Wavy hairstyles are all the rage, even among people with straight hair. But using a curling iron is fiddly and time-consuming and you also risk singeing your hair. So if you want to keep your curls ...

Wait long enough and everything comes back in style is an age-old truism. That day has arrived for perms. Hair salons across metro Detroit are seeing a blast from the past with the return of the ...

In the late 1980s, my best friend Jody had glorious naturally curly hair. Mine? Poker straight. I hit the salon every few months to endure a painful, frizz-inducing perm in a futile attempt to achieve ...

The year is 1987. Bon Jovi is blasting on every radio station, "Dirty Dancing" is in theaters nationwide, and the only thing people want more than the numbers of Jon and Baby's personal choreographers ...

Let’s hear it for the curly boys. It used to be the ladies who would settle in for the long haul of getting a perm. But now the young boys have joined the curly hair brigade, deciding once you go wavy ...

Ever get a blowout and wish those loose, soft curls would last forever? You're not alone. Now some women are turning to perms — yes, perms — to get beachy waves that rival Gisele Bündchen’s, and some ...

OnMilwaukee's senior writer Molly Snyder got a perm without having to time-travel back to 1987. Here's how it turned out. I got a perm – as in a permanent wave for my hair – without having to ...

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