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Dear Jamelia: There are alternatives to human hair extensions!

Pop star Jamelia recently got herself some media attention by dramatically declaring that she’d never wear hair extensions again because of the “very real human costs” of obtaining hair for human hair extensions. “How did I know I wasn’t wearing a dead person’s hair?” she roiled in the Daily Mail. She even starred in a BBC show called “Whose Hair is it Anyway?” featuring shifty looking human hair dealers who take hair from dead people.

Dear Jamelia: There are alternatives to human hair extensions! And one of the best alternatives is Pro 10 made with Ultima Natural Protein Hair. Made with natural collagen, Ultima hair looks, feels like and has the best qualities of human hair. You can curl, blow-dry, wash, brush, comb, style and restore Ultima hair without tangling, and it’s affordable too.

As several commenters noted in the Daily Mail article “…All this hand wringing nonsense.”

Rock on Jamelia. Just switch to Pro 10 so you can keep having hair extensions as your “confidence booster” that “transform me from busy mum of two into my alter ego, Jamelia the pop star.”

5 Responses to “Dear Jamelia: There are alternatives to human hair extensions!”

chopsy Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I am outraged. Firstly, how DARE you quote people saying this is ‘hand wringing nonsense’! Women are being victimised in a lot of the examples given and I would think a company such as yours would support any efforts to exploit such practices.

Secondly, while jumping on the bandwagon to promote your own product, you dont seem to care that you may be condemning the many millions of people, who rely on the income from the collection and sale of human hair, to a life of even greater poverty.

The villains of the programme were the ones who thought their profits were more important than the well being of the people providing or harvesting this hair. I don’t see any difference between what they are doing and what you just said in this article.

Shame on you.
BL Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 am

Dear Chopsy: Please re-read the post. We are not supporting the use of human hair extensions. Quite the contrary. We are saying that synthetic extensions offer an alternative to human hair extensions. We’re not getting into the ethical, political, religious or any other reasons why hair extensions could or could not be an issue. We’re saying there’s a better alternative.

I didn’t write the comments that accuse Jamelia of making a publicity play! I linked to the article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1036155/Why-Ill-wear-hair-extensions-pop-star-Jamelia.html in the Daily Mail. If you follow the link, and scroll down to the comments, you’ll see that several readers took issue with Jamelia and said so in the comments. This post simply reported what they said.
chopsy Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 am

Maybe you should re-read my reply. I said you QUOTED the people who mentioned hand wringing. And FAR from saying that you support the use of human hair extensions, I actually stated that you were trying to promote your own product over the ones being grown/harvested/sold by the poor (as well as the corrupt).

With regard to your product being ‘better’ - how is that so? Since when has fake been better than real? The only way you could make that claim is if you ARE implying that it is preferable because there are no ethical, political or religious issues tied up with its production and sale. So far from ‘not getting into’ the issues, you are again using them to promote your product.

Using the real life issues surrounding the abuse of many women and children as an excuse to promote your own product is appalling. You could have quoted the programme and highlighted the points made and then offered your product as an alternative for those who do not wish to purchase human hair extensions after seeing what goes on. Why ridicule the message by quoting (or linking) to negative comments about it?
BL Says:
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am

Chopsy: “You could have quoted the programme and highlighted the points made and then offered your product as an alternative for those who do not wish to purchase human hair extensions after seeing what goes on.”
In fact that is what I did. Thanks for your comments.
AlexM Says:
August 12th, 2008 at 6:39 am

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

Dear Jamelia: There are alternatives to human hair extensions!

5 Responses to “Dear Jamelia: There are alternatives to human hair extensions!”

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