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.

I'm 70. Hair is razor cut shaggy with meshes blonde and caramel.

Almost all the women I know in the 50-65 age group have blonde bobs.

Cauliflower perms I associate more with the over 75s.

I seriously hope I never end up going down that route. Cauliflower perm is a great description!

I dream of a sleek silver grey bob with matching sleek wardrobe... if only!

My 88 year old mum has one - but she had the same perm (albeit brown rather than grey) when she was in her 30's. She used to have shoulder length straight hair and had some lovely hairstyles in the 40'sand 50's but got a perm sometime in the 60's and never changed her hairstyle again, just got greyer.

I can't believe that there aren't any cauli heads on MN. Maybe I should ask over on Gransnet,

im 62 and my hair is half way down my back, if im at work i wear it in a pony tail, out of work down and loose, there is no way i would get a cauliflower perm

Wondering if I have "Diana hair". Hope not.

My MIL (70s) has a Diana flick do. She's had it since DH was about 15. I think the cauliflower perm might die out, tbh.

Mil who died just over a year ago, in her mid-late 70s, HD a short back and sides version of one. She was in her early 60s, when I first met her, and had it then, too. Dh found some photos from the early 90s, with the same do.

My mum is 70 and has a variation of the same Bob she's had for over 25 years only it's transitioned from dyed ginger to dyed blonde and is now silver.

I'm in my 50's and have a short graduated bob. I don't know anyone under 80 with a cauli perm.

I think cauliflower hair will die out, basically because it seems not many hairdressers do perms any more as they aren’t on trend. I have poker straight, fine hair and last time I was at the hairdressers I asked about having a perm just to give it a bit of body and lift. I was told they don’t do perming at all now. They have one trainee who is studying perming at college, but it is an optional module on her hairdressing course. I said I think that’s a bit short sighted as fashions change and I’m sure curly hair and perming will become popular again eventually, but what do I know?

When my hair started going grey in earnest ( not just the occasional stray) I said to my DH that I hadn’t realised I would go into auto granny sheep perm mode - the new hair coming in was much thicker, coarser and curlier.

If I had it cut a certain way it could look a bit cauliflower perm, but I have it styled much longer and less layers and carefully highlighted, lowlighted and all the lights in between to give a dark blonde. Much easier to look after than my original fine and floppy hair and much more volume, with no need for a perm or heated rollers etc, Hurrah - an unexpected benefit of ageing !

My mil has one but hers is natural (and grey). It's terribly aging, she's only 67 and very fit and active, not 'elderly' in any way. Looking at family photos she's had it since about 1985.

Conifer when I was running the other day I saw a men's barbers offering a variety of men's perms; they had a big board outside with various pictures of 'short back and sides and curly on top' hairstyles

I'm in my fifties, as are most of my friends.

Not one of them has permed hair, we have bobs, long layered styles, short Judi Dench styles and one has long curly hair.

Fifty+ year olds are not old ladies. Most of us will be as fit and healthy as you.

bear that'll be for the teenage boys.
Side fade with a bird's nest on top is do du jour for lads these days.

Cauliflower perms for he older ladies and Alpaca do for the young lads

What is a shampoo and set??

And I'm loving 'cauli perm', never heard it before!

Was only just musing over the lack of blue rinses, the other day.
Old ladies used to have their cauliflower perms tinted too, didn't they?!
You don't see that anymore.

'short back and sides and curly on top'
Also known as the 'meet me at mcdonalds'!

What a fabulous description

I certainly don't know anyone who is currently in their 50s or 60s that has a cauli perm but the current generation of ladies in their 80s and 90s who have a cauli perm have probably had their hair like that for the past 30 years or so!

I agree with a PP that it may die out with the current generation of old ladies although realistically once your hair is snow white and very thin then a cauli perm is probably the only way to achieve any volume

My NDN while I was growing up was an 'old lady' with a cauli perm. I'm in my 40s now and she only died a few years ago so was probably only in her 50s when I was a child

Cauliflower perms for he older ladies and Alpaca do for the young lads

I'm more worried about having to gather at Wetherspoons than my hairstyle as I grow older, tbh. Hopefully that will go out with the cauli-perm.

I'm not going to have a cauli perm. I think a Demi Wave by Marcel sounds much more elegant. Even if it's aesthetically indistinguishable from the aforementioned caili perm.

Actually, that idiot Tim Wetherspoons could do with a cauli perm.