Lessons learned...

So my good friend Carrie blogged, tweeted, instagramed and kept on bragging about this perm she got called a digital perm.  It looked great!  Just what I would want if I got a perm.  It is different from a regular perm in that they don't put solution on the scalp just down at the bottom of the curler and then they hook it up to heat rods and heat it!  It is only done in Asian salons.  Mainly Korean salons... that should have been my first warning!

I texted my hair girl and asked her about it having already booked an appointment mind you, and she said she was skeptical!  She, like everyone else I had mentioned it to, had never heard of one and she warned me that perms are bad with hair that is colored like mine!  I didn't listen!

I went this morning and even when I got there and my gut told me to run, I didn't.  None of them spoke very much English and they didn't understand me at all!  They kept pointing out to me over and over how damaged my hair was!  They wanted to put a treatment on it before, yada yada, I thought okay they must know what they are doing... time comes to put my hair in curlers and I could smell the solution that took me back to 8th grade, being my last perm.  I got sick!  I knew this was not going to be good.  I kept waiting for the digital perm "machine" and it never came!  They had my hair in perm rods and under the drier before I could say anything...

As I sat with neutralizing solution in my hair, I asked her about the digital perm, even showed her a picture?  I said mine is a regular perm.  She said no, different perm.  She had no idea what I was saying... I was at a loss.  I just had to pray that they knew something that I didn't.

NOPE.  They took it out and it was a spiral perm just like I had in 8th grade.  Only difference being it was a immediately damaged due to my over processed hair already.  It felt like straw.  She kept trying to bounce it up and make the curl more prominent, and I fighting tears just said I have to go.  I got up, paid, and left.  Yes, I paid for it!  UGH!!!

 I drove straight to Naimes and spent another 150 dollars in shampoo, leave in treatments and masks for my hair, I knew what had to be done if I had any chance of saving my hair.  I cried almost the whole way home.  What had I done?!  I got home and washed my hair repeatedly and left a mask on for 15 min.

It is almost gone, the curl that is, and is pretty relaxed, but it left a wake of destruction behind.  My hair is falling out, breaking BAD and it looks like straw!  I don't know if I will be able to repair it.  I may be finally cutting my hair off like I have wanted to but haven't had the guts!  I will give it a little time and a little TLC to see if I can repair it.

I am feeling better, but just so mad I didn't listen to my gut and just say no thank you!  OH well.  I will try just about anything once, but I don't feel like I tried what I wanted to try.  Will I have the guts to try an actual digital perm?!  NOPE~

About when I realized this is not the perm I wanted...

No curl left and you can tell the texture is bad!  I will post one later when I actually style my hair, if I can bear too!