52 thoughts on “Locks of Love is a scam”

1. Not sure if this will make you feel better, but there is a more current report from Give.org that shows that LoL meets their current standards:
   http://charityreports.give.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1839

   Of course, the part about selling the hair and the number of wigs made seems to still be pretty shady. Oh, and the CEO salary is listed as $61,260/yr.

   I feel bad now, because I donated my hair to them a few years ago when I cut it…

2. … but they still don’t meet the Better Business Bureau’s Standards for Charity Accountability: http://charityreports.give.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1839

3. Karen, the link you posted is identical to the one ktpupp posted right above you, which says they do meet BBB standards. Just FYI! I’m not defending them; in fact I’m not all too keen on LoL after reading this.

   I think the hounding and the hair-selling and the CEO’s salary are totally unreasonable. Yes, they sell the hair they can’t use; but then you turn around and actually charge some kids for their wigs?! (Yes, they do charge some kids, based on how much money their parents make.)

4. Awwww, you called me “Babycakes”… now never do it again!

   So, I just got my Jerker, and I’m freaking out, because it freaking rocks… oh, and it’s in my new apartment… that’s cool to, I guess… has a loft… The GF seems to like it, so mission accomplished. ANYWAY, I find this “SHRINE OF IKEA JERKER DESKS”, and BAM… this Jen person has one? There’s a link to her insanely over-packed Jerker… sweet… rock on, sister.

   So, then I’m like “Well, WTF… I’m here… lets read whatever this girl felt the world needed to hear.” Lo and behold, something relevant to me! I have long-arse hair, and I’ve used LoL as a means of justifying it… being a dude and all, some people get in a fuss, but when you tell them that it’s so kids in chemotherapy can have hair and feel normal for the remainder of their days you heartless bastard, they tend to back off. So, my point is, I was thinking of donating my hair to LoL, but if one person thinks they’re a bunch of Nazis, that’s a great excuse for me to not have to think about it any more. HOWEVER, please remove your comments about LoL, as it may ultimately result in me not having a good excuse to tell people why I have long hair, KKTHXBB!!!!11!!1!!1shift+1

5. $62K for a CEO? even a non-profit CEO? That’s incredibly LOW. Even our little niche PA public TV exec makes three times that much….

6. It’s a fact that the quality of hair that most people send in is not good enough to use for long pretty hair wigs. Worldwide hair still has little monetary value and used to be thrown away until LOL. Nobody’s arm get’s twisted to donate. People keep cutting and sending their hair because they feel that somehow it has as much value to the cause as it did to them personally. Obviously that’s not the case. If you want to to give to LOL remeber that they are just like any charity and prefer cash.

7. Locks of Love is a big phony operation. They are making a fortune.
   They sell the ponytails for a lot of money for cash.
   Unrefined hair of this origin is very dear.
   Also question the origin of the hair they do use.
   Many supermodels and stars need this kind of European (American) origin hair for their extensions.
   Locks of love is more like to be found on rock group or superstar or rich lady of many sorts than on a kid with alopecia.
   When I first went to their site and saw they can sell the hair at market value to “offset the costs” I then was very suspicious.
   I speak with authority. I helped several people apply for “free wigs” and free ain’t free at all.
   Call Matt Lauer and Oprah and give them the facts.
   I wonder if they give anything to their posse salons where people go to chop it off?

   By the way, it’s not the salary of the CEO, it’s all of the other perks and money that go along with being touted by superstars like Opah.
   Another US legend born in good PR and no substance. Shame shame shame.

8. So what do you suppose people should do with their hair? Just throw it away as we had in the past? Sell it ourselves and make the bucks and never even give one kid a chance?

   I am sorry I agree with Richard on this. I have wanted to cut my long hair for a while and I decided to donate it because I just want it gone. I used it to raise funds for other charities and have been contacted many, many times with the old BBB info.

   Now I have to admit this helped me to look into this information and for the most part I am ok with the whole deal. First they are upfront about selling hair and that wigs will cost money for some kids. Do I like that not completely but at the same time they are honest about it. That and not one person (or my own search) has located another charity that does the same (I found one but their business is wig making and they have little to no information about themselves). I am happy that I am raising money with my hair now I hope it will help some one if not I know that the charities that received money directly from my fundraiser are very, very happy.

