It’s Friday. The news is slow, the sun is shining, and I’m just waiting to get my margarita on — and to (kind of) live blog Rosie on Rachael Ray and Tom on Oprah. In the meantime, I’d like to share a tragic childhood story:
A perm totally ruined my senior year in high school.
I know, I know… you’re probably wondering how I even survived to tell this tale of woe. I often wonder the same. You see, I have naturally thick, wavy hair. So why did I feel the need to chemically fry it for the purpose of adding three MORE feet of hair to either side of my head? Probably for the same reason I spilled my heart out to Doug Morrison in a love letter that he, in turn, taped to a blackboard for our entire class’s amusement.
I was, to put it mildly, a dumbass.
Of course, I am older and wiser now. I only make bad hair decisions ending in tears, oh, once a year now. And I know to stalk Ryan Reynolds outside of his bedroom window, rather than leave an embarrassing paper trail.
However, age doesn’t equal wisdom for everyone, as these men prove:
“Yo, Check the Perm!” follows 15 New York men as they seek to spice up their lives with — you guessed it — a perm.
I already know the ending: The perm will NOT lead to a prom date with Doug Morrison. No matter how many bottles of Sun-In they pour on it.
Do you have a tragic hair story? Do tell! Miserable perms love company!
i gave myself a really short emo looking cut once and everyone called me “sir” or “young man” for about 6 months.
my cousin did the perm and sun in thingy too.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 amwe called him “boo radley” until it grew out.
My hair is naturally very straight, so when the perms of the 80’s started to grow out, I looked like Bozo the freaking clown.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 amAunt J just uses her bandana when she has a bad hair day.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pmAs you can see my hair is damn near perfect!
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmPeople click the link Candy posted: Rumer Willis is the first photo you will see there.
Vern: your hair IS perfect. My hair confession is that I did “a Britney” and shaved my head, I was going travelling in the Amazon for two months and it actually turned out quite well. The issue was growing it back. While I am bisexual and have no problem with KD Lang cuts, it failed to attract all the cute girls I was trying to date.
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 pmi had that geometric cut where one side was longer than the other. horrendous!
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:15 pmThe truth is, I wasn’t always perfect…I know…hard to believe, but it’s true.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pmI had one stylist cut my ear. Another tried to hit me with a brush because my hair was not behaving for her.
And worst of all, I actually left in the middle of a cut because the woman cut hair like Bai Ling speaks. I left her salon and raced to another for a repair.
That was the only time my husband was smart enough not to say the generic “You look nice, honey” without looking.
Vern: “cut hair like Bai Ling speaks” - that had my laughing maniacally. Too funny. The bit about your hubby is both sweet and funny
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pmFunny, Aine.
Hey Candy, i don’t believe your perm story. I think you’d better provide some photographic evidence.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pmHere here Mezza! Aunt J me too!
I cut off all my hair one year and the first comment I received compared me to someone on TV that I did not find particularly attractive. Trying to be sensitive here, I hate the word “ugly.” In any case, I’m too embarassed even to mention who it was.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 amI have shaved my head before–much to the anger of men and women on the street–complete strangers. They called me everything from dyke to whore. On the positive side, there were a couple women who said that they wished they had the guts to try it. I liked it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 amBrit Bit,
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 amthose are true stories. The worst part was my husband reccomended Bai Ling’s sister because I was mad at my regular guy!
Oh my gosh midevil you reminded me. Yes, I got the lesbian thing too. This sweet, gentle looking old man came up to me in line and said that there was a meeting of lesbians not far from there. Let me say, he wasn’t being informative. Ah, memories.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:04 pm