Voodoo Spells Using Hair

Why Hair is the Most Powerful Voodoo Ingredient

In my fifteen years working with voodoo and African traditional spirituality, people always ask me what makes the difference between spells that work and spells that fizzle out to nothing. The answer is usually simple: personal concerns. And when it comes to personal concerns, nothing beats hair.

Hair is not just some symbolic ingredient you add to make a spell feel more authentic. In voodoo tradition, hair carries the actual essence of a person. When you have someone's hair, you have a piece of their physical body that still contains their DNA, their energy signature, their spiritual imprint. That strand of hair maintains a connection to the person it came from no matter how far away they are or how much time has passed since it was cut.

This is why professional spell casters always ask for hair first when taking a case. A love spell with the target person's hair will work ten times stronger than the same spell with just their name. A money spell that includes your own hair creates a direct link between the spiritual work and your physical ability to receive prosperity. Protection work using your hair builds a shield specifically tuned to your energy.

The concept is called sympathetic magic or the law of contagion. Things that were once connected remain connected spiritually even after physical separation. Your hair was part of your body. Even after it falls out or gets cut, that hair still vibrates at your frequency. When a practitioner works with that hair in a spell, they are working directly on you through that ongoing connection.

I have seen spells fail because the practitioner only had a photo or a name. I have seen those exact same situations turn around completely when hair was obtained and added to the work. The difference is that dramatic. Hair transforms theoretical magic into targeted, personal, undeniable influence.

How Hair Magic Works in Voodoo Practice

When a professional voodoo practitioner receives hair for spell work, several specific things happen that make the magic effective.

Creating the Spiritual Link

The hair acts as a physical anchor point for spiritual energy. In Haitian Vodou, we work with Loa spirits who need clear targets for their influence. When you give them someone's hair to work with, you are giving them a direct line to that person. The Loa can follow the energetic connection from the hair straight to the individual, no matter where they are.

Think of hair like a phone line that never gets disconnected. Even years after hair is cut, the connection to the person remains active. This is why some practitioners keep collections of hair from different clients and targets, carefully labeled and stored. That hair stays potent indefinitely.

Incorporation into Spell Work

Hair gets used in multiple ways depending on the type of spell. In love doll work, the hair is sewn directly into the doll's head or heart area. This makes the doll a true representation of the person, not just a symbolic one. When the practitioner speaks to that doll, they are speaking directly to the person's spirit through the hair connection.

In candle magic, hair might be twisted around a candle or burned in the flame. As the hair burns, it releases the person's energy and creates smoke that carries the petition to the spirits. Some practitioners put hair under candles so it is heated continuously as the candle burns over days or weeks.

In bottle spells and jars, hair goes into the container along with herbs, oils, and other ingredients. The hair ensures that everything else in that jar is working specifically on that person. A honey jar with someone's hair will sweeten that specific individual toward you, not just attract generic love.

In mojo bags and gris gris, hair becomes one of several personal concerns that load the bag with power. Combined with herbs, roots, stones, and other items, the hair directs all that accumulated power toward affecting the specific person.

Feeding and Maintaining Hair Spells

Once hair is incorporated into active spell work, that work needs maintenance. Professional practitioners feed hair spells regularly, meaning they add fresh offerings, speak new commands, burn additional candles, or refresh oils. The hair maintains the connection while the ongoing work maintains the pressure on the target.

Some hair spells are worked daily for weeks. Others are set up and maintained weekly. The practitioner checks in with the spirits, makes sure the connection is strong, and adjusts the work based on how the target person is responding.

Types of Hair Used in Spell Work

Not all hair is equal in magical work. Location matters, condition matters, and how you obtain it matters.

Head Hair

This is the most commonly used and the easiest to obtain. Head hair carries strong energy because the head is where consciousness resides. Hair from someone's head connects directly to their thoughts, mental state, and decision-making processes. For love spells where you want someone thinking about you constantly, head hair is ideal.

Even a single strand works, though 3-9 strands is better. More hair creates a stronger connection. The hair does not need to be long. Short hair, long hair, even hair from someone who shaves their head all work the same. What matters is that it came from them recently.

Pubic Hair

This is the most powerful hair for sexual and romantic spells. Pubic hair connects directly to sexual energy, desire, and intimate attraction. When practitioners do passion work or sex magic, pubic hair from the target creates intense, undeniable physical attraction.