9. Yeah, a friend of mine told me about this. She recently cut her hair off to donate, and she gave it to Wigs for kids (www.wigsforkids.org) a much smaller-scale and in my humble opinion a more charitable organization than Locks of Love. I am going to donate my hair to it once I cut it off.

10. I have been hounded to surrender my hair to the barber to donate my crowning glory more than I care to mention. I just noticed from the link above that it lists
    Unusable material sales @ $352,401
    and the net total assets @ $1,151,027
    up 350,622 from last year. Sounds like a profit selling hair. I thought it was only $150,000 from hair sales. They are not chopping my hair for this scam.

11. For God’s sakes, people…do your homework. Yeah, LOL sells leftover hair and all of the profits are funded back into the company to make more hair pieces (which cost anywhere from 3 to 6 grand to make…who do you think is paying for this?). Their CEO makes far less than CEOs of other charitable organizations. LOL is rated 4 star on Charity Navigator. The year that BBB didn’t give them a rating is because they failed in one category…the didn’t submit a formally audited financial statement and that was back in 2003. If they truly weren’t “not for profit”, don’t you think the IRS would be all over them like white on rice? Quit spreading this bs on the web. It turns the gullible away from making a donation that could make a difference. Geeze. ;S

12. I’m convinced my (ex)hairdresser is keeping at least some of the hair to glue onto the heads of other clients. She takes permed and colored hair…like that won’t go into the trash! The pressure to donate was awful. Something to think about.

13. LoL can take hair that has been permed or colored. The only hair that can’t be used is bleached hair, because it disintegrates when being processed. Your hairdresser could not possibly use hair she collects because it would need to be similarly processed, or into clips or glued together. I doubt she has the manufacturing equipment for that.

    There is a lot of incorrect and uninformed info here that is unfairly damaging to a good cause. LoL doesn’t even make wigs, they make custom-molded prosthesis that actually secure to the wearer’s head with an airtight seal. That means the kids can swim and shower and run around and don’t have to worry about some little jerk pulling their hair off and humiliating them. It also means $$$ and yes, much of the hair that gets donated is sold to offset that cost. They are very up-front about that.

    If your hairdresser is urging you to cut your hair off, it probably has more to do with the fact that it’s so long it is wearing YOU, and you are most likely too old to be hiding behind butt-length virgin hair. And if you think being an adult and getting harassed to cut your silly hair is bad, try being ten or eleven or however old and having to go to school bald, with no hope of ever looking normal, for years. I almost feel worse for the kids with alopecia than the kids who have gone through chemo.
    Get through junior high without any hair on your head, then we can talk about your “crowning glory.” Sheesh!

14. Hi Jen,

    I wanted to say that your intension to donate hair to Lock of Love was pure. So whether it is a scam or not, does not take away from your philanthropist spirit.

    So yes, perhaps we have to look into the organizations that we donate to. But there is absolutely no reason for you to feel bad.

    From a person who has lost her hair and deal with people who have lost there hair on a daily basis, I still commend you for wanting to help.

    Cheryl
    http://www.alopeciaandlove.com

15. ok when people say that they are upfront with all the things they do like, selling the unusable hair and other things, they accually aren’t cause if they were the common people who are donating their hair would know. only the people who resurch would ever know what they are doing… and thats beside my point….

    I hate LOL because my 16 year old cousin who had cancer wasn’t given a wig because of the tax return rule that says if your parents made a certain amount of money in the prior year you can’t have one.
    this is BULLSHIT. im sorry but if you have a child with cancer you will NOT make even close to as much money as you did the year before. Whether its because you are missing too much work cause you’re in and out of hospitals and tending to a very sick child, or the hospital bills are too high. it is just impossible to do it!

    fuck LOL and give your hair to a group that will actually help make a difference in a needy child’s life, I donated my hair to Children With Hair Loss (yes not as catchy as locks of love, but whatever)

16. lauren hanak sucks

17. I’m glad this info is getting out. I have had long hair for about 20 years. I always loved it long, but wasn’t allowed to grow it as a child. The result was a series of haircuts that were pretty damaging to my self esteem. I looked like a boy (not helped by a stocky build), I couldn’t do anything with my hair, and while the older length of hair is a striking gold, the shorter roots were the shade that unthinking people would refer to as “dishwater.” Sometimes “dirty dishwater.”

