Analog perm?

I was in a hair saloon when I noticed 'Digital Perm' on the price list.

If there's digital perm, is there such thing as analog perm?


or does it have to do with fingers?

Fingers are digits, in medical term. But digitalis isn't from fingers. It's from foxgloves. Gloves=fingers.

Speaking of foxgloves, I couldn't help but remember Enid Blyton's story on the origin of foxgloves. Apparently, foxgloves original name is folk's gloves. A naughty pixie hates gloves so much and tricked the glove-makers into making heaps of 'wrong/misfit' pixie gloves. And somehow the gloves turn into flowers. Couldn't recall the whole story, I hope it's right.