Before and After pics of a different kind! My daughter....

I love her giving spirit, but Locks of Love is sort of shoddy organization if you research it. In 2002, LoL received enough hair to make approximately 10,000 hairpieces. Yet give.org cites they only made 113 wigs from human hair in that same year. They don't use the hair donated to them to make the wigs. They sell all virgin hair and then trash the rest and use the profits to buy wigs. The company is mostly financed through donations and the hair thing is just a sham to create publicity.

Plus, they purposely misled people into believing they gave wigs to people with cancer, never bothering to correct people for nearly 10 years that they really aim for people with alopecia, which is a perfectly good cause but apparently wasn't good enough for them to market themselves with.

For comparison, in 2002 Locks of Love had raised over $150,000 by selling donated hair and had received another $213,000 in charitable contributions and grants, but provided only 113 human-hair and 39 synthetic wigs. The human hair wigs average about $1000 and synthetic ones run between $200-$300 so they use the sales to finance the wigs and the charitable donations to finance their salaries and marketing. Then they charge kids for the wigs unless they are poor enough to qualify for aid.

Supposedly after all this came out they switched up board members and began rethinking strategy but they still pretend they use all the hair they can and they list retail prices of wigs rather than the cost prices so people will donate more. I will say they've at least started filing their required tax paperwork on time. They didn't do that earlier this decade.