I got a haircut last night. Not, in itself, news, or worthy of a blog entry on a jewelry-related site. But I was interested to see jewelry for sale in the salon, all set up in a glass case next to the reception desk, complete with the jewelry-maker's business cards. 

What a great idea. There's an obvious connection between jewelry and beauty, of course — but it went farther than that. Because this jewelry wasn't cookie-cutter, predictable stuff; it was funky and fun. And whether the jewelry maker was a friend of the salon owner or had just walked in the door and made a sales pitch, it was a perfect business match. Where the jewelry in the case would have been out of place in a glitzy, high-polish day spa, it fit right into the funky, fun landscape of this particular salon (my stylist had purple hair). And the clientele who would choose the salon would be exactly the kind of clientele to whom that highly individual jewelry would appeal.