Nola Darling
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By that I mean, how do they do about collecting it? Just curious.....
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Where does Human Hair Come From?
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Nola Darling
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Wow! Really?
deltagyrl
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Eh, that's what one of my hairstylist friends told me.
He said that most come from Asian/Indian people but some people do take it from dead bodies...
*shrugs*
I don't know how to confirm this but part of me thinks it just might be true.
People harvest dead folx organs for profit, why wouldn't they do the same with hair?
He said that most come from Asian/Indian people but some people do take it from dead bodies...
*shrugs*
I don't know how to confirm this but part of me thinks it just might be true.
People harvest dead folx organs for profit, why wouldn't they do the same with hair?
ChocalateDiva
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The human hair that is sold in Beauty Supply Stores is not REAL human hair. It is a man made human hair.
..... lol ok i might have gone too far but thats creepy
msdevo
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Why I'll never wear hair extensions again, by pop star Jamelia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1036155/Why-Ill-wear-hair-extensions-pop-star-Jamelia.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1036155/Why-Ill-wear-hair-extensions-pop-star-Jamelia.html
msa
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Thank you. Do you really think you can get some REAL human hair for 50$ a pack?
It's just specially treated...in the same factory that the "horse" and "yak" hair comes from.
glamazon386
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Some of it is cut off the person's head and sold or donated. Some of it is collected from hair brushes and other things. Some of it is manmade. Most BSS brands that claim they are human hair are maybe only 10% (if that much. I forget the minimum % required to call it 100% human hair but I know it's pretty low) and they have yak (the animal) hair mixed in with the randomly collected and processed human hairs hence the term yaki.
gorgeous86
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I heard this years ago from the stylist who was doing my sew in. She said that you only need 1 strand of human hair to call it 100% human hair. I thought she was
, but it actually makes a whole lot of sense to me now.
preciousfa02
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oprah had a segment on her show were women in india shave their hair off as a sacrifice to their god. The people there collect and sell the hair to companies in them us for profit
(oprah beauty from around the world show)
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(oprah beauty from around the world show)
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You're absolutely right. The temples where the hair is shaved off auction off the hair that's been sacrificed. It's a huge industry. Hoards and hoards of women line up everyday to sacrice their hair. But there are also collectors who travel around the villages buying the hair from indian women's brushes etc.., others collect cut hair from salons.
A real human hair weave is far more expensive than what you get at the BSS. What we purchase at the BSS is mostly yak and synthetic hair.
discodumpling
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Human hair is obtained from Indo/Asiatic peoples whose hair tends to grow long, healthy & unmanipulated. There are some people in this world who simply grow their hair for profit & then again there are those who sell their hair simply because they HAVE to, need to etc.
It is not uncommon for devout women to shave their heads as thanks to GOD/god for something...large or small....he is worthy.
Namaste
It is not uncommon for devout women to shave their heads as thanks to GOD/god for something...large or small....he is worthy.
Namaste
CurliDiva
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Thanks you for posting this!
I know lots of lace wig wearers don't want to hear this but - but that hair they paid extra for is no real "HUMAN" hair!
That is why they can do a bleach bath to get the tangles out......if bleach worked to straighten "real" hair that would be lots of black folks running around smelly like CLOROX!
Nonie
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Whenever I've bought human hair, I've actually burned a section of it to make sure it's human hair--something I learned from my skeptical mom--and it's always smelled like burned hair. I don't doubt it may not all be human hair, but I know it's not synthetic. It could be horse's tail for all I know. *shrug*
I also know about the Indian rituals and their shaving hair for religious reasons and then it being sold. The cuticle hair that costs a lot more is actually shaved off after being braided so the strands can all lie parallel and in the right direction in which they grow.
I also know about the Indian rituals and their shaving hair for religious reasons and then it being sold. The cuticle hair that costs a lot more is actually shaved off after being braided so the strands can all lie parallel and in the right direction in which they grow.
glamazon386
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Thanks you for posting this!
I know lots of lace wig wearers don't want to hear this but - but that hair they paid extra for is no real "HUMAN" hair!
That is why they can do a bleach bath to get the tangles out......if bleach worked to straighten "real" hair that would be lots of black folks running around smelly like CLOROX!
And that's why I refuse to pay a lot of money for "human hair" wigs altogether. The hair on them is not good quality and they shed and thin out. They don't hold up as well in my opinion. Why waste $60-$100+ for wigs that are not even really human? I will wear the heck out of a $19.99 synthetic half wig and call it a day. At least I get my money's worth out of those and I know what I'm getting.
I do buy human hair for my weaves but realistically if you're not spending upwards of $100 a package regular price (not sale price) for weave hair more more than likely it is not 100% human hair. I do think the more $$ you spend, the higher the percentage of the human hair included does go up but I think that goes back to the whole cuticles being intact thing. Even in the BSS Remi hair I've seen those white strandson occasion. That's the animal or synthetic hair that they mixed in. I don't see it as much as I did in the regular BSS hair but it's still there.
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naturalgurl
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chokolate miss
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ITA with your post.
I do not understand what the big deal is. (Beside the corspe thing, I have never heard that before).
I think that girl was highly biased in her approach in that article. I have seen tv specials on reputable stations that explore the origin of human hair weave. Though I'm sure some of the women sell the hair, because they are down on luck and need the money. They are desparate. I would rather see a bunch of bald headed chicks walking around. Than a bunch of women and girls with HIV/AIDS becasue they sold their bodies.
