Berlin: Russian Hair
In today’s New York Times I read the article by Andrew Cramer on the Russian real hair extention market.
“Natalya N. Vinokurova, 26, grew up nearby in Yukhnov, a town where half the homes lack indoor plumbing and the average monthly wage is about $300. What little cash-crop agriculture there once was collapsed with the Soviet Union. But Ms. Vinokurova cultivated something with market value: strawberry blond hair that hung to her waist before she sold it. “I wore it in a braid, a ponytail, different ways,” she said. “But I got sick of it, and all the other girls have short hair, so I cut it,” and then sold it, she said with a shrug. She now wears a bob and has no immediate plans to grow it to a marketable length, which she said would take years.”
Do the spoiled teenage girls or diva popsingers actually think about where their hair extentions are coming from?
