A Bright Spring Trend Puts Tails Amid the Tresses
By KAYLEEN SCHAEFER
THE first time Stacey Gersten had feathers put in her hair — while vacationing in Austin, Tex., at the same kind of street-side stand from which you might buy homemade brownies — she panicked. “I thought they were so beautiful,” said Ms. Gersten, 27, a casting director who lives in New York. “Then I thought, ‘What am I going to do when they fall out?’ ”
Ms. Gersten decided that rather than live without green and purple plumes in her hair, she would learn to put them in herself. In January, she started a side business doing feather hair extensions out of her East Village apartment, for $30 each, advertised on a Facebook page called Birds of a Feather. “The guy I was dating at the time was like, ‘O.K., Sunshine Rainbow,’ ” Ms. Gersten said.
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