Hair Accessories
Backstory One of the best parts of this job comes when you're vending at an event and a woman with lovely thick hair spies the long hairpins and asks can she try one out? These toothy objects presuppose a certain comfortableness with one's locks, and more often than not involve a ritual approach to arranging them. Truly, the moments between loosing her own arrangement and then twirling her locks into any number of configurations before plunging the points into the resulting knot of hair involve a remarkable display of self confidence by sharing with the public what for many women would be a somewhat private event. The payoff - when she turns her head and asks her companion, me, or whoever might be standing near, how it looks, provides a frisson both unexpected and welcomed by the lowly woodworker. It hasn't failed yet; when I see that pin nestled in a swirl of hair, I realize that is exactly what I had in mind when I first contemplated that piece of wood.