What Size Perm Rods For Beach Wave

Perm Rods

How to Know What Size You Desire

I often become asked questions about perm rods and what sizes are advisable for different lengths of hair. People often want to take really simple "Tab A/Slot B" answers to their questions, when unfortunately this isn't always possible.

Choosing perm rods is i of those subjects that requires a trivial "finesse" when it comes to choosing the right one. The size of the perm rod you need to employ depends largely on the length of the hair being permed and the corporeality of curl y'all desire to take in the finished style.

We all know that the unlike sized rods create different sized curls in the permed hair. The smaller a rod is the smaller and tighter the curls will be as a result. In addition, the length of the hair is a factor in the resultant corporeality of coil that is accomplished from a perm.

Curl vs. Wave vs. Body

Nosotros've all heard the terms "Torso Wave" and "Body Perm" and "Curly Perm", and in fact, a lot of the time the use of such terms is disruptive. Virtually people don't understand what is meant by these terms and how the use of certain perm rods factors in creating these furnishings. The principle is simple: the more than times the hair is wound effectually the perm rod, the more bends are created in the hair.

The longer the hair is the more times it will need to wrap around a rod of a given size. In club to create a wave that looks natural and balanced to the pilus's texture and length, we generally use larger rods on longer pilus lengths. This depends on the desired issue.

Say we take a client who has neck-length, layered pilus and she wants a lot of book and curlicue in the hair. Her hair is an average of five inches long in its shortest areas. Depending on how tight a curl was desired nosotros'd probably use a gray or white perm rod to wrap the hair. If she wanted less gyre and only "body" we'd probably utilise a purple rod to create the largest and softest wave design.

With shorter lengths, using large rods can requite big, soft curls and add together wave instead of curl. The shorter the hair is, the smaller the range of rod diameters that we would be likely to apply would be.

The Rods Themselves

Rods for perming

Perm rods are designed on a universal standard. The various sizes are color-coded, fifty-fifty though the manufacturers may use shades of the same color that vary from other manufacturer's rods of equivalent size. The primal is to learn what bones colors mean, since some of the rods may not be readily visible as existence different in size.

Information technology should also be noted that perm rods come in both concave and "directly" versions. The concave rods get slightly thinner toward the eye and flare at the ends. This has two benefits. 1, information technology allows the rod to sit snugly against the scalp with hair wound around it – to a betoken at to the lowest degree. And two, it gives a slight variance in the whorl making it looser to the outside of the segment for a more natural wait. The directly rods have the benefit of creating a uniformly shaped curl.

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