- God, that took a while.
Mother-
This cape is useless.
Dripping into my eyes, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
What's up YouTube?
In today's video,
I'm going to be perming my own hair,
at home, by myself.
Do I know how to do a perm?
No.
But I'm going to try to figure it out.
And why am I doing a perm?
If you follow my YouTube channel,
for while now, you'll know that I have a podcast.
My podcast co-host, Evelyn and I,
we are out of work because of the current situation.
So we started a Patreon,
hoping that our fans would come out and support us.
We set a goal for ourselves,
when we hit $1000 a month,
we'll do a special video,
and the special video would be me,
doing a self perm.
Thank you for your support everyone
and I'm about to ruin how I look.
A perm, is permanent until your hair grows out.
So that's gonna take awhile.
Shout out to all of our patrons right here,
thank you so much for your support.
Your name should be scrolling through the list.
If you would like to join these people right here,
feel free to go to patreon.com/ricetomeetyoupod,
the link should be on the screen
and it'll be in the description as well.
And doing this perm,
at this point my goal is not even to look good
anymore after the perm,
my goal is just to not look like an Asian grandma.
That's all I'm hoping for.
Make sure you watch 'til the end
to see how the perm turned out.
And you're here, why not give me a thumbs up
and subscribe to my channel.
I'm actually quite nervous right now,
I dunno how it's going to turn out.
It might be so bad, I just shave me head off tomorrow.
So this video might be the last video of me having hair.
The first step was to do my research.
I scoured YouTube for hair perming tutorials
and I clicked on the first video I saw
that has an Asian guy in it because,
well I'm an asian guy
and hopefully out hairs are similar.
I found this video from Brute Choi
that gave me this really helpful tip.
- Basically here's a telltale sign,
in terms of figuring out
if the perm will come out good or not.
Make sure you salon uses bigger rollers
because if they use rollers that are a lot thinner,
that means that it's gonna end up looking like
an Ajumma perm, which is not what you're going for.
- Noted.
I also found this amazing tutorial by Issac Yiu
that lays out everything I need to know.
This is his before and after.
Wow, that looks great.
And he's a complete pro at this,
just look at this.
Yeah no way, mine's gonna go that smoothly.
Next is to actually buy the stuff that I need.
Perm papers.
A rat tail comb.
Spray bottle.
Perming solution.
Extra large perm rods.
And as an additional precaution,
a bib to protect myself.
A few days later, all the stuff arrived
and it was time to do the perm.
(items hitting table)
By the way, if you're coming here
thinking this is a tutorial you're in the wrong place.
All I know about perming is just the instruction manual
that comes in this box.
This is the Wella creatine plus curl kit,
Apply pre-treatment evenly
or to more porous parts of the hair.
What do you mean by porous?
White goo.
Feels nice,
smells nice, got a nice scent.
I feel like a beauty YouTuber right now.
Ah, this comes with a lovely vanilla scent.
It's a very slight finish.
Beauty gurus on YouTube
always put stuff on the back of their palms,
don't they?
And if you look at any beauty YouTubers hands,
this part must be the smoothest part
of any body part they have.
Now I'm gonna go rinse it out and I'll be right back.
Okay, folks, we are back.
This how guys play the role of a woman on TikTok,
putting a towel over their heads.
So the next step would be to start winding the hair.
I'll need spray bottle of just water.
Perm papers,
these are the papers that go on the end of your hair.
I think it's trendy now to like a center part.
Oh my god, I look like shit.
It looks like a nerd.
All right, I kinda got one.
See?
Now to use this elastic band to pull it over.
Right, it came off.
Tougher than I expected.
People who work in hair salons
should qualify as essential workers.
Because this shit is difficult.
So I got one on but now it's falling off.
It's not even sticking to my hair.
Back to square one.
It's already 11:15,
I've been struggling at this for the last 45 minutes,
and I still can't even get a single roller.
(breathes out) Let's try it again.
Now let's roll it down.
We got one, ladies and gentlemen.
God, that took a while, mother.
Got a second one on.
It's loose,
it doesn't look nice
but I got it.
You have to roll it, roll your hair around it
and then get this little hole,
see this?
Get this little hole
into this thing,
like can't make a dirty joke here but,
the hole's not big enough.
I can feel it, I can feel it.
Put the stick into the hole,
come one.
