Andi,

Both my sister and brother are hair stylists. My brother is excellent and does well. Off and on I have been to him but he wants other paying clients and although I paid him, for some reason he had a idea that I could be bumped off the book. I guess it's been about 15 years since he's done my hair.

My baby sister worked as an assistant for many years at one of the top salons. I never let her touch my hair, but, I have stick straight hair, cut Cleopatra style (The Classic Bob) and I wanted a body perm and she said she'd do it at the house. In go the rods and on goes the stinky stuff. In the middle I said, what if I wanted a little bit curly ? She said we'd leave it on longer. Rods come out and I looked like Rosanne Rosanna Danna. Then we decided she should cut it. So she did. Then I looked like a french poodle. And then it grew so I had straight shiny roots and french poodle. So she perms it all over again. And then I ended up with very short hair. Thankfully, I didn't lose all of my hair, but, enough to be short short short. We laugh now about it. But, I will never get another perm. That was 20 years ago when that french poodle look was in. It took me two or three years to recover. No extensions in those days!