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Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    


Abby7
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07-17-2002

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
juju, sorry for using the word "banned" in this thread. that was very insensitive of me. hope it didn't give you a scare. lol

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
lol

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 3:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
Ack! I love Sebastian! I hope they don't ruin it also!!!

<runs out to stock up>

Sallycat22
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08-31-2005

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 2:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sallycat22 a private message Print Post    
It's happened to other products I loved. <Trying not to think negative>

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Ban Juju now!!!

And here is yet another reason I am banned from this thread. My niece today sent me before and after pictures of her daughter who just had her hair cut. She donated her cut hair to Locks of Love to make a wig for children with cancer who have lost their hair.

Now, doesn't that give you a warm, ooey-gooey glowing feeling? Growing your hair long and donating it to make a wig for children with cancer. And a lot of people are doing that. In fact, some people grow their hair long for that express purpose. They are going to heaven for sure.

And then I got to thinking, wait a minute!!! How many people do I know who have donated hair to Locks of Love to make wigs for child cancer patients? How many do you know? Between five and twenty, right?

And how many children with cancer do you know? Between zero and three, right? And how many do you know who have lost their hair? Between zero and one? And how many do you know who have got a wig from a charity? Uhhhhhhhhhhhh ...

So, where is all this hair going??? My bet would either be that they are selling it, or they are throwing it away and building up a mailing list of soft-hearted people who would rather just donate money in between times when they get those ten inches of hair cut off and mailed in. I am not saying they are doing that, but it for sure is what I would do if I would rather have money than hair, and I had a list of people inclined to give for this purpose.

Google it. You will find some eye-openers.

I am not bad-mouthing this specific charity and not saying don't grow your hair and send it to them. But THINK about it.

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 10:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
juju, i quickly googled. clicked on the first link that come up under: "lockw of love scam". skimmed the site. don't want to comment until i read more.

but for now....EEEK!

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Hmm....Kota donated a pony tail a couple years ago. Around the same time the little boy of a friend of ours chopped off his pony tail and sent it in. He's let his hair grow out several times now, chops it off, then sends it and starts over. The only thing we ever recieved in the mail, and the only thing his family has mentioned recieving from them, is a thank you card a few weeks after they mailed their hair in. There was a form you have to print out and fill out and send with the hair, I can't remember but there may or may not have been a spot on it to check to donate money as well.

Scam or no scam, at a time when the kids were really struggling with their "Grandma" Denise's terminal cancer diagnosis, watching her go through chemo and radiation and everything that did to her body, having their world flipped upside down with delays and changes to every plan we made, putting those pony's in the mail and mailing them off left Kota especially feeling like she'd had some kind of hand in helping in her own way. Call me naive, but if that one little act left her feeling like she had some control during a very uncontrolled time, I'd have had her send the pony tail to Santa Claus. Was definitely much more worth while than leaving her hair laying on the floor of the beauty shop (or rather the driveway since our hair dresser friend came here and did it, lol.)

Tess
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04-13-2001

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
I just donated my hair to locks for love in memory of the most special little girl named Caitlin who died 10 years ago (just a few day after her 5th birthday) from a very aggressive brain tumor. She did lose all of her hair but died before she had need of a wig. I didn't send in the donation myself. The place where I get my hair cut sent it in and I got my hair cut for free because I donated. I would do it again in a heartbeat. My one regret is that I didn't donate all the other times my hair was long enough over the past 10 years.

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Unfortunately, I know a lot of girls that have gotten wigs from Locks of Love through a listserv I've been with for 6 years. They have radiation bald spots. So, for them, I'm glad the organization is there.

Not all hair is acceptable either. Chemically treated hair is not accepted. Very fine hair is not accepted. Grey hair is not accepted. So, if people are not reading the guidelines, I'm sure there is a lot of hair not being used.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

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Give.org is fine with Locks of Love so I'll take their word over some blogger's rant.

http://charityreports.give.org/Public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1839

Three time donater here.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 4:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Living near one of the largest cancer centers in the US, I see plenty of bald chemo victims. (and the hair isn't just for kids).

And even if not all the hair gets to the 'right' people, it's not like the donors pay for the priviledge to donate and if it helps people to think of others, why not?

Mocha
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08-12-2001

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Ban Zuzu Now! :-)

Abby7
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07-17-2002

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juju, don't you worry 'bout a thing....i've got your back! (need to find those old picket signs of mine from the 70's. once i update them...they will work just fine)



Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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We live in the same city as Roswell Cancer Center. A very large cancer center where they treat patients and do research. I bet they could point me in the right direction to find out how many wigs they get or how many patients get wigs. Monday I think I'll give them a call. Mainly because I'm growing my hair to donate but now I want to see if I receive a thank you. Most charities send thank you notes.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Chaplin Makeover Pix:

Today my galpal Chaplin was pampered literally from head to toe... She asked to go to my hairstylist and my nail spa which I freqent, so I went along as cheerleader and photographer to document her 'makeover' for her banquet tonight for her bowling league. Here, are the pix she asked me to upload to the clubhouse. She had her hair cut and coloured. She also had a manicure which included getting acrylic nails put on, and she had a pedicure. She was not sure about the bangs in her 'do, but I think they really flatter her, and she's wearing lipstick under protest. LOL. (She picked the colour, which is a perfect match for the nailpolish.) Personally I think the finished results are awesome! I told her that today she morphed from a tomboy into a princess!

Arriving at the hair salon before her cut and colour:


Relaxing at the nail spa while getting acrylic nails, and a pedicure:


They look so real and natural...


Pretty tootsies:


The brand new dress she bought this morning specially for the banquet tonight...


Princess transformation is now complete:


Before and After hairdos:

(And a touch of lipstick in the After pic):


Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
My vote? Keep the bangs!!!

You look fantabulous :-)

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

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Oh, very cute!!! Yeah, I like the bangs.

Betcha there were people at the banquet who did a double-take wondering who that new woman was.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

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Definately keep the bangs! They are so cute!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i agree, the bangs are very flattering.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
ohhhhh... and isn't juju banned in this thread??? OH MODERATORS! WE HAVE A DAWG IN THE HAIR THREAD AGAIN!!!!

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

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Thanks all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I like the bangs, too.

Dlmmo
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11-20-2003

Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 5:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dlmmo a private message Print Post    
You look beautiful. I vote for the bangs too!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 5:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
wow! gorgeous and another vote for the bangs!