Human hair in the press

After a discussion with Sara and Carolyne, I decided it was important for me to use human hair in this project, allowing me to develop my setting and styling, building my techniques and also hopefully improving on my marks from specialist practise. I began to look into where human hair is imported from, and how it is made into wefts;

In 2010 the BBC wrote an article on the uses of human hair which is being heavily imported to the west from the east. The uses for it were never ending, being used for obvious things such as hair extensions, pastiche and wigs, through to the unusual use in food as an additive found in bagels and pizza dough, as well as being made into mops to soak up oil - something BP used within the massive oil spill of 2009 in the atlantic ocean. Full article available here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8753698.stm

In 2008 Jamelia (pop star) travelled to India and Russia for a BBC documentary 'whose hair is it anyway' and claims to have discovered many women around the world feel forced to sell their hair to gain money (russia) and for religious practise (india) where they do not know where there hair is going. Jamelia also claims that human hair can often come from corpses, and can be taken from the dead without the families knowing. The humane element of hair sourcing is something widely disputed more so in the last decade. Full article available here; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1036155/Why-Ill-wear-hair-extensions-pop-star-Jamelia.html