    After finally getting my length back, I have no intention of ever going short again. My hair is far and away my best and most signature feature; were I faced with chemo myself, I’d probably elect to die with my hair on instead.

    In recent years, I’ve been asked about donation on about a weekly basis. I have faced an incredible amount of antagonism, including people who insisted I should be ashamed for being insensitive when there are kids with cancer out there who need my help. I even get it from beauticians, who always seem a bit too clip-happy; at one haircut, after insisting that I would never notice the missing 10 inches, the woman somehow managed to cut nearly double my requested 4 inch limit. One of the problems with long hair is that there’s no easy way of monitoring the length of cut when you’re holding your head in a straight-forward, upright position. By the time you realize your head feels too light, there’s a sizable chunk on the floor. I was so traumatized I wouldn’t get trimmed for another 2 years. So much for not noticing!

    I’ve started getting a bit punchy about the constant criticism. Do I not understand the pain of kids with cancer? Well yes, I do…my niece died of it. I would cheerfully donate bone marrow, which is rather a bit more useful than hair, but was told that, for my demographic, there wasn’t much need (and there was a $200 fee to even be cataloged).

    Am I selfish or something? Maybe. But I donated a car (used) to charity, which is more than most of the people who badger me. I also attempted to donate my ova, but was turned down…ironically, because I hadn’t had children.

    I’ve tried pointing out that the time it would take a short-haired person to grow out their hair would be no greater than the time it would take me to grow my hair back to where I liked it (and probably less…I get about 2 inches a year). This is usually met with “Oh, my hair won’t grow that long.” Really? Have they tried? Or did they give it two weeks and decide it was a hassle?

    That’s the convenient thing about short hair; if you decide to donate, you can change your mind at any time and go back to your preferred hairstyle. If I cut my hair off, it will be about 10 years before I’m happy with it again. Who knows if I’ll have the same color by that point?

    I met a sweet ten-year old girl with a short hair recently. Her mom explained to me that she had been told to cut it by a gym coach, and had been encouraged to donate to Locks of Love. When I commended them on their bravery, she said she wished they’d never done it; the girl had loved her hair, but she felt she was supposed to donate. Now she was absolutely inconsolable on the loss of her long hair. With an 80% chance that the donation went somewhere other than a sick child, how can this girl’s grief be justified?

    If you, dear readers, have yourselves been tempted to spread the word about LoL, have a care; some of us are a bit sick of being harped at. No one asks people with perfect complexions to donate facial skin to burn victims; the pain of childlessness is enormous, but parents with three children don’t get harangued when they won’t give one up for adoption. When you buy your dream car, after saving most of your life, the dealer doesn’t ask you to consider giving it away, even though there are quite assuredly many people who could use it…and may need it much more than you. Maybe even to take a cancer victim to a hospital.

    Long haired people a very, very aware of this charity. Please don’t painstakingly explain to us yet again how great it is, or how evil we are to want to keep what we’ve worked for our whole lives. Anyone with 3 feet of hair has a level of commitment to it that you can’t imagine. Maybe, if you aren’t that committed to your own hair, you should grow yours out instead. After all, if nagging me gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, imagine how much more satisfying it will be to have a few decades of your own hard work chopped off!

18. I remember reading that a lot of the hair donations can’t be used to make wigs for kids because they’re greying, color-treated, and damaged. Yes LoL will take the hair but only to sell it. People get so excited to donate their hair and pat themselves on the back for doing a good thing, that they just donate anything- even if it’s a bunch of dreadlocks full of damaged strands. They would hold it up the clump of hair and say “This will go on a kid’s head!” when really, it’s something most wigmakers will look at and toss away. And a lot of the LoL money go into research.

    I know if I donate my hair- they will probably have to get rid of half my locks because I use the straightener a lot and I had some highlighted areas. And to tie all the hair in one ponytail and cut it off at that-guarantees that 50% of the 10-inch ponytails donated will be UNDER 10 inches (the hair from the sides get shorter when pulled into a ponytail). Wigs for Kids had great advice about tying the hair into MULTIPLE ponytails to preserve length. And locks of love is so popular and the numbers about how few wigs they end up making are so public- if LoL is truly a scam, then it would be all over the news and the IRS will close them down. Overall, I don’t think Locks of Love is a scam, but it could be run better. It needs a new CEO and managers to run things more efficiently. Meanwhile, try another organization like Wigs for Kids.

