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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Rexall Fast

[anonymous]

HI KAT, I read your give away with the Rexall Fast end papers. From ages 5-11 yrs, (I'm 57),as a boy,my mother gave me many different home permanents,every 2-3 months to my short blonde hair, set my hair with pin/clip curls, rollers in various styles from the owner of the beauty shop she took me to for 5 years. My mom gave and got home permanents and also salon waves, but I never had a professional wave, although I spent lots of times under the blasting hot dryer, sometimes squeezed in between old ladies. There was probably never one week that went by when somebody, my mother, neighbors, church members, my grandmother or me, were getting at permanent at our house. Although she preferred Toni, for herself and those that didnt have preferences, she favored Tonette for me; my neighbor liked Lilt for herself, so pushed Lilt Party Curl for me; my grandmother

Re: Rexall Fast

[haircuttingfun]

Thank you for sharing your experience with me. I oftened wondered how hair was set/permed back when home permanents because popular. I can understand why this made such a lasting impression on you!

It reminds me of what my aunt had to go through getting her hair done by a perm machine. Her mother would force her to get a perm. My aunt hated sitting there for hours, baking under the heat and sitting in the "awful smelly" perm solution. If she moved, she was sometimes burned from one of the clamps. (She says she still has a scar today). She said the stylist would look at her hair, say 15 more minutes, and dose her head with water, creating more frightening steam.

She says her hair never took a curl and to this day, nothing can be done with her hair.

Rexall fast

[anonymous]

Eventually, in high school, having been freed from curlers when my dad came home, I was given my first salon wave, and NO CURL body wave! It tremendously changed my hair, with body, volume and with roller set, great hold and styling. I still have night mares from those early years, which with sexual maturation, have caused both delight and torment in remembering incidents from that past. But my hated enemy TONETTE, has now become my ICON and my signature. THANKS SO MUCH TONETTE

MY home permanents

[anonymous]

THANKS KAT! When I hear about girls just a bit older than I am, getting their hair permed with the machines, I have to thank my stars that things could have been much worse. Although I've written to a number of guys who have heard or expirenced hair sets or a permanent growing up, most have said they would have given their two right arms and 4 left feet to have exchanged places with me. I never wanted it, I never enjoyed it, I never asked for it, and I never 'secretly' loved the feeling of the girlishness, sissy, or embarrassment or humiliation that I felt during those five years. As bad as it was, with my hair set after school and certainly before bed, I have often said my mother didnt try to put me into a dress, didnt try to give me girlish hairstyles, (other than modified), put ribbons or bows into my hair, but the restrictions regarding what she was doing to my hair eventually 'gender bent' me socially and my ignorance with girls and the differences between boys, was 1950's mentality

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

MY home permanents 3

[anonymous]

HI KAT: (Continuing) I didnt realize until years later that my permanents at home, coincided with our visits to the beauty shop, before and after a permanent, and cant give a appt schedule we followed. But at night, after school, with the shop closed, it was more relaxing and I wasnt in a constant state of fear

Re: MY home permanents 3

[haircuttingfun]

Dear Tonette,

I hope you don't feel bad now. There are plenty of men who get perms, and they look great with curls. Myself, I love it when a guy has very tight curls on top, and his slicked sides brushed out briefly.

Thank you again for sharing your story.

Love,

Kat