Mid Brain muses: 
Here’s an odd little tidbit I found at an equally odd site called “Strange New Products.”
Apparently, a Russian company called Heart-in-Diamond can make artificial diamonds from your very own hair.
Here’s how it works: they take a chunk of your hair, mix it with carbon and then process it with their high pressure, high temperature device. And *POOF* the result is an actual diamond, made from your own tresses. There is a catch though, they can only make colored gems – yellow, green, and red ones.
But wait, there’s more…you can send in hair from a relative, your new born baby, or even your pet and they’ll make a diamond remembrance from their keratin protein. Just imagine the essence of your loved one enshrined forever in nature’s hardest substance. It’s kind of creepy and cool at the same time. Sign this Beauty Brain up for a pendant!
Would YOU want a diamond made from the hair of a loved one or a pet? Or yourself? Leave a comment and share your thoughts with the rest of the Beauty Brains community.
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That’s a little creepy… but less creepy than other memento items out there!
I agree with Tsunamino. My mom’s already telling me about the beautiful diamond her ashes are going to make one day. D:
Is there a specific reason why the diamonds must be colored? If other organic, um, remains can be um, processed into white diamonds, shouldn’t there a way to remove the…mineral impurities from keratin?
they already do this…
diamonds out of the cremated ashes of your loved ones.
thats freakin scary.
The picture you put up makes the concept seem rather unappealing. But I don’t think I’d be grossed out of a diamond made of baby’s hair. Baby’s are cute!
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That reminds me of the memento mori jewelry from the and 19th century that used people’s hair.
A company called LifeGem has been offering this for a while. Even stranger (maybe creepier), they’ll also cremate the remains of a person or pet and make a diamond out of the ashes.
There’s a cool story idea in there about haunted diamonds, though.
Making a diamond from a murder victim, and then a cop buys it for herself and has to solve the crime or something. That’d be a cool movie.
Great idea Janis. I’d watch it.