Noun
She got a perm last week. Verb
She got her hair permed at the salon.
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No more granny short hair perm style, love it.—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 Touted as a perm for your lashes, lash lifts are for the minimalist makeup girlies who want that lifted look sans all that extra effort of using mascara, a curler, and extensions.—Audrey Noble, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025
Verb
It can be inherited or triggered by hair styling techniques, such as perming, excessive blow-drying, and straightening.9
The condition causes fragile hair that breaks easily.—Patty Weasler, Rn, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025 What does a hair gloss do, exactly? Most hair transformations (like dyeing, bleaching, relaxing, or perming) work by opening the outer layer of your hair (a.k.a.—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 2 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for perm
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