Hairdresser reacts to korean digital perms
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Date: 2022-07-17
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Several other commenters here have pointed out that this technology is over 100 years old, and that they used electric wires to heat the perm rollers back in the day. But I have not seen anybody else mention the still very damaging (but safer from an electrocution risk standpoint) version that was called the UniPerm
I used to get UniPerms back in the 1970s and 1980s. The heat was delivered from individual clips (non-wired) that were housed in a heating element device similar to the sort of thing that heated hair rollers were warmed in. Individual clips would be placed around each curler as the last step after the perm solution was applied, and the heat would gradually dissipate while you sat there. Then after the clips cooled they were removed and the rest of the process was the same with the solution being rinsed out of your hair and the neutralizer being applied.
Adding the heat to the chemicals definitely gave you a tighter curl, but it was a lot harder on the hair. In fact my hair would always be a bit too curly for the first several weeks, but then it would be perfect. Of course I would also have a lot of breakage.
Then later on in the 1980s I went to a younger hairdresser with more updated training, who made me promise to never get that kind of super damaging perm again, because I have very thin fine hair that just can't hold up to such processing.
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Several other commenters here have pointed out that this technology is over 100 years old, and that they used electric wires to heat the perm rollers back in the day. But I have not seen anybody else mention the still very damaging (but safer from an electrocution risk standpoint) version that was called the UniPerm
I used to get UniPerms back in the 1970s and 1980s. The heat was delivered from individual clips (non-wired) that were housed in a heating element device similar to the sort of thing that heated hair rollers were warmed in. Individual clips would be placed around each curler as the last step after the perm solution was applied, and the heat would gradually dissipate while you sat there. Then after the clips cooled they were removed and the rest of the process was the same with the solution being rinsed out of your hair and the neutralizer being applied.
Adding the heat to the chemicals definitely gave you a tighter curl, but it was a lot harder on the hair. In fact my hair would always be a bit too curly for the first several weeks, but then it would be perfect. Of course I would also have a lot of breakage.
Then later on in the 1980s I went to a younger hairdresser with more updated training, who made me promise to never get that kind of super damaging perm again, because I have very thin fine hair that just can't hold up to such processing.
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Mary
So. there has to be a better way to do a soft perm. I know, let's make these rollers that can be electrified, then we'll make a machine that looks like Old Sparky (the original machine they used to electrocute inmates on death row, then hook them up and turn it on! Voila' we have a perm!
But honestly, their hair looks amazing, even if it was a bit frightening to watch!
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So. there has to be a better way to do a soft perm. I know, let's make these rollers that can be electrified, then we'll make a machine that looks like Old Sparky (the original machine they used to electrocute inmates on death row, then hook them up and turn it on! Voila' we have a perm!
But honestly, their hair looks amazing, even if it was a bit frightening to watch!
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Francis
I'm 75 years old and I remember, when I was a young child, my momma getting something similar to this perm. The hairdresser rolled it and put her under a hood dryer thing, with wires hanging from it with clips on the ends which she attached to the curler rods. It did get pretty hot, the permanent looked fabulous. I don't know when or why this method stopped being used.
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I'm 75 years old and I remember, when I was a young child, my momma getting something similar to this perm. The hairdresser rolled it and put her under a hood dryer thing, with wires hanging from it with clips on the ends which she attached to the curler rods. It did get pretty hot, the permanent looked fabulous. I don't know when or why this method stopped being used.
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Jennifer
Omg Ive been looking for this style of perming for literally 8 or 9 years now! I randomly saw a video and was obsessed. I dont have the budget to have to go from london to Korea to get my hair done, but just twisting your hair as it dries to get curls that look perfect for 6 months? Yes please! Whoever brings this tech to london will make a fortune!
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Omg Ive been looking for this style of perming for literally 8 or 9 years now! I randomly saw a video and was obsessed. I dont have the budget to have to go from london to Korea to get my hair done, but just twisting your hair as it dries to get curls that look perfect for 6 months? Yes please! Whoever brings this tech to london will make a fortune!
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HeyitsShanelle
I live in Asia so having Korean perms is really common here. I got one like 7 months ago and let me tell you it is the best perm Ive ever gotten. The curls give me such a natural look and taking care of it is so easy. The process is also really fast as well so if you want to get a Korean perm, highly recommend it!
