Sentences with phrase «made of human hair»

At first wigs were made of human hair.

It actually looks really beautiful — it looks like a wreath of flowers, but it's all made of human hair.»

Mona Hatoum's art works are a table full of glazed ceramic hand - grenades in various colours and a traditional Arab scarf, a keffiah, made of human hair.

The brushes are made of human hair belonging to the legendary artists such as Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger.

Because it's made of human hair, you can treat it like real hair.

Not exact matches

Scientists in Japan have demonstrated how to make electrical circuits on plastic thinner than the width of human hair in an attempt to reduce the impact of bending on circuit performance.

That's the danger with the anthropomorphism of God... one people making self idolizing images of themselves of a human God vis - à - vis Jesus, making graven images of themselves, blonde hair blue eyed Jesus»... then elevating themselves above all other men, a self reinforcing feedback to oneselfs, as if they are Gods, which is blasphemy.

@ Human — i could quote plenty of things from the bible which will make the hairs stand on your back.

It's made of 100 % virgin human hair and can be dyed and bleached just as you would your real hair.

However, not only did the wires become longer during this time, but also thicker: their diameter increased from an initial 20 nm to up to 140 nm at the top of the wire, still making them around 500 times thinner than a human hair.

Recently, holograms that are mere hundredths of the thickness of a human hair have been made from metal deposited onto materials such as silicon.

The 180 - nanometer - wide fibers are made of beta - keratin, a protein similar to the one in human hair.

Ithaca, NY — Flying around on a miniature leash made from a single strand of her human handler's hair, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito gravitates toward the love song of a prospective mate.

Materials • Rubbing alcohol (70 percent isopropyl alcohol) • Measuring spoons • Small bowl • Three long strands of human hair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bhair (about 20 centimeters long) • Cotton swabs • Measuring tape or ruler • Thin, flat piece of plastic that can easily be cut (about 8.0 cm long and 8.0 cm wide), such as from the lid of a disposable deli container • Scissors (strong enough to cut the plastic piece) • Dime • Tape • Two small nails • Glue • Scrap piece of wood or flat Styrofoam (about 25 cm long and 10 cm wide) • Hammer • Pencil or pen • Hair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bHair dryer • Plastic box that can be sealed and is large enough to fit the wood or Styrofoam piece inside of it • Wet sponge or small towel (either paper or cloth) Preparation • Make a solution of 25 percent rubbing alcohol and 75 percent water by mixing one tablespoon of water with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol in a small bowl.

In human hair shafts, several outer layers of flattened cuticle cells surround a layer of cortical cells (making up the cortex), which surrounds the central core of cells, called the medulla.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

And because the human body breaks down water's constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen to construct the proteins that make hair cells, those cells can preserve the record of a person's travels.

Microfluidics, the science of moving nanoliter - size drops of liquid through channels built on the scale of a cross section of a human hair, make it possible to automate the process of separating out biomarkers, analyzing and amplifying them, and then registering their presence.

In contrast, perovskite solar cells depend on a layer of tiny crystals — each about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair — made of low - cost, light - sensitive materials.

Recent advances in optical physics have made it possible to use fluorescent microscopy to study complex structures smaller than 200 nanometres (nm)-- around 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

To make such a detailed model, researchers took specks of brain tissue and cut them into slices thousands of times thinner than a human hair.

Made from keratin, the same material as human hair, these nanofibers are packed together like bundles of uncooked spaghetti, the team reports online today in Biology Letters.

The area along its abdomen that the bug uses to make the noise is only about the width of a human hair, and researchers aren't sure exactly how it produces so loud a song.

«More work needs to be done to test formulations of JAK inhibitors specially made for the scalp to determine whether they can induce hair growth in humans.»

Think of a Rubik's cube made of millions of units smaller than the thickness of a human hair.

Hubble's mirror had been made flatter than it should be by just one - fiftieth of the width of a human hair.

Before coming to Whitehead, in fact, Lindquist and her collaborators at the University of Chicago exploited the strength of these protein - protein connections to make nanoscale wires of gold and silver a thousandth the thickness of a human hair that successfully conducted electricity.

