Category — Hair-Raising News

 Four locks of hair supposedly snipped from our first president has fetched $17,000 at auction. The hairs were given to Colorado resident Christina Allen by her father, a Philadelphia attorney. Dad says the hair has been passed down by generations of family members pressed between two pieces of glass. The story is that the hair was clipped while GW was disinterred in 1837. Just can’t let sleeping presidents lie, eh? The story prompted me to search my apartment for possibly valuable heirlooms from history. I found Howard Hughes’ toe-nail clippings and Mamie Eisenhower’s million dollar fudge recipe! Wooowee! I’m rich!

 We always knew they would never last. Those poofy, hairsprayed posers from the ’80’s who all seemed to  have the same shtick. The tight pants, the open shirts and and over-the top hair-do’s. Throw in the obligatory rock-ballad and there you are - a hair band. Rolling Stone magazine catches up with some of the ’80’s top hair bands with updates on ‘whatever happened to….’. As you can imagine - for most of these guys it didn’t end well…

Wow. Girls can be kinda mean but this is ridiculous. A 13 year-old girl is charged with second degree assault after setting her classmate’s hair on fire. The girl did not sustain serious injuries. The washington post has more…

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 He gave it to a hairdresser in the 1960’s, wrapped in a book with the message, “To Betty, Lots of Love and Hair, John Lennon xx.”. The former hairdresser to the fab four, Betty Glasow sold it through auction house, Gorringes. The hair was expected to take in about $6000. The auction winner was an anonymous telephone bidder.  That’s hair-peace, man.