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If you've recently gotten a nightmare hairstyle, take heart: it could be the beginning of something great. At least that's true for Meredith Vieira, who tells O she got her big break because of a particularly heinous perm. To find out how a rotten hair treatment changed her life for the better, just keep reading. Read more
Embarrassing but true: these goofy caps ($3) will be forever deemed ear condoms in our minds. I'm not so sure these coverings would protect a client from getting nipped by a stylist's shears, even though the manufacturer touts them as so. But for protection against perm solution and hair color spills, they're perfect. Plus, they're just so odd-looking, I can't stop gawking at them. And if all Read more
Perms get such a bad rap just because grandmas love them and they were a staple ingredient of '80s hair. Despite the fact that I know how useful they can be, and how many different kinds of perms there are, I might almost be hesitant to tell people if I got one, just for fear that they'd start laughing before I could explain. What's your opinion on the whole thing? Has the perm just gotten too Read more
Ah, the permanent wave. My seventh-grade self had some questionable taste in hairstyles, and I wanted a spiral perm so badly. (All the popular girls had them.) After much nagging, my mother relented and gave me a home perm. It looked as awesome as you can imagine. These days, perms can look much better than they did back in the day. A friend has a digital perm, and it looks super-chic. Have you Read more
"Can I have the Kung Pao Mullet with some Sweet and Sour Perm on the side?" Thanks, College Humor! Read more
See Kate Middleton's updo from all angles — HuffPost Style The far-out looks from The Makeup Show (body art included) — Styleite The product you should steal from your grandmother's vanity — Stylelist Four new ways to style an updo classic: the bun — Refinery 29 Grace Coddington remembers her days as Vidal Sassoon's muse — The Cut Heidi Klum speaks on her days with a perm — Read more
Do you find yourself skipping makeup and hair in the morning just so you can grab 15 or 20 precious extra minutes of shut-eye? Or worse, are you losing sleep to an overlong makeup routine? Don't do it! There's no need to suffer for beauty in the mornings, and we've got a few beauty tricks up our sleeves that can speed up anyone's maquillage. See five of our easiest ways to make mornings less Read more
How to survive a bad perm — Naturally Curly Three braided hairstyles that you can actually do yourself — Refinery29 Six haircuts men hate (and why you should try them anyway) — The Gloss Get a full beauty makeover in minutes — Real Simple Agyness Deyn discusses gut-wrenching breakups in angsty new ad — The Cut This MAC video teaches how to get fuller lips fast — The Frisky The best Read more
See who made the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue — Styleite The coolest nail art of the week — Stylelist Seven products that will make your eyes pop — Real Simple The next big hair accessory? Cat ears made of flowers — The Cut The latest and greatest in antiaging technology — Glo What it's like to get an eyelash perm — Beauty High Gwyneth Paltrow covers Harper's Bazaar — Huffington Read more
Sometimes, bad things happen to your hair. Whether it gets burned on a flat iron, fried by a bad perm, or reduced to string by a too-high lift bleach, the (literal) fallout can be extremely depressing and super frizzy to boot. Enter Global Keratin's deep conditioner ($36), which makes even totally destroyed hair look nice and shiny again. It's a long conditioning pack — 20 minutes with a cap Read more