One of the Chinchorro methods used human - hair wigs and red dye made from ochre.

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have engineered silicon particles one - fiftieth the width of a human hair, which could lead to «biointerface» systems designed to make nerve cells fire and heart cells beat.

The needles in the patch — each 800 micrometers long and thinner than a human hair — penetrate only the top layer of skin, making it painless.

The tiny particles are 1,000 times smaller than the tip of a human hair, and are designed to latch on to atherosclerotic plaques — hard deposits made from accumulated fat, cholesterol and calcium that build up on the walls of arteries and are prone to rupture, producing dangerous clots.

«The fact this new agent, which had never even been considered in a hair loss context, promotes human hair growth is exciting because of its translational potential: It could one day make a real difference to people who suffer from hair loss,» said study leader Nathan Hawkshaw, of the University of Manchester in England.

Silicon (also known as silica) is an abundant mineral nutrient (second only to oxygen) that's needed by the human body for the synthesis of collagen, making it important for healthy hair, skin, nails, and bones.

This makes it easier for the extensions to match your real human hair, so that your crown of glory appears as natural as possible.

These extensions are completely made out of 100 % human Remy Hair, so you can wash, curl, straighten and color them and this leaves you with a full load of different styling possibilities.

Things look up when he recruits more seasoned guitarist Billy (Kieran Bew), who in turn brings along his friend Emily (Lyndsey Marshal)-- a kooky bassist whose real passion is for making conceptual art out of human hair.

John Hartigan, CEO of Mobile Cloth had this to say — «MOBiLE CLOTH is made of a unique high tech material consisting of microfibers 100 times thinner than a human hair!

This is possible because the screen itself is made up of differently - colored tiny particles the size of a human hair.

Sexual maturity, the loss of the sweet fuzzy puppy fuzz that is replaced with the dog hair that will clog up your vacuum for the rest of his life, and that beautiful day when he figures out once and for all exactly where the potty for puppies is makes a dog's human proud and gives us the sense that our time and energy is being well spent.

Just like in humans, both hair and fur are made out of a protein compound called keratin.

The selection of works ranges in date from 1997 to the present, including video and small - to large - scale sculptures (made of silicone, fiberglass, human and animal hair, taxidermied peacocks, polyester, nylon, wool, plastic and bronze).

The figure of the body plays heavily in her installations, which often feature fabric printed to evoke hair or skin, curving steel rods that evince the human spine, and draped sculptural installations made of women's clothing.

Renowned for his technical experimentation, Degas (French, 1834 — 1917) exhibited just one sculpture during his lifetime, the controversial Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, which startled visitors to the 1881 Impressionist exhibition with its unidealized physiognomy and radical use of real materials such as silk slippers and a wig made from human hair.

These interests have remained central to his practice and extend into the large group of modestly scaled wall works made between 2002 and 2011, which contain not only the metal tool parts and carved wood found in much of his oeuvre but also symbolically loaded materials such as human hair and the asafetida bags traditionally worn on the body to ward off disease.

Braidrage: A Performance by Baseera Khan Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs Friday, May 11, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free, RSVP required in advance The centerpiece of Baseera Khan's exhibit iamuslima, currently on view at CSFAC through June 24, is a standard rock - climbing wall embedded with detritus made of jewelry and hair, hiding behind a rope of human hair that dangles from the ceiling.

He achieved immediate recognition for his superrealist voyeuristic life - size nudes made out of painted polyvinyl, finished with human hair.

Converting Nike Air Jordan trainers into anthropological masks, using the traditional colors of black, white, red, integrated with human hair, Jungen made poignant references to contemporary assimilations and the commercial devaluing of revered customs and symbols.

It is the slipperiness of the male gender role that is disturbing in his work — the exposed closet of hair and clothing and attitudes which make it possible to challenge, mate, kill or control another human being.

Except there is no scientific proof that a rhino's horn — made of keratin, just like human hair and fingernails — has any medicinal properties.

I read today that human hair stuffed into a sock from panty hose will make a hi - performance piece of oil absorbing material.