Hair has been both a prison and a means to empowerment for women since the beginning of time. Empowerment is at the fore —going blue proved a deeply expressive statement for me—and Solange’s ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ nails it.
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The Transformative Powers of Cheap Wigs
The extraordinary silvery wig above is $13.88 worth of identity experiment: a bargain. Having discovered that searching “wigs” at Amazon, yields an astonishing array of styles and colors, I bought the 32″ Long Curly Hair Lolita Custom Party Wig (Grey) to see what would happen if I went from brown to gray in a flash. I discovered way more.
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Annals of Hair Design: the Hair Hat!
We are continually amazed at the mighty improvisational and creative brilliance-in-the-realm-of-hair-dos we see around town daily. But these hair hats may take the cake. We don’t know HOW this Caucasian guy got his bone-straight hair to stay put (or why?… the mysteries of the artist’s impulse). Dig this African American version. The bill can be…
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Not Vital’s Toupee solution: hair sculpture hats
Swiss artist Not Vital devised a very strange, er, hair sculpture, an inspired wighat much better than the trying-to-look-like-a-full-head-o-hair-but-definitely-ain’t matted ‘rugs’ we see on occasion.
Why not toupee sculptures?