Hair washed and ‘set’ once a week; is this still a thing?

[Shimmeringshine]

Had balayage and a cut Saturday. The hairdresser washed it and styled it for me too, looked lovely (though I say so myself!) It still looked lovely Sunday and yesterday. By today was a little scruffy looking but would have passed at work, I washed it but I know it won’t look nice tomorrow and if I left it three days would look terrible.

I don’t know what magic she uses but am wondering if anyone else has their hair washed and ‘done’ once a week, not cut or anything? I’m sure my grandmother did! But I don’t know if it’s a thing now. I was thinking if I could get that on Friday I would then be able to get away with just washing Tuesday/ Wednesday. Does anyone do this? And how much is it?

The poor client, that's not very professional of the hairdresser to be saying that about one of her clients to another!

I’ll ring a couple of local salons. I’m in the East Midlands too - I’m really hopeful about this!

I am not sedentary (lol) but I don’t do anything high impact.

My Mil used to have a shampoo and set once a week. Once her dementia kicked in she stopped . She looked a lot younger.

Aww takes me back to my late nan she loved having her hair done once a week

I'd loooove to have the kind of bouncy, non-oily hair that would hold a blow dry for days on end. I'm definitely putting in a request for that in my next life.

I recommend this 1990s documentary on old school wash n set type hairdressers in Blackpool. Lovely snippet into what feels like a bygone world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0d2pngh/three-salons-at-the-seaside

DM loved going to have a "Shampoo and set" every week! Me on the other hand dislike going,tend to cut and colour my hair at home (usually wash every 2 days or so) Women back then tended to have a weekly bath and a "strip wash" each day,So were less likely to have problems with daily baths or showers messing up their hair .Mum had a perm every few months as well .Often slept with Rollers in!(I dont know how she did this either)!

When I was a young office girl, mid 90's I worked with a few older ladies. They used to tell me stories of finishing at dinner on a Friday at the local factory and then going for a wash and set for the weekend of dancing with starched net underskirts sounded fantastic 😊
They would cover their hair all week at work and at night to keep it nice.

I remember my mum having perms and shampoos and sets. I always thought that short, forcibly curled backcombed look looked awful. When she became housebound she had to grow her hair out and it looked so much better, thick grey and straight in a bob. I suppose women have it done/had it done to disguise thinning hair or to keep it 'tidy' but I really don't like that solid, immovable Mrs Thatcher/The Queen look - so dated and ageing. It's like joining a cult: reach a certain age and get the hairstyle.

What goes around comes around. No doubt poodle perms will be back and even Mrs Thatcher dos!

They all do it on Made in Chelsea! Or at least they did when I used to watch it. I love going to the hairdressers because the style and cleanliness of my hair genuinely lasts a week, it seems to get greasy a lot faster when I wash it.

I wash my hair myself in-between times, but the fortnightly hairdresser blow dry makes it more manageable.

Although yes I am sedentary, due to disability not choice. I used to exercise loads before I got ill. Depressing to go from being able to run to the pool, swim a mile and run home, to not even having the strength to brush my own hair.

I wash my hair myself in-between times, but the fortnightly hairdresser blow dry makes it more manageable.

Although yes I am sedentary, due to disability not choice. I used to exercise loads before I got ill. Depressing to go from being able to run to the pool, swim a mile and run home, to not even having the strength to brush my own hair.

I associate it with my elderly mums generation or people with the money/time to get it done and for whom it is important to look ”polished” all the time.

mum had her regular Thursday appointment, it was always the same ladies who were there at the same time and they all got to know each other quite well. Now she’s not physically capable of washing her own hair and has a weekly hairdresser home visit who does a wash and blow for her, with an occasional perm to give a bit of volume.

My scalp is too oily to do it. For me it's 2 days max with support of dry shampoo. My dad's hair is exactly the same, so I guess I can't do much about it. I use very gentle shampoo (and massager to clean greasy scalp) and decent mask to do damage control. If I were rich, I'd do it every other day without hesitation 😂I love professional blow dry and always look for opportunity to go for one. It's my treat like gel nails before holidays.

Both my grandmothers basically had the same look from their early 30s (going by photos) till they died, including having their hair set. They look so much older than their actual age in photos from their 30s/40s/50s. It's odd because they were quite adventurous - one of them went camel-riding in her 70s! So they weren't generally stuck in their ways.

Maybe hair-setting dates back to when it was much more of a faff to wash your own hair at home - no shower and sometimes no bath either? You can see the appeal of setting your hair into the texture of concrete and not having go bother with it.

I get a blowdry every Friday afternoon. Lasts the week. People have complemented me the following Friday on how nice my hair is before l even go to hairdresser. . Don't have a sedentary life but no swimming or running. Very thick hair that stays in place with a good blow dry. I am not one for spending money on much stuff but having my hair nice is my special treat.

Yup there is a few salons in my town that cater for people coming in purely for a weekly wash and set. Another salon has a walk in blowdry bar that is always busy.

A friend of mine has very wiry hair and gets a blowdry twice a week as she cannot manage it herself.

My Mum used to go to the village hairdresser every Monday for a wash and blow dry.

Then a perm every few months.

When she was diagnosed with Dementia she still went until it got too much for her and then the hairdresser used to come to their house to give Mums hair a wash and blow dry, she then started doing my Dad's as well.

When Mum went into the Nursing home they had a visiting hairdresser and Mum had her hair done then, until just before she died.

Dad still has the hairdresser come round to give him a cut occasionally.

My mam used to have this done once a week, absolutely religiously. She had a short grey perm and would have it shampooed and set on rollers and sprayed, come home with a headscarf over it, and then basically not touch it for a week. She slept with a hairnet on, and at most she would stick a few soft rollers in overnight at the end of the week. It stayed looking perfect all week, although she always put a scarf on to go out, even just to the bin by the back door, if there was so much as a hint of wind, and she never went anywhere without a showerproof rainscarf about her person! I could never do it - I have to wash my hair in the shower every morning or I feel disgusting.

My Gran also had the same hairstyle for years she had grandchildren by the age of 45 and she looked like an old lady in photos because of her hair.

As you can see, there is a definite difference between my hairdresser washing and styling my hair, and me!

I'd love to do this. My friend used to go for a wash n blow every week for a tenner. Her hair always looked fantastic. She had long, thick, dark hair and would flick it like Denis Williams in Friends.

Gorgeous bitch 😘

Setting lotion and curlers, head under the hood type dryer, and then the curls brushed out and sprayed to within an inch of its life. My Nan‘s hair was like a helmet.

I could go weekly without washing, never gets greasy it just starts to smell like hair rather than shampoo on day 5.

Have you got long hair? My Dyson airwrap gives me hairdresser hair. But recently I've not been using heat and doing that curl thing you wrap your hair around at night