Goody supports Locks of Love

Those who made the point that those short haired people who never grow it long might concider growing it so they can cut it for the kids! GOOD POINT!!!!

Next time anyone solicites me (and most who do have very styled shoulderlenght hair), I will ask them if they are growing their hair out again to donate. Hey if those who want to have long hair are expected to donate why not expect the shorts to become hair factories too and grow thier own out to cut even if they dont like it.

The ONLY time I was ever approched with respect about my hair and donateing was when a woman with hair longer than mine at the time admired it and mentioned that she was cutting hers all off that weekend at a mall charity event. She just wanted to let me know about it in case i was concidering cutting it. I explained that I wasnt sure i was ready for a cut (it was just hip lenght then). She smiled and said "oh you dont have to cut it now. Wait untuil your comfortable with the idea of cutting it and its long enough that you will not have to cut it all off if you dont want". She was very nice.

Everyone else whos approched me has had short hair or medium lenght and have never had really long hair at all.

Oh my gosh! Im so glad Ive not donate my tail to anyone just yet. i was planning on holding on to it and maybe donateing later...but now I just think Ill keep it. When i was little and with short hair I had two dreams for the long hair I one day hoped to have. The first dream was to grow my hair long enough to put in a braid that hung over my shoulder in front and the other was to eventualy cut a long tail of hair to keep (which I just did) and still have hair long enough to concider long and grow out again (I'm there).

So this tail of mine is precious to me even if it isnt attached. I do want to make a hair locket or pendant with one long strand like they used to do with loved ones hair. I know that might sound weird but I want to do that.

Now, everyone who has heard me say I might cut my hair has told me to donate (what do they think I woulkd just throw it away?). And out of guilt and obligation I lie and say "I know about Locks of Love, I wont throw it away"...hinting that it will be donated when i dont want to...even though it IS cut off.

Personaly from what Ive read in these postings i would much rather sell my hair and profit than donate and have my hair not even go to a kid but end up sold anyways. And yes, synthetic hair wigs are available and for kids they are much more reasonable to have since kids are rough on their hair anyways.

should suggest they can donate a kidney, a lung or even a cornea. And then ask if they are even carrying an organ donor card? All are needed by someone desperately every day.

That's a terrific come-back Chrissy M .
I now look forward to the day someone asks me to donate my hair for a "good cause"....I will suggest they donate one of their vitals for an even better cause - LOL!!

Thanks!

Jennifer wrote: ersonally, I think it's selfish to boycott a company just because they support Locks of Love. It's no more selfish than boycotting any other company when we don't agree with their philosophies or actions.

Who said it wasn't selfish to boycott other companies for their actions?

And besides, if you're going to boycott them for supporting Locks of Love, you might as well boycott hair companies that test their products on animals.

Personally, I think it's selfish to boycott a company just because they support Locks of Love. They really aren't that bad, and it's just hair. The world won't end if you lose a couple inches of your precious locks.

Thanks for identifying and clarifying that story, Jennifer.

You say "we"... I know you mean "we" in the general sense... ya know, of all of the dozens of locks of luv pitches I've endured through the past several years, the solicitor has always been of the confirmed (not temporarily) short-haired variety. Coincidence or correlation... ? (maybe this time I'm not mistaken, like I was about Laine)

Jennifer wrote: Someone made an interesting comment one time about harassing long hairs to donate their hair: should we not suggest that short hairs be strongly encouraged to grow their hair long so they, too, can donate? For people who love their short hair, it may put a new spin on things. Perhaps this is an odd analogy, but think of long hair as an investment -- like money in the bank. Why should people who didn't save up insist to the people who did save up that they give up their investment?!

Jennifer,

You make good points. If a short-haired person is willing to ask a long-haired person to do without their preferred (long) hairstyle for years, then the short-haired solicitor should be willing to do likewise -- grow their own hair long even though it is contrary to their own taste. Anything less is pure hypocrisy.

And regarding the analogy to investing, I am reminded of that child's story (I can't remember the name) wherein the primary character (a motherly figure) asks the others who wants to contribute to the effort of making bread (or pie, or some such foodstuff). Nobody offers to help, and the primary character makes the break on their own. When it is done, the others clamor for a piece of the bread, but the primary character refuses them, because they didn't do anything of their own to contribute to the cause. Someone help me here with the name of this story... another good analogy also, I think.



And Laine, that is an unusual way of capturing your photo (and I like it).

Constance! What an awful story! High school kids can be so mean sometimes. I hope you friend's daughter will graduate soon and move onto better things. High school is such a drag.

Incidentally, did you ever get those Aerosoles Dollyannas you were talking about last month on the Shoe Board? I know it's off topic, but I just love mine. I wear them all the time, with all kinds of outfits.

Laine, I love your icon! Way better than PsyDuck. Your dog is so cute! And you're obviously a good photographer. Whenever I take pictures of my dog, she almost always comes out looking possessed with big glowing eyes.

I'm very sorry to hear about harassment, Constance. I think it was awful.

Someone made an interesting comment one time about harassing long hairs to donate their hair: should we not suggest that short hairs be strongly encouraged to grow their hair long so they, too, can donate? For people who love their short hair, it may put a new spin on things.

Perhaps this is an odd analogy, but think of long hair as an investment -- like money in the bank. Why should people who didn't save up insist to the people who did save up that they give up their investment?!

I think I echo everyone's opinion that Lock's of Love is misrepresenting itself. If they took off the "charity label" and advertized themselves as what they are, then maybe people wouild not feel so taken advantage of. I am all for freedom of choice with what one does with their hair. I also understand that sometimes people make sacrifices (in this case of their hair) for what they think is the greater good. I abhor the forceful removal of a person's hair.
I guess I think these companies should be able to tell you exactly where and to whom your hair will be going . Right now, they have no way of telling you what will happen to it once it leaves your person.
If (and I mean it's a long stretch) I were ever able to help someone in this way, I would want to know who it was and if they really wanted/ appreciated it. Just like people who donate organs have this privelege.

I did some reading on this a few months back when my sister told me she wanted to donate her hair to LOL. I learned from what I read (this is just my humble gathering of info)that kids don't benefit as much from the wigs as they do from psychological counciling, That if people really want to make a difference, they could donate money to a childrens' cancer hospital to help provide this service to the children or to donate time to talk to kids in the hospital.

jacqui