Do you have a cauliflower perm?

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If so how old are you? How old were you when you got it? Is it something that happens to everyone? Will I reach a certain age and automatically adopt one? Or will cauliflower perms die out with this generation of older ladies?

Sat in my local Wetherspoons and am surrounded by white cauli perms. Just wondering the average age. I reckon some must be only late fifties/early sixties.

Well all the women I know in their 50s and 60s either have a Diana do....flicked and very 80s....or they have long, artistic hair which they wear up in a messy bun.

I've only seen ladies in their 80s with those do's.

You're probably right they must be older.

My mum is 75 and doesn't have a cauli perm and MiL is 62 - no cauli perm there either.

My mum is 73 and she doesn't have one. She's probably more fashionable than me. My Nans both had them since I was born. They were both probably in their sixties then I think?

What's a cauliflower perm? I suspect it's my granny's hairstyle. If so, just wait, it will be ironically fashionable soon.

You have to be 80+ for that sort of hair. Even my mums age group of 75 don't have hair like that, though MIL has her hair 'set'

Not heard the term cauliflower perm before but it is a great description!

I suppose it's neat and tidy for anyone unable to spend a lot of time styling their hair or if they struggle to do so.

I'm in my 50s and have long straight whitish blonde hair with a fringe.

It doesn't suit me to wear it up.

Picture please?

It’s a way of volumising thinning hair. Most women go shorter and shorter as they get older and their hair gets thinner. Then they start hair spraying the volume in then eventually progress to a perm as a way of adding permanent lift.

I’m 38 and on stage 1 of the process- chin length bob.

My mum’s 67 and at stage 3, short hair and hair spray.

I'm in my 50's and just have long hair, it's curly naturally. My mother is late 70's and just has a volume type perm and lowlights through hers every few weeks. I'd tell her off if she got a granny perm!

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I've never heard that term before but I love it! My granny has had that style since I was born (1990), she is in her 80s now and for as long as I can remember she has had a shampoo and set every Friday.

My grandma on one side had one for as long as I can think back to. My other one doesn't though (she's 88)

The Queen kind of does too!

I think they'll die out with the generation that have them now. I have a theory that most women get stuck in a certain hairstyle rut at a certain age and whatever is fashionable at the time, that's what stays with them for life, pretty much. It moves through the decades with them, changing a little bit to reflect that their hair is thinning and needs more volume at the root.

If you look at most ladies who have a cauliflower perm, they are really quite elderly now and were probably in their 30's and 40's in the 50's and 60's and had the same cauliflower shaped hairstyle then too.

Both my grans had them. They would be in their 90s if they were still going.

I don't think it's that the hairstyle is adopted when they get to a particular age. More that it is what was fashionable when they were young and they just stuck with it.

And women in their 60's and 70's now don't tend to have that hairstyle that needs perming, or a 'shampoo and set.' They tend to favour hairstyles that are shorter, more like Judi Dench. Maybe with a bit of a bit of a perm on the top - which is what was fashionable in the 80's when they were in their prime.

Whereas if you look at ladies currently sporting the cauliflower hairdo now they had the same hairstyle when they were 50. My Grandma has that hair from about 45 onwards as far as I can tell from photos, whereas my mother is in her 70's now and has never had it.

Sat in my local Wetherspoons and am surrounded by white cauli perms. Just wondering the average age. I reckon some must be only late fifties/early sixties.

That seems very, very unlikely indeed. Are you a terrible judge of age?

Most women I know in their late 50s/early 60s have a variation on a bob. I know the humble bob gets sneered at on S&B but it can look great if well cut (like mine!) And I can wear it straight or in soft waves.

You have to work with the changing texture of your hair as you age (don't think it won't happen to you!) and we have more options now than the perm wearing older women had.

I'm late 30s. I have a brown one. Had it since I was 14

I'll take a cauliflower perm over a Judi Dench short and hacked look any day.

I haven't really but I agree with Palominoo.
I used to worry when I was a teenager about my hair style of the future. I wondered what would happen when I got too old for my long spiral perm and huge bump thingy I used to make at the front with a vat of shockwaves mousse.

So the question is, what will the ‘old lady hairstyle’ be for the next few generations? What about if you’re in your thirties like me? Can you have long hair into your eighties or will it be so thin it will be awful?

My hair is similar to Stevie Nicks and I've just bought some Crimpers!

If she can rock that look at her age then so can I at a couple of decades younger!

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The Queen has a cauliflower perm deluxe

Oddgirlout - my hair on my head hasn't thinned, it has got much thicker as I've got older. Body hair has slowed down and thinned but that might be due to constant hair removal for decades.