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Longhairs Do Care
The Longhairs x Children With Hair Loss
Giving our time, our treasure, and our hair since 2014.
Hair Can Be Taken For Granted
Growing your hair is easy to take for granted, but there are millions of children living with hair loss from alopecia, cancer treatments, autoimmune disorders and more.
A hair replacement can offer these children a sense of normal life, but it’s an expense most families cannot afford.
Covering Young Heads to Heal Young Hearts
That’s why Children With Hair Loss provides quality, custom human hair replacements to children facing cancer treatments, alopecia, trichotillomania, burns and other medically-related hair loss, along with care kits, support and education, all at zero cost to the kids and their families.
Founded in 2000, Children With Hair Loss has helped over 10,000 children face their everyday lives with courage, confidence and self esteem—and they’ve never turned a child away.
Longhairs Do Care
Giving Our Time, Our Treasure, And Our Hair
Among our company’s deeply-held core values are developing masculinity and doing the right things. For us that means giving freely of ourselves, even that which is dear to us, and inspiring others to do it with us.
Thus we established and proudly maintain Longhairs Do Care, our loving charity partnership with Children With Hair Loss. Its three initiatives are giving our time, our treasure, and our hair.
1% Of Revenue
Many companies donate to charity, but it’s usually “a percentage of profits,” or “a portion of proceeds.”
We are proud to donate 1% of our top-line revenue to Children With Hair Loss. Starting with our inaugural donation of $100, we have donated over $100,000 to help provide hair replacements for kids who can’t grow hair.
Using a concrete number like 1% of revenue means we donate whether profitable or not, and that every time you buy from The Longhairs, 1% from your order will be donated to Children With Hair Loss.
The Great Cut
The World’s Largest Hair Donation
We don’t just put our money where our mouth is, we put our locks on the line too.
In 2019 we conceived, organized, funded and hosted our own charity hair cutting event, The Great Cut. With thousands donating in person and from all over the world, we broke the Guinness World Records title for the most hair donated to charity.
Five years later we hosted The Great Cut 2024. Again with help from thousands of donors, volunteers, sponsors, our families, friends, and the overwhelming support of our longtime charity partners, we donated another 219 pounds of hair.
The Longhairs’ co-founders and staff donate their hair at The Great Cut 2024.
With blessings, good fortune, and we're still letting it ride, and with enough interest and support, our goal is to host The Great Cut again on March 16, 2030…and we’d love for you to be there.
The Charity Ball
Perhaps as important as financial support is showing we care, and that means giving our time. Every November, The Longhairs’ co-founders and staff attend and emcee the annual Children With Hair Loss Charity Ball in Livonia, Michigan.
The Charity Ball is where the children and their families get to meet and spend time together, and the kids enjoy a weekend all about them. For many it’s the first time they meet another person with hair loss.
They get to dress up fancy, get their hair and makeup done, learn how to style their eyebrows, and strut their stuff on the runway for the big fashion show.
A highlight each year, the Charity Ball has given us a chance to meet and get to know the children, their parents, and be part of the Children With Hair Loss family. It’s a unique opportunity to bring a balance of positive masculinity, and a role we are grateful to serve.
Help Children With Hair Loss Help The Kids
That’s why Longhairs Do Care, and these are the ways we show it. Since you’re reading this, and you’re already part of this community, we urge you to join us.
There are lots of ways you can help, whether it’s growing your hair out for The Great Cut, making a financial donation to Children With Hair Loss, or just making a purchase in our shop.
And remember…long hair lives in the heart.
If You Do Cut Your Hair…
No one here is telling you to cut your hair. If you’re asking us, you should let it ride and join us for The Great Cut in 2030.
However, if you’re ready to donate hair now, Children With Hair Loss accepts hair donations year-round. Visit their website and read their guidelines carefully before going under the shears, as there are specific requirements for donating.
Share Your Story
We’ve come to know many men, women and children in this community who grow long hair for the very purpose of donating it, often in memory of family and friends.
Have you or your loved ones dealt with hair loss? Have you donated your hair? Do you donate for a particular person? We’d love to hear your story in the comments.
