Perms (or permanent waving) allow you to chemically ____________ hair from straight to wavy or curly formation.

Perms (or permanent waving) allow you to chemically ____________ hair from straight to wavy or curly formation.

• A. Reform
• B. Rebuild
• C. Recolor
• D. Renew

Answer: (A)

Perms change hair texture by chemically rearranging its structure. They break the disulfide bonds in the hair’s keratin, allowing the strands to bend into a new shape, and then those bonds are re-formed in that new configuration when the neutralizer sets the curl or wave. So the process is about reforming the hair’s bonds to create a new shape. Recoloring would alter color, not texture; renew is not the technical term for this change; and rebuilding isn’t the standard description of how the bond network is reorganized during perming.

Perms change hair texture by chemically rearranging its structure. They break the disulfide bonds in the hair’s keratin, allowing the strands to bend into a new shape, and then those bonds are re-formed in that new configuration when the neutralizer sets the curl or wave. So the process is about reforming the hair’s bonds to create a new shape. Recoloring would alter color, not texture; renew is not the technical term for this change; and rebuilding isn’t the standard description of how the bond network is reorganized during perming.