nice,mine was thin and yucky, havent had one for years..

Think Leo Sayer - that was me!

That's what my husband calls our 2 year old curly haired granddaughter!! 😂

I miss perms. My hair did so much better with the texture it created.

Here in the US, braid perms were (are?) having a tiny moment. The stylist would put multiple braids in the hair and run the perm solution in it. I've never known anyone to have one though, so not sure if it is worth it.

Be brave and get yourself a perm, imaround. They're handy in the summer if you swim a lot, wash, mousse and scrunch, and you're good to go!