Locks of Love times three
Published: February 16, 2007
Ingrid Sandberg’s parents were a little worried when she was a baby and her hair wasn’t coming in.
“She had little fuzzy, downy hair,” said her mother Ann. “When it came in, we were so excited we let it grow.”
And grow. And grow. And grow.
Until she was 15, when Ingrid went to a beauty shop and had most of it chopped off to send to Locks of Love, which is an organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of 18 who have suffered hair loss.
She wasn’t done giving yet, though. A year and a half later, she had grown more than enough to meet the 10-inch requirement for donating and sent in another ponytail of hair.
Now, at the age of 20, golden brown locks falling past her waist, Sandberg has donated a third time. Sitting in the salon chair at Cabin Cuts in Quincy — Franklin Township, Ingrid watched owner Tami Pekkala press scissors to the ponytail and begin cutting.
“There’s always some cold feet before you do this,” she said.
Pekkala separated Ingrid’s hair into two ponytails and cut both of them off at 16 inches. After three or four more inches were taken off and it was styled and layered, Ingrid’s new coiffure fell to her jawline.
“I’ve never had it this short before,” she said, laughing and looking in the mirror. “Never.”
Her mother agreed.
“Wow, that is a huge change,” she said. “I like it.”
But worth it, Ingrid said.
“I heard about Locks of Love and I just felt so bad … I can’t imagine being seven years old and not having any hair,” she said. “There’s teenagers too. I can’t imagine being in high school and having no hair.”
According to the organization, most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.
Ingrid said she knows several people that have donated, just not three times. Ann said she hopes the word will spread even more.
“I think it’s wonderful she’s doing this,” she said. “When people are getting their hair cut when it’s this long, what a waste to not send it off.”
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