dahliaoleander
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ClaraB said:You really do have to set your hair to get Rita like results, even after a perm. I got a large rod perm in November, just for the heck of it really, just to try it out. I was able to come up with the look in the picture after lots of effort but without setting my hair. The results always looked weird and took way too long to style. There is more about it in the perms thread.
The perm has changed in the months that I've had it and I can't even coax it into making these soft curls, so I set my hair regularly again. One thing I can tell you is that my hair takes curl so well now. I can use foam rollers like hot rollers, 30 min on dry hair and I have well defined curls, semi-long lasting curls.
One thing I must stress with setting permed hair is set it wet or quite damp. I find that doing this keeps the perms "kinks" from forming a ruining a good set. A digital perm would work differently than this as I think it requires heat to make curl.
And just for a laugh, this is my hair after a hair cut. My stylist dried it with a blow dryer and these are the hilarious results. Mind that this picture was taken 3 months after the perm was done and I never, never blow dry my hair. My hair always looks worse when I leave a salon then when it does when I go in, even before the perm.
The hair you have in your avatar is gorgeous...
How did you get that?