I recently had the idea to make hair pieces for myself out of my own hair. I've been saving the shed strands from my hairbrush to make
hair rats for several months now, but I decided to go one step further. I needed a haircut anyway, and I thought what better use for the strands I would lose than making pre-curled, ready-to-wear resuable hairpieces? Thus began the Great Experiment! If I'm successful, I should be able to quickly and easily (after some practice) create elaborate 18th-19th Century hairstyles.
To start with, my hair was very long.
Not the longest it's ever been - in high school I could almost sit on it - but long enough to annoy me. I was willing to part with up to eight inches for the sake of this endeavor, and I decided to cut it myself rather than try to explain to a hair stylist what I wanted to accomplish.
