From Burlap to Silk
By DianneN
@DianneN (247183)
United States
February 7, 2023 3:15pm CST
Just thought I would share this photo with you of a 1920s door on one of my favorite houses here in Florida.
Anyway, I just spent 2+ hours getting a keratin treatment on my hair. I walked into the salon looking like a bush woman and walked out with smooth, silky hair.
My hair tends to bush out and frizz on rainy days and in high humidity. Since my hairdresser up north refuses to do it, I’m going to have it done again just before I head back to Connecticut in April and hope it lasts as long as possible.
Have you ever had it, a permanent, a color, hair straightening, or highlights?
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@Deepizzaguy (106761)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
7 Feb 23
I have never had a permanent or coloring of my hair other than getting a haircut where I look like Curly Howard of the Three Stooges.
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@allknowing (141016)
• India
7 Feb 23
@DianneN Even I did not like my looks (lol)
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@celticeagle (171548)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 23
I used to get perms. I liked the curl without the work.
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@celticeagle (171548)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Feb 23
@DianneN ...........Good for you! Work with what you have.
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@wolfgirl569 (111824)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Feb 23
I color my own. Have had a couple of perms
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@wolfgirl569 (111824)
• Marion, Ohio
8 Feb 23
@DianneN Natural was brunette with a hint of red. Now all grey. I usually use henna and the red varies by how long I leave it in. My hair has no body at all. So perms help but don't last long
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
8 Feb 23
@wolfgirl569 You must have very fine hair. I also have a lot of red in my hair. My aunt was a natural redhead.
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@RasmaSandra (82565)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Feb 23
I also love that door. Glad you got your hair fixed up. Back in NYC when my mom was alive we had a spring ritual to have our hair permed and fixed up, I decided not to just let my hair go naturally and not color it anymore. My grandmother had very lovely white hair and I figured that is how mine would go, As a result not I have white bangs and the rest of my hair is the color it would have naturally been in my childhood. Hopefully this means I am going back in years and not forward
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@RasmaSandra (82565)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Feb 23
@DianneN just the white strands in my bangs and the rest as I mentioned is my mousy brown hair I had all through my childhood until I started coloring it all kinds of shades from university onward. I guess that means I am not old at all it's just my imagination. I still want to rock and roll,
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
8 Feb 23
@RasmaSandra Nice! You are a girl after my own heart. Rock on!!!
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
8 Feb 23
The one and only time I had a perm I wound up looking like a clown!
I tried Nice & Easy when I was 19, but my mother took one look at my brassy hair and almost fainted. Since then, with her advice, I've been getting it done professionally. World of difference
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@LadyDuck (472500)
• Switzerland
8 Feb 23
@DianneN So true, dry hair is not good for the skin. I have a cream that a dermatologist gave me and I have eye drops for my poor dry eyes.
I had the perm for the wedding of my brother, I remember his face when he saw me "What did you do sister? Are you crazy?"
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I had one perm in my life and looked like a clown. More like a lunatic
@Tampa_girl7 (51484)
• United States
9 Feb 23
I had a perm when I was in high school. It fried my hair and I swore if my hair grew back healthy that I’d never do anything else to it. I was blessed and it grew back fine and I happily cut the fried hair off.
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@Tampa_girl7 (51484)
• United States
10 Feb 23
@DianneN I think a lot of us are in the never again perm club.
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@just4him (318848)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Feb 23
@DianneN I am happy with it. I always hated when my mom permed my hair. She kept it short. My very first perm was when I was 16 months old. I was so happy to grow my hair long when I left home. Of course, I needed to perm my hair. It's wire. The only way I could get it to style was to perm it. When I got older and went back to short hair, it looked better without the perm, and there you have it. As for my first perm - here's a picture. It's my baby picture.
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@florelway (23355)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
7 Feb 23
Old doors are more durable. I used to have highlights curls and had my hair straightened once in a while when I was younger in my late twenties and early thirties.. I am 61 now and I just wear my hair as is . I have natural wavy black hair. I apply hot oil treatment once a week. I don't shampoo everyday.
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
7 Feb 23
I agree and so much prettier.
My hairdresser told me not to wash my hair every day, too. Your hair must be so beautiful with all you are doing for it. I should start doing the hot oil treatments. I used to, but haven't even thought of it for years
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@popciclecold (39823)
• United States
7 Feb 23
That's am old door. Hope you get your hair straightened out. Raining here too.
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@snowy22315 (185405)
• United States
8 Feb 23
I have, permanents used to be the thing, but they seem to fallen out of favor these days. What are all the marks in the door?
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@much2say (57209)
• Los Angeles, California
8 Feb 23
Cool door with the little peep door (is that what it's called?). I don't have super straight Asian hair . . . mine has a slight wave so it can get frizzy in certain weather too. I had a perm in my teens . . . not colored by did henna on my own back then too. Otherwise, these days, I just let it all go naturally 
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@much2say (57209)
• Los Angeles, California
12 Feb 23
@DianneN My hair is just long now - nothing special about it really. I know, the frizz gives volume . . . in that sense my hair never looks "flat", but it can look too poofed too. I think I got a perm because I saw other Asian gals look cool with it - plus with the henna look. You can never look like a clown!!
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@sathviksouvik (20075)
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8 Feb 23
I only add some mehendi which is a natural colour on my hair with brush once in 2 months
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
9 Feb 23
It does make your hair softer and silky.
Any idea when you can return?
My neighbor up north is a Filipino. She’s married and has two adorable kids. Her father lives with them and works in a factory to make yogurt for a supermarket chain. He went back to the Philippines in October to give his wife and everyone he knows money. He returned a couple of weeks ago and is back working.
The woman made me a Filipino dish and it was delicious. Today I looked up more to make myself 
@LindaOHio (183918)
• United States
8 Feb 23
Love the door. I tried to have my hair straightened twice in the 60s when straight hair was the vogue. It didn't take. I've had my hair colored in a salon a couple of times. Now I just like it au natural...silvery gray.
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@DianneN (247183)
• United States
8 Feb 23
That door is pretty special and so old.
I'm sure you look just fine with your silvery gray hair. Is it wavy or curly?
I had my hair straightened once and looked like a dufus. Flat straight hair doesn't go well on my head or with my face.
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@LindaOHio (183918)
• United States
8 Feb 23
@DianneN It's extremely wavy. All I have to do is brush it after I wash it.
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