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These days, hair styling is advanced. Perms is now a fine art which can be fine-tuned to give you exactly the kind of hair perm look you want. You can get perms that beef and bounce up fine, limp hair; you can get loose, sexy waves or you can go for the cutie-pie corkscrew curls.

Here are some tips to help you get the perfect hair perm:

1. Is the perm for you?

Perming hair can cause damage. So if your hair is coloured, damaged, dry or sensitive, you might want to avoid a perm. Coloured hair contains chemicals from the hair dye, which can be activated or react with perming heat and hair perming chemicals. Hair perming heat and chemicals are also harsh, and cause further damage to unhealthy hair. An easy check for the health of your hair is to take a couple of strands of your hair and pop it into some water. If sinks, your hair is damaged – it’s soaking up water to compensate dryness. In this case, avoid a perm. If you have healthy hair and especially think hair, it will take a perm very well.

2. How long does a perm last?

After you get your hair permed at the hairdresser, it takes about 28hrs to settle. Then the perm lasts from two to six months, depending on your hair reaction, the quality of the hair perming job and the chemicals used.

3. How to find a perming specialist?

Perming is not very popular these days, so it’s not that common for a hair salon to have a perming specialist. However, you can still ring around to ask how much experience the salon and their stylists have with perming.

4. Take pictures and communicate

Make sure your hair stylist knows exactly what you want – bring along pictures so there’s no misunderstanding. Besides pictures, you should chat to your hairstylist about how to maintain your perm.

5. Wavy or Poodle Curls?

The size of your hair curls will depending on the size of the perming rods. Make sure you check with your stylist that you will get the size of curls that you want. The last thing you want is to look like you got your perm from the vet.

6. Prepare your hair

Do some homework before getting your hair permed. You’ll want to wash you hair with a decent shampoo and condition it too. Howver, don’t bother with a deep or intensive conditioner as it may mean that your hair won’t take the perm.