to ask why several prominent members seem to have vanished?!?

And Julie Walters. I aspire to have my hair like hers. Well I have the right colour. It's a start.

Talking about hairstyles, I like the cut that Helen Mirren has now, and her hair's nearly white.

anno, I had poker straight hair until my 40's, when it began to curve, a bit, inconsistently and not in a good way. I longed to have one of those stylish bobs you see but this was never possible. I had highlights and found myself turning blonde. I gave it up and now have an equally short hair cut to the one I had in the 70's except its silver and grey. Very liberating not to colour.

In the early 80s I had a curly perm and, looking at the photos of the time now, I simply cringe! My hair has always had a mind of its own and been the despair of most hairdressers. I have never been able to grow it long as it's very fine and blow-away. About 20 years ago, I had highlights which looked good but I got fed up having to have the roots done every few weeks and now it's mostly silver anyway.

Now that was posh! Dungarees! Oh how I loved my dungarees! With rolled up hems!

Wow, in Lewis's - I'd pushed the boat out and gone to a Vidal Sassoon salon near St Anne's Square. I felt very posh indeed, despite my dungarees !

It was in Lewis's Iam! Salon was on the top floor, right at the back. I miss Lewis's

Yes, you're right, we've meandered quite a bit

Oh, I wasn't at such a posh hairdresser Chewbacca. Mine turned to colleagues and said "it's what she wanted" as though I was off my trolley. On reflection, there may have been some truth in that but I never regretted my very short hair and felt liberated by it.
This thread has really wandered hasn't it

Well remembered Iam64! Nooooo! I didn't keep the perm. When I think back to the torture of them, I wonder where my common sense was! I've always had masses of hair (hence my nic name) and perms just added even more to the volume! My hair was like a Brillo pad by the 1980s! Like you, I chopped it off and went for the choppy elfin cut which I was reliably informed by a posh hairdresser was actually called "au savage"!

When I had my Supreme Commander cut it was when DM was visiting.
She giggled when she saw it and giggled every time she looked at me.
I thought I looked just fine

Perhaps she may resurface

I make no apologies for going back a few posts.
Chewbacca! Am I right in remembering you may be a north west woman? I had the same hair change in 1978. From long, very straight, hippy type hair to a perm. It changed my life. I went from perm to very short, I think the proper description is elfin cut.
Did you stay permed? Did you go very short. I confess, my extremely short hair cut coincided with divorce and real involvement in feminist activities. Fabulous years.
Isn't life grand. Don't we all welcome change.

But perhaps her sister didn't.
If she had one.

Isn’t she commit ssuicide ?

Two sisters of Persephone.

I have named changed

Ah thanks atqui

Janeainsworth. Sorry if I caused confusion . Luckylegs asked "Are all the pages like those, political pointless arguing to and fro about racism etc? Please tell me they aren't!"
So I was just pointing out that the thread had morphed into a discussion on hairstyles we have known!!

When I was 18 and working in London there was a new type of perm, all the rage, called a demi-wave. It gave your hair soft bouncy curls and looked very natural. I rang my local hairdresser and asked if they could do it. They'd never heard of it, so I described it and they said Oh yes, I know what you mean. I stupidly booked an appointment. I mean, honestly, what was I thinking? It was obvious they had no clue what a demi-wave perm was. I came out with what I could only describe as a granny perm, so embarrassing .
When I got home I dashed straight upstairs, locked myself in the bathroom, and cut it all off - my hair was about half an inch all over. But it was either that or give up my job/friends/boyfriend and live like a recluse till it grew out

My mum went to the hairdresser's for her perms and a 'shampoo and set' every week for years, and I used to get taken there to have mine cut when I was a child. After she was ill either I or my sister-IL washed and set her hair and sometimes I cut it for her too. I could set my mum's hair in rollers with my eyes shut because she had the same style as long back as I could remember. Just like the Queen's.

I tried a home perm on my Mum once and she was very pleased with the result. That made me brave so I permed my own! It took forever with all that solution, tiny rollers and bits of paper. I managed it though and it wasn't bad! (It's a good job curly hair was fashionable.) I am a bit gung-ho about my hair. If it gets on my nerves I take the scissors to it! So far so good. No disasters! (My children think I am daft!)

To get back to the thread title, perhaps the departed posters will come back in disguise - maybe wearing wigs?

Do you remember home perms?
My dad used to do mine before I left home and a very good job he made of them too, especially considering he was an engineer and not a hairdresser!

I'll try to post a photo of the perm I had in 1978 to give you a giggle. My hair was down to my shoulders and it was very straight, thick and heavy. The perm left my hair dead straight from a centre parting and then ballooned into a mass of corkscrew curls at my ears. I looked like a spaniel for weeks.

lemon
atqui I’m

Luckylegs Tue 24-Apr-18 15:54:27
There's your answer !