mine used to be down to my waist. i needed to get rid of it due to the fact of the pain it was causing my neck. i have a bad back and neck due to a car accident i was a passenger in. a nurse at the chiropractor i go to is the one who told me about the program in the first place.plus having relatives dropping at times like flies due to cancer. including one cousin who died when only 7 months old of luekemia. in fact i pointed out to the lady who did the cutting, that the hair was being donated in that lil cousin's name