Show me your perm, please!

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I HATE my hair. Some of it is curly, some of it is straight, so I have to work hard to style it. I'm tempted to get a perm, but the one I had as a teen still gives me nightmares.

They're better now, right? I can get soft, gentle, natural-looking curls . . . ?

Please show me photos of your perm to see what they're like these days - thank you!

I don't think they're any different unfortunately. I looked into this a few years ago and while you can get something called a digital perm (or a Japanese perm iirc) which is supposed to be looser, softer curls, in practice they didn't really hold. I ended up getting a traditional perm which probably wasn't much different to the perm you got in your teens. It's astonishing we've learnt to send people to the moon and cure some types of cancer but still can't curl hair permanently in a way that looks nice! Although I'd love to be corrected!

Bah. I suspected as much, @NewNameSameProblems . . . it's true, why have we got so much fancy tech these days and yet nice EASY curly hair is beyond us?!