fun little giveaways

[haircuttingfun]

The other day I ran across a small box of little never-been-opened packages of Rexall Fast End Papers for Home Permanents.  Since I have sooo many old endpapers already, I think this would make a fun giveaway to those who order perm/curler DVDs from me.  After these are gone, maybe the old wooden perm rods with the string strap will be next.  :)

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My home permanents 2

[anonymous]

HI KAT! Continuing: Before age 9, all my permanents were 'self neutralizing', which required wearing the curler rods all day or night, my understanding for a period of 3-6 hours. With this method, after my curler rods were rinsed, plastic 'wave processing cap' would be placed on my head, which I called a "curler helmet", which was clear, see through, similar to a large ladies swim cap, with imprinted yellow daisies. A strap buckled under my chin, and I wore it all day or all night, even sleeping. Removal, the curler rods would still be slightly moist. I would wear the curler helmet all night and on Saturday after breakfast, the curler rods taken out, my hair rewet and using setting lotion(cheaper kinds), wind my hair into pincurls or rollers, my brother called me "SilverHead", from all the aluminum clips. Although she often used her portable pink bonnet dryer, she only let me use it in emergencies, so I spent the rest of Saturday in pincurls/rollers until dinner time, and she'd take them out and netted for bed. On Sunday, my hair would be combed out for Sunday school and Church. My mother was a magician preparing my hair, set for bed, using nets and tissue and double clips. I had no problem sleeping as women as girls often complained. Again, the consistency of setting my hair may have attributed. My mother always said I "needed" a permanent, Needed my hair curled, like a child "needing" glasses. That with my "blonde rats nest", she gave me the impression that I had "bad hair" and "needed" curling and always said that permanents made my hair softer and curled easier (setting my hair easier to wind), and looked better. My main problem is that I never understood what a permanent was, or what it was supposed to do for my hair. Thusly, it was the PROCESS of the permanent, and because at the time, did not know of boys or men, who were ever getting their hair curled, and that the permanents she gave me were for "Little Girls", that made me feel girlish, sissy and later termed feminizing rituals. Left me terribly embarrassed. Because I did not understand the permanent my mother saying "a permanent is just a smelly way of curling your hair." Those adult women who were given permanents from my mother, I could hardly see any difference. Other than my Grandmother who came to us looking like the witch from Disney's Snow White, and left after a permanent and roller sets, like a beautiful Princess. My mother telling me that if she didnt set my hair, I might as well wear a paper bag over my head as people would be very shocked. With a permanent on Friday, it might be Tuesday before she would set my hair again, and nightly after that, a permanent did NOT reduce or eliminate setting my hair. After my first permanent, my hair was given its curlier state, and pincurled at the beauty shop, from the Owner and directed for my mother to do me at home. I dont think she ever knew the extent. At age 7, we changed from our hair set appointments on Saturday daytime to night time private sessions with the owner who took my service personally. It reduced the prospects of being seen by other kids, usually waiting for their female relatives, seeing me, possibly not knowing I was a boy, but any girl in curlers was a fair target for most boys to joke or ridicule. Too, the stares of women, as I took up a dryer chair that they could have been in.
THANKS KAT, (ran out of room) More)SORRY FOR THE LONG LETTER. TONETTE