{"id":321335,"date":"2026-08-14T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321335\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:06:10","slug":"10-foot-ball-of-hair-rolls-through-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321335\/","title":{"rendered":"10-Foot Ball of Hair Rolls Through New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A massive 10-foot hairball has been seen rolling through the streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=New+York+City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">New York City<\/a> in all its tangled glory. Nicknamed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.k18hair.com\/blogs\/consumer\/spotted-a-giant-hairball-rolling-across-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"> \u201cTumblehair\u201d<\/a>, the knotty sphere, which represents all the hair that New Yorkers lose to shedding, was a clever marketing stunt created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommon.studio\/info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Uncommon Creative Studio<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k18hair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">K18<\/a>\u2019s new FutureIQ biomimetic hair longevity serum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To launch K18 Hair\u2019s new product FutureIQ\u2122 \u2013 we created a one-of-a-kind giant 10ft hairball made of real human hair representing the 167 billion hairs New Yorkers lose to shedding. Gross? Disgusting? Sure, that may be true but this rolling installation transforms the staggering scale of premature hair aging &amp; everyday shedding into something impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the hairball looked like it was rolling around on its own like a <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=hirsute\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">hirsute<\/a> tumbleweed, it was actually being guided by a hidden team. <\/p>\n<p>Tumblehair Also Sheds<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive 10-foot hairball has been seen rolling through the streets of New York City in all its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-321335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}