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My close friend is a professional dancer, concentrating in both asian/oriental/middle eastern dance and burlesque/fusion type dance. I wanted to make her a kanzashi for Christmas...but was kind of stuck on what type to make. I then remembered that she is incorporating an ostrich feather fan dance in her burlesque acts. My brain got ticking over and I decided to make a feather based kanzashi for her that has a very vintage, burlesque feel to it that she can wear as a part of the costume.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I used two different cream/ivory toned vintage kimono silk lining fabric for the flower. You will have to pardon my bad photographs - I have barely any light here at night time.



And how it looks like in the hair: my friend normally either wears a black bob wig, or, will pull her naturally black, curly hair up until she has mega froof hair. My absolute and utter look of death in this photo and lack of froof hair doesn't do the style of the piece any justice. Sowwy =[

Hair Picture

Thank you for looking! I sincerely hope my friend likes this gift :]