Why dont people get jehri curls anymore?

my dad has been rocking the wave nouveau since i was a kid. he refuses to give it up.
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A Jheri curl was the worst thing that ever happened to me in the 7th grade! My hair fell out and I was traumatized! Err body was slinging long juicy strands and I had TWA!!! I had nerve to be jealous!
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We should start a class action suit! Physical and emotional damage!
 
glamazon386 said:
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. :lachen: :lachen: :lachen:

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. :perplexed

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. :lol:
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I was gonna post about that but you beat me to it :lachen:I can never forget that.
 
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Ya know, I've wondered this. Seems like Jherri Curls and Curly Perms got stuck in the 80's - as much as technology and science has progressed since then (and as many people want THAT kind of big curl :rolleyes:) you would think some interprising company would have revamped it by NOW......
 
I always thought the boxed texurizer was the Jheri curl's cousin...

and then there are silkeners... those seem very innovative to me. I just learned about them this year!
 
Lovelylocs said:
I know people still do, but not as many as in the 80s. :nono: 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?
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:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:okay, now that I have that out the way. The reasons why ppl don't get Jerry curls anymore...

1. It's Messy
2. It's Greasy
3. It's played out
4. Did I say greasy?

No seriously, ppl are wearing that wave nuvou (sorry about the spelling) that's something like a Jerry curl but less messy. It did grow your hair like nobody's business. I had one myself when I was 10:yep:
 
Neroli said:
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
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Same here - I got a curl in second grade and I was the only one in my class w/one. The other kids used to tease me and call me "juicy fruit " say things like "the juice is loose." I hated it. And I would never get one today b/c it's not very versatile. I don't think you can successfully blow dry and flat iron it straight when you felt like it and then go back to wearing it curly. You're stuck w/ constantly upkeeping that wet curly look. But there are two members of my church (mother & daughter) who still wear the curl faithfully. And their stylists is very talented w/ putting it in. Their stylist is also very good at cutting/shaping and coloring it. Their hair looks good. Perfectly shaped light brown juicy waves, ringlets, and curls. To each his own. I guess.
 
Jheri curls are too flammable. MJ taught us that in '84 when he got burnt like bacon on the Pepsi commercial...now he's rockin permanent lace fronts. :nono:
 
sareca said:
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.
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MoMo said:
Jheri curls are too flammable. MJ taught us that in '84 when he got burnt like bacon on the Pepsi commercial...now he's rockin permanent lace fronts. :nono:
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:funny: :lachen::drunk::lachen: Okay, I'm gettin outta here. Yall got me laughing my butt off. This thread is funny as hell....my sides are hurting......
 
ChocolateSoda said:
I always thought the boxed texurizer was the Jheri curl's cousin...

and then there are silkeners... those seem very innovative to me. I just learned about them this year!
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Silkeners are just weak relaxers - the same thing as texlaxing. The term silkener is just the marketing- so they can charge a ton of money for something "special". You can texlax or underprocess your own hair. Ladies please don't give Miss Jessies hair salon all your money!!!
 
mahogany66 said:
Girl, people still wear jehri curls. I was at my salon a couple of weeks ago and a woman came in a asked my stylist how much he charged for a jheri curl. When she left, I cracked up laughing because I didn't realize that people still wore them..:lachen:
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Yea, I remember being in the shop getting my hair done and the lady next to me was getting a Jerry curl. I was sitting there just a looking. I was speechless. I wanted to start laughing. You know the kind of laugh that comes from your stomach but I just sat there in disbelief..
 
misscrystal said:
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. :lachen:


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!
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:lachen::lachen: OMG this thread is funny
 
I wanted one when I was little because my grandma and tow of my best friends had them. It's not all that appealing to me anymore. Good heavens if my man got one I'd:spank:.:lachen:
 
Well I went to a wedding on Monday, and the grooms mother and father both strolled in late and sat behind my friend and I, and someone asked them why they were late and the mother said "we had to get our hair done", so my silly self just had to see what type of hair style would make you and your husband late for your only sons wedding so I turn around to say Hi and low and behold they had matching Jehri curls:lachen:I almost died right there. I had to compose myself, then I heard the wife whisper to the husband " Yours is kinda dry you should have put some more spray in it". That did it ya'll, I promise I was a shaking, crying fool my friend next to me kept trying to hug and console me, she thought I was crying because of the ceremony lol! I had to pinch myself the entire time to keep from laughing. Lord forgive me.



Lovelylocs said:
I know people still do, but not as many as in the 80s. :nono: 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?
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ok y'all I got tears running down my face, but when missnurselady posted her story. I had to walk away from my computer because of the hysterical laughter!!!!!:lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen::lachen:
 
this girl in my physics class has one. hers looks cute. but she has the dry kind, so she's not walking around with any excess drippage. her hair's a bit above shoulder, but it's not super curly, it's more wavy.

i asked her about it, and she said her stylist (the same one her mom went to in the 80's) left in the processing juice.. whatever it's called.. in a bit longer to make the waves.
 
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