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Hi Armand, while it's interesting to look at... and might be pretty on someone... my first response is "ouch" I wouldn't want that near my hair as it would just get all tangled up and be hard to get out. I could be wrong as I don't often wear stuff in my hair, but that's my response. Not so much the seed beads but the wire vines.

Good luck, Pam

What Pam said. It's lovely, I think the Bali cone is a great idea. BUT I have long thick hair and I can see it getting tangled in all the small wired clusters VERY easily. I think something more compact and solid would be better.

KarenK

OOOOOOOOOOOWwwwwwwwwwww!! Just the opposite of Pam and Karen K, I have very FINE hair, and the thought of that near my hair is making my eyes water.

As a pin, I think it could work.

It's very pretty - however, I have to agree with others here. Also, it might look better smaller/more delicate for the hair. It's very nice as a corsage, though. Personally (this is just my own taste), I prefer things to be simpler, more delicate and feminine. I'd pull out the opaque green and add transparent green, or green with an ab coating for more sparkle, and I would get rid of the dark blue altogether. Sparkle and femininity are really in this year. :)

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "armand vine" :

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----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Why is there a cone on it?

~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

It might work, as a design, if it were elongated, made a little simpler (the tangled-hair scenario), and turned into a tiara. I've seen stuff like this everywhere, but not as hairpins -- more as tiaras, for brides and their attendants.

I still don't get the cone part, though. What's the measurement on the cone? I'm sort of confused about the size of this piece.

~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

cone is 2 inches long

actually the cone was for the corsage part to have something to conceal the base of the wires and to pin to a garment. I tried dragging it through Kerry's hair and it did not tangle, caught a few hairs but pulled through with no pain or loss of hair. She now says she would do it without the cone for hairpieces. You creative types confuse the hell out of us left brainers.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "armand vine" :

]You creative types confuse the hell out of us left brainers.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

ROFL - yeah, we're a pretty confusing bunch!!

I agree with others that you should take the light opaque green out - to me it doesn't quite look right with the transparent-ness of the other beads.

Also, I think the petals(?) should be wired every so often across the width so that the strands lie neatly next to each other. Otherwise, I like it, especially the little blue bits on the twisted wire.

I love it! I could only wear it as a hairpiece if my hair was pulled securely into a bun, (My hair is wild and curly) but I could see it pinned to a black gown for serious WOW effect as a corsage.

-Kalera

OK, now when I saw the cone, my first thought was to pile my hair in a bun (which it is currently too short to do) with a long, loose curl over my left eye, and jam that cone into the top of the bun with the beads spilling out in sort of an eccentric, fabulous topknot. I would so totally wear it that way!

-Kalera

My DH is a computer programmer, and sometimes I can tell he definitely thinks I'm crazy. Like when all the kids are shouting "Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy Mommy!" and the parakeets are screeching full-blast and I join in yelling "Mommy Mommy Mommy!" and dancing and then collapse laughing. He gives me that look then.

-Kalera

He apparently doesn't understand that, at that moment, the reaction you present is MANDATORY!!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

Yes. It's that, or full nervous breakdown!

-Kalera