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I remember having a light perm in the late 70s my previous cut was the trendy Purdy I then grew my hair and to have the flicked up style which was all the rage and it need the perm to keep the style. Then came the shaggy perm which was very easy. My hair has been straight now for many years.
I now have to have it coloured to keep the grey away !
I have never attempted to perm or colour myself leave it to the professionals.

I used to have the front side bits permed for my Farah Fawcett look. Could do with a perm now as hair so straight and limp. It would really give it a lift but nowhere near me perms. So, the limp biscuit look prevails.

I had a Twink home perm and it out me of perms for life,

imaround

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.

I had one of these in the 90s, imaround. I’ve always had baby fine hair and my hairdresser friend spent a quiet afternoon putting it into tiny plaits and then perming it. It gave me loads of volume and shape and is probably the only time I’ve liked my hair.

The only conventional perm I had aged me by at least 20 years. Think Mrs Merton on a bad hair day.

I remember my dad grumbling about the smell of the home perm kits. Mum would have her hair trimmed at the hairdresser but “wasn’t paying their exorbitant prices for a perm “ when she could do it just as well herself.

This thread also reminded me of the hair lacquer that came in a soft plastic bottle that you had to squeeze to spray it on your hair……..it also had a very overpowering smell to it! Anyone else remember?

My mum permed my hair from when I was very young - just after I had started school. Before that age, it was put in rags every night when I went to bed.

It was a "Twink" home perm, and I can still remember the horrible rotten egg smell. Then afterwards I had to sleep in those pink and blue spiky rollers every night with little plastic pointy sticks through them to keep them in. Every morning I would go to school with the imprint of the sticks on my forehead!! My baby-fine hair was frizzy and stiff from the perm - think of multiple Brillo Pads stuck on my head. Combined with my pink wire framed National Health glasses I looked like Benny Hill after an electric shock! This went on as a twice a year ritual for several years until I was old enough to object, probably when I started secondary school.

I still have a photo of me on holiday with my family, in a children's playground in the early evening with the dreaded rollers in my hair. In my teens I tore up and threw away any photos of me as a child with my weird-looking hairstyle!

I too remember those wee plastic bottles of hair lacquer stitchintime. I also remember the wee oblong mascara box that you had to spit on and then rub the tiny brush on it it to apply to your eyelashes! How awful when you think back on what we had to do

I can picture myself now, sitting in front of the fire in new pink spotty pyjamas and a pink and white dressing gown all made by my mum, just out of the bath, with the film White Christmas on the b&w television, as my mum put my hair in “clips” to try and give my baby fine blonde hair some body. I think she rolled my hair into a sort of curl shape and then used a Kirbigrip to keep it in place. They were very uncomfortable to sleep in! Lovely memory though. Re perms, I still had the remnants of a perm in my hair on my wedding photos in 1985. Plus those fashionable Deirdre Barlow glasses!

Oh I had the Deirdre glasses on my wedding day, Moth62! For some unknown reason my mother decided I “wouldn’t be myself” if I wore the contact lenses I had started using (and still wear to this day). I went along with it but whipped those monster glasses off as we left the church, so I do have some decent photos alongside some that will never see the light of day. At least my hair was in a bog standard Purdey cut on the day though.

Astitchintime

This thread also reminded me of the hair lacquer that came in a soft plastic bottle that you had to squeeze to spray it on your hair……..it also had a very overpowering smell to it! Anyone else remember?

I think it was called Bell Air....might not be correct spelling,

I used to put a bath cube (remember them ) into the water when washing my hair, to get the hair lacquer out.

I remember another one from the 1960's, Andre Pillipe..my did that hold your hair style in place...

pably15

Astitchintime

This thread also reminded me of the hair lacquer that came in a soft plastic bottle that you had to squeeze to spray it on your hair……..it also had a very overpowering smell to it! Anyone else remember?

I think it was called Bell Air....might not be correct spelling,

Pompadour!!!!! I remembered! Came to me as I snoozed this afternoon 😁

My 81 year old Mum still has her hair permed every 3 months. The hairdresser has to order one now because so few people have them. I think she would look better with straight hair but she won't consider the idea.

To my mother, hair was sacrosanct. She would never touch it, not even to trim a fringe. She always went, and took us, to the professionals.

She made me have a perm when I was about 14, I think for some special event. I remember it being horribly stiff and uncomfortable. I have naturally wavy hair and have always been happy with it as it is.

Forgot to say that she (my mother) always had a perm, regular as clockwork every six weeks.

Just thought of a setting lotion my mum used to use - Amami, it was blue I think in a plastic teardrop-shaped bottle.

Anyone else remember it?

I’ve had my hair permed just twice. Many many years ago, gawd knows why, it looked awful

JackyB

Forgot to say that she (my mother) always had a perm, regular as clockwork every six weeks.

Yes, mine was the same. And she'd have a shampoo and set in between. I don't recall her ever washing or doing her own hair at home. Although the hairdresser she went to was a family friend who literally lived 100 yards along the road from us and the 'salon' was part of her house.

Astitchintime I remember hair lacquer that came in a sachet and you poured it into the squeezy bottle. It made your hair as stiff as a board, some times with globules of lacquer in it

ViceVersa

JackyB

Forgot to say that she (my mother) always had a perm, regular as clockwork every six weeks.

Yes, mine was the same. And she'd have a shampoo and set in between. I don't recall her ever washing or doing her own hair at home. Although the hairdresser she went to was a family friend who literally lived 100 yards along the road from us and the 'salon' was part of her house.

My mother went to the hairdresser every week for a shampoo and set and sometimes a perm. I had my hair cut there for years too. It was a bus ride and a good walk away but this was the hairdresser she liked. He had a French name, whether it was just the way he pronounced his surname, I don't know, but he was English 😀