State officials warned Leslie Stern with a letter. Then they sent inspectors to shops and events she was working at in Wilmington, Durham and Winston-Salem.
It wasn’t illicit contraband they were after. It was information about glittery threads of tinsel that they wanted.
It’s called fairy hair and is meant to be a quick and temporary addition to someone’s look. And it’s intended to bring joy, which, Stern said, it does for many of her regular clients…