Types Of Hair Perms

Perm is a chemically altered hair style that follows a severe process to restyle hair shape into desired curls. With the help of perms a great amount of volume, curl and bounce is added to hairs. Many women wish to have curly hair but naturally do not have.

A perm can give the look they desire. It is a re-washable style that requires less care and less use of any heating appliance. People can even do perming at home, but it requires utmost care and if instructions are not followed properly it might have some adverse affects.

That is why beauty salon perms are suggested with professional advices sought by the hairdressers, suiting one best.

How Perms Help?

• They Add Curls: If the hair is fine and wavy, a perm helps by choosing from a wide range of size curls and perms. For example small rollers to large inch and a half rollers. A large roller gives a very soft curl look. Where as, on the other hand a smaller roller gives more of a spiral look.

• They Relax Naturally Curly Hair: Perming can organize the disorderly naturally curly hair by taming your locks. Larger rollers are used will curl in natural curl size, giving a new curl.
• They Straighten Hair: Theycan be used to straighten hair. The process is a bit tedious and time consuming. A lotion has to be applied and then the hair stylist would comb your hair straight for about 20 minutes. Time is dependent on nature and volume of hair.
• Perm Can Be Done On Colored Hair: You just have to wait for a week after coloring your hair to get them permed. A double chemical process is done might damage your hair. It’s more advisable to perm first then go for hair color.
• Perm On Gray Hair: The hair stylist will do a softening process. It softens the cuticle, and can make perms better.

Acid Perms

Acid perms transform highly conditioned flexible curls. It is best for fine, fragile, sensitive, damaged or tinted hair. It minimizes the risks of hair damage.

Alkaline Perm

Alkaline perms result into strong, firm curl. They are best for normal and resistant hair.

Exothermic Perm

Exothermic perms produce a bouncy, flexible curl. Exothermic refers to the gentle heat that is created by the chemical reaction taking place when the lotion is mixed. The gentle heat provided allows the lotion to enter the hair cuticles, conditioning and strengthening the hair from inside. The lotion would shape the hair.

The acid perms, alkaline perm and exothermic perm can be further utilized with different techniques to bring out a number of results. For example:

Body Perm

Body perm is quite soft, loose perm that are shaped by means of large curlers or rollers. This adds volume, with a hint of wave more than curls.

Root Perm

The root perms different add lift and volume to the root area only. They give a height and fullness to hair. And they are best for hair that is short and that has the tendency to go flat.

Spiral Perm

Spiral perm bring out a tender spiral curls. This tender spiral curl affect is created by rolling the hair around long curlers. This way curls makes long hair look thick too.

Stack Perm

Stack perm gives curl and volume to one length hair cuts by using different sized curlers. The hair on top of the head is not permed, but the middle and the ends are given curls and some movements.

Weave Perm

Weave perm requires perming some part of hair while leaving the rest straight. It is aimed to give a blend of texture, natural body and bounce, mainly on spots around the face near the fringes.

Perming is done by breaking down the inner structures of the hair and changing them through a curler to give a new shape. Hair is washed before perming making the scales on the cuticles to rise gently, allowing the perming lotion to penetrate through the hair more quickly.

This alteris the Keratin and breaks down the sulphur bonds linking the cells together in the inner layers of each hair. When it is done, hair can be formed into a new shape, with hair curled over a curler or a perming rod.

More lotion is used then and hair is left to form the new shape. The time can be varied for different hair types and hair volumes. Then, neutralizer is used to close the broken links and giving the wave or curl permanently.