If you add some color or frost to your hair it will give it body also. I gave up perms about 10 years ago. Hope it turns out well.

Oh Yikes....the last time I had a perm, it was salon, and a woven perm - so that not all of my color treated hair would get the double whammy of another chemical.

The last time I had a home perm was 50 years ago - it was an annual Fall duty, performed by my mother. It doesn't need description, it was as bad as you might guess.

Even with a woven perm, my hair was about the texture of a collie dog. Color, or perm - clearly I can't do both. I stick with the color, get the extra body from that.

Let us know how yours turns out - hopefully you'll be pleased and your experience different than my own.

So far so good did all the steps and am now waiting a bit for it to air dry. I'm going to sit on the patio in the son. It seems to have taken ok, I colored it a couple of weeks ago I remember the Bobbi pin curl perms. And when I was a kid those horrible chairs with the rods haning from the ceiling. ugh

Minnie, I went through a wig phase too, but it was longer ago, more like early 70's. Falls, wigs, around the time those little synthetic wigs that you could swish out in woolite and shake dry became available in salons and department stores.

I still have a little reddish blonde number and took it out and put it on a while back. Came right back off - It felt like wearing a hat - how'd we do it. I can remember feeling pretty cute in them and wore them a lot.

Minnie Tx, Hows the odor around your place? LOL I gave myself an Ogilvie perm on Friday. That is the only brand I ever see any more in the stores. It always turns out fine, and being I get my hair cut every 6 - 8 weeks, I redo the perm every 4 months or so. When it is time to put the perm solution on, the smell would take my breath away, so this time I set up a small fan and put it on high and was able to breath pretty well. My hair is fine and limp with no body and wouldn't even hold a set more than a couple hours, so it was time. Good luck with your perm, kiddo, bet it turns out beautiful !!

I don't dare get a perm of any kind. My hair is to thin as it is and where there is a rod mark my hair breaks off. I don't mind the thinness as much as most would, but I don't want to loose anymore.

I gave up perms about 10 years ago, cut my hair short, let my hair color go natural. Love it!

I do a perm every 6 months or so, and color about the same, so basically every 3 months something happens with my hair. I think they are both Matrix products, I know the color is, not sure about the perm. My hair has always been very healthy and strong, other than when they had me on Methotrexate, so I'm lucky in that respect.

What were the (in)famous home perms? Was it Toni?

I do my own perms and do them about once a year. I like the body it gives me and I use Olgivie too. That's what's available here and I know it won't burn my hair. I think perms have come a long way since the day of frizzled hair. I like having a little perm. You can use the largest rollers and just get great body in your hair and no real curl. I also color my hair and do that way more often than the perms but the color has never affected the perm. Even when my hair is super short I like to have the perm body. Sometimes I will give myself a perm and then get a haircut.

I always have had fine thin straight hair. My mother used to give me Toni Perms from the time I was in Kindergarten. My hairdresser taking me into a Body Wave a few years ago. It smelled awful, broke my hair, burned my scalp and I couldn't wait for it to grow out. I will never ever color or perm my hair. Too much work and don't come out good on me. My daughter is a hairdresser. She laughs when I talk about home permanents and cream rinse.

The only person I know who gets a perm is my mother. Even my friends with curly hair are spending a fortune to have their hair straightened.

My mom gave me those Tonette perms when I was a kid. I looked like I'd stuck my finger in an electric socket. Not good and turned me off to perms forever.

Hope yours turns out well. I am sure they have improved a great deal since the 1950s.