perm
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She immediately suggested they have ChatGPT generate a photo of him with a perm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
"He looks better. Much cooler in terms of perm and with regard to chain."
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
James Austin Johnson returned for a brief Trump impression, in which he extolled the virtues of the just shut down video app TikTok and praised Mark Zuckerberg’s perm and chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
Even Mrs. Bridges’s perm is wilting by then.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
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
Henson started getting perms when she was 6 years old, but as she grew up, she became more conscious about keeping her hair healthy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
Only chemical treatments like perms or straightening can change these bonds.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
Flannels, goatees, and combat boots were in; bodysuits, Hypercolor, and perms were on their way out.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Carl shares several notable traits with Ross: permed hair, a soft-spoken delivery and a penchant for painting bucolic landscapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
One way he did this was to save money on haircuts by getting his locks permed.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021
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
She’s in her midthirties, with permed blond hair and a slight deviation in her facial symmetry that’s worse when she smiles.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
Well, I didn’t know a thing about perming black people’s hair and my frst customer was a black woman and I mauled that woman’s hair.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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