I love your hair, it looks great that length.

What a nice gesture, I am very proud of you, however I strrongly reccomend re-searching any charity before assisting them. I hate to put a damper on this woderful act of kindness but the word needs to get out.

LOL is known to sell a lot of their hair to companies that make wigs/extensions etc... and sells them for money. I was growing my hair out for them years ago, until I learned from a friend that they are not as good of an organization as you think, a few years later another friend of mine learned the hard way too.

I can't find the 2 really good links that I had bookmarked but I did a short search & came up with a few.

BBB:
http://www.give.org/reports/care2_dyn.asp?733

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locks_of_Love


People Magazine, September 6, 1999 issue,
in which the
organization is featured. Here, it states that LoL had
received over 20,000 ponytails, yet fabricated only 45
wigs. Each wig requires 12 ponytails. 45x12=540 total
used ponytails as of that date. So what about the
other 19,460+? nobody there wants to
answer.

Another article, from the Chicago Tribune, said that LoL
receives roughly 800 donations of hair per week, and made
50 wigs in its first year of operation. A quick
exercise in math reveals that 800/week=41,600/year. The
article stated LoL made 50 wigs in its first year of
operation and that about 100 were produced last year (and
they plan to make 200 this year).

From their
own website I got the information that they make wigs
for people suffering from alopecia and that they sell
a part of the wigs to cover manufacturing costs.
The receivers of the donations mostly remain
anonym.

For fairness it should be stated that this
activities, after their own words, are related to hair that
is not usuable for making wigs for
children.

The bothering thing is that their activists try to
make women feel bad if they don't sacrifice their
hair, they are considered to be selfish.

See more on this forum too: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group...ns/messages/69