    I agree with how this obsession with donating hair has cause society to frown on women having long hair and not donate it. I am a bit appalled at those LoL school events- where if you don’t donate your hair- your classmates will thinking you’re a heartless person and by the end of the day, you have 50 girls with the SAME exact bob-which is sort of freaky. I’d say, even if you don’t donate hair, you can still make a difference by donating money.

19. How can some of you people sit here and write this crap!!!!! Have you no heart, spirit, or soul!!!! Guess what i am 17 years old but i probable have more maturity in my pinkie than some of you do in your whole body!!!! How can you Degrade such a giving organization. and yes i am donating my hair…….it sits on your shoulders…..lifelessly……carelessly…….you get it cut all the time…..GROW SOME BALLS AND GIVE IT SOME ONE THAN THROWING IT AWAY AGAIN AND AGAIN…..SO WHAT IF THEY SELL IT AT LEAST IS WON’T BE SITTING IN A DUMPSTER SOME WHERE!!!!! I MEAN SERIOUSLY SOME OF YOU PEOPLE NEED A REALITY CHECK!!!!

20. I think calling your “hair” something that just les liflesly on your shoulders might be true for you but not for everyone else. Personally I am extreamly attached to my hair and cutting it off would be the same as scooping out an eye. I can still see with the other one but it will just not be the same.
    I don’t see why I or anyone should be preasured into cutting their hair. It sounds vain but like someone above already said. “you try growing 3 feet of hair and not become attached to it”
    If you feel strongly about donating your hair than do it. I don’t see why you have to preasure other ppl into it.

    I would never cut off my hair and if people call me vain thats their problem not mine

    <3

21. Nette, you’re 17? I probably have hair older than you. I don’t expect you to understand…you don’t have anything you’ve been attached to for 20 years.

    To answer this calim that “you get it cut all the time…..GROW SOME BALLS AND GIVE IT SOME ONE THAN THROWING IT AWAY AGAIN AND AGAIN”: I don’t get it cut all the time…that’s why it’s long. I get a few inches trimmed maybe once every 18 months. And frankly, I wouldn’t even do that if it weren’t necessary to control the split ends. As to “AT LEAST IS WON’T BE SITTING IN A DUMPSTER SOME WHERE!!!!!”, that’s entirely the point. If 80% of these donated ‘tails end up in dumpsters, damned if mine will be going. No, I think my lovelies will stay right here on my head where I can see them.

    What I pull out of my hairbrush every week probably exceeds what you have on your head. And if you equate maturity with jumping on whichever bandwagon happens to be rolling past…then the contents of my hairbrush may just exceed what’s _in_ your head as well. Sometimes maturity requires that we look at the trends and decide for ourselves whether they are valid, so we can make an informed decision from a basis of deeper understanding of the situation.

    In this case, if there’s a high probability of no benefit, of course I’m not going to throw away something I value very deeply. Maybe you should get more informed before you make your decision. You might decide to go with a different organization that is less swamped by well-meaning donors. Or you may decide to run a fund-raiser instead. Or speak out against the idea that we have to make kids feel there’s something wrong with being hairless by forcing wigs on them.

    Don’t just leap after the rest of the lemmings; at least think a little. I know it hurts the first time, but it gets easier! And if you must conclude that our perspective is wrong and needs changing, try a little content. Capslock may be cruise control for cool in some venues…but not this one.

    As an aside to you ladies who, like me, brush out enormous quantities each week: I saw something on PBS regarding a start-up in India that collects hair from brushes, combs them into straight lengths, and then sells them for wigs. In light of that, I’ve started saving my hair (and before you ‘wig out’ a-haha, this is not that unusual). If anyone hears of an organization that will take these for wigs, I have enough now to cover at least one hairless child, should he/she feel the need to alter what may be their natural state. Maybe we could start a new, no-pressure, really-giving-something-up-we-would-normally-throw-out trend. Wouldn’t that be something?

