History
This hair style was invented taking a hint from black people's hair by Japanese barber Shigemi Naganuma of Hair-salon Naganuma in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū in 1960s. Naganuma named it "champion press". However, it came to be called "punch perm" all too soon (because of its punchy and powerful appearance, according to one theory). He became an apprentice barber at age of 19 and became independent at age of 26. At that time, the hair iron stick for the perm was round shaped and could not hold the hair tightly. Then, young Naganuma, after closing his shop, filed the hair iron into a hexagonal shape, like a pencil, for a tighter hold.
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