There’s a new hair trend that has women and men flocking to their local hair salons – feather extensions
The extensions are the latest fad to conquer the hair fashion industry, as well as the MSU campus.
So who brought this 70s trend back into the limelight? Rocker and American Idol judge Steven Tyler.
Maurine Grant, the manager of local hair salon Tangles, said the hair trend exploded after Steven Tyler began wearing feathers in his hair during the last season of American Idol.
“This past March during American Idol is when we started hearing requests for them,” Grant said.
Tangles applies these extensions for $30 per bundle of three feathers. The application process for extensions is included in the price.
“We crochet a bead in a strand of hair and clamp the feather in,” Grant said as a seven-year-old girl was getting feathers applied to her hair.
Grant believes this trend is so popular with people of all ages because it allows people to be expressive in a different way.
It also gives people the opportunity to be unique, she explained.
This is the reason freshman business major Christine Schreiber the first person in her high school to get feather hair extensions.
For $10, Schreiber received two feathers in her hair which were glued on by her hair dresser.
After a month, Schreiber removed her extensions before she made the move to MSU and has no plans of getting more.
“Everyone has them now and it’s not unique anymore,” Schreiber said.
The popularity of feather hair extensions is what motivated Kourtney Hasley to get them.
This freshman English major has had her extensions for a couple of months and loves how easy they are to maintain.
“The cool thing about feather hair extensions is you can straighten, curl and wash them,” Hasley said as her red and brown feathers laid across her cheeks.
This seemingly harmless trend has caused controversy. PETA (People of the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released an article on their website claiming feather hair extensions are the reason many roosters lose their lives.
They claim roosters who make these extensions are bred and genetically altered to produce certain looks of feathers before they are killed and de-feathered.
Regardless of these accusations, hair feather extensions are sweeping the nation and flying off the shelves.
Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, and Kim Kardashian are some of celebrities who have been spotted sporting the latest hair accessory.
Only time will tell if this summer trend will continue into the fall season. For now, birds of feather are flocking together and everyone has jumped on the hair feather bandwagon.
