body wave perm Options

[pandora]

soooo i need advice because i know asian hair can be damned tricky. i wanna get a perm. i dont want to look like a poodle, though. I just want my hair to be wavy without having to put a curling iron to it every day. are there any asian chicks around here that have gotten a body wave perm? if so, how was the condition of your hair afterwards?

[salcha4u]

My hair was soooo hard to perm. She had to use around 3 bottles of chemicals, which is actually a lot. And she used the biggest curlers possible, if you use the small ones, you're going to get tighter curls which won't probably look as good. Like you said, I didn't want to look like a poodle. Unfortunately it got really untangled around 9 months later when my hair got longer, so I ended up cutting it all off. MMmm let's see...it was actually kind of hard to manage at first. You seriously get hair all over the place. I usually had to dampen my hair first and spray it with a hairspray or run mousse through it to make it look good. If it didn't, it just looked like a mass of nasty looking waves. Well, I suppose it wasn't that bad.


http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6536/permpr4.jpg
This was around 5 months into the perm?

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5621/octoberyw2.jpg
Half a year later..

Condition after the perm- lol my hair was absolutely fried. I wanted to reperm over it, but I think my hair would just fall out cause it was sooo damaged so I just cut off the whole thing :/ I guess I didn't take much care of it. I was supposed to use this specific curling creme the lady gave me, but I thought hairspray was just easier ahah. Plus they make special shampoos for permed hair, and I totally didn't look into that. But yeah, when all my hair grows out, I'll be damaging my hair again! Woot.