22. Wow, your hair only grows 2 inches a year? My hair grows about 10 inches every year.

23. Humph. I feel certain there’s a smiley that appropriately denotes jealousy. On the upside, my hair is ridiculously sturdy; I have pulled a 140 pound person across a floor with it. Think of waterskiing, only in socks and on tile. I can pick up a child up to 40# with it…and really, heavier kids are only out because my neck can’t take that strain. There are some fascinating pics of me with various small children dangling from my braid.

    I have a friend who grows about 10 inches a year. She donates her ponytail, and three weeks later she’s outgrown me again. I love her, I do, but I think we all understand why it is I’m poisoning her slowly…

    I should send her this link; she’d probably prefer her hair to go somewhere more useful.

24. Lol. No need to be jealous. I have nice hair but I really doubt I could pull a 140 pound person across the floor with it. I would probably be bald if I tried that. I guess it’s quantity vs. quality trade off.

    I used to donate my hair every year but I’m not going to do it anymore. However, I still have my two braids sitting in my room so I’m trying to decide if I should donate it to a different agency like Wigs for Kids or Pantene’s program or if I should sell my hair and donate the profits to a charity of my choice.

25. My younger sister is a recipient of a wig from Locks of Love. Even though my parents are comfortably middle class (I was not even eligible for financial aid in college), Locks of Love still committed to provide a free wig every eighteen months until she is 18. The fact that children outgrow their wigs and they need to be replaced is overlooked in all of the calculations that I have seen in this thread.

    @brainmist: “…we have to make kids feel there’s something wrong with being hairless by forcing wigs on them.”
    It is arrogant of you to suggest that anyone is forcing a wig on a child. My sister is mentally disabled and even at a very young age, she was ashamed of her bald head. The staring of people in public and the curious questions of her peers were enough to make her self-conscious about her own condition. Use a bit of common sense, please!

    I have donated my hair twice to LOL (they actually used hair from two siblings for my sister’s wig so that it would better match her natural color) and I will continue to do so in the future. Please do not shy away from donating to LOL; it really is a great cause! Also, follow the guidelines posted on their website to ensure that your hair arrives in usable condition.

26. Look at this video from youtube!! See what she mentions near the end about her wig.

    http://www.alopeciaworld.com/video/university-student-talks-about

27. I’ve always assumed it was a legit organization. I’ve donated numerous times and have nothing but good experiences.

28. Maybe this should be changed to “Locks of Love is not all it’s hyped to be.” Because really, it’s not the organization that we lockier people resent…it’s the idea that because we’ve taken the time and effort to grow long hair, we somehow are morally obligated to lop it off at the request of the bobbettes. If you want to donate your hair, do so, by all means, but keep in mind there are several philanthropic organizations that will take it. If you want someone else to donate their hair (which may well be their best and most beloved feature), bite your tongue, keep your annoying yap shut, and start growing your own.

29. I just want to mention a few things that people don’t seems to know from their comments. There are different (I don’t know if you call them charters or types of what) any way the designation of 5013C is apparently the most common. Many organizations don’t tell which kind they are.

    Also at one time Anthem (a major health insurer) was a non-profit and it gave away big bonuses to it’s employees so that it would not show a profit. So being a non-profit does not necessarily mean that someone’s pockets are not getting lined or that charity is their ultimate goal.

    As someone who has needed help and been charged based on a sliding scale, I really resent them. They do not seem to make allowances for the taxes that get taken out of your pay check or the expense of transportation to and from work, etc.

    I am being charged a fee for my depression therapy on a sliding scale and their attitude was that I should be able to afford to help pay for my care because I grossed $12,000 last year.

    I have had to take jobs where I grossed $250 per week and spent $25 per week on gas and another $15 on parking.

    If you are on your own or live with someone else $12,000 is usually not enough money to pay for auto insurance, decent groceries, clothing, auto maintenance and repairs, rent, utilities and forget any medical care. I have periodontal disease and no sliding scales are provided for that. AND yes it could kill you since a bacterial infection in the mouth can travel through the “pockets” into your blood stream.

    Most sliding scales should be ashamed of themselves because they do not allow enough money for basic living expenses much less the costs associated with going to work.

