Hair Donation

My hair has never been long enough to donate. If it ever grew long enough I would love to do that. I think it's wonderful. I helped my mom with her non profit organization though, giving hats my mom knit to cancer patients.

Never donated my hair, never kept my hair very long.

I did it twice in my life, when my hair hung beyound my back-side and I could sit on it, and just before I got married.

@Marcyaz I've never donated my hair before. I knew people could sell hair but I never knew hair got donated. Also, it's so nice to see a photo of you! Very lovely photo too!

I keep my hair so short I don't even know where it is!

A friend of mine used to. My hair is not that long so I haven't tried donating.

We had not this kind of organizations when I decided to cut my long hair. I think that I gave it to my hairdresser to make wigs.

Good for you. I have short hair too, so can't donate either. Is that you in the photo?

I would if I cut it off.

My daughter in law loves to grow her hair long and then donate it. She looks good with both long & short hair and lucky for her that her hair grows fast

I donated mine to locks of love when I decided to go short. Have a blessed day

When I have my hair cut, I'm going to donate it

Speaking of hair donation, I read this extremely touching story of a young boy who grew his hair out and fought all kinds of bullying in school just so he could donate his hair to cancer patients. And he successfully did. However, after a few days he noticed that one of his eyes was being progressively shut and he was not able to see much from whatever part of it was open. Turns out the poor little boy had cancer himself. This is such an unfortunate turn of fate. Makes me wonder about the peculiarities of life.

I tried to sell my hair once, through an online site. Nobody wanted it, which I thought was odd since I was told red hair would be snapped up in a pinch. But, meh. Oh well. Have you looked into Locks of Love? Snopes says, "As much as 80 percent of the hair donated to Locks of Love, the best known of the charities, is unusable for its wigs, the group says. Many people are unaware of the hair donation guidelines and send in hair that is gray, wet or moldy, too short, or too processed, some of which is immediately thrown away. Even hair that survives the winnowing may not go to the gravely ill, but may be sold to help pay for charities' organizational costs." Locks of Love also said, "We provide hairpieces and repairs free of charge or on a sliding scale based on the financial need of those responsible for the children. So, basically, if they know you can afford it, you're on the "sliding scale" rather than the "free" list. It sounds like a slippery slope to me. Huffington Post said Locks of Love had over $6 MILLION dollars worth of hair missing from their donations in 2013. If I'm going to donate my hair, I think I'd rather send it to Wigs for Kids, or Children with Hair Loss (the latter of which NEVER charges for wigs. Anyway, sorry if I sound like I'm poo-pooing your act of love. I think it's great to donate. But when we go through the trouble of growing our hair and sending it in; when we expect our hair to be used to help someone only to find out it's been sold for "organizational costs" or flat-out thrown away, well, it irks me a bit. Know who you're donating to. That's all I'm saying.

there are a few that I would had I still kept my hair long, but it's been short now for some time

I tried, but they won't take colored hair.

I wanted to but I do not have long hair and also I color my hair now. I do not have enough hair when get a haircut the donate and also I do not think they would accept my colored hair even though it is the color of my hair.