Home perm. I'm going for it. Which is the best one?

[CuttedUpPear]

I'm going to do it, you can't talk me out of it.
I long for curly corkscrewy curls every day and I neeeeed them.
My hair is very fine and nearly shoulder length.

Do you have any recommendations?

This will not end well

Nearly shoulder length?

You will look like a shower sponge! Or Jeremy Clarkson. Don't create your very own 'hairmage' to old 'Fracas Face'.

No de no.

Oh and the best one is apparently 'DeathCurl 2000', £13.99 in Halfords.

I'm trying to scare you out of it, as you can see.

Best put the local salon on speed dial as you will need it OP.
30 years as a stylist, I cut and colour my own hair but the one thing I wouldn't do ever is perm!! Perm lotion if left meer minutes too long will eat your hair!
Sorry but a really stupid thing to do and as above I can 100% guarantee it wont end well.

Don't do it. My sister tried to perm my hair and I ended up with matted ginger dreadlocks. I had to have six inches cut off my hair. I looked like a bad mick hucknell in the 90's impressionist. DON'T DO IT

If you can't be talked out of it please post before and after pictures for posterity.

Oh blimey, please don't

OMG DONT DO IT!

I had one a few years ago - it was soooooo bad the hair dresser (next door neighbours daughter who once did it in her hair dressing class) tried to use the fucking hair curlers on it after she had finished. I should have known then.

I spent all night swinging from laughing hysterically to crying hysterically.

I nearly had to have a pixi hair cut to sort it out. Cost me £140 for hair treatments to sort it.

Don't do it

Don't. !!!!

Hairdresser did mine. So bad...really bad.

It was her idea to do it for a change.
It was Shortish, then permed.
Hairdresser gave me free services for nearly a year ......
Every time it was washed it had to be straightened (done three times a week in the hairdressers for free) just to be fit to go to work and it was still a sight..
Worst decision ever.

Don't do it.

Oh dear. I see.
I have no inclination to look like Jeremy Clarkson.

I normally pin curl my own hair and get loads of compliments.
I was thinking that I could just do the same with perm lotion instead of setting lotion, for a more longer lasting effect.

No....?

Noooooooo!

All I can say is good luck with that. I have naturally curly hair and occasionally it goes into ringlets but usually has a mind of its own (as most people with curly hair find). You won't get the result you want at home why not save up and get a digital perm?

What's a digital perm when it's at home?

www.eleven-hair.com/digital-perm/

Don't do it. Go to a salon. It will not end well.

I don't think it's as scary as these people say - I used to perm my mum's hair when I was a kid, and she did mine and my sister's occasionally - it was fine. Smelly, but fine.

My hair's fine though, and what started out lovely tight curls was shaken off almost entirely within a couple of weeks (my sister within days) whereas my mum's courser hair would hold it properly for much longer.

ChunkyPickle the OP wants corkscrew curls I doubt she would get that look with a home perm.

And if you hair is only nearly shoulder length it will end up a lot shorter. Voice of bitter experience. I persuaded my hairdresser to perm my hair against his better judgement. It was a disaster. It was too short to begin with so ended up even shorter. It looked like I had had a shampoo and set.

Honestly, go to a salon if you really want it done. my cautionary tale up thread is a true account of the horror. otherwise just keep pin curling it. far better to spend a bit of time doing that then end up with carpet for hair!

I totally think you should go for it - as long as you're going to post before and after pics.

OP please don't and don't be swayed by people that encourage you to ruin your hair, the are either very lucky or have hair that isn't in good condition.
Seriously I have 30 years experience and not once in all that time have I seen a perm someone has done on themself that wasn't anything other than a disaster.

You can't pin curl the lotion may a chemical reaction with the metal PLUS if you use rods if you don't sit the rubber correctly the lotion will cut straight through the hair were the rubber sits.

If what I have said hasn't put you off I have horror stories of really bad chemical burns, hair snapping off at the root... I could go on!

Ok
I give in. You have convinced me.

Not you, Wax

I will save up for a digital perm then.

Glad to hear this OP.

Digital perms! I had no idea either. SET THE CURL MEMORY! - with Christian B Toth.

What about one of those curl secret things?

sorry - I was, of course, fresh from the 'whats the worst advice you've seen on mumsnet' thread, being tongue in check.

in all seriousness though, how have I never heard of a digital perm before? it could be the answer for my fine, limp, lifeless hair... how expensive are they?