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I live in Asia so having Korean perms is really common here. I got one like 7 months ago and let me tell you it is the best perm Ive ever gotten. The curls give me such a natural look and taking care of it is so easy. The process is also really fast as well so if you want to get a Korean perm, highly recommend it!
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Vanessa
Hmm ok so after watching the first lady I'm just like: Ok so you hooked your hair up to this freaky Sci-Fi torture device with curlers to get your hair to look like mine. LOL
I guess it would be popular in Korea and other Asian countries because they are notorious for having extremely straight hair.
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Hmm ok so after watching the first lady I'm just like: Ok so you hooked your hair up to this freaky Sci-Fi torture device with curlers to get your hair to look like mine. LOL
I guess it would be popular in Korea and other Asian countries because they are notorious for having extremely straight hair.
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Melissa
Have you never seen the perms they got back in the day? They had contraptions like this. They were freaky. When I went to school in the 90s, they still taught us perms with heated clamps to process. They still sold endothermic perms. Now, I think they are all exothermic and make their own heat.
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Have you never seen the perms they got back in the day? They had contraptions like this. They were freaky. When I went to school in the 90s, they still taught us perms with heated clamps to process. They still sold endothermic perms. Now, I think they are all exothermic and make their own heat.
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Kathy
Root perm with piggy back rods. In the 90s there was a neo perm that was like this. I often wished that I was 2 people wrapping it. Before that was uniperm. It had hot clamps put on rods to process. They were the rage in the 70s and into the 80s. Yes, I've been a stylist that long.
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Root perm with piggy back rods. In the 90s there was a neo perm that was like this. I often wished that I was 2 people wrapping it. Before that was uniperm. It had hot clamps put on rods to process. They were the rage in the 70s and into the 80s. Yes, I've been a stylist that long.
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Vernie
Brad are you sure they're using perm solution? I'm really not seeing them spray it on. But then he did say he was neutralizing it, so I just don't get it. From what I could read it seemed like heat is the thing permanently keeping the hair curled, but it is just really confusing.
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Brad are you sure they're using perm solution? I'm really not seeing them spray it on. But then he did say he was neutralizing it, so I just don't get it. From what I could read it seemed like heat is the thing permanently keeping the hair curled, but it is just really confusing.
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Leslie
I'm a cosmetologist and the school I went to in NC had an old school perm machine and these remind me of that. The first perms were done like this but they used electricity and many women died but the machine looked just like the first one but had metal clips instead. eeek
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I'm a cosmetologist and the school I went to in NC had an old school perm machine and these remind me of that. The first perms were done like this but they used electricity and many women died but the machine looked just like the first one but had metal clips instead. eeek
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Jocelyn
Perm rolling was my #1 enemy in beauty school. I understand it was for getting better control of the hair and strengthening manual dexterity, but it was awful.
Perm some mannequins if your hands are dying to do one. Or can you perm a wig?
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Perm rolling was my #1 enemy in beauty school. I understand it was for getting better control of the hair and strengthening manual dexterity, but it was awful.
Perm some mannequins if your hands are dying to do one. Or can you perm a wig?
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Gen
I mean I remember my moms perm machine in the 90s. It was a bunch of curlers that you put in individual spots in its box and it heats them up like HOT and then you use them but I dont know if that was just to curl her hair or perm or what lol.
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I mean I remember my moms perm machine in the 90s. It was a bunch of curlers that you put in individual spots in its box and it heats them up like HOT and then you use them but I dont know if that was just to curl her hair or perm or what lol.
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Marion
Wow, Nononononono, This was done here in the 1930s. Chemicals plus heat equal curls. Watch Norma Shearer in an old movie. It BURNED the curl in, it could burn your skin too. Keep that long, beautiful, thick Asian hair. Please,
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Wow, Nononononono, This was done here in the 1930s. Chemicals plus heat equal curls. Watch Norma Shearer in an old movie. It BURNED the curl in, it could burn your skin too. Keep that long, beautiful, thick Asian hair. Please,
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NotSorryMomo
Ive always wanted a Korean perm for my straight hair. My hair is perfect minus frizz lol but the area I live in causes that. I wonder if a perm would fix that? It seems like a nice lazy girl hack too
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Ive always wanted a Korean perm for my straight hair. My hair is perfect minus frizz lol but the area I live in causes that. I wonder if a perm would fix that? It seems like a nice lazy girl hack too
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