perm
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Gazza's baggy Roman shellsuit, John Charles plundering black-and-white goals in Turin, King Kev's floodlit perm dazzling Volksparkstadion terraces, Glenn Hoddle's minuscule Monegasque shorts.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
A male friend recently asked Caruso Sichenzia whether he should get a perm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
"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
A day when she could do my hair and give me a perm.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
She ate more black beans, lathered her scalp with French soap and opted for root perms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
It's fire though because it's like I'm older than you, but just the conversations around perms and around hair has changed.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
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
In many cases, they saw students in all four years of their time at the school, from braces to bifocals, pimples to perms.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
“We’ve never had power cuts like this in Shenyang,” said one mother, wearing a long flowery skirt and permed hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
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
He wore bell-bottom jeans and a red T-shirt with black piping, and his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl’s on homecoming night.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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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