Plastic bag perm

Press, 26 July 1989, Page 13

Plastic bag perm

Baggie perms — socalled because they are wound on plastic bags — halve the time as well as the number of rods it takes to do a spiral perm. Creative director of Helene Curtis Australia, Kate Hann, has just completed a tour of New Zealand teaching New Zealand hairdressers how to wind spiral perms on plastic bags.

Using medium sized plastic bags rolled into tubes for perm rods and the standard twist-ties to secure the rods it only takes between 20 and 30 minutes to wind a full head.

The medium size plastic storage bags, of the type sold in supermarkets, when rolled into tubes give hairdressers a greater surface area than a standard rod so they can work with bigger sections of hair.

It takes 50 plastic bags, compared with 150 standard perm rods, to wind a full head. Plastic bags, being softer, are much more comfortable for the client.

Kate Hann was using the new Helene Curtis

Outer Limits perm solution to demonstrate the baggie perm technique. This recently released, amphoteric waving system adjusts to being acid or alkaline depending on the condition of the hair. An alkaline solution is strong and best suited for the strong new growth, and an acid solution is soft so it will not damage or over-process fragile or previously permed or treated hair. The amphoteric solution gives an even curl along the length of the hair strand so it is excellent for spiral perms. Outer Limits perms process automatically so there is no guesswork or danger of over-processing.