Old School Beauty Treatments That Should Stay Vintage

Want A Perm? Think Again

Before the advent of modern hairstyling machines like blow dryers and whatever they use for perms these days, humanity had things like this. Apparently, this is how one got a perm during the industrial revolution. These machines were invented by a guy called Charles Nessler in 1906 and were called permanent wave machines (we know, not as catchy as perm contraption 1000). These large machines were actually very popular until around the 1940s.

The machine would heat your hair and add in a little water and chemicals for good measure, leaving you with a curly perm when everything was said and done.