I am sure that all of us still remember those hilarious curly perms form 80's, and now the curls are coming back. However todays perm is completely different from those old good days and I was wondering, what have you used to create a curl instead of traditional perm rod? I have seen a dvd they used foil, cotton rod, bendy wands..... any other ideas?

LOL Tampons..seen it done on stage at a major hairshow.

Screwed up tubes of colour. They actually created an interesting toussled curl.

yyyeeeahhhhh i,m in the fashion...

Never been one of the first but this time I am

I always have perms cos I had myself with straight hair... Curly and wild is my hair now..

Perming is coming back?

Don't they say that every year?! LOL

yeah they do Sweetcorn but it takes a few years for everyone to start believing it.
Acutally, I have been gradually doing more and more perms and getting more and more questions about doing a perm on the client. Time will tell.

i love perming think its great and very creative wish it would come back big time.

I like perming too and there are only 2 of us in my salon that do them. In the last 8 years so many Stylists coming out of school, don't choose to offer perms. This will be great for those of us who do. And clients will have to find Stylists that are great at Perms, because there are definitely fewer of us in my area.

ISO used to make a Neutralizer free perm which was AWESOME...called NEO. Gosh I wish I could still get it. It cut perming time down by at least a half an hour. About the same time as a Color H/C...excellent!

I think Perm Companies are going to have to take time into consideration if they want us to start putting perms on our books again. And of course we will have to raise our P/W prices.

Hmm, I used that one also Soph. They don't have it anymore?
All I can remember is if you didn't rinse and rinse and rinse and rinse more, You hair stunk to high heavens for a week afterwards.

i remember when spiral perms were hot stuff, they were using bits of hose pipe (wrap the hair around the hose) then secure with pipe cleaners.

Your right about the rinsing JD...10 minutes minimum! But it really is a beautiful perm and anything that gets me out of the neutralizing step is worth perfecting. I literally haven't used any other Permanent Wave in 2 or 3 years...we use it on everyone. This is only about 40 or 50 perms a year though, we don't do many perms right now either.


I will add that I remember Rods that were triangular in shape. In fact we had curling irons that were shaped that way also...it did't last long. LOL, the pipe cleaners were fun...We would make a loop, wrap longer hair around 1 or 2 fingers and tie the loop off with a pipe cleaner. This was fun but it was hard to neutralize and the curl pattern was very soft because there was no tention on the curl during processing.

hmmmm...if the perm IS coming back i better stop straitening my hair EVERY day and just leave it curly from now on

Well by all means you need to do that Beautyguru

I use to perm (spiral) for years, long blonde spiral curls, then straight hair came into fashion, so I told a stylist at work that we were on a mission and were going to stop perming and cut off all perm and go straight. We cut all my lenght off to a shoulder length bob. We worked at this for about 5 months and the curl was gradually softening to my delight!
One day while cutting this stylist stopped in the middle of the haircut and looked at my hair really close, then looked at me and stated "Jayne, You have natural curl girl!"
I was godsmacked! all those months just getting my hair cut short and here I sit with gods given curl! So what could I do but turn a sad realization into a good thing. I wear my curls with pride and blowdry it straight when I feel the need to wear it different. So in the Long run..I got the best of both worlds and everyone is so jealous of it

So Beautyguru..you really do need to allow your hair to go curly just to change it up. Celebrate your curl, not everyone has it!

Then they went and invented the spiral rod (boomarang)..lol..those things are so heavy in the hair.

I can remember my mother doing a home perm on me in the 80s. I ended up looking like a white member of the Jackson 5!