Most people are familiar with the idea of hair donation but don’t know the labor-intensive and expensive process behind making a real-hair wig. A lot of the sorting and sewing are done meticulously by hand and can take hundreds of hours. We followed Hair We Share, a nonprofit that turns donated ponytails into wigs, through the process of transforming donated hair into realistic wigs for people experiencing hair loss.

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