Why dont people get jehri curls anymore?

[Lovelylocs]

I know people still do, but not as many as in the 80s. I'm not saying that I want one. The jehri curl could have evolved over the years. "Other" people still get curly perms and the curly perms for their hair change over the years. Why couldn't ours?

Also, I dont know much about jehri curls, but can u still straighten ur hair once in a while if u have one?

 

[blackbarbie]

I know people still do, but not as many as in the 80s. I'm not saying that I want one. The jehri curl could have evolved over the years. "Other" people still get curly perms and the curly perms for their hair change over the years. Why couldn't ours?

Also, I dont know much about jehri curls, but can u still straighten ur hair once in a while if u have one?

Umm....I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I just fell out laughing when you hurried up and put that disclaimer on there "I'm not saying that I want one"............Girl I'm still laughing!

 

[Neroli]

I won't ever again! I got the curl waaaay back in the day, and my hair was shoulder length and the curl made it beautiful, gorgeous, EXCEPT that I had to use all this curl activator and moisturizer (like totally saturate my hair ALL the time or it became dry as dust) -- I hated that drip drip all the time and my hair was UNTOUCHABLE, even by me. I loved the way it look, but I HATED all that oil and stuff on my hair, my cloths, my pillow case, I mean, it was on everything I couldn't stand it. uuuuuuhhhhh! I get the creeps just thinking about it . . .

After a week of misery, I cut my hair down to the scalp, all by myself, crying and having a fit, bit I just couldn't take it no more. I wore my hair in this really cute low curly fro for about 2 months and then I got braids and started all over again. . .

Well, that's MY story . . .

Regards,
Neroli

 

[firecracker]

Now why youz bez trippin?

 

[JLove74]

"other people" don't have to put juices and berries in their hair to keep it right....and it's too damn hot to have a jehri curl

 

[punchinella]

I know people still do, but not as many as in the 80s. I'm not saying that I want one. The jehri curl could have evolved over the years. "Other" people still get curly perms and the curly perms for their hair change over the years. Why couldn't ours?

Also, I dont know much about jehri curls, but can u still straighten ur hair once in a while if u have one?

Girl go ahead and let yo soul gloooo

 

[sassyhair]

I thought about getting one about a year ago, because I wanted the permanent curls...I love the look on some ppl, you can vary the size of the curl I love the larger ringlets, I have seen some ppl who do not have to saturate their hair all day, they get regular steam treatments and what not. I think it has changed a bit for the time.

 

[SerenityBreeze]

Wasnt there some wave neauvo (sp) that required less activator? I vaguely rememebr this coming out in like 1990 - OMG that was 16 years ago?? Where does time go?

 

[so1913]

Now why youz bez trippin?

Haha...I'm thinkin the same thing...

I'll say people aren't getting them for the same reasons dudes aren't wearing gumby's anymore.....

 

[Neroli]

Wasnt there some wave neauvo (sp) that required less activator? I vaguely rememebr this coming out in like 1990 - OMG that was 16 years ago?? Where does time go?[/QUOTE

LOL! I'm not gonna say how long ago my jeri curl incident was, but it's been a while and possible that technology has made maintening the curl less of a hassle (and less greasy!). I never looked back after that though, so I don't know . . .

 

[destiny616]

@ the question

i'm trying to forget my jheri days, my mom put one in my hair when i was 6 , my hair fell out and it was so damaged, the beautician cut my hair into a TWA and gave me a S-Curl , i was so tramatized, the kids teased me for a while, my hair didn't grow back until i was 14

jheri curls are the devil

 

[Tee]

You can straighten your hair still if you a curl. (I saw you asked that)

Why people dont get them....hmmm....just a sign of the times. Fashion and style has changed so much.

 

[honeycomb719]

"other people" don't have to put juices and berries in their hair to keep it right....and it's too damn hot to have a jehri curl

DEAD!!!

 

[honeycomb719]

STOP IT!! Yall Killing ME

 

[blackbarbie]

But on the real though, I do remember some folks back in the day who had really long gherri curls and (can you imagine it straightened out?) and after reading a lot of the stuff here on the board, I have to say that it's them wearing those darn plastic caps 24/7 and keeping moisture in their head that had to play a part in it.

 

[Sharpened]

Wasnt there some wave neauvo (sp) that required less activator? I vaguely rememebr this coming out in like 1990 - OMG that was 16 years ago?? Where does time go?

I had the wave back in HS and through the early part of my adulthood. It was much better than all of the others and worked better on my longer hair. I only used the moisturizing products after washing and once a week after that. Conditioner was a must, but you could not comb your hair with it in because it would straighten the curls. I never used a plastic cap and kept the lint buildup at bay with a vent brush wrap in cheese cloth and then a boar bristle one. My hair grew and stalled at BSL because I never really took all that great of care of it (I probably needed protein treatments badly!), but I made sure it was touchably soft with minimum greasyness.

Yes, you can get your hair blown straight with it and I did it a few times. The last time I did, I got Shirley Temple curls all over and tons of reverse splits in return.

The one thing good about that time period was no one ever assumed I had a weave until they became popular. I got nothing but positive remarks until some guy told me my hair was the only thing I had going for me, so I got a TWA the very next day to repel igits like him. Plus, I was getting tired of dropping $80-90 to get my hair did and a lecture about not getting my touch-ups done sooner. I stopped for good when they changed the formulas.

 

[sassyhair]

that is the process that I was talking about knowing ppl to have done.

Wasnt there some wave neauvo (sp) that required less activator? I vaguely rememebr this coming out in like 1990 - OMG that was 16 years ago?? Where does time go?

