Vietnamese Woman Has 3-Meter “Hair Snake” Growing Out of Her Scalp
We’ve seen people grow their hair ridiculously long before, but what sets 81-year-old Trinh Thi Nghien is that her 3-meter-long locks are bundled together in a thick mass that looks like a snake curled on her head. She claims it just started growing like this 22 years ago, and it hasn’t stopped since. Trinh Thi Nghien’s […]
7-Year-Old Girl Suffers from “Uncombable Hair Syndrome”
7-year-old Shilah Yin is one of only around 100 people in the world with a condition known as “uncombable hair syndrome”. Instead of downwards, her hair grows out from the scalp in multiple directions, and can’t be combed flat. Shilah, from Melbourne, Australia, was born with normal hair, but her parents noticed a strawberry blond fuzz growing […]
The Choppy Look – Russian Hairstylist Uses Sharp Hatchet Instead of Scissors
If you thought your hairstylist was a little rough, you’ve probably never seen Russian hairdresser Daniil Istomin work. He taught himself to cut hair with a sharp hatchet instead of scissors, and while the process is allegedly very effective, it’s also about as brutal as you can imagine. Like many other hairstylists, Daniil wanted to come up […]
Chinese Barber Uses Leftover hair to Create Awe-Inspiring Artworks
Wang Xiaojiu, a 31-year-old barber from Jilin city, China, doesn’t simply sweep shorn hair off the floor of his hair salon and dump it in the trash. At least not before painstakingly arranging it to create highly detailed works of art. Seen from a far, Wang’s masterpieces look drawn with a pencil or charcoal, but […]
Glow-in-the-Dark Neon Hair Takes over Instagram
The latest beauty trend to hit Instagram involves women coloring their hair with special dyes that makes it glow in the dark. The look, also known as ‘blacklight hair’ comes in a variety of neon shades – blue, pink, green, orange, and copper red. Some women seem to prefer a single shade, while others go […]
Chinese Barber Uses Leftover Hair to Create Insanely Realistic Portraits
Li Hailing, a barber from Lingbao, in central China’s Henan province, uses leftovers from his day job to fuel his real passion – art. He collects the hair that he cuts at his salon and, in his spare time, arranges the thousands of strands to create stunningly-realistic celebrity portraits. Li, whose inspiration comes from sand painting, uses […]
Sizzling Hairstyle – Chinese Barber Cuts Hair with Hot Metal Tongs
Wang Weibu is one of the few remaining Chinese hairdressers practicing the ancient hair-cutting art of ‘Dahoujia’. The rather extreme technique involves the use of a pair of red hot metal tongs to burn hair off, instead of cutting it! Weibu, 72, starts by heating the clamp in a wooden fire until it is red hot, […]
Ukrainian Man Claims to Have the World’s Bushiest Eyelashes
Long eyelashes are generally considered beautiful, but this Ukrainian man’s extra-long lashes are just plain creepy. 58-year-old Valery Smagliy, from Kiev, believes that he has the world’s bushiest eyelashes, a trait that he attributes to a secret ingredient in his diet. Valery said that he started eating something, and noticed that it made his eyelashes grow really […]
Pixelated Hair Trend Makes Your Head Look Colorblocked
If you’re looking for a quirky futuristic hairstyle, you may want to give “Xpresionpixel” a try. This new trend basically involves dying the hair in block-like sections of varying colors to create a digital-inspired pixelated image. Created by Spanish colorists, Jose Luis Almendral, Marco Antonio Restrepo and Jorge Cancer, of Madrid’s X-presion Creativos salon, pixelated hair […]
Hairstylist Spends over 150 Hours Covering Her Car in Human Hair, Sets World Record
We’ve seen people cover their cars with the weirdest stuff – right from dentures to swarovski crystals. But this one is a first – an Italian hairstylist chose to pay tribute to her profession by covering her car in human hair. There’s hair everywhere – on the exterior, the seats, the dashboard, and even the […]
Mr. Incredibeard and His Truly Incredible Beard Styles
29-year-old Isiah Webb is blessed with amazing genes that have helped him grow a truly legendary beard. It’s rare to find men these days with such a thick overgrowth of facial hair. But Webb isn’t content with just having a long beard. He has transformed it into various weird shapes and styles, posted pictures online […]
Meet Asha Mandela, the Black Rapunzel Who Has the World’s Longest Dreadlocks
50-year-old Asha Zulu Mandela started growing her lovely dreadlocks 25 years ago, after moving from Trinidad Tobago to New York. Today she is known as “the Black Rapunzel” and holds the record for the world’s longest locks, which measure 19 feet, 6 inches long. Soon after she settled in Brooklyn, New York, Asha Mandela started working […]
Meet Aevin Dugas, Proud Owner of the World’s Biggest Afro
Aevin Dugas a 38-year-old social worker from Louisiana, holds the Guinness Record for the largest natural afro hairstyle in the world, with a circumference measuring an incredible 4 feet 4 inches (1.32 m). The hairdo has taken over 14 years to grow to its current proportions, and although Aevin is really proud of it, she admits sometimes […]
The Man-Fur Coat Is Made Entirely from Male Chest Hair
English designers spent 200 hours weaving over one million strands of male chest hair to create this fashionable fur coat. The aptly named Man-Fur Coat is 100% real and it can be yours for the modest price of £2,499 ($3900). We’ve featured some pretty strange clothing accessories in the past, but a coat made from men’s […]
Huangluo – The World’s First Long-Hair Village
Hair is very important to women, who generally use it to highlight their features, but for the women of the ethnic Yao people of Huangluo Village, China, hair is their most prized possession. Located in the Longji Scenic Are of Gulin, China, Huangluo Village numbers around 82 households of Red Yao ethnics, who get their […]