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i heard horse shampoo works.. but I've never tried it. i heard that locks of love only takes healthy hair.. or has some hair criteria.. you may want to check with them. but your intentions are so great! good luck!
It's pretty healthy really. Just dry and broken. Actually most of the broken bits are at the top. That's why I think it's from wearing my hair up all of the time. Too many bobby pins and tight poneytails
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I don't think that dry and broken fits the definition of healthy hair, but I wouldn't work too much about that, I think they will still take it. Here is a link to the requirements. My best friend donated her hair to them. I think it is pretty cool that you are considering that.
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I've donated to locks of love. You need 10 inches of hair length. They prefer no grey, no color treatment, and no perms. They are such a worthy cause!
As for making your hair healthier, there is nothing you can do for old hair, only the new hair that you are now generating. The best way to improve your hair is with nutrition. Hair models often take pre-natal vitamins to grow the healthiest hair they can! (Don't ask me how I know this...)
Pantene Beautiful Lengths is a good one, they aren't as well known, but they have less stringent requirements and don't charge for their wigs (Locks of Love doesn't give them all out free, they have various price scales the women who need them have to pay). I would definitely consider them as well, they take a minimum of 8 inches. Here's a link, they are who I would donate my hair if it was long enough (and Hilary Swank did on the Oprah show!)
Great job on donating...I also donated my hair to locks of love. Its very simple to send it in...just make sure its dry and wrapped in a bag before you put it in the envelope with the paper you fill out for them. I think you should have enough time...I cut my last summer and its already below my shoulders again.
What about shampoos / conditioners to prevent this from happening again when my hair grows out? My stylist said that part of the reason I have so much breakage may be due to the fact that I was using drug store shampoos (like herbal essences etc...). They contain a lot of chemicals that dry your hair out and damage it.
I switched over to Biolage but the conditioner doesn't do much. I also reduced my shampooing to every other day or longer if I can make it without looking dirty. I still shower I just rinse my hair and then condition. Or are there any other great products out there you guys swear by?? I'm also using Paul Mitchell Round the world and Biosilk.
I just donated mine to locks of love. Ten inches off! Yes it is short but I really didn't/don't care if it grows out before the wedding it went to a great cause! Short hair can be just as cute! I wish you luck!!
I donated to locks of love. Great cause, kudos to you!!
Hair typically grows half an inch per month. Use this as your guide for how long you hair will be for the wedding. I've used horse shampoo for years, and love how soft my hair is now. I'd recommend taking prenatal vitamins to boost your hair/nail growth.
By horse shampoo do you mean Main and Tail. Or is that actually the name of the shampoo?? Two people have suggested that so far, which is a nice start!
Pureology is the best, best best hair stuff ever. Their shampoo and conditioner is amazing (not to mention expensive) but honestly...once you try it, you will never want anything else. My hair was very dry and broken, and I tried Pureology and I swear it made my hair feel so much better and healthier!
I donated my hair right after we got engaged and then grew it out for the wedding. I had about 18 months, so it was plenty of time. Now I'm planning to donate it one more time, and then keep it short for a while.
I donated my hair (about 15 inches) to locks of love in July of 2007. In order to give my hair a cute cut afterwards, they had to shorten it to chin length. I am a long-hair girl, and growing it out to a point where I was happy with it again (a little above the bra strap) took me about 18 months, total. If you want to have long hair for your wedding (and presumably for your showers, etc. where you'll be photographed and want to look the way that you like to look), I would say that cutting it now might not be enough time.
I'd recommend focusing on getting the hair you have to a point where it's strong and healthy and pretty (prenatal vitamins are wonderful, and you can go into any GNC and they'll have a hundred recommendations for you; looking at your diet would probably help too). Then you can donate a long, healthy, beautiful ponytail after your wedding/honeymoon.
It was a rewarding experience for me (my hair is so thick and was so long that they were able to get more than one ponytail from me, which I loved), but not one to take lightly if you - like me - are very hair-centric. :)
@drifslikesmoke - Just talked to my sis tonight and she seconded your thoughts. She is just at one year post locks of love cut and her hair is still above her bra strap.. not long enough for me. I have always had long hair and that's what I like.
