and a few photos of a woman getting this done at http://addictiveshir.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

Speaking of perm machines, I received an email saying that in the 1940s or so, there was a comic strip featuring a guy (perhaps Archie?) tied to a beauty salon chair and his hair covered in perm machine wires.  Does anyone else remember this, or have a digital copy of it?