permanent wave

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2019

Beauty was Étienne’s business: A Hungarian-born hairdresser, who lived to 98, he had invented a permanent wave machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2018

The show is about his grandfather, a hairdresser and the inventor of the permanent wave machine.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2017

At the salon one day, he noticed an end paper lying on the floor—one of the rectangular, tissue-thin strips of paper that hairdressers use to wrap curls in a permanent wave.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015

Gran’s hair is short and curly and gray; she’s been wearing it in a permanent wave, Dad says, since the 1970s.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman