First off, what is a perm? A perm (short for permanent hairstyle) uses chemicals to change the texture of your hair. The process involves breaking down the molecular bonds in each strand and resetting ...

Katie Holmes sported curls in New York City on Feb. 16, 2023. “Because of the recent trends of people wanting to embrace and enhance their natural hair texture, the perm of 2023 tends to lean towards ...

Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism. That day has arrived for perms. Hair salons across metro Detroit are seeing a blast from the past with the return of the ...

FARGO - We've all heard the horror stories - a ringlet perm gone wrong, resulting in a frizzy, fried, crunchy hairstyle for months to come. While the thought of an '80s-esque perm may be terrifying, ...

The year is 1987. Bon Jovi is blasting on every radio station, "Dirty Dancing" is in cinemas nationwide, and the only thing people want more than the numbers of Jon and Baby's personal choreographers ...

Much like the return of the relaxer, the rise and return of the perm has been a quiet reemergence — almost the Abercrombie & Fitch of hair treatments. Much like Abercrombie, perm solutions have ...

Let’s hear it for the curly boys. It used to be the ladies who would settle in for the long haul of getting a perm. But now the young boys have joined the curly hair brigade, deciding once you go wavy ...

Love it or hate it, the perm is back in business. Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and Katie Holmes have started a curl trend. “Because of the recent trends of people wanting to embrace and enhance ...

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