12/24/2023 0 Comments Spiral perm on long thick hair“A digital perm creates the wave as if you’ve used a curling iron and makes the wave more prominent when the hair is dry against a normal perm.” The biggest difference between an 80s perm and a digital perm, Nishimura says, is the shape and the texture of the wave created. It sounds counterintuitive, but, speaking from personal experience, it works. While the idea of subjecting your hair to those levels of heat might seem scary initially, the chemical used in the treatment (by Tokyo-based brand Momoko) contains proteins that recondition and repair the hair molecules by creating moisture when heat is applied. “It uses temperature-controlled rods that are all powered by a machine with a digital display.” Unlike a traditional perm, where dry hair is soaked in alkaline and set in curlers, a digital perm is activated by heat to break down the molecules of your hair and rebuild them to mimic the shape of the rods. “A digital perm is a new technique of creating a shiny and bouncy wave to your hair,” explains Kenji Nishimura, founder of My Snug Room, a salon in London that specialises in the treatment, which lasts between five and ten months. Fans include Jaime King, Bella Hadid, Jourdan Dunn, and Emma Stone. Think less Coronation Street’s Deidre Barlow, and more SS20 Gucci or Celine. The digital perm uses a combination of infrared heat and less-damaging chemicals to create looser waves and natural volume over tight, uniform ringlets, a gentler, more natural approach to the hair style. Perms, along with sister ‘bad’ 80s hairstyle, the mullet, have returned, thanks to a new wave of treatments making their way from Japan to Europe. Linda Cardellini’s Chutney, with her curls still intact, stands no chance. “Isn't it the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance that you are forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours… at the risk of deactivating the ammonium thioglycolate?” she says. Reese Witherspoon’s character Elle Woods cracks her first legal case when she realised the defendant is lying about showering directly after getting her hair permed. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about perms is that iconic final courtroom scene in Legally Blonde.
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