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She has love — and hair — to share

EDEN — Angie Redd, 38, has always liked to wear her hair long.

As a child of 3 or 4, Angie would stand in front of the mirror and brush it.

“She has always loved long hair,” her mother, Debbie, said.

Angie’s hair is coal black, and the children at school loved to run their hands through it.

Often, some of the girls would style it.

“She would come home with it braided and everything else,” Debbie said.

When Angie was 12, she saw a telethon for St. Jude’s showing young cancer patients who had lost their hair.

“She really got upset because they didn’t have any hair,” her mother said. 

Soon after that, Angie told someone at Draper Christian Church that she was praying for those children without any hair.

Somebody suggested that Angie get her mother to look into Locks of Love to see about contributing her hair to make wigs for people with cancer.

“I wanted to get my hair cut off for Locks of Love,” said Angie, who attended Reidsville High School.

Debbie researched the organization and learned that donated hair had to be 10 inches long and couldn’t be dyed.

At the time, Angie’s hair was at least 18 inches long and down to the middle of her back. The hairdresser took off 10 inches, to just below her ears.

Until then, Angie’s hair had only been trimmed. This was the most hair  taken off at one time.

Although she loved her new haircut, Angie was more excited about donating her hair, her mother said.

Jarrell, Angie’s father, likes to see his daughter’s hair long, but he thinks donating hair for children who have lost their hair is a great idea.

Her brother, Jarrell Jr., who lives in Ringgold, Va., agrees with his father.

When hair is cut for Locks of Love, it is put in a ponytail and the ponytail is cut off. The remaining hair is cut and styled.

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Hair donation is a way to make a difference even if you never have a lot of time or funds to donate to a result in. Kids particularly like to get involved. It makes them experience special to be assisting another person else!All three of my ladies have donated their hair. They plan to go on performing it each time it grows lengthy enough.

Who can donate their hair? Anybody can donate their hair, supplied it is lengthy adequate. Some courses do not accept chemically processed (dyed, bleached, permed) hair or grey hair. This is simply because hair from a number of donors is gathered and batch dyed. Chemically taken care of and grey hair absorbs dye otherwise, which would make it tough to get a colour match for making the wigs. I am not conscious of any system that accepts dreadlocks.

Wherever can I donate my hair? It employed to be that you had to go to a participating hair salon, which were difficult to find in some areas. Currently quite a few programs take hair specifically from the donors, possibly by mail or in individual at their offices. Make sure you bring a duplicate of the donation suggestions to your hair salon, to be guaranteed the stylist prepares and cuts the hair appropriately.

Wigs and other hair prosthetics go to kids who want hair alternative because of to a clinical reason: cancer remedies, uses up, alopecia, and so forth. Minimum amount length is 10″ (twenty five cm.) Hair donations can be sent by means of the mail.

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