Is there such thing as a straight perm?
There is a such thing as a relaxer, which basically is a straight perm and is sometimes refered to as a perm. Relaxers are best left to the professionals and sometimes you can’t trust them with a relaxer. Trust me on this one. I just recently got my hair cut extremely short and am growing it out naturally (without any chemical processes), due to severe relaxer damage. When I was twelve I got a relaxer. Pre-relaxer,I had hair to the middle of my back. The relaxer straightened my hair to about an inch below my waist. Then all of a sudden my hair began to break off at the ends and approx. 3 months later I had loss over a foot of hair. NO JOKE! The chemicals in relaxers can be very damaging and drying, and your hair will probably need more work and effort, after getting a relaxer than without one. I have been told by other hairdressers that the hairdresser who originally put mine in may have mixed a relaxer and a curly perm together (A BIG NO-NO). Plus relaxers can get expensive. where I l
