Today’s root perm is subtle, strategic and surprisingly low-key — designed to fake fullness where hair falls flat. Rather than chasing hair volume through curl or texture, today’s techniques focus on ...

"Korean-style root perms create subtle volume at the root," Dunning explains. This particular type of root perm is gaining in ...

After a long stretch of pin-straight, glass-hair trends, the perm has waltzed right back into the spotlight—and this time, it’s softer, healthier, and far less terrifying than the 1980s spiral ...

Editor’s note: German inventor Karl Nessler patented the first permanent wave machine, which used borax solutions and electric heated rollers to curl the hair, in 1909. About a decade later, this ...

My hair is naturally straight with a slight wave throughout, which becomes more accentuated the shorter it is. I also have incredibly thick and heavy hair, so when I style it with a curling iron, I ...