Page 13 - Volume 2 Black Hair

Chapter 2

Curly Perm

Curly Perm:

The best way I can describe a curly perm is that it is a double chemical

process, that is to say a normal perm the same as for Caucasians carried

out on previously relaxed hair.

Curly perm kits supply a gel type chemical that you apply to the hair first,

comb through to relax the natural hair, once the hair is manageable wind

it onto permanent wave curlers, after a curl pattern appears rinse and

neutralise, then remove the rods, shampoo, condition and comb through.

While the hair is still wet you will notice a nice big curl pattern. If you

allow it to dry naturally or if you dry it under infra red lamps the curl will

disappear and the hair will revert to a loose frizz.

You will find that once you damp it down again and comb it through the

big curls will appear again, so it seemed that as long as the hair stayed in

this wet state the big curls would remain.

So those clever chemists devised oil sprays, so you could spray the whole

head with oil, which gives the hair the appearance of being wet. Thereby,

keeping the appearance of nice big curls that could not revert to frizz, all

the time that the oil sprays were in the hair.