I had a relaxer until ‘97 or ‘98; I thought I’d have a perm until I died, even with all the burning and scabbing and getting hair done on schedule. I used to go to the Dett Set hair salon on Wabash and then the Golden Comb hair salon. Baltimore really was a leader in hair culture then; maybe during the 1960s, it was white hair with beehives, and that came over to the black community in the 1980s. We used to wear our hair up in beehives and gel it to death. There was a girl in school, I don’t know how she got into a car. She wrote her name in rhinestones in her hair. We would put spring colors in our hair, it was a big thing in Baltimore. I imagine it still is.
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