Comments on: Permanent rebellion

By: laurie

laurie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:43:54 +0000

we had the opposite problem. we were all busily trying to straighten our hair.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:35:24 +0000

There were six girls in my family and the smell of permanent wave solution was as common in our house as the smell of pot roast. No long hair balls clogging up the sewers in our house! My Dad and the “snake” were two things you never wanted to see together! I think I was 12 when I achieved/demanded “hair independence”! Mom just had her 7th child and I think she was too tired to care anymore…….so we all had short STRAIGHT hair.
Julie, you must be a whiz with a Neti pot!

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:48:36 +0000

Growing up in the 50’s, I won’t even address the perm issue other than to say I got one in Oct. I guess we go through the same stages of life over and over….perm…straight…..perm….straight. Anyway, I totally understand the drink coming out of the nose and clearly remember the first time it happened to me. First grade….in my bedroom sitting on a sheet spread out on the floor. Alana Adams and I playing library with all of my books spread about the edges of the sheet as we happily made library cards for each book. It was all about the process. When we were done sorting books and making cards, the game was over. For some reason that day, my mother allowed us to have chocolate milk in my bedroom. This never happened because food NEVER left the dining room table. As we played library and enjoyed our treat, Alana made me laugh and I blew chocolate milk out my nose. What I remember most was how painful it was! I also remember it as making a colossol mess. I bet when you posted this blog you didn’t think you would have this many comments about drinks coming forth from the snout.

By: Layla

Layla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:45:59 +0000

i should have explained to you how unspeakably glamorous my grandmother was BEFORE posting my previous comment. i am certain that the fact that i do not spend an hour coiffing myself and matching my eyeshadow to my sweater just completely mystifies her 🙂

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:01:57 +0000

In reply to Jessica.

Jessica, the liquid didn’t come out of my nose if I drank from a glass slowly and normally. It always happened in two ways:

1. When drinking from a drinking fountain – when slightly bent over, the water went in the mouth, out the nose.
2. When drinking any liquid from a glass and giggling or goofing off, as children can do. The slightest little breath out while drinking would send it out of my nose.

We were told that my tonsils and adenoids were so huge, the void left somehow facilitated this. It can happen for a few weeks after that kind of surgery, but that particular gift went on for years in me. Thankfully it had stopped by the time I was a teenager. 🙂

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:53:11 +0000

Julie-

A few things:

1) My head used to BURN from those perms too. Ouch.
2) I also still trim own hair in moments of desperation and it never looks good. Actually, it never looks that good anyway so I guess I don’t have much to lose.
3) I thought your photo actually looked pretty good considering what had happened!
4) Not to miss the point, but I must know more about the liquid coming out of your nose. Did it just go in your mouth and out your nose? Please explain. =)

By: Savannah

Savannah — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:09:32 +0000

This blog post made me laugh ridiculously hard!
And I don’t think I ever cut my own hair…. ??

By: Just Julie

Just Julie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:51:44 +0000

In reply to Layla.

I almost forgot about the burning of the perms but your comment reminded me.

I think your hair looks thick and healthy, Layla. And I am saying this out of love. 🙂

By: Layla

Layla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:49:48 +0000

my grandmother did the same thing to my mother. perms. and willfully ignored her protests. my poor baby mother, all of 4 years old. whenever she saw the “hairdresser” pulling up she would break out in hives. she has exceedingly sensitive skin, so in addition to feeling as tho she looked horrid, she also experienced the horrifying sensation of her head being on fire. as soon as she was able she, like you, grew out her hair, and it remained so, gleaming, stick straight and long, until her mid thirties. my grandmother has now turned her attentions to my hair, which in her opinion looks “horrid and depressing” with “no style & a mousy color.” i like to think she is saying this out of love 🙂

By: Ginny C

Ginny C — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:36:51 +0000

I think that the self inflicted haircut was your salvation for the school picture, Jewel! Rarely have I seen the dreaded “Toni” look good back in Donna Reed Days, especially freshly done for school pictures. Now I suppose there will be a flood of ’50ers, submitting their Tonified doos in defense. 🙂 I just remember having to sleep on whatever the current rage curler was. Rags, oooh I am old, spools, bristle rollers with picks that always got tangled and hindered sound sleep, and then the slick smooth rollers that put your head to a right angle on the pillow! What was I thinking!
I do cut my own hair once in awhile now… didn’t cut it when I was young… it usually is Sunday morning, getting ready for church, and I have finally HAD IT with my bangs! I grab and try to imitate what I have seen the “stylist” do. So it never has the same results, but there, it is a bit better!
But the best laugh I’ve had in a long time! I can hardly type I am laughing so hard…liquid came out of your nose!!!!!!!!!!!!! I needed that!!!!