30. Here’s a great charity that will take hair in any kind of condition and any length (they just want it to be clean). They prefer human hair, but they will take animal hair, as well. They do not make wigs for anyone, but help clean up and contain oil spills and help save animals rescued from oil spills. Anyone can donate their hair every time they get a cut or trim. You can donate shed hairs. Hair dressers can box up floor clippings to ship to them. http://www.matteroftrust.org/

31. Years ago, I contacted a wig manufacturer thinking I could make some money by selling my hair (it grows rather quickly), but I was told that most Americans’ hair was not useful to them because it’s washed regularly. That made me a bit suspicious of LoL.

32. I have just cut off my hair for LOL and I think that as long as the hair is going to cause, I don’t really care. Especially if the hair is going to someone who will NEVER have hair back again. Like some who have alopecia. I heard that the majority of the donated hair goes to kids who have that condition. So, really, as long as the hair is going to good cause, then I’m still happy.

33. The reason they sell the hair is so they can pay people to MAKE the wigs. There is a lot more that goes into the process. Learn to make the wigs and donate your time. It’s hair, it will grow back if you cut it.

34. If Locks of Love is such a bad charity, why would the Better Business Bureau accredit them? (I have no connection to, or dealings with Locks of Love.)

35. *snork* The BBB is not really the best resource for evaluating claims of bad practice. I stayed in a hotel so revolting once that I wouldn’t even take off my shoes. It was damp, musty, filthy, rust-stained, burned in places, stank, and felt very unsafe…if I’d had any other options, I’d have taken them, and I seriously considered sleeping in my car.

    They had their BBB accreditation proudly posted, along with a high AAA rating. So I contacted the BBB and explained how bad it was. The hotel responded by claiming I hadn’t stayed there. I offered to send a copy of my receipt, along with photos of some of the worst nastiness. The BBB declined, saying that the hotel had successfully refuted my report by claiming I was never there.

    AAA, when contacted, reported that there was no record of a rating for the hotel. The hotel chain, when contacted, reported that it was no longer part of their chain (Super 8)…which is fascinating, because they still use the stationery and have the sign up.

    I’ve noticed a decline in LoL media circuses, and a correlating decline in badgering by random short hairs to lop my locks. I wonder what new fad the self-congratulatory altruists-by-proxy have moved onto?

36. Get a life ppl, have you nothing better to do?
    A LOL Hairpiece has brought my 13 year old daughter to life. At 13 years old she developed Alopecia and within 30 days was completely balled. The condition has no known cure. It is unpredictable and even if recovered, it could recur at any time. If it were not for Locks of Love, I would be facing tremendous issues w my teen. I am thankful for what they gave my daughter.

    How could you people be so insensitive?
    Donate your hair or not.. don’t cry about it.

37. Kitticatmew:
    That is great news that your daughter got a wig from LOL. But you had to pay for it right?
    The issue most have is that most of the thousands of ponytails donated end up being sold to wigmakers or thrown away because they are unusable. Long hair people are pressured into thinking they are selfish for keeping their hair long. We are told that we dont care about people with cancer or Alopecia! How horrible is that!
    We need to hear more stories like yours to regain faith in hair donation. Personally I am keeping my hair long because it took years to grow it and make it healthy. Would you donate 1000 dollars to a charity if you read several places that they spent the money for personal items or blew it on extravegent parties?
    That is the bottom line, trust is gone in some charities for the most part. If I ever decided to donate my hair, I would have the wig made to be sure my hair was going to who it was intended, not on some rich moviestars head.

    Thanks for reading

38. Keepinitlong,

    Actually, I did not have to pay a cent. Not even postage to return the mold of my daughter’s head.
    Locks of love had done nothing but good things for my daughter and the many other girls we met at the Locks of Love Summer camp.

    I change my hair styles often, I’ve gone really long and bobbed it many times and not once had I felt any pressure. If you feel pressured to donate your hair, that sounds like a personal issue.

    Whats with the hate? If you don’t want to donate your hair then don’t.

39. Ummmmm…JJJLonghair,
    You seem to have an unhealthy obsession and narcissism concerning your hair. Really??? An entire website and dozens of youtube videos devoted to your HAIR???? Talk about vanity! Wanting to keep your long hair is not vain. However, devoting an entire website and dozens of youtube videos to your hair IS. Get a life.

