General

Donated hair and finances are equally important to provide wigs to children. It takes approximately 20 to 30 ponytails and $1,800 to make one wig and each wig is provided at no cost to the recipient or their family. Wigs For Kids also provides one year’s worth of hair products to each recipient to help them properly care for their wig. We always appreciate a combination of hair and financial donations because the two work together to provide a wig.

Unlike other organizations who send out the hair to make the hair pieces, Wigs for Kids is unique in the fact that we are hands-on with the manufacturers of the wigs.

When sectioned properly, one donor’s head of hair is 4 to 6 ponytails. Since ponytails are not uniform in length or texture, it takes approximately 4 or 5 donors to create one wig.

Wigs 4 Kids is not affiliated with our organization. Our organization, Wigs for Kids, provides wigs to children all over the United States and internationally. Wigs 4 Kids only provides wigs to children in Michigan.

If Wigs For Kids receives hair that is not completely dry before sending it must be thrown away because it molds.

Wigs For Kids does not sell hair. Once the donated hair is received in our office, it is sorted according to length and is then wrapped and placed into boxes for shipping to our manufacturing company. Once the manufacturer has received the shipment, they give a credit to Wigs For Kids and we apply the credit to wigs.

We do receive funds from organizations that use the hair and they help with our expenses in collecting hair such as sorting ponytails, packaging and shipping hair, and promotion of the donation process.

We have been using the same three manufacturers for over forty years in order to ensure that these special hairpieces that we design are of the greatest quality possible. They are out of the country, because there are no companies who provide the services that we require in the United States.

You absolutely may write letters to our recipients! You can send them to our office and we will pass them along. However, we cannot disclose personal information about our recipients, such as their mailing addresses, and we cannot guarantee that one of our recipients will write back to you.

Nothing! The cost of a customized piece cost approximately $1,800 (this includes products, mannequin, brushes, towels, etc.) at no cost to the recipient.