perm
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A male friend recently asked Caruso Sichenzia whether he should get a perm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
“Mrs. Carter put a perm in my hair in ‘79.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025
Backed by dancers dressed as rodeo clowns, Roan - herself wearing a sequinned cowboy hat and sparkly boots - rode a a giant pink carousel pony, complete with an 80s perm.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025
Knowles later reposted a video featuring audio of comedian Katt Williams bragging about his long, natural hair without the use of a perm.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
She has a perm, allowing her lustrous gray hair to be obedient.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
She ate more black beans, lathered her scalp with French soap and opted for root perms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
Gone were the fluffy perms that are the definers of K-pop stardom - here instead were "eggheads", anonymised buzzcuts of soldiers on the frontline.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2023
When she moved to Los Angeles, one of the first things she did was look for someone to give her perms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Only chemical treatments like perms or straightening can change these bonds.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
Today was supposed to be special, because TJ had learned how to do perms at school, and he was going to give me one as a birthday present.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Huddleston likes to get her hair permed and, according to her daughter, “remember what it was like when Dad was here.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Writer-director Brit McAdams’ debut feature takes the readily spoofable Bob Ross-ian allure of a honey-voiced, majestically permed instructor seducing viewers with his therapeutic landscapes, and gives it a gentle nudge into “Anchorman” territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Naturally, I expanded my pasta library in those longs months without bucatini, via long fusilli bucati resembling impeccably permed ringlets, fat ribbons of pappardelle, ruffled campanelle bells and coarse-edged, slow-cooking pici.
From Salon ● May 17, 2022
Asawa’s mother got her hair permed for the first time and socialized with the other women at the camp, activities her hardscrabble farm life never allowed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
Bangs frame my face now, and permed hair cascades down my back in waves that turn frizzy if I don’t use plenty of gel.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Then, at a salon, an aesthetician cleans them with a degreasing solution, and a perming gel is applied to break down the existing bonds in the hair.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
She said most beauty schools focus on salon safety and sanitation, and the use of heat styling tools and chemicals for straightening, coloring, perming and relaxing.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
Most beauty schools focus on salon safety and sanitation, and the use of heat styling tools and chemicals for straightening, coloring, perming and relaxing.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2020
The owner, Hatice Utku, is perming the hair of a woman who looks unusually sombre.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2014
I told her this while I was perming and cutting her hair, because when you’re a hairdresser you have to chat with the customers and make them feel good and act like everything is toasty.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
