More commonly known as a relaxer, a perm is a series of chemicals that African-American girls use on their hair to make it look less curly, rough, and thick. As a result, their hair becomes darker, straighter, thinner, softer, longer and smoother.
1. Creamy crack; something many black women feel they need and grow an unhealthy dependence on in the efforts to make their hair straight or European-looking.
2. caustic chemicals that have no business on somebody's hair