It seems to me that there's got to be a way. My mom was a hairdresser and I (vaguely) remember her explaining how a perm works. It's a two step process where the first step removes whatever it is that gives the hair its existing wave and then the second step "locks" in the hair's current position as its new wave. So you put them in those curlers and then the new wave becomes the curler. It seems to me the process ought to work the same if you do something where the hair is kept straight instead of curled when the second step is performed. And then I might be mis-remembering this altogether.



One of the reasons I don't grow a long goatee is that beard hair often looks ratty when it gets some length. The other reason is I don't have enough hairs for it to look decent. I let it grow to about 2.5" one time and it just looked sad.