Free/discount hair cuts

Jun 14, 2005 14:38

I found this out by accident. Sadly my own hair is not yet long enough for me to be able to do this, but if you have long hair that you're going to get cut, as in 10 inches or more that's going to be cut off, you can not only donate it to Locks of Love but apparently there are salons that will give you a free and/or discounted haircut if you go to ( Read more... )

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elfbystarlight June 14 2005, 19:03:49 UTC
Locks of Love is not a reputable donor organisation. This has come up a couple of times on longhair forums.

Please read the following
memoriesat longhair before making a decision to donate to them.

If you want to skim to the important stuff, the Better Business Bureau report is here with a summary of the key information near the bottom of this page.

One of the memories links is to alternate, reputable organisations if you really do want to donate your hair.

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elfbystarlight June 14 2005, 19:28:35 UTC
Found the exact figures so am adding here for clarity (there are a lot of links up there). These were calculated by Flaxen here using the figures from Locks of Love's own webpages ( ... )

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thebratqueen June 14 2005, 19:32:09 UTC
Interesting stuff! I only knew about LoL from it being pimped on Queer Eye. Their website seems pretty straightforward about saying that they do sell hair donations, but that does raise the question of what do they then use the money for.

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elfbystarlight June 14 2005, 19:48:14 UTC
It has been suggested that less than 1% of donated hair goes for wigs that Locks of Love then charge for. I realise that those without long hair will probably not be aware of this - and much of it is not *directly* the fault of LoL - but particularly in America there is a very real issue of women with long hair being hassled by people who *mean* well to donate their hair because it's such a good cause. Not by Locks of Love, but by people who have donated and want others to donate. There are people who deliberately grow and cut their hair to donate, and that is fine, it is their choice to do so. But the vocal ones hassling people to do the same are the ones who do not do the research, do not look at the numbers and are swept away by the idea that their hair will go to a kid who needs it, when this is statistically extremely unlikely.

It's something of a hot button, so I apologise if I've been a little emphatic here.

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atrata June 14 2005, 23:48:51 UTC
Heh. I *just* heard about this the other day; I'm about to hack that much hair off, and someone brought up this program. I'd never heard of it, and now here it is again. I think it's a sign...

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atrata June 14 2005, 23:50:08 UTC
And *now* I see the other comments. Hmmm.

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