Obviously this hair is much harder to obtain than head hair. Most people only have access to pubic hair from current or recent sexual partners. But when available, it makes love and lust spells significantly more powerful.

Facial Hair

Beard hair, mustache hair, even eyebrow hair all work well. Facial hair is easy to obtain from barbershops or from brushes and combs. It carries personality energy since the face is what we show the world. For spells involving how someone presents themselves or how they are perceived socially, facial hair is useful.

Body Hair

Arm hair, leg hair, chest hair can all be used. While not as powerful as head or pubic hair, body hair still maintains the spiritual connection. If that is all you can get, it will work. Some practitioners say body hair is better for spells involving physical health or physical actions since it comes from the body rather than the head.

Hair from Brushes or Combs

Finding hair in someone's hairbrush is one of the easiest ways to obtain this ingredient. The hair is definitely theirs, usually fairly recent, and there is often enough to use for multiple spells. Practitioners prefer fresh hair that still has the root attached, but even broken pieces work.

Cut Hair vs. Naturally Shed Hair

Some traditional practitioners believe naturally shed hair that still has the root bulb is more powerful because it left the body on its own. Cut hair from a barber or salon works fine too. The energetic connection exists either way. What matters more is how recently it came from the person and how well it is preserved.

How to Obtain Hair for Spell Work

Getting someone's hair without them knowing is the tricky part. Here are methods that actually work, from my experience helping clients obtain personal concerns.

From Their Home

If you have access to where someone lives, their bathroom is the gold mine. Look in their hairbrush or comb. Check the shower drain. Look around the sink area. People shed hair constantly and most never think about it magically. A single visit to their bathroom can provide enough hair for months of spell work.

Check their pillowcase too. People lose hair while sleeping. Run your hand over their pillow and you will often find several strands.

From Their Workplace

If the person works somewhere you can access, check their desk chair, their coat, anywhere they spend time. Hair sticks to fabric. I have had clients successfully collect hair from someone's office chair by carefully going over it with their hand.

From Barbers and Hair Salons

If you know where someone gets their hair cut, you might be able to obtain hair from that location. This requires either knowing the person who works there or being creative. Some practitioners have posed as cleaners or found other ways to access swept-up hair. This is ethically questionable but it does work.

From Shared Spaces

If you and the target person share a bathroom, a car, or any space together, you have constant access. Just be subtle about collection. Take a few strands at a time so it is not obvious.

From Clothing

Hair sticks to jackets, scarves, hats, and collars. If you can access something they wore, carefully examine it for hair. Dark clothing shows light hair easily and vice versa.

Direct Collection

In some cases, you can directly ask for or take hair. If you are in a relationship, you could collect hair during intimate moments or from the shower. Some people have claimed they are making a memento or keepsake and asked for a lock of hair directly. This only works if the person trusts you and does not suspect magical use.

When Direct Collection is Impossible

Sometimes obtaining hair is truly impossible. The person lives far away, you have no access to their space, and you have no mutual connections. In these cases, professional spell casters can still work with what you do have such as photos, handwriting, or items the person touched. The spells will take longer and might be less targeted, but work can still be done.

Voodoo Love Spells Using Hair

Love work is where hair magic really shines. Having your target's hair means the love spell goes directly to them with pinpoint accuracy.

Hair in Love Dolls

When creating a voodoo doll for love purposes, the target's hair goes inside the doll during construction, usually sewn into the head or heart area. The hair transforms the doll from a generic puppet into a true representation of the specific person. Every word spoken to that doll, every oil applied, every pin inserted, affects the actual person through the hair connection.

Professional practitioners creating love dolls will refuse cases where no hair is available because the difference in effectiveness is so dramatic. A doll with hair will start showing results in 1-3 weeks. A doll without hair might take 2-3 months for the same results, if it works at all.

Hair in Honey Jars

Honey jar spells sweeten someone's feelings toward you. Adding their hair to the honey jar ensures that person specifically becomes sweet on you. The practitioner puts the hair in the jar along with herbs, petition papers, and personal concerns, then fills everything with honey. As the hair sits in that sweetness, the person's heart softens toward you.

The jar gets shaken regularly while calling the person's name. The hair swirling in the honey creates movement in their feelings. Fresh candles burn on top of the jar weekly. The continuous sweetness flowing around their hair keeps them thinking loving thoughts about you.

