The bristles on the brush shown in this photomicrograph are far finer than strands of human hair. In fact, the length of each bristle is about 60 microns — half of a hair's width.

Quality makeup brushes are expensive, but one woman found a way to hack a brush for free. In a video posted on Instagram, a beauty blogger chops off her own hair, puts her tresses into a pencil top… ...

At just 30 microns across, the image is 100,000 times smaller than the real thing—or roughly 1/3 rd the width of a human hair. Of course, the team, led by associate professor, Jennifer Curtis, didn’t ...

In the past, Chinese firms would buy hair directly from Indian businesses for around US$200 per kilogram and use it to make wigs, extensions, eyelashes, paint brushes, and fake beards and ...

One of his works is inscribed with the words: "I have loved the sun all my life and always wanted to paint the sun" in letters a fraction of a millimetre wide, painted using a sharpened human hair.