I just donated my hair to Locks of Love and feel great for doing it!

After 18 months of growing my hair out for charity I finally got the chop! 10.1 full inches of my hair gone in a simple snip snip. Almost 2 years ago I decided to grow my hair out and donate it after finding out that one of my oldest friend’s son had a tumor. As a parent the idea holds great fear and I’ve been told my reaction was quite a normal one:  I decided to motivate myself to spend time doing more for the community, children and just in general to be a bit more helpful of a person. So I did some research and decided to donate my hair to Locks of Love.

Growing it out wasn’t too big of an issue until it hit that irritating in-between state where it literally couldn’t be anything than a mass of curly nonsense.

Prepping to get my hair cut.

Other things I’d forgotten about having long hair:

1. My hair is REALLY curly when long. This means tangles.
2. It’s REALLY big when long anytime it gets humid. I live in Portland, Oregon. It rains heavily here, which means “Poof!”
3. People treat you differently if you haven’t shaved on Saturday AND you have long hair.
4. The winter time is nice for keeping your neck warm.
5. I used much more shampoo and conditioner which got expensive.

The bag containing my hair ready to ship to Locks of Love

All in all while a few people gave me grief about it (including one recruiter who hounded me weekly until they saw a picture of me and said “charity shmarity, long hair is unprofessional”) I got many congratulations and compliments for daring to buck the short hair on men business trend.

Going to give it another try in a year or two and hopefully will convince 2-3 others to do it with me. Hell you even get a free haircut at the end if you have Great Clips cut your hair when you go to donate.

There is so much more that can be done but with the excellent Locks of Love organization you can literally just do your normal routine and then after it grows enough; you can help make a small difference in a child’s life!

Instant clean-cut, just simply remove hair

Granted many of you can’t grow your hair for a variety of reasons, there are literally hundreds of

different ways that you can make a difference in the life of someone. Donating blood, old clothes, your time, your expertise all are ways you can do good in your own community!