Squeeeee. I'm having my hair permed on Friday

[HoneyDragon]

I am very excited.

Any tips, products I should buy?

(You are not allowed to say don't go)

Marking place for pics! I've just bought one of these when it was cheaper for some reason (£29) and it's great. It does similar things to that perm picture above.

Feeling very chuffed reading this thread as curly hair is often mocked mercilessly in popular culture, but my hair is naturally almost identical to Hazel's 'after' shot.

Now wanders off to sort out my other physical appearance issues!

I look forward to the pictures .. My hair was curly before ds and is now curly at the back and wavy at the front . I have debated a perm for a while..

branching would that work on a bob or is it too short?

Oh no sorry that was to eric

All those lovely curly hairstyle photos are not from perms though.

I'm tempted to stay straight in the fringe department.

Or I can have it permed, and the straighten it anyway.

I've spent my life having to straighten my fucking fringe thanks to a bastard cowlick

I personally prefer curly hair, straight blunt fringe. But will decide on the day I think

I went to the hairdressers for a perm about 5 years ago.

Like you, I wanted big, loose curls. He refused to do it. Said because I have a natural wave (frizz) that it would have gone too curly.

I don't mind if it goes really curly at first, it'll drop eventually

I really want my hair like that but m hairdressers refuses to perm my hair .

Me too toffee

All these principled hairdressers who refuse to perm customers hair because they haven't got the right hair or the perm won't take properly etc......where the hell were they in the 80s, eh?

But my hair has a natural kink in it so surely that is perfect? And I did have my hair permed around 1991 and it worked fine.

I had a not so principled hairdresser in the 90's who agreed to give me a spiral perm. I looked like crystal tips

OMG! I was rocking the Crystal Tips look too.

Partly due to dodgy perm, partly due to unfortunate combination of hair dyes

I'm not sure, I don't go too close to the root but I expect if you wanted more curls than waves you could do and it would work. It does waves rather than curls though so if your hair is too short it won't have much effect I don't think.

I have hair just like SoYouSay's pic. Am I trendy for the first time in my life?

I think if you want Sosays effect you need to ask for something called a stack perm

you cant have a curly fringe

Shamelessly marking place to see the end result!

See I quite like this too

But this scares me

No, you can't have a curly fringe. I have no fringe.

My similarly curly mate has a fringe but she straightens just the fringe.

This looks odd.

The last time I had a perm was the 80's. I assumed things must have improved a LOT since then and casually enquired about a perm to my hairdresser recently. My hair is dead straight and I was thinking maybe nice loose natural curls..

He and then other staff in the salon were standing about -> and looking like I'd asked for a blue rinse or a footballers mullet.

I edged away promising never to bring the subject up ever again. I still don't know why though...

Kylie circa 1986 in her Scott and Charlene days is the only person who I can think of who successfully pulled of a permed fringe.