Hair in Candle Love Spells

For quick love attraction, hair can be twisted around a candle that burns for 1-7 days. The practitioner dresses the candle with love oils and herbs, wraps the target's hair around it, and burns it while focusing on the intention. As the hair burns in the flame, it releases the person's energy and creates an opening for the spell to work.

Some practitioners put the hair under the candle instead, so it is heated continuously but not destroyed. This preserves the hair for ongoing work if needed.

Hair in Reconciliation Work

When trying to bring back an ex-lover, having their hair from when you were together creates a powerful link to the past relationship. The practitioner uses that hair to remind the person's spirit of what you shared, to revive old feelings, to make them remember why they loved you.

The hair might be placed with photos from happier times, bathed in rose water and forgiveness oils, or incorporated into reconciliation candles. The magic works to soften bitterness and revive affection by working directly through that hair connection.

Hair in Binding Spells

To bind someone to you romantically, practitioners tie your hair and their hair together, literally knotting them while speaking binding words. The twisted hair then goes into a red flannel bag with binding herbs and magnetic materials, or gets sewn into twin dolls that are then bound together face to face.

The physical binding of the hair creates spiritual binding. As your hairs are tangled together, your lives become entangled. This is powerful commitment magic that should not be done lightly.

Hair Magic for Money and Success

Hair is not just for love spells. When used in prosperity work, your own hair or the hair of someone you want to help becomes the anchor for financial blessings.

Using Your Own Hair for Money Spells

Most money spells work better when they include your own hair because you are the one who needs to receive the prosperity. The hair ensures that money-drawing energy flows specifically to you, not just into your general vicinity.

Your hair might be placed in a money-drawing mojo bag along with magnetic sand, pyrite, five-finger grass, and other prosperity herbs. Carried in your wallet or pocket, this bag draws financial opportunities directly to you through the hair connection.

In green candle money spells, your hair can be twisted around the candle or placed underneath it. As the candle burns, money-drawing energy flows through the hair straight to you.

Hair in Business Success Spells

If you need success in your business or career, your hair goes into the spell work along with items from your workplace, business cards, or symbols of your profession. The combination of your hair and work-related items creates a direct link between spiritual assistance and your professional life.

Some practitioners create success dolls using your hair, dressing them in clothing that represents your ideal professional self, and feeding them regularly with offerings for prosperity spirits.

Hair for Removing Financial Blocks

When financial problems come from spiritual blockages or crossed conditions, your hair is used in cleansing and uncrossing work. The practitioner might burn your hair with uncrossing herbs to release blockages, or bathe it in special washes that remove obstacles from your money path.

Using Someone Else's Hair for Financial Influence

In some cases, you might need to influence someone else financially such as making a boss give you a raise, convincing a client to pay you, or getting approved for a loan. Having that person's hair allows targeted spell work on their decision-making regarding your finances.

This gets ethically complicated quickly. Using someone's hair to manipulate their financial decisions about you walks a fine line. Professional practitioners usually only do this work if the money is legitimately owed or if the request is reasonable.

Protection Spells with Hair

Your hair can be used to create personalized protection that is specifically tuned to defend you.

Personal Protection Mojo Bags

A protection mojo made with your hair becomes a personalized shield. The bag might contain your hair along with protection herbs like rue, angelica root, devil's shoestring, and High John the Conqueror root. Some practitioners add protective stones like black tourmaline or obsidian.

Because your hair is in the bag, it protects you specifically rather than just the general area. Any negative energy directed at you hits the protection in the bag first, where it gets neutralized or reflected back.

Hair in Reversal Spells

If someone is working magic against you, your hair can be used in reversal work that sends their negativity back to them while protecting you. The practitioner might burn your hair with reversal herbs while speaking words that return all evil to its sender and shield you from harm.

Hair in Guardian Bottle Spells

Witch bottles and protection bottles often include the hair of the person being protected. The bottle gets filled with nails, pins, broken glass, protective herbs, and your hair. This creates a spiritual trap for any evil sent your way. The negative energy gets caught in the sharp objects instead of reaching you.

Protecting Others with Their Hair

Parents often ask practitioners to create protection for their children. Having the child's hair allows the creation of personalized protection work that follows the child wherever they go. The same applies to protecting partners, family members, or anyone else you care about who provides their hair willingly.

