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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

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

By the eighth inning, a customer had canceled her perm appointment with Kanno, allowing him to watch the game slip away from the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

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

Then he smiled at me wistfully and went to sit by a girl with braces and a bad perm.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

They both had the exact same hairstyle: long spiral perms with tall feathered bangs.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell

The permed Keegan was the continent's biggest star and a cultural icon, too.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

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

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

Compare Elizabeth disappearing into permed wigs and Coke bottle glasses to Villanelle waiting for a teacher outside a school.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2022

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