Ugh, I'm pulling my own hair out.
They make it look so easy on the YouTube videos.
Oh yeah and by the way,
I haven't done any practice on this.
This is the first time doing it,
as you can probably tell.
'Cause I really suck.
I'll be fired from the hair salon.
Okay, I guess this is the best I can do.
And not falling off anymore,
I mean if I don't shake my head too hard.
Apply the curling emulsion,
ensure your client and yourself are sufficiently
protected with gloves, cape and apron.
Honestly, I should have put this on
before I started this whole thing.
How do you wear this?
Yes.
I got cape now people.
(superman music playing)
And it smells horrible.
Oh, at least I can still smell,
which means I don't have the virus.
I got to 15 minutes and then I went to rinse,
now I'm supposed to towel dry.
Is this how people carried stuff in the old days?
Next step.
Neutralizer.
It smells terrible but I can't stop smelling it.
Dripping all over my back.
This cape is useless.
Dripping into my eyes, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
You better subscribe after this.
I'm killing myself for you guys.
Gently unwind.
I gotta take the rods out, finally.
The combination of my hair being wet and this bright light,
I look like I'm suffering from really bad hair loss.
Look at this, oh my god.
(blow dryer blowing)
Okay.
I don't see any difference.
(rooster cawing) - [Narrator] The next day.
- All right folks, its the next day
and I'm back for round two.
As you can see, it didn't really make much difference
to my hair.
I looked at a tutorial again
and I think it's because when I put the curling rods on,
it wasn't wounded tight enough to the base of my hair.
That's why my hair is still not curly or wavy.
(upbeat music)
This is about the best that I can get it.
I have no idea how the guy has like 14 rods in his hair.
I think it's either my hairs not long enough
or I just don't have enough hair.
All right, round two of the perm.
And you can see it looks a little bit better than the
Insta story I posted last night,
the rods are wounded more tightly.
I don't have the little head towel thing
they wear in the videos,
So I just have to use like a hand towel
and just keep it tight at the back.
It literally smells like piss because there's ammonia.
I've learned this in chemistry when I was 17.
Ammonia smells like piss.
That's all the chemistry knowledge I remember.
So I went to rinse it,
Guess what?
Two of the rods fell off,
this side and one on the back.
And a lot of them got a bit looser, like this one.
Now, for the final step,
the neutralizer.
Apparently, this has hydrogen peroxide,
which means it can damage your hair
but I go through sacrifices for your entertainment.
Hey Siri,
set a timer for five minutes.
- [Siri] Okay, five minutes and counting.
- I look so ridiculous,
even FaceID doesn't recognize me anymore.
All right, it is now time to remove the rods.
Let's see how it turned out.
As you can see, it's curled.
It's not curled well but it's definitely curled.
Look at this.
I have tentacle hair now.
See again, there's a little curl here.
Look at this.
I'm actually really proud of this baby curl,
look at that.
Woo, woo, woo.
(upbeat music)
All right, so it's a few hours later.
And I've let me hair dry completely.
I would say mixed results.
My fringe here,
there's a bit of an S shape
but only this part.
I have no idea what's going on here.
It's curving in all directions.
I think I didn't use enough rods,
like you can see it's a little bit of a wave here.
But some parts of my hair, like here is completely straight.
My hair is also super damaged right now.
So dry and it's crispy.
My hair is crispy.
Anyone like the KFC family bucket crispy hair.
(crunching sounds)
It's finger lickin' good.
Look at the S shape, it's so pretty.
Look at this one strand of hair.
Oh.
I think I should go out like this.
Would you talked to me if I came up to you at a bar
and I looked like this.
I look like I have a tongue on my head.
Given my situation, I ended up okay.
Sure, I didn't end up with the Gong Yoo hair.
But I also didn't end up with an Asian grandma hair.
What I did end up,
I realize if I shake my head a little bit,
I end up mad scientist hair.
Our next goal on Patreon is $1500 a month,
so help us get there.
You'll be a patron,
because before the pandemic started,
I'm a stand up comedian.
And now I'm unemployed.
Patreon is the only way my co-host Evelyn and I
are making money right now.
If you support our Patreon,
not only will you be supporting us through these hard time,
you're also getting like free entertainment for yourself.
Once we hit $1500, what crazy thing do you want me to do?
I will do it for you.
(upbeat music)