Binding and Control Spells Using Hair

Binding work prevents someone from taking harmful actions. Control work influences someone's behavior more directly. Both become significantly more effective with hair.

Binding to Stop Harm

If someone is causing you problems and you need them to stop, their hair can be used in binding spells that restrict their ability to harm you. The practitioner might wrap the hair tightly with black thread while speaking restrictions, freeze it in water, or bury it in binding earth.

The hair connection ensures that the binding affects the specific person and not random individuals. As their hair is bound, so their actions toward you become bound.

Control for Specific Behaviors

Control spells using hair can influence specific behaviors. Maybe you need someone to leave you alone, to stop gossiping about you, to quit interfering in your life, or to make a particular decision. Their hair becomes the handle by which the practitioner steers their actions.

This is ethically the most problematic type of hair magic because you are directly controlling another person's free will. Professional practitioners carefully consider whether such work is justified before accepting these cases.

Freezer Spells with Hair

To freeze someone's negative actions toward you, their hair goes into a container with water and petition paper, then gets frozen solid. While their hair is frozen, their ability to harm you is frozen. The person might forget about you, lose interest in causing problems, or simply become unable to act against you.

Freezer spells need to stay frozen. If the hair thaws, the binding weakens. Some practitioners keep freezer spells going for months or years for ongoing protection.

Domination Work with Hair

Domination spells using hair are aggressive magic designed to make someone bend to your will. I am including this information for educational purposes, but I need to be clear that this is the darkest application of hair magic.

How Domination Spells Work

In domination work, the target's hair is treated harshly. It might be burned while commanding obedience, soaked in commanding oils, or buried under your doorstep so the person walks under your power. Some practitioners work domination spells on dolls containing the person's hair, using the doll to force compliance.

The Loa spirits called for this work are usually Petro spirits, the hot, aggressive side of Vodou. These spirits can force outcomes but they demand substantial offerings and carry risks.

When Domination is Justified

I personally believe domination magic is only justified in extreme circumstances such as stopping an abuser, protecting children from a dangerous person, preventing genuine harm, or defending yourself from serious threats. Using domination magic to control someone for selfish reasons or to override their will in normal situations is spiritually dangerous and ethically wrong.

The Consequences of Domination Work

Domination spells tend to backfire eventually. The person being dominated either breaks free violently, or the controller ends up dealing with unintended consequences. The Loa who help with domination work expect payment, and if you misuse their power, they will collect from you instead.

I have seen practitioners who did too much domination work end up dominated themselves in various ways. What you send out comes back. That is universal spiritual law.

Reconciliation and Return Lover Hair Spells

Getting an ex back is the most common reason people seek hair magic for love. Having their hair from when you were together gives you a powerful tool for reconciliation.

Why Hair is Crucial for Return Lover Work

When someone leaves, they often block you mentally and emotionally. They stop thinking about you, they avoid your calls, they resist all contact. Spell work without personal concerns struggles to get past those walls they have built.

But their hair provides a back door. No matter how much they block you consciously, the hair connection goes directly to their spirit. The spell work flows through that connection, bypassing their conscious resistance and working on them at the subconscious level.

Hair in Reconciliation Dolls

Creating a pink or white doll with your ex's hair and working it for reconciliation is traditional return lover magic. The practitioner performs gentle work on the doll such as bathing it in rose water, anointing it with forgiveness oil, surrounding it with pink rose petals, and speaking sweet words that remind the person why they loved you.

The doll with their hair might be placed with photos from happy times in your relationship. It might be held close and told how much you miss them. The hair ensures that all this loving energy reaches them directly.

Hair in Come to Me Spells

Come to me work using their hair creates compulsion for the person to contact you or return. The practitioner might wrap their hair around candles that burn while calling them home, put their hair in come to me oil that pulls them toward you, or create paths using their hair that lead back to you spiritually.

Combining Your Hair and Theirs

Some reconciliation work involves tying your hair and their hair together, symbolizing the reunion you want. The knotted hair might be placed in a pink or red bag with reunion herbs, kept under your pillow, or incorporated into binding spells that re-attach your lives.

This technique works best when the separation was circumstantial rather than due to fundamental problems. If you split up because you genuinely were not compatible, binding your hair together will not fix that. But if outside forces pulled you apart or temporary issues caused the break, this work can overcome those obstacles.

Breaking Up Couples Using Hair

On the opposite end, hair can be used to break up couples when you want one person for yourself or when you believe a relationship is harmful.

