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Are you a Weave ’Slave ?
« Thread Started on Aug 5, 2008, 1:09pm »

Jamelia’s Shock at Weave ’Slaves’,

R&B STAR Jamelia has unearthed the shocking truth about the
booming hair extension industry – discovering exactly where the hair millions of black women wear in the UK is coming from.

In findings that will shock all hair-extension wearers, Jamelia investigated rumours that hair is taken from dead bodies, prisoners,
teenagers as young as 13 and even from rubbish dumps.

In a frank documentary, soon to air on BBC3, the chart-topping singer delves into our obsession with human hair extensions in a journey that took her to eastern Europe and India.

Along the way the singer makes discoveries that will shock. Jamelia, who often wears weaves and hair extensions, said: ‘In this unregulated industry I can’t really be certain that all human hair comes from a
good place.

‘When we buy hair extensions, it is our right and responsibility as
consumers to demand that each packet says where it comes from and guarantees the woman who gave [the hair] was treated fairly.’

The hair-extension industry is a multi-million pound one that generates about £60 million annually in the UK alone. Many high-profile celebs such as Beyonce, Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Victoria Beckham and Paris Hilton, wear expensive hair extensions often imported from eastern European countries.

In the documentary it is revealed that ‘good, European, hand-cut hair’
can set an A-lister back as much as £2,500 for a whole head of extension. We also see Jamelia travel to Russia with a hair-extension specialist for the most sought after hair. In shocking scenes, we see the hairdresser cut the hair of a 13-year-old girl for £100.

In another surprise discovery we see a weft of packet hair being sent off to a forensic lab. The analysis reveals fragments of temple skin (dandruff) and the origin of the hair, which is tracked back to Chennai in southern India.

Female Hindu followers often shave their heads as a form of thanksgiving or sacrifice – the temples then sell on the collected hair to factories who process and sell it to outlets all over the world, including the UK. The money made by the Hindu temples is then used to feed the poor and homeless.

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So where did they get your hair...pressure

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