Hair Jewelry

For hundreds of years, people made jewelry, art, and clothing out of their own hair and the hair of loved ones. In fact, during the Victorian era, there was a near mania for hair jewelry — necklaces, earrings, bracelets, even watch fobs made from the hair of deceased loved ones were de rigueur. Today, people continue to use human hair in jewelry for a variety of ends, some beautiful, some gruesome, and some a little of both. Click through to see some jewelry as unique as the DNA in every one of your hair strands.