permanent wave

I could tell she liked him when a week after their first date she writes, "Had permanent wave."

Perhaps the most tragic Goode’s employee is Patty, “a little, thin, straw-colored woman with a worn-out face and a stiff-looking permanent wave.”

Early on, Bradford noticed the end papers, used to set hair in a permanent wave, that would wind up on the floor of his mother’s salon.

That day, “I looked at the snow on the dunes behind my house and it dawned on me that we had a permanent wave right there.”

But in beauty school, I discovered I was allergic to permanent wave solution.