JUJU Chan

Growing out your hair, for a good cause is becoming more and more favoured by many people. Donating your hair to make wigs for cancer victims as well as other medical conditions that causes hair loss is one of the most personally satisfying and rewarding things that you could do with your hair.


Afew weeks ago, Emily Wang came into our salon and did just that, She had been growing her hair out for the past year so that she could make a donation to an organisation called LOCKS OF LOVE http://www.locksoflove.com/


Emily with her long locks before she came in for the big chop

Now before you all go running out to make your donations, its a good idea to do your homework first as there are some rules to hair donating....

Most of the organisations require you to have between 8 - 12 inches of hair, with some charities, colored (tinted) hair is acceptable but no bleach, perms or highlighted hair.


Some organisations will not even accept grey hair. The reason why grey,
permed, highlighted and bleached hair is not accepted is because these charities try to make their wigs as realistic as possible and need the hair to absorb color evenly and consistently, when the hair has been processed or not processed at all (as in grey hair) the color consistency is not even enough to achieve this look. Chemically processed hair is also too porous to hold the dyes used in the process and leads to fading in the wigs.

Here's Emily holding her 10inches of hair.


Finished style!!

Some more hints for hair donations: Make sure you grow enough hair to cut it to your desired length as well as the 8 - 12 inches. If you don't plan on having your finished result too short then please allow enough hair in between for bounce, and shaping of hair. You need to allow your stylists some lee-way to make sure your leftover hair is long enough to shape into your desired haircut.
With layered hair, the shortest layer also needs to be the required length otherwise it cannot be used.


Here are some some of the more popular charities:

Locks of Love - 10-12" needed, color OK, no bleach
Wigs for Kids - 12" needed, no color, perms, highlights or grey
Pantene Beautiful Lengths - 8" needed, no color or bleach
Childhood Leukemia Foundation - 12" needed, no color, no grey


Above are just guidelines for the different charities, please do some research for yourself before choosing the one that is right for you.

Meanwhile, Thanks to Emily for her donation as well as allowing me write about it for my blog!