
"But I was hoping to get a perm."
"You don't want a perm, not really."
"Yes, really, I want a spiral perm. I just loved the last one."
"I don't think you do. I mean, no one gets perms any more. Perms are so frumpy '80's. ... O.k., I'll give you a soft perm, to add a little body."
Thanks a lot, Dougie. A bad hair month ensued, with floppy hair that looked like I'd slept on it wrong no matter what I tried. So I gave up, both on Doug, and on perms in general.
To Doug's credit, the environment is much happier since I abandoned perms. While advances in hair care products are being made all the time, there are still a surprising amount of pollutants in them: formaldehyde, paraben perservatives, heavy metals like lead and selenium. The stuff not only emits foul fumes that are breathed in by stylists and customers alike--it often gets rinsed away down the drain.

It's the unseen dangers in our everyday environment, like CO2 emissions, germs, and hair perm solutions, that really get us. I must be vigilant, even about the seemingly innocuous, even about my hair, which I only see when I take the time to look in a mirror.
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