I went down to Needham Hair Boutique for a perm and asked for big, loose waves with some curls at the end, and mentioned Veronica Lake's hair several times as an example of what I wanted. I ended up with hair that looked like it had been crimped with one of those god-awful crimper irons, and then ironed flat, and then crimped again. It was a bad perm any way you look at it -- stiff, frizzy, flat, crimped, my hair (which I had spent several years growing out) was TRASHED -- not to mention looking nothing like "Veronica Lake" hair I originally wanted. I went back to complain and the stylist shrugged and said that she used the largest size curlers they had and that there was nothing she could do (also, found out after the fact that she had no idea who Veronica Lake was, but didn't say that when I was describing the hair I wanted) Huge rip-off -- stylist had no idea what she was doing and HURT my head (was really rough) while she was doing the perm to boot!