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
My golden waves are done up big and high in an old-school Dolly perm.
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
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
Only chemical treatments like perms or straightening can change these bonds.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 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
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
If all that is happening on the street, why not sit back and have your eyelashes permed while taking a break from your shopping?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2018
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
