permanent wave
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But in beauty school, I discovered I was allergic to permanent wave solution.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2019
Beauty was Étienne’s business: A Hungarian-born hairdresser, who lived to 98, he had invented a permanent wave machine.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2018
The show is about his grandfather, a hairdresser and the inventor of the permanent wave machine.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2017
At the salon one day, he noticed an end paper lying on the floor—one of the rectangular, tissue-thin strips of paper that hairdressers use to wrap curls in a permanent wave.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015
Then she pulled me so close to her that the sharp-smelling concoction for her permanent wave nearly singed my nostrils.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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