Hair Jewelry, MET |
I have always liked the idea of keepsake hair jewelry and for some reason just don't find it creepy as many others do! Most often a type of mourning jewelry, those death obsessed Victorians kept locks of their deceased loved ones under glass or crystal as a lasting memento. In this tradition, I decided to make a lasting memento of my now gone purple hair! I have made the hard decision to become a brunette again and until I can go purple once more I wanted a way to commemorate my violet locks. So I decided to make a little mourning jewelry of my own, which sounds over dramatic! But I will miss having fun colored hair!
I found some cool neo-Victorian glass lockets at my local Michael's and a little lock of hair I kept from my last self-inflicted haircut.
I decided that for the backs of these lockets I wouldn't use just any pretty papers but cutouts from a museum program from my visit to The Wallace Collection (my favorite museum in London)
The little pictures that came with the lockets served as my templates |
The hardest part of this project was working with the hair! For the smaller of the two lockets I tried to glue the hair down to the little piece of paper which was difficult without everything turning into a mess. I eventually got it to lay semi parallel and flat but it wasn't easy! So for the second larger locket I decided to try something else and tied a little tiny lock of hair together with a yellow silk thread which was much easier! I am really happy with how these lockets came together and am happy to have a memento of my time with crazy hair!
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