I had a hairdresser do it to me. All I wanted was a basic perm with hair a bit straight at he top. She cut it so I looked like a poodle It poofed on the top. omg I was horrified.

My friend and I both got home perms...I TOLD her not to do her bangs, lol...I refused to do my bangs so I was saved from getting a true poodle perm.

I'm an 80's kid and my mom is a baby boomer. She still wears these perms despite the fact that I done told her a million times that it is outta style. She swears lotsa teenage girls STILL get spiral perms so it must be in style. Val, there was girl that got one like yours at the salon when I was there in 89. She was crying and her Tony Danza like dad brought her into this salon to fix what another salon did. The girl's older sis was cracking up and kept calling her Richard Simmons! The dad told her to shut up. I think we all had a bad do from a salon.