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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:15 pm

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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 7:51 pm
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
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 9:01 pm
lol
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 3:26 am
Ack! I love Sebastian! I hope they don't ruin it also!!! <runs out to stock up>
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Sallycat22
Member
08-31-2005
| Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 2:23 pm
It's happened to other products I loved. <Trying not to think negative>
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 8:53 pm
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.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 10:42 pm
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!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:11 pm
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.)
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:29 pm
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.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 11:47 pm
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.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 2:52 am
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.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 4:13 am
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?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 5:02 am
Ban Zuzu Now! 
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:02 pm
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)

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:01 pm
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.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:18 pm
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):
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:32 pm
My vote? Keep the bangs!!! You look fantabulous 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 8:49 pm
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.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 9:50 pm
Definately keep the bangs! They are so cute!
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:18 pm
i agree, the bangs are very flattering.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:18 pm
ohhhhh... and isn't juju banned in this thread??? OH MODERATORS! WE HAVE A DAWG IN THE HAIR THREAD AGAIN!!!!
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:43 pm
Thanks all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 10:45 pm
I like the bangs, too.
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Dlmmo
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 5:13 am
You look beautiful. I vote for the bangs too!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 5:19 am
wow! gorgeous and another vote for the bangs!
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