For valentines day FI is scheduling photos for us and his daughter with our photog. The idea of having family photos and engagement photos with short hair is weird.. I don't like it. I think I'll wait like you said so all of my prewedding and wedding photos will have my long hair in them.
In the meantime I've started a vitamin regimen including Omega 3 pills. I know I need to eat more protien but that's a hard one for me. I'm not a meat person.. oh well. Hopefully the vitamins and omega 3 will help.
Thanks for everyones suggetions and if anyone else has any more shampoo / conditioner/ hair product suggestions I'm listening!
Thanks again!!!
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When I was younger (like jr. high) I had extremely long hair - I could sit on it - and my mom always bought Mane & Tail shampoo & conditioner for me to use. My hair was pretty strong & healthy, so there's definitely something to be said for it. Now I use Organix (I think Miss Meatball did a post on it maybe?) and I love it. I also use Fekkai products - love the shea hair mask & the mask for color-treated hair. But the one in-shower, can't-live-without product for me is called "close" by Warren-Tricomi. You use it between your shampoo & conditioner and it's supposed to help close the cuticle of the hair shaft. I don't really get how it works, but can totally tell the difference between days I use it & days I don't.
As for protein, isn't peanut butter supposed to have a good bit of protein in it? I swear I couldn't survive without peanut butter. I eat it almost every day. Maybe that could help with your being "not a meat person".
My only other suggestion would be this: instead of ponytails & bobby pins, if you really can't stand your hair down, perhaps a loose french braid would be a good alternative. I used to practically live in French braids once my mom taught herself how to do it. Just don't make it too tight.
I donate my hair to Locks of Love every 2 years. I grow it out, I chop it off. Sometimes it's not in the most fantastic condition.... especially since I chop it after the summer which is all about chlorine pools and time spent in the sun. Here's the key -- if your hair isn't at least 10" or isn't perfectly healthy, Locks of Love will still take it, but they don't use it for the wigs. (Keep in mind it takes 10 people to donate at least 10" of like-colored hair to make one wig) They will, however, use it and sell it to wig makers/other people who would use human hair for things at fair market value and use the income gained to fund research for cancer as well as the process to make wigs and to raise awareness of the charity.
As far as growing your hair back... I just cut mine off up to my ears in May of last year. My hair grows like a weed and right now it's resting about 1/3 down my shoulder blades... I expect it to be to the bottom of them by this June/July. I hope this helps you out. :-)
Also, you could always just grow it out super long for your wedding... especially if planning an updo, take the next year to get it super healthy, with regular trims and have more than enough healthy hair to donate for wigs. :-)
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Oh, also -- get some scrunchies. They're disgustingly '90s, but I hate sleepy with my hair down, scrunchies do the trick and don't break your hair like thinner hairties do. When you do wear the thin ones (in public :-) ) make sure they're coated or have no metal on them.
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Hey everyone! I have a question...
I have been growing my hair out forever. It's below my shoulder blades now. My goal was to get my hair long enough to give it to locks of love, which it is, but if I cut it I will have to try to grow it back out before I get married in June (ish) of 2010. Do you think that's enough time? I know everyone's hair is different but I've never really had short hair so it's hard for me to really know how long it would take to grow out.
My second problem is the condition of my hair. I have tons and tons of fly-aways. My FI tells me I have "nappy hair" all of the time. He says it jokingly and lovingly but it's a pretty realistic description. I have naturally wavy hair. My hairdresser told me that my strands are thin but I have a ton.. ie thin but dense. It's not super fine or anything but I think it breaks easier because of these traits. I wear my hair up a lot so I think that's breaking it. I've tried to stop. And I switched over to Biolage shampoo and conditioner (which is not working at all!!). I also use Biosilk to try to strenthen it. It's not bleached or permed it's just broken.
What do I do to make it stronger? What kind of shampoo / conditioner should I use? I've started taking vitamins and fish oil pills to try to treat it holistically. Any other suggestions? If I cut it now and grow it out again I would like for it to be healthier this go around. And then after the wedding I could potentially give to locks of love again... assuming it's long enough by then.