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They’re dropping advice from ChatGPT—aka “Chat”—as if the OpenAI bot is their most trusted consigliere, counseling on everything from business strategy to whether you should let your friend get a perm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
"My fringe keeps receding and won't stay up, so I can't get a perm or use wax properly," says Lee Won-woo, 33, who lives in North Chungcheong province.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 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
I remember running to the store to grab a box of perm for my mom or grab a box of perm for my sister and them combing it through their hair and sitting there.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
By some miracle, her perm doesn’t move an inch.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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
“Nah, Bea does perms in her kitchen. But there’s a barbershop for the cons in the cell house. Come on!”
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
Though Ross reportedly hated the permed hair, he was a businessman first, which is why he kept it.
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
The new hairdo comes after speculation swirled in late December that the singer permed his hair.
From Fox News ● Jan. 8, 2019
A week after we get there, Eang tells me we are going to the salon to get our hair permed.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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
