The humble ribbon has arguably been the HBIC of ... of gold or silver fastened to their buns, braids, and ponytails. Are they wearing hair jewelry? Well, kind of. They're called pony cuffs ...

But it was bought, not grown. In the billion-dollar human hair trade, ponytails are cut from women in the East and sold to women of the West. It’s an unregulated industry built on exploitation ...