40. To bananaslugs

    There are hundreds of ladies who make youtube videos and have long hair sites sharing their tips on growing long hair.
    Perhaps you just never looked. I donate my time and help people who want to grow long hair. What do you do?
    I plan on making more video tutorials in the future because its youtube, broadcast yourself and it is fun to have long hair.
    I like to share my knowledge and success, not be hateful like you.
    I am over 40 too, so chew on that a while.
    Just imagine that some of the people I help might want to grow their hair long and donate it someday. As long as they know the facts first, then it is up to them if they want to donate.
    You sound like a typical HATER, and that is sad.
    I have a life, and it’s perfect, so NO, I dont need to “get one”.
    Thanks for visiting my site and watching my videos
    And thanks to the creator of this blog so people can learn the facts surrounding hair donation, both good and bad.

41. I agree wholeheartledly with JJJ whose hair makes some of the world’s most glorious buns.

    Locks of Love is a truly evil organization that ought to be banished into outer darkness. We can do more to help children with hair loss issues by donating money to help with medical care and research.

42. Bananaslugs,
    You seem to have an unhealthy obsession with stalking people then turning around and bashing them! As JJJ said, there are hundreds of ladies who make youtube videos and have long hair sites, but I get the feeling you already knew that. JJJ is a wonderful, kind woman that has done a great job helping people learn to grow, care for and maintain long hair. Having websites devoted to inspiring others in something that you love is not being vain, but putting others down because you think your better IS, and putting others down to get their attention is just plain sick!!
    So do everyone a favor…stop stalking JJJ, and GET A LIFE you perv!! :rotfl:

43. GRLONGHAIR,
    Umm no, I don’t stalk people. All I did was click on her profile ONCE and it took me to her site! I would hardly consider that “stalking”. People click on other people’s profiles all the time! And why did I click on her profile? Because I actually felt bad for her at first because she was being hounded by a trashy talk show host. So no I’m obviously not some heartless stalker who hates long haired gals (I happen to have long locks myself). If you don’t want anyone to “stalk” you then don’t include a url of your website when you post comments!

    And no I had NO idea that there was an abundance of people making long hair videos. Why else would I have reacted that way? As for assuming I’m a perv, I’m a WOMAN.

    I volunteer as a tutor for underprivileged children and at a homeless shelter. I also do medical research on neurological disorders. I consider my activities to be much more useful than making hair videos. So in that sense you could consider me vain for putting down strangers and assuming that I’m better. That is the only reasonable argument you’ve made in your entire post. The other allegations of me being a stalker and perv are pure rubbish.

44. So assuming that what your saying is true, does it really give you the right to come hating on a woman who just happens to have a love for helping others just as you do, only in a different manner? Do you go around hating on everyone that has websites devoted to the things they are passionate about?

    No, giving advice on hair isn’t something that is going to change the world, but what does it hurt, and who are you to judge? You know nothing about this woman aside form her love of hair. JJJ happens to be a very nice person, and had you made an effort to get to know her before jumping into judging her actions, then you might have made a really good friend.

    Why would you have reacted that way? Well aside from the other million possibilities, as JJJ said, your a hateful person. Being a woman doesn’t make a person any less likely to be a pervert either.

45. I have never even thought of donating my hair, I am not sure I would want to now either.

46. There are other places to donate your hair to. Try donating to the Disaster Relief Fund … they always take hair clippings, etc. to fill the netting that capture oil spilled in the ocean. Oil clings to hair so it’s a great way to get use of your hair and you know it’s going towards a good cause.

47. hi my name is loryn and i am 16 years old. i have a disease called alopecia universalis which is the rarest and most severe form of alopecia. this artical fails to mention the immune system that has come along with this disease; i’m not perfectly healthy, not at all. alopecia is a disease where your immune system attacks itself, meaning it doesnt really have time to fight off anything else that comes it’s way. besides the steroids i have to take to try and make my hair grow that also lower my immune system. locks of love doesnt JUST contribute to alopecians. many cancer patients have also recieved wigs. i have recently benefited from a wig locks of love gave to me. they dont just give any cheap wigs away; these people use remy hair, which is the highest quality of hair on the market. i’d also like to point out that locks of love is a nonprofit organization. any money that they make off of unusable hair goes twards the cost of making these wigs. there is a long process in making these wigs. it can take up to 4 months. they take a mold of your head, and it is a silicone casing for your head. this wig without locks of love would’ve cost me upwards of 8,000. the silicone cap will allow me to swim with it on, and it form fit to your head. this wig will truely be a blessing for me and my family. locks of love is far from a scam, i am thankful every day for it.

