Believe it or not, selling human hair online isn't
all that uncommon. But when some random
hipsterish artist-builder dude from NYC decides
to hawk his locks on Craigslist, and supplements
it with poetic descriptions and what look like
mood-lighted Instagram glamour shots — well,
you've got some "jet-black, virgin" gold on your
hands.
And with the price of human hair being what it
is, it might be prudent to grab that gold before
it's shorn and gone (if you're into that).
Compared to an offer of $1,000 for 24 to 26
inches of "caramel" brown hair on this hair-
trading site (that's right, hair-trading site), at
$600 for 27 inches, it's kind of a bargain. For the
uninitiated, "virgin hair" is a common industry
term that refers to hair that hasn't been treated
or dyed.
In 2010, Des Tobin, a professor of cell biology at
Bradford University, told the BBC that in the
global hair market, blond hair is the most
sought-after, since "it's actually really hard to get
natural, adult hair that is blonde, [and] the rarity
of hair color will dictate the price."
But that didn't deter this seller from vaunting
his jet-black locks. According to the seller's ad,
his "radical hair," which has never been heat
styled and is fed only healthy foods and sensible
amounts of candy, looks like "the way a raven
shines in the moonlight, the color of a deep dark
sleep."
Not a bad pitch, honestly. Although since those
lovely locks probably took a long time to grow
out, it seems unlikely that this enterprise will be
sustainable beyond a one-shot cash injection.
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