Home perms??? "Toni" for kids????

[mum4jenn]

Does anyone know if the "Toni" home perms are still made? My mom used to give these to me and my sister (way back in the dark ages) and I would like to give my own dd a perm. She is the one begging for one but the shops her will not do perms until they are at least 13. Dd will be 9 in Sept. and she has super straight hair(got that from me). Anyone know????

 

[lindakmonty]

I've never heard of "Toni" but I'm sure you could use a different perm. I would use one w/a conditioning treatment w/it. I use to work in a salon and we used Quantum most of the time.

 

[Hedy]

How about "Perm for a day"? 9 seems a little young to start perming one's hair (and I was a kid in the era of perms everywhere).

 

[AuntieM03]

When I was about nine my grandma gave me a perm, and I ended up with helmet head. My mom gave my brother a perm, and he looked like he belonged on the Brady Bunch. Sorry that was actually no help.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

There's a reason salons won't perm so young, liability. I would be uncomfortable giving a perm to a 9 yo. Typically their hair is very fine and their skin may be too sensitive to the chemicals in the product.

Please do a patch test first if you decide to go through with it, the instructions are in the package. Yes, they still make Toni perms, and a whole host of others. You should be able to find them at Target/Walmart or a drug store.

 

[tevagirl]

My mother used to perm my hair when I was little. Probably why I got picked on so much.

 

[lil mermaid]

My mother used to perm my hair when I was little. Probably why I got picked on so much.

I hear ya, sister. I have been perm free since 1990.

How about getting her a really cute haircut that will flatter her straight hair? Or if she really needs to be curly, maybe you can use hot rollers on her? (If they still make them?)

 

[lsyorke]

Oohhhh, memories!!! Getting the Toni perm while sitting outside on a stool! No matter what you did, you got frizz!!!! Ah, the good old days.

 

[mrsheppo]

Yuck, I had it done one time and looked like someone's abandoned poodle.

My exhusband took my then 12 yo DD to have a spiral perm done and the stylist ended up burning her scalp and neck. I don't think I would do a perm on someone so young.

 

[PixiePop]

I don't really have an answer to your question, but you brought back a hair raising experience of when my sister in law permed by hair. I couldn't even get a comb through it. I thought my life was ruined.

 

[ktpool]

I had my dd9 hair permed a couple of months ago. She has very oily hair and no amount of shampooing would make it look clean for more than a couple of hours. Our stylist did a 'root' perm and it looks great! There are not frizzies or adverse effects and her hair looks clean and shiny now for 2 days.

This was the best thing we ever did for her hair and my sanity (no more yelling "Do something with your hair!!"). I will gladly pay the $45 every 6 months until she is 18

 

[Caradana]

Ladies,

When I was 10, my mother and my stylist AT THE TIME agreed to perm my bangs. And just my bangs. My hair is stick-straight. I looked like a poodle head on a sharpei. Note, stylist AT THE TIME.

Yours in hair trauma,
Dana

 

[mum4jenn]

Thanks guys!! I will look around and ask at the place we get our hair cut to see if they will do one. I have done pin curls on her at night and then take them out the next morning (usually picture day) and they will have enough curl left in them usually by the time pictures are taken (depending on the weather) Normally after 3-4 hours she is back to straight as a stick then.

 

[kbkids]

Thanks guys!! I will look around and ask at the place we get our hair cut to see if they will do one. I have done pin curls on her at night and then take them out the next morning (usually picture day) and they will have enough curl left in them usually by the time pictures are taken (depending on the weather) Normally after 3-4 hours she is back to straight as a stick then.

My daughter has really thin straight hair too. She wants a perm so badly - she's 8 - and I'm just not going to do it. I use those foam rollers on her at night. If you twist the hair before you roll it, it comes out in those spiral curls, and it looks really cute on her. I put a bunch of gel in it before I do it, spray it when I pull out the rollers, and then pick through it carefully to straighten it. Her hair will last for two days (by the end of the second day, it's starting to get raggedy - and she does have to wear a pony tail on the second day because there's no straightening it after she has slept on it!), but it works for us - and that's in all this Florida humidity!

 

[SandraVB79]

As someone who pers her hair (to avoid I look like a miserable sheep): don't do it on a child that young. Don't damage their hair (for the rest of their life!) because of "straight hair"

Please.

 

[mum4jenn]

My daughter has really thin straight hair too. She wants a perm so badly - she's 8 - and I'm just not going to do it. I use those foam rollers on her at night. If you twist the hair before you roll it, it comes out in those spiral curls, and it looks really cute on her. I put a bunch of gel in it before I do it, spray it when I pull out the rollers, and then pick through it carefully to straighten it. Her hair will last for two days (by the end of the second day, it's starting to get raggedy - and she does have to wear a pony tail on the second day because there's no straightening it after she has slept on it!), but it works for us - and that's in all this Florida humidity!

I have done something like this. I either braid it while it is wet or I twist it and put it into pin curls but even with all the gel and other stuff if the weather is not right it does not last more than a few hours!!

 

[barkley]

i have VERY fine hair. a perm is a necessity to have any body to it. my beautician finaly found a gentle product that is perfect for me-it's developed for the elderly (prone to thining hair and exposed scalps) and i guess is somewhat popular for little girls in the "beauty contest" junk-it's called "frog fur".

it works realy well, does not frizz, and does not stink for days (for which dh is eternaly grateful).