48. I had no idea that people with long hair were being hassled by non-donators. It’s a shame that those people don’t understand that their good intentions are being lost in their poor delivery.

    I have donated my hair to LoL twice and am almost ready to donate again. When people notice the huge change in my appearance, I mention that I donated it (to help spread the word/idea), but I would never think to put someone down for not donating. Even if I did cross the line to urging people to donate, at least I wouldn’t be a hypocrite like the others that were described.

    Interestingly, I have actually been hassled by certain family members who don’t want me to cut my hair (even though they know it will be donated). They say nice things about my hair being so pretty and they like it longer, but really it’s quite annoying. Why do all these people think they have a say in how someone else keeps their hair? I think JJJ and I should swap out the people in our lives, since that would seem like a better match

    The funny thing is, I didn’t get into donating because I’m such an altruistic person. I’m cheap. I like my hair short, but don’t like to pay for haircuts. So I would only get it cut twice a year. One day it dawned on me that getting it cut once a year wouldn’t be that much of a change in my routine, I’d save even more money, and I could donate it, too. Seemed like a win-win to me.

    This article has got me thinking, though. Not about IF I will donate again (I will) but where I will send my hair. Thanks for spurring me to do more research.

49. I knew about this years ago. I have butt length hair and I’ve had people goad me endlessly, trying to make me feel guilty that I would NOT cut my hair. Then someone told me it was all a sham anyway and they didn’t donate hair to cancer patients, they sold it.

    So I used to feel guilty, but no more. I love my long hair, it is my “security blanket”, it’s MINE and it’s a lot of work to take care if and if anyone ever gives me grief again they better be prepared to hear an ear full.

50. My daughter has beautiful waist length hair, and she loves her hair. We can’t even going into a store unless we hear about LOL. We have had numerous people in our family with cancer not one has had LOL hair, these wigs are very costly, we tell them they are beautiful the way they are they don’t want a wig. I remember before my wedding I also had very long hair, I have never liked my hair short, I got all these beautiful things to put in my hair on my wedding day. Well, I made a mistake I went up to get a trim and the lady cut all my hair off for LoL, I was so depressed for months. My poor friend had her hair pass her waist, it takes years to get your hair this long, I felt so sorry for her she also went to get a trimmed and they cut her hair so short, she got so depressed, she looked like she had cancer it was awful. My mother and brother passed only a year a part. I had a young cousin with cancer she was more interested in getting well than the hair on her head. My daughter has also had to fight heart disease but you can’t see that but she is not ashamed of her scar, it won’t go away and she can’t grow it back. People are beautiful, doesn’t matter if you have a scar from surgery, being burned, or not having hair, a missing leg or arm. My daughter has beautiful long hair it is a part of her it makes her who she is, she is not being bad because she wants to keep her hair. “God” gave the hair to her and it is hers growing crown of glory. So does this mean that we should have something for people with scars like the one of my daughter’s chest, she believes that her scar is not bad but a way of saying that she was lucky to be alive. Some clothes no matter how high up still show part of her scar she just explains that she had surgery when she was little. I do not know one person in my life that has LoL hair, I find this odd. The sad part about this is we watched on tv, wife swap, there was one lady bragging on one show how she got the LOL hair, and she even said thanks on the show, and guess what she wasn’t sick, just wanted the real hair.

51. I also hate locks of love. As a guy, I always have worn my hair very long (usually hip length to be exact) and a few years back I decided to donate SOME of my hair. So I went in just expecting to get about 8 inches or so off. But they SHAVED it off. After I was very regretful. I asked them where my long hair was going. All they said was “Uhhhh…” and then they said “Get out.” in a very forceful tone. My hair has grown back to about the same length it was before. I learned somthing: Never trust or donate to Locks of Love.

52. @ SonOfStone: Wow thays really to bad! I agree that LOL is awful. Hope your hair has grown back completely!

    Love hairluvr

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