Separation Spells with Hair

If you have the hair of both people in a couple, that hair can be used in separation work. The practitioner might take strands from each person and physically separate them while speaking words of division, burn them at opposite ends of an altar, or bury them at different locations to create distance.

Some separation work involves placing the hair of one person in vinegar or hot pepper water to create bitterness and irritation in the relationship. The other person's hair might be frozen or bound so they cannot pursue the relationship.

Breakup Dolls with Hair

Creating dolls of both people in the couple and using their hair to make those dolls authentic, then working the dolls to create conflict between them, is serious breakup magic. The practitioner might position the dolls facing away from each other, create arguments by working the dolls aggressively, or place obstacles between them symbolically.

Ethics of Breakup Magic

Breaking up a couple is ethically questionable unless the relationship is genuinely harmful. If someone is in an abusive relationship and you are trying to help them escape, separation magic might be justified. If you just want someone who is already in a relationship, you are causing harm for selfish reasons.

The karma from breakup magic hits hard. If you break up a happy couple to steal one person for yourself, do not expect your new relationship to be stable or satisfying. You built it on someone else's pain. That foundation will not hold.

Can Hair Spells Be Reversed

If someone has your hair and is working spells on you, or if you regret spell work you had done using someone else's hair, reversal is possible but not always easy.

Breaking the Hair Connection

The most direct way to break a hair spell is to spiritually sever the connection. This involves ritual cleansing, spiritual baths with specific herbs, and sometimes animal sacrifice to pay the spirits to break the link. A skilled practitioner can cut the cord between hair and person, making the hair just dead protein again rather than an active magical link.

Neutralizing Ongoing Hair Work

If you know or suspect someone has your hair and is using it against you, protection work can shield you from whatever they are doing. Strong protection creates a barrier that the hair connection cannot penetrate easily. The spell work might still happen but it cannot reach you through your defenses.

Reclaiming Your Hair

In some cases, you might be able to reclaim or destroy the hair someone is using. If you can find where they keep it or recover the spell items containing your hair, destroying those items breaks the spell. Burning your own hair that someone was using in magic releases you from whatever work they were doing.

Stopping Your Own Hair Spells

If you hired someone to do hair magic and now want to stop it, contact the practitioner and ask them to close the work. Ethical practitioners will do this, though they might charge a fee for the reversal work. They need to properly release the spirits involved, neutralize the hair connection, and dispose of spell materials correctly.

Simply throwing away items containing someone's hair does not end the spell. The hair needs to be ritually released or destroyed with proper words and offerings.

Dangers of Hair Magic Done Wrong

Hair magic is powerful, which means it is also dangerous when done incorrectly or with bad intentions.

Spiritual Backlash

The most common danger is backlash. When you use hair to harm someone without justification, that negative energy bounces back to you, often multiplied. You might experience the exact problems you tried to cause for them, or worse.

This happens because the Loa judge intentions. If they agree to help with your spell but then decide you misused their power, they will punish you. That punishment often involves turning the spell back on you.

Obsession and Attachment

Love spells using hair can create obsessive attachment in both directions. The target might become unhealthily obsessed with you, or you might become obsessed with them because of the intense connection the hair creates. This is especially true with binding spells that tie your hair and theirs together.

Some people end up unable to let go of someone even when the relationship is clearly toxic because they had their hair bound together in spell work. Breaking that kind of bond requires serious magical intervention.

Unintended Consequences

Hair magic is specific and targeted, which means unintended effects tend to be more dramatic. You might get exactly what you asked for in a way you did not want. Someone might come back to you but angry and abusive. Money might come but through tragedy. Love might manifest but destroy other parts of your life.

This is why experienced practitioners always include clauses in spell work like asking for outcomes that serve the highest good or that harm none. Without these spiritual safety valves, hair spells can wreak havoc.

Spiritual Attachments

Working with hair sometimes attracts spiritual entities you did not call. The hair connection can act like a bridge for spirits to cross. If you are not properly protected and experienced, you might end up with unwanted spiritual attachments that are difficult to remove.

This is one major reason why professional practitioners exist. We know how to work safely, how to protect ourselves, and how to handle any spirits that show up uninvited.

When You Cannot Get Hair

Hair is ideal, but spell work can still be done without it. The effectiveness decreases but results are still possible.

