Shampoo and Set anyone?

I told my sister in law that she has to have a granny perm and go grey now her daughter is pregnant. And I've ordered her a rocking chair!

The salon I go to still mainly deals in shampoos and sets. (I don't have one myself, btw..)

I wonder what age do we change and become the grey set generation. It must start somewhere. I hate hairdressers and have had my long tail cut off I now need it trimmed. Dreading going back its too public. I shall grow it out and scrape it back. My friend is 79 and has hers this way

When I have my hair cut on OAP's day there are always one or two ladies having a shampoo and set (into proper old ladies styles) I'm afraid mine is just wash and go, because that's all it gets at home.

Several of the salons here still do it and there seems to be a demand for it and perms as well. Personally I hate rigid hairdresser hair but I do put a few heated rollers in now and again. My mother and MIL went every week without fail for their bouffants!

I'm the opposite of your aunt, Charleygirl, - I haven't been near a hairdresser for 30 years. Can't abide anything about hairdressers.

We do have a salon locally that seems to cater for this market. Just set me wondering if we could go forward in time 50 years which of today's "hair and beauty" trends will have persisted, but only for the generation that embraced them.
Spray tans maybe?

An aunt of mine who died recently never washed her own hair for many many years. When she lived in London there was a hairdresser close by and when she was in the care home it was obviously done for her there.

It was always a Saturday morning ritual for mum when she was working. She still went regularly after she retired in the '80s and still had it done at day care each week until she went into residential.
I never knew my mum without a 'shampoo and set' style

I used to go every week in my hey day!?

Now once every 5 weeks to get the grey covered?

JessM we have locally a small Salon where the owner still does shampoo & set mainly on a Tues/Wed when it is senior ladies discount days and she always has a queue first thing in the morning she also has booking for going into the local nursing homes with her portable
hood and stand when I had my hair trimmed there a couple of months ago she did say she can do 2/3 cut and blows in the time it takes to do a shampoo & set.Thanks for the link it brought back many memories.x