Hello CuttedUp
A few years ago I had a perm on shoulder length hair. It looked brilliant, and I think I suited curly hair much more than I do straight. However, in my quest to get the perm, I was told all sorts of horror stories and put off by several hairdressers that I requested the perm from. I felt very intimidated by them, after all, they know about hair/ hairstyles/ fashion, and I don't...
But it turns out they were all wrong. Perming has a terrible rep, and all the friends I discussed it with thought I was mad. But when it was done, it looked really, really good. I'm not deluded here, it just really was good.
I asked (a willing) hairdresser to perm it in the best way she knew how, and so she did. It cost about £50 in all. I can't advise on types of perm, though I gather digital perms are excellent. But the normal one I had worked beautifully.
Really, I just wanted to say, try not to be put off by people telling you perms are automatically awful (sadly, this will almost certainly happen- one hairdresser told me in horror that my hair would end up looking like pubes... she had a crap hairstyle btw!). That's what everyone told me, and my hair never looked better.
After a while I tired of the length and cut it all off. I'm now growing it back and will be perming again soon.