Alternative Personal Concerns

If you cannot get hair, other personal concerns include nail clippings, bodily fluids, worn clothing, handwriting samples, signatures cut from documents, frequently touched items, or photos. These create weaker connections than hair but they still connect to the person.

Photos work surprisingly well, especially if the person handled the photo themselves. A picture they touched carries their energy. Even a digital photo printed out contains their image and likeness, which creates sympathetic connection.

Name and Birthdate Work

With just a full name and birthdate, practitioners can do spell work. It is less targeted and takes longer to manifest, but it works. The practitioner uses the name to call the person's spirit and the birthdate to time the work with astrological influences.

Working Through Photos Alone

Photo magic is a whole branch of practice. Using someone's image, practitioners can do candle work, doll work, and jar spells. The photo becomes the face of a doll or the central petition in a working. While not as powerful as having their actual hair, photos provide enough connection for many spells to succeed.

Energy and Essence Work

Some very skilled practitioners can work with just the energy signature of a person, having never met them and having no physical concerns at all. They use divination to lock onto the person's spiritual presence and work from there. This requires serious experience and spiritual sight that most practitioners do not have.

Professional Hair Spell Casting Services

Most people do not have the training, spiritual relationships, or experience to use hair effectively in magic. This is exactly why professional spell casting services exist.

What Professional Casters Provide

When you hire a professional to do hair magic, you are getting someone who knows how to handle this powerful ingredient safely and effectively. They know which type of spell work suits your situation, how to incorporate the hair properly, which Loa to call, what offerings to make, how to protect everyone involved, and how to achieve results without creating backlash.

Professional services typically include initial consultation and divination to determine what is spiritually possible, custom spell work designed for your specific situation, proper incorporation of the hair you provide, weekly or daily work depending on the spell type, offerings made to the Loa on your behalf, regular updates with photos of the work being done, and guidance on anything you need to do on your end to support the spell.

How to Work with a Practitioner Using Hair

If you have obtained someone's hair and want professional spell casting, you will need to mail the hair to the practitioner. Put it in a small plastic bag, label it with the person's name, and seal it in an envelope. Include any other personal concerns you have like photos or items they touched.

During consultation, be honest about how you obtained the hair and what your true intentions are. Ethical practitioners need to know these things to decide if they can help and to protect themselves spiritually.

Choosing a Practitioner for Hair Work

Not all practitioners are equally skilled with hair magic. Ask about their experience specifically with hair spells. Find out what tradition they practice and how they were trained. Request examples or testimonials from past hair spell clients.

A real practitioner will ask you detailed questions about your situation, explain exactly what work they will do, discuss realistic timelines, and be honest about potential outcomes. They will also discuss the ethics of your request and might refuse work they find problematic.

Ethics of Using Someone's Hair

Before we close, the ethics discussion matters. Using someone's hair without their knowledge to influence them raises serious moral questions.

The Consent Problem

Most people whose hair ends up in spell work never consented to that use. They lost hair naturally or had it cut at a salon not knowing someone would collect it for magic. This lack of consent is ethically problematic.

Some practitioners argue that if the person does not believe in magic, they cannot be harmed by it. Others say the lack of belief does not matter because the spirits are real whether people believe in them or not.

When Hair Magic is Justified

I believe hair magic is ethically acceptable when you are working to create genuine love between compatible people, removing legitimate obstacles to happiness, protecting yourself or loved ones from real harm, or attracting opportunities you deserve through your own merit.

Hair magic becomes ethically wrong when you are forcing someone against their fundamental will, breaking up happy relationships for selfish reasons, harming innocent people, or trying to control someone just because you can.

The Responsibility Question

If you hire someone to do hair magic on your behalf, you bear responsibility for that work. You cannot escape the karma by saying someone else did it. The intention was yours. The consequences are yours.

Before using anyone's hair in spell work, honestly ask yourself: Am I trying to force something that is not meant to be? Will this cause suffering? Is there a better way to handle this situation? Your answers matter both ethically and spiritually.

My Personal Position

After fifteen years in this work, I have seen hair magic used beautifully and I have seen it used terribly. The difference is always intention and justification. Magic to create genuine happiness tends to work well and cause no problems. Magic based on selfishness, revenge, or control tends to blow up in everyone's face.

Hair is powerful. Treat that power with respect. Use it wisely. Consider consequences before acting. And remember that what you send into the world comes back to you multiplied.