 

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[Isis]

That's a good question. I didn't know anyone personally who had a jehri curl but I heard it left grease on everything. I heard people's hair grew long with it too from all the moisture.
Maybe an improved version will make a comeback.

 

[sareca]

My cousin still has a jehri curl. I have no idea where he goes to get a "touchup," but it always looks fresh. It's also always greasy and leavin' stains on his collar.

I'd say get a texturizer for the spirals and some S-curl for moisture and call it a day.

 

[Blackbird77]

That's a good question. I didn't know anyone personally who had a jehri curl but I heard it left grease on everything. I heard people's hair grew long with it too from all the moisture.
Maybe an improved version will make a comeback.

I got a Jheri in 1990 and it did indeed leave grease on everything. I wasn't paying attention to length at that time so I don't know how far I could have gone if I was taking care of it better. It was very thick, though and that was the reason my mom had me get one because relaxers and heat styling were the reason my hair "dropped" from the thick natural I used to have. I grew it out and got a relaxer and pixie cut in 1993. I went natural 6 years later. Anyway, no more chemicals for me.

 

[misscrystal]

I remember when I worked at a grocery store, one of my supervisors had a jheri curl. If you ever had the misfortune to be scheduled to open the store (at 7am!!), you could see Ms. Anita come in for the day with her shower cap on....moisturizing her situation.


My mom had a jheri curl all when I was growing up. I think she had that thing until about 1992. I remember when she finally came home from the salon one day without it, I was like, "oh no, mommy! What happened to your hair?!"
Now I'm glad that someone at that beauty shop finally convinced my mom the let GO of that curl!

 

[brooklyngal73]

Yes, I got the dreaded Jheri curl in junior high--HORRIFIC!! I hated it for the same reasons as you: my hair was dried to a crisp if I didn't use that beloved activator!

Neva, eva again...

I won't ever again! I got the curl waaaay back in the day, and my hair was shoulder length and the curl made it beautiful, gorgeous, EXCEPT that I had to use all this curl activator and moisturizer (like totally saturate my hair ALL the time or it became dry as dust) -- I hated that drip drip all the time and my hair was UNTOUCHABLE, even by me. I loved the way it look, but I HATED all that oil and stuff on my hair, my cloths, my pillow case, I mean, it was on everything I couldn't stand it. uuuuuuhhhhh! I get the creeps just thinking about it . . .

After a week of misery, I cut my hair down to the scalp, all by myself, crying and having a fit, bit I just couldn't take it no more. I wore my hair in this really cute low curly fro for about 2 months and then I got braids and started all over again. . .

Well, that's MY story . . .

Regards,
Neroli

 

[dannie]

Oh this brings back memories. My uncle and grandma had jheri curls back in the day. Grandma just let her's go in 99'.

I remember my uncle processing his do' w/ the shower cap on. The whole house smelled like s-curl.

Not to mention that living room set, that was greasy as hell...and smelled like s-curl too.

Oh the memories.

 

[Blackbird77]

Oh this brings back memories. My uncle and grandma had jheri curls back in the day. Grandma just let her's go in 99'.

I remember my uncle processing his do' w/ the shower cap on. The whole house smelled like s-curl.

Not to mention that living room set, that was greasy as hell...and smelled like s-curl too.

Oh the memories.

Ha ha! Just like that couch scene in Coming to America.

 

[glamazon386]

Everytime I hear someone say Jheri Curl I think about that part in Coming to America where the family is sitting on the couch and then they get up and theres all those spots on the sofa.

But anyway, there are a few people still out there with them. Mostly old people who didn't let it. One of my relatives had one at my great grandma's 80th bday party about a month ago. And it did look greasy. erplexed

There was a girl in my class last sem that had one too but hers didn't look drippy or greasy. Actually, I didn't know she had one until I overheard her telling another girl in class. She was very dark skinned with a short curly fro and she had an accent like she was from the carribean or something so I just assumed it was her hair. Then one day we were at a play for our class and I heard her talking to another classmate on intermission and she was saying the relaxer thinned her thick hair out real bad so she went back natural and then decided to get the jheri curl put in because she didn't know what else to do with her hair. It didn't look bad at all but I wouldn't put that mess in my head.

 

[sweetpuff]

is the 'Scurl' considered a jehri curl?

In my early teens, my mom put a jehri curl in my hair. I remember that I always had to put on the moisturizing product otherwise my hair would look like a 'slept-on-one-side-dry-not-combed-or patted-furious' fro.
One day, I decided to just leave my hair and the products alone. I was just tired of the ickiness. My dad thought it would be good to do some bicycle so despite my whining, I got out. It was windy and honestly, my hair looked in a very bad shape. Think of an out of shape (litterally and figuratively) kind of little fro blowing in the wind.
I got braids a few days after.

I have an Scurl now but I control the ickiness with a no drip moisturizer and a mild gel. Braidouts are also awesome.

 

[BrownSkin2]

All of my sisters got jerri curls back in the day. Oh yeah, I remember the plastic bags and the wet hair and the whole house smelling like activator. It did make their hair thicker. I never wanted one because of the hair being wet all the time. It seemed like alot of work.

 

[DDTexlaxed]

I had a wave nouveau back in 99. It wasn't greasy at all. My hair grew so fast with it. The downfall was the touch up cost. Also my stylist at the time screwed up the curls. To me it looked limp, so I got rid of it with a relaxer. Another story... Don't ask.

 

[Browndilocks]

But on the real though, I do remember some folks back in the day who had really long gherri curls and (can you imagine it straightened out?) and after reading a lot of the stuff here on the board, I have to say that it's them wearing those darn plastic caps 24/7 and keeping moisture in their head that had to play a part in it.

So basically, the jehri curl was nothing but the baggie method...