1930's Beauty Salon - The Scary Hair Perm machine

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1930's vintage Fashion - Hollywood style
An excerpt from Broadway Girls 1932 starring Joan Blondell.
This sequence takes place in a beauty salon and features an extraordinary and slightly scary perm machine. The latest instrument of torture in beauty attainment. Music by Annette Hanshaw

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[Supersaiiyin]

i am NOT getting my hair put in those electrodes! O_O

[RevampSpunkyRena]

Whoa.... scary perm machine.

[BusyBeingFabulous]

I met an old lady when i was in europe. She told me a story about herself when she was young she had her hair perm the same way in this vidoe by using these electrodes. Her hair was completely ruined and fell off. She was bold until one woman in the neighbourhood recommneded her to use pork fat ( called lard or grease ) to massage her scalp twice a week. This was the only way she could grew her hair again and never went for perms lol.

[mustamissdher]

You can still get the hot perm done, only now the wires are hooked up to a computer to regulate the temperature. Its becoming quite popular again - called a digital perm.

[LuckyNumberPeace]

I'm pretty sure that's what little girls did when they wanted their hair like Shirley Temple... I heard it on a documentary, I believe.

[aj1373]

Frankensteins girlfriend.

[RottenRroses]

I wonder how much she cares about her hair today.

[LittleImpaler]

All that just to make your curly????? Not worth it, if your hair is going to fall off!

[Brianeddie666]

@JsgHair71 AMen! It wasnt much fun GIVING someone a machine perm either! There was no such thing as air conditioning back in those days, and the machine heaters gave off ALOT of heat, not to mention steam from the perming solution and the smell of burning hair mixed in. During the depression of the 1930s, a "Beauty Operator" was lucky to even get ONE dollar for giving a machine wave. The "Patron" was lucky if she didnt come out with several burns and bruises also.

[hdcat]

My elderly mother tried to describe those old perming machines to me but I could never get a clear picture in my head until now. She said they would start to get hot/burn & the stylist would have to blow on them.

[sxdutt]

@zimmergurl what about these days???? lol