A perm in 2015. Just no or have times a changed?!

[Chicinwellies]

I have poker straight long hair, fine, but lots of it. I use a curling wand on it all the time, and wondered if now, in these modern times do perms look any less sticky styled and 80s tastic than they used to? Is there any chance of a loose, tousled, beach wave effect with a Perm...

I wouldn't!

Just wouldn't!

Btw..I have fine, poker straight hair, I just wish there was more of it.

When I look at my permed hair...I just think why?

So do I when I look at 'permed' hair but literally I'm using the curling wand the whole time!

You used to be able to get something called a body wave back in the 90's. It was a looser wavier perm. Don't know if they still exist?

I'm sure there was a thread on here a while back where a woman went for a perm, despite multiple horror stories from other posters. From what I recall she looked great. Maybe try searching for that thread.

I've no expirerende of then but I've read good things about digital perms on here - probably also worth a search.

Have you had a perm before? I've also got very, very straight, fine, silky hair (lots of it). Had 2 perms in the 80s one of which actually managed to last 48 hours...

Long, silky, shiny poker straight hair look beautiful with nice neat ends. Thinking of some of the hair colour ads, Jane Seymour in live and let die, mine even in my 20s which was down to my waist.

I'd be inclined to leave it straight. People used to ask me what I used on it to get it so shiny. I didn't do anything special. It was just how my hair was. The shampoo I did like was Palmolive, in a large green bottle. You don't see it now. I don't think I even used conditioner. It was all one length too.

It's a style that really suits fine poker straight hair because it never fizzes or sticks out at the bottom.

Some of the girls at school used to complain about ' frizzy weather' I didn't have a clue what they were on about.

Leave it au naturel and go for the shine.

My DSis is having a digital perm today (although it is costing her a fortune)

Digital perm? What have I missed?

Its gives that soft curl to the ends look that most of us achieve with GHDs or heated rollers.

I did it and it was awful. If I'd had a spare hour to do it every morning then I could possibly have made it work, but I'm still in the process 18m later of having it cut out. Just don't.

I recently had a consultation at my hairdressers for a perm. I have medium thickness, shoulder length hair and ideally wanted very soft curls or waves, but was told it's just not possible with a "normal" perm. Apparently using rollers large enough to give the beachy waves I wanted would mean that the curl wouldn't take very well, or if it did, it would drop out within days. I could however have smaller rollers, but then look like a poodle!

It looks like digital perms might be the only option, but nowhere near me offers them and I don't think I could bring myself to pay £250-300.

It might look great when it's first done but 6 weeks later when you have poker straight roots it and a line accross your head where the perm starts will be a different story.