Locks of Love

In July right before I had to be stationed overseas in Japan for the Navy I donated 12 inches of my hair to locks of love. It seemed easy, I mailed it in as asked in the proper envelope and with the print out sheet online. I was told my numerous sources not to because locks of love has a bad rap and people say that they sell their hair instead of donating it. Anyway I didn’t listen because I didn’t know where else to donate too. It had been 6 months and I have not heard a word of thanks from them. I loved my hair, it was long thick and beautiful and it’s gone and I don’t even get a thank you email or letter or anything. That to me is shameful and ungrateful. I hope they treat those who need the hair better than this, and I hope my hair actually helped someone, because it is not like I would know about it. Donate your hair to some other organization if you want to donate!

I have wanted to do Locks of Love forever and I finally did it. After having long hair for years, my hair was put into 4 pony tails and then chopped off, placed lovingly into a plastic bag and shipped off to West Palm Beach where my hope is, it will go into a wig for an innocent child battling cancer.
The process couldn’t be easier:
1) Grow at least 10 inches of length to cut off (dyed hair is okay but they can’t take bleached hair)
2) Have your hair guru put your hair into a pony tail or multiple ponies to cut off (they can’t take loose hair)
3) Place the hair in a plastic bag
4) Go to the website, fill out the donation form and print
5) Put your hair & your donation form into a NON-​LETTER envelope (this is important so it doesn’t get lost) and send off to the Locks of Love address
That’s it! 5 easy steps to hopefully brighten a child’s day… really, it’s the least I can do. So with my 5 steps completed, I now bequeath 5 stars here on Unilocal for a non-​profit organization seeking to bring a smile to a child’s face that is battling something so horrible; Locks of Love is Woohoo! As good as it gets!

My wife has been donating her hair for more than 10 years. She has never once colored or dyed her hair. As soon as it grows to a foot long, she is ready to chop it off. She insists, «It grows back. Plus, I should do it while I still can. I don’t want to wait till it thins out or turns grey.» I agree.
There are guidelines for all hair donations: 10″ minimum, colored and/​or permed hair is ok; no dreadlocks and no bleached hair. Simply tie or braid your hair together, cut it, put it in a ziploc bag and mail it along with a printed donation form. Tada! Upon receipt, Locks of Love always sends back a Thank-​you postcard.
Besides the reason of helping unfortunate children, she likes Locks of Love because it is non-​profit and not affiliated with religions or political parties. It really doesn’t matter whom her hair goes to, as long as it can benefit children out there, in whatever form.

Freaking took FOREVER to grow out my hair to donate, okay not forever but I would say almost two years. Seriously the hardest part of the whole donation process. I guess I need more vitamins! x_​X
First time donating my hair and Locks of Love made it easy. You just tie up your hair in a pony tail and chop it off! Take your pony tail (still banded) and put it in a Ziploc bag and mail it to Locks of Love. THATS IT!!!
Locks of love has a minimum requirement of 10 inches, this is because of the way the process it takes off two inches already and most of the people getting wigs want medium to long hair.
So why am I giving below five-​stars to a non-​profit?
–It takes a long time to grow 10 inches of hair!
–They take shorter hair but they SELL them to supposedly offset their manufacturing costs.
–Locks for Love’s wigs are sold only to children under 21 with hair loss resulting from any array of factors, not just cancer.
–Locks of Love does not provide all of its hairpieces for free. According to its website, prices for human-​hair wigs are set on a sliding scale based on the recipient’s family income.
So in the future I will definitely donate my hair again, but to Pantene Beautiful Lengths instead.