Ladies - when was the last time you had a "wash and set" at the beauty shop?

Question

I remember my Mom used to go for her weekly trip until sometime in the early 1970s. It was unfathomable to me that she could go for a week without washing her hair and that she could sleep in pin curls with bobby pins poking her skull. I remember she had a bonnet dryer, too.

She gave up the practice in favor of a poodle afro (which looks pretty, uh, interesting on a little Japanese woman).

How much did a weekly visit cost? And do you miss this beauty ritual?

Answer 1

I can't when the last time, I had a wash and set. I had a standing appointment. I remember those hot dryers and the curlers with those pins that would hurt.

Answer 2

Wash and set was over twenty years ago.  After that it was wash and blow try.  I did this weekly until I retired.  Now I go for a hair cur three or four times a year.

Answer 3

When I go to the beauty shop every 3=4 months, I just get a razor cut, as I keep my hair very short. Mainly due to the very hot summers we have here. I do not want a wash and set. I am quite capable of washing my own hair and why wast eht money on doing so. I remember many years back of going into the beauty shop and seeing older ladies with their white hair getting the wash and cut and set routine. But not so much now, they are having to save money and I don't blame them.

I also remember my Mom setting at the kitchen table putting her hair in bobbie pins. I'm sure it was hard to sleep on.  I used to hate my Aunt coming over as I always knew it was time for the old Toni Perm for me. I always hated it and the smell of the solution and then I looked like Shirley Temple until the Perm started to relax. Oh what we  women go through for beauty.  

Answer 4

Three weeks ago, I had a wash and blow dry.

Answer 5

I never had a wash and set. I never went for the helmet head look.

Answer 6

Too long ago to remember. I just go for trims until 3 weeks ago when I had 18 inches cut off and it cost me $15.00. I live in a small town and my mom has a beautician from the old days come to her house every Friday and I don't know how she can stand the once a week shampoo either!!

Answer 7

can't remember, it must have been in the 60's when my hairstyle was called a 'cottage loaf',like backcombed in two tiers. what did we look like back then!!!!

i do my own hair.

Answer 8

Actually, I have never had this done.  I have thin, straight hair that doesn't hold a curl worth a d**n!

Have a Senior day.

Answer 9

I too remember the women who had a weekly appointment.

Bouffant hairdos so stiff from hairspray they didn't move during a tornado

I do confess to being a bit of a girly-girl - but I do my pampering at home.

And I never used hairspray. Too 'untouchable'. lol.

Answer 10

When I was 14, and in someones wedding back in 1968. I began doing my own hair  at age 10, and ended up being a hairdresser, so I did my own sets. Now when I go, it's for color, cut and blowdry. My mom went every week back in the 60s and 70s, until I started doing her sets. There was this one male hairdresser, who was as good as some of the famous ones you hear of today. If you had an appt at noon, it would be midnight before you got out, he was slow, reaaaaal slow, but when you left your hair was done exceptional, and not a hair out of place. People complained, yes, but they were so happy with their hairstyles, they always went back. Now that's diehard! Those were the days of high backcombing, or teasing if you will, and tons of hairspray or worse yet, the laquered hairsprays. You could bounce a golf ball of of some of those stiff hairdos!  

Answer 11

11 years..my hair is down to my big butt..it's really thick and perms for my hair used to cost 100.00 no telling how much one would be now..so it's down..pony tail(mostly) or braid.

Answer 12

I never did, but my mom is 91 and still goes every week for a wash and set. She gets a perm every so often. I think she does the color herself with a box.

I go about every six weeks for a cut and color. I wash it myself every other day and blow it dry. I remember when I slept with rollers in my hair every night and used a bonnet hair dryer. Glad those days are gone, although blow drying my hair takes 20 minutes.

Answer 13

My mom is 84 and still goes once a week to get her hair washed, dried and curled and 'set'. The set lasts the whole week, too, but sometimes get a little itchy. At her age, she is no longer able to move her arms around enough to do her own hair, so this is a good arrangement for her. I feel like I have to wash mine every day because it goes flat and limp so fast. Would not want a tight, blue perm tho.

Answer 14

Never have. I always do my own hair.  I have to wash it every day or I feel disgusting.

I agree-- I never could and still can't understand how my mom can only get her hair done once a week.  People used to think it was dangerous to have wet hair more than that!

Answer 15

I do not know any beauty shops that still do that.

Answer 16

Yes I do remember and we only washed our hair once a week I cant hardly believe that because I wash mine every day, how did we do it. now that don't use curlers any more so I just get a cut twice a month keep it short and fix it myself but I remember it was a treat back then.

Do you think of pollution is the problem and we only were allowed to bath once a week to. My mom would have had a fit if we would bath every night like we do now.I remember her hollering TURN THE WATER OFF IT COST TO MUCH!

Answer 17

A shampoo and set was $5.00 back in the 70's.  My mother-in-law had a standing appointment each week at the beauty shop.  Never did this myself as my hair was long and straight for years.