Locks of love

Has anyone donated their hair through locks of love? I am almost to the 10 inches that you need and amd ready to cut my hair but I'm not sure if there is a certain salon that I should go to?
Are there salons that sponsor locks of love?
Thanks!

I donated my hair after the wedding to Pantene's charity beautifu lengths. Please do some research before donating - there are many negative articles on Locks of Love.

And I just went to my regular salon - they work with Pantene (which I had no idea about) so they took care of mailing it in for me. There was no discount though.

Good luck!

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Posted by JayLi2007

I donated my hair after the wedding to Pantene's charity beautifu lengths. Please do some research before donating - there are many negative articles on Locks of Love.

And I just went to my regular salon - they work with Pantene (which I had no idea about) so they took care of mailing it in for me. There was no discount though.

Good luck!

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I also just donated to Pantenes Beautiful Lengths! I donated twice before to Locks-of-Love but decided to go with Pantene this time. I never got a discount any of the times I donated.

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Posted by lonal

I donated 2 times. One time I got the cut for free the other time I didn't. If you go to locks of love website it gives you all the info.

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yes check their website, that would be your best bet!!

such a wonderful gesture

my little sis donated hers when she was 16 i was so proud of her, especially during the tuff teen years!!

Please take this as very sincere advice with the best intentions for your donations...

I don't post often and don't want to ruffle any feathers here, but just be completely aware of any organization to which you make donations. I am a cancer survivor, had bone cancer at age 15, and wore a wig for a year and a half back in 1989-1990. My hair has never grown back as thick and full as it was, so I belong to an online hair care message board similar to LIW. I'm also a member of a Long Term Survivor list online and Locks of Love was also a topic there.

Locks of Love was a very hot topic at one point because there have been a lot of problems with this organization. They were in trouble with the Better Business Bureau for many years, and finally have cleaned up their act, but be aware that they DO NOT give wigs to children with cancer. Their target patients are those with alopecia areata, which is permanent. So all the media hype they get about kids with cancer is false advertising. I am a childhood cancer survivor and have verified these facts with cancer advocates.

The New York Times did an article recently on them, and even LOL's founder has said that donating a check to her is easier than hair, since most hair is sold or gets thrown out.


A quote from the article: 'Perhaps they would be less adamant if they could visit Ms. Coffman in the Locks of Love office in Florida. Every day the hanks of hair arrive, filling some 10 postal bins, representing the best intentions of donors, but so much of it destined for the trash.

“A check would be easier for me,” Ms. Coffman said. “But would the donors get out of it what they do? No.”


Please read this story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/fashion/06locks.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Lather, Rinse, Donate
By ELIZABETH HAYT
Published: September 6, 2007

If the link won't work, please FM me and I will send you the article.

Again, I don't want to start trouble here at all, that is not my intention, just when I see someone who has a great heart and wants to help out of the goodness of their heart like this, it saddens me to know what really will happen to your donations.

Thanks for reading, and if you want the article, please FM me for the information.

Carolyn

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Posted by CC11208

Please take this as very sincere advice with the best intentions for your donations...

I don't post often and don't want to ruffle any feathers here, but just be completely aware of any organization to which you make donations. I am a cancer survivor, had bone cancer at age 15, and wore a wig for a year and a half back in 1989-1990. My hair has never grown back as thick and full as it was, so I belong to an online hair care message board similar to LIW. I'm also a member of a Long Term Survivor list online and Locks of Love was also a topic there.

Locks of Love was a very hot topic at one point because there have been a lot of problems with this organization. They were in trouble with the Better Business Bureau for many years, and finally have cleaned up their act, but be aware that they DO NOT give wigs to children with cancer. Their target patients are those with alopecia areata, which is permanent. So all the media hype they get about kids with cancer is false advertising. I am a childhood cancer survivor and have verified these facts with cancer advocates.

The New York Times did an article recently on them, and even LOL's founder has said that donating a check to her is easier than hair, since most hair is sold or gets thrown out.


A quote from the article: 'Perhaps they would be less adamant if they could visit Ms. Coffman in the Locks of Love office in Florida. Every day the hanks of hair arrive, filling some 10 postal bins, representing the best intentions of donors, but so much of it destined for the trash.

“A check would be easier for me,” Ms. Coffman said. “But would the donors get out of it what they do? No.”


Please read this story http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/fashion/06locks.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Lather, Rinse, Donate
By ELIZABETH HAYT
Published: September 6, 2007

If the link won't work, please FM me and I will send you the article.

Again, I don't want to start trouble here at all, that is not my intention, just when I see someone who has a great heart and wants to help out of the goodness of their heart like this, it saddens me to know what really will happen to your donations.

Thanks for reading, and if you want the article, please FM me for the information.

Carolyn

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This is exactly why I donated to Pantene - LOL sells the hair most of the time. They make very few wigs. This is why I say research! I know people want to give to a good cause - which LOL does not seem like they are one! Thank you for posting!

You're welcome. I didn't want to start trouble at all, because I know that people usually feel strongly about which charities they donate to and why they do it. Especially if it's because they themselves or family members have been affected by what the cause supports. I didn't want someone with sincere intentions to donate hair to LOL and then find out afterward that they usually throw it out.

I don't know much about Pantene Beautiful Lengths, but from what I have read about them so far, they seem to be more adept at creating wigs and giving them to those in need without so many restrictions. In comparison, LOL also asks parents to pay on a sliding scale whatever they can afford, and they've only made 2000 wigs in 10 years, whereas I think Pantene Beautiful Lengths did that in 1-2 years.

I will say this, though. When I first was diagnosed, I did have a human-hair wig. It was over $300 and took forever for health insurance to cover it as a 'hair prosthetic for alopecia due to chemotheraphy.' It was very hot and itchy, hard to keep looking nice over time, and my mom would trim it when it got raggedy. After it wore out, we went to Macy's on the island and I picked out 2 synthetic wigs that cost $60 in total, and I must say that they were much cooler, not as itchy, and very easy to style and maintain. Plus, a lot of kids at the hospital used to either wear hats or just go bald. It's really a lot of teenage girls (like I was) and women who wear the wigs to look like themselves again. So that's another thing to think about when donating hair.

I'll step down from my soapbox now!