Women and men grow their hair long for locks of love all the time. No one talks about how wrong that is (not talking about how lol sells them, just the process). We as Westerners are so judgemental when it comes to some things.
The women I saw on TV were fully aware of what they were doing. We must realize that life is hard for many of them. The money they make doing that is hard to come by. Also, it is a great way for women to contribute to the family income. Something they may not have been able to do in some parts of thier contries. A few dollars in our currency goes a long way in their countries.
A better conversation would be to go to the OT forum and talk about how women are renting thier wombs to Western couples. Now that is a different story.
OK sorry for my rant. I will slowly step away from the soapbox...
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honeisos
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WOW !
I know Chris Rock also has a doc movie at sundance film festival called "good hair " and he also travels to india to learn about hair extentions ... his daughter was the reason for the doc
Nonie
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I am with WikiAnswers in that I don't really buy that "it comes from dead people" story since there are live people growing it every day giving it away for some change, although until I read of the Indian rituals, I did think it was from them. (Excuse the typo--not mine. Should be "countries" ).
).Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_hair_weave_come_from_dead_people
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Lucky's Mom
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Right... They can claim - human hair - when a small portion of it is.
In Terms of "indian" hair.... These women - sometimes - willingly sacrifice thier hair. This has been a common practice for thousands of years... Sadly - Capitalism jumped on the bandwagon.
Because celebrities have made this En Vouge ( instead of actually caring for one's own hair) These people have been exploited.
And - Most women out there making these HUGE purchases could care less.
I have worn human hair - for braids.... But I knew - Really that it was not OVER the top Human 'cuticle' etc, hair. I stopped once it got too expensive - even for the cheapo stuff...and - I would NEVER EVER pay 1000's of dollars for ep - or any other 'indian hair'. No way.
Look - there is too much money to be made by the folks who are involved...Asian importers, American big Business.....and willing customers who cannot make their car payment - but will have a fly hairdo. Outrageous.
There will be no protest - unless there is money to be made from that....
Oprah, Beyonce, Tyra......They certainly won't jump on that bandwagon
natural2008
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just like things that are low fat or fat free. For example and item can have 0.1 % less fat than the original product and be considered low fat and 0.1 less percent of low fat would then become fat free. Now yall got me scared of the hair.
naturalgurl
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Oh gawd...corpse hair...
I can't get past it. I never knew that. I usually used synthetic hair for braids though but I have had a couple of weaves done and it was human hair. I always wondered how could they claim to have so much human hair. It seems that more women "wear" than women can grow and sell. I know it's no big deal to wear a dead persons hair
perplexed, I think if Hannibal wearing people's heads as hats) but man, tell us where it REALLY came from if you're going to sell it. This makes me love my hair even more...
I can't get past it. I never knew that. I usually used synthetic hair for braids though but I have had a couple of weaves done and it was human hair. I always wondered how could they claim to have so much human hair. It seems that more women "wear" than women can grow and sell. I know it's no big deal to wear a dead persons hair
perplexed, I think if Hannibal wearing people's heads as hats) but man, tell us where it REALLY came from if you're going to sell it. This makes me love my hair even more...
msa
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And that's why I refuse to pay a lot of money for "human hair" wigs altogether. The hair on them is not good quality and they shed and thin out. They don't hold up as well in my opinion. Why waste $60-$100+ for wigs that are not even really human? I will wear the heck out of a $19.99 synthetic half wig and call it a day. At least I get my money's worth out of those and I know what I'm getting.
So true. My synthetic wigs can go through A LOT and still look good. Shoot, so can synthetic weave hair. People in the hood do all kind of stuff to their synthetic hair that would never work with the human hair. And it sheds all over the place, which grosses me out.
Give me synthetic any day. It didn't grow out of my head so it's all FAKE to me.
~~HoneyComb~~
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I was going to post this, I saw that show.
Nonie
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Oh gawd...corpse hair...
I can't get past it. I never knew that. I usually used synthetic hair for braids though but I have had a couple of weaves done and it was human hair. I always wondered how could they claim to have so much human hair. It seems that more women "wear" than women can grow and sell. I know it's no big deal to wear a dead persons hair
Can someone please direct me to where this claim comes from? I was told this as a kid and believed it because it didn't seem possible that people would just shave their hair no matter what the prize. But now that I know they do, I just think this is a rumor. I'll stand corrected if someone shows me an authentic source of this: like a confession that they did it themselves. OK J/K about that. But really, where did this hypothesis come from?
naturalgurl
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Seems like there would be a ban against this though or law(even an unwritten one). It just makes me sick to the stomach though for some reason.
erplexedETA~ Sort of like stealing from the dead, KWIM?
glamazon386
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I am with WikiAnswers in that I don't really buy that "it comes from dead people" story since there are live people growing it every day giving it away for some change, although until I read of the Indian rituals, I did think it was from them. (Excuse the typo--not mine. Should be "countries"
Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_hair_weave_come_from_dead_people
That's why sometimes when you get that hair from Indianhairs.net or one of those sites it has nits in it. I remember reading about it on BHM. It's directly off the person's head. And out of the 4 packs you get for $100 they could all be slightly different textures because they are from a different person's head.
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