Come over here please and talk perms to me.......

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Im booked into my hairdressers tomorrow....for a perm...

Now then before you all laugh or sit open mouthed i'm hoping not to have a hair do that will shock..

My hair atm is shoulder (ish)length and straight. If left to dry itself it has a little wave in it and I dry it/straighte it etc.

I fancy a change and spoke to my hairdressers and have been booked in for a few weeks now for tomorrows appointment. She assures me it won't be like a bowl of grapes on my head and although she can't say what the finished product will look like, it won't be a tight perm. She is going to set it on large rollers (?) so it will be a large curl.

My aim is to have loose ringlets/curls. I love corries Maria, and although she hair is longer and I think her's is tonged that way I am after that affect..

Advice please..am I risking this hair do..? Should I stick to my usual colour and a bob cut (my other love hair style BUT thought before I cut it all off, do the style I have lusted after for years..) or do you think I should trust my hairdresser and that she will do what I love..?

BTW, My hairdresser is usually fabo. I have been going to her salon for 13 years and she has been cutting/styling it for the last 5/6 yrs...so she knows me iykimw and my likes etc..

Advice appreciate. TIA x

Hi,I think trust your haidresser. If she knows you and your hair it wouldn't be in her interest to make you unhappy because you wouldn't go back. I love curls!!

oh thanks melgie. just think im worried as its something that is permenant (for a while anyway)..although I guess (as she said) if I don't like it I can straighten it..

Just worried I may look like a cross between dierdre barlow (ex) and shirly temple...

i think perms are much better now than they used to be, the stuff they use is not as damaging on the hair and can be dried straight more easily. if you really hate it but do like having your hair in a bod you can always have alot of it cut out in a few weeks. if you have had the same hairdresser for years and she is usually good i would trist her. good luck!

thanks nancy . Gosh, I thought people would post here saying don't do it .

My sister had a perm about 20 yrs ago and I asked her advice today.. She said, don't do it. Ruins your hair and she hated her's .

Guess that got me thinking..BUT I remember her perm being how I don't want mine to be. Very tight curls..in fact irr she washed and brushed it straight after the hairdresser had done it...

Yeah....when I was getting the dk's hair cut last week I spoke to the hairdresser again about my hair and she was like "trust me, it will be fine"..thing is, I have trusted her for years...I have gone short, dk brown, blonde, extensions etc and its only this hair do that causing me stress..... Dh isn't helping... AND dh is working tomorrow so my pil's will be watching the dk's and im petrified to come home after...!

I have been wondering whether to grow my hair and have a perm.

PLease please please a million times sshow us a before and after photos.

I am sure it will be great. Mine is in a barely chin length bob so way to short atm or I'd be joining you.

Oooh yes put pics0 up. Am wanting to reinvent myself after the babys born and a perm is one of the things Iv been pondering about....

Please do it, and then post pics! I'm considering the same thing exactly when my hair's a little longer. I used to have long, permed hair and it was fine - no bowl of grapes! You can use Frizz Ease to relax it slightly as you dry it, but with longer hair, the tight curls you get for the first few weeks drop out quite a bit and look more natural.

I hate my hair these days - it's thinner than it used to be and boring, flat and lanky. I'd dearly love long, loose curls that I can put up, tie back, etc. Perms have a bad press, IMO.

You lot just want beforw and after pics to laugh at .

Ok, a perm it is...hmm...although knowing me I will change my mind a billion times over the next hour...

Will get back to you all later on x

Don't do it. I once had what they called 15 years ago a 'semi-perm' - it was awful. Plus it looked even worse as it grew out!! It too was about 15-20 years ago and was all the rage (all the famous footballers had perms, eg Kevin Keegan). Please, please, please...........let's not go back there!!!

have you had it yet??

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I chickened out .

I went there so determined to have it done and quite excited BUT the hairdresser could read me like a book .

She discussed it with me and explained that the look I want is of ringletts and she said the perm would be more like a wave iykwim...Not what I wanted... anyway I looked at pics she could most compare to and her pics compared to pics I liked were worlds apart .

So I went for my 2nd hair cut and its been adapted and I luurrvve it! Its dark (black/blue) and very much like michelles off corrie iykwim. A very blunt bob. .

Thanks everyone though for the advice/ideas...x