万花筒 2012-07-13&07-15 经济不景气 英国部分妇女高价卖头发

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You’re looking at anything from about £60 upwards³, I would have to put a top on it of about £120.

With money tight and bills to pay， a number of British women are selling their hair to make some extra cash. And Annette’s natural blond locks are among the most sought-after.

Well I need the money really, I might use it for going abroad with friends in August or just keep it aside for the bills really.

It’s a multi-million dollar industry and it’s growing . Bloomsbury say they receive up to 40 envelopes of hair a week. Those that make the grade will either be made into a wig⁴ or sold as hair extensions. The late British singer Amy Winehouse once replied when asked if her hair was all her own “It’s mine because I bought it.” 

The majority of hair comes from China, India or Eastern Europe, but that’s changing. Bloomsbury Wigs⁵ run by Graham Wake, is one of a small number of so-called “hair harvesting salons”.

This is a new market for the UK, I would say that about 50 percent of our purchased hair is now within the UK and I would hope to say that within about a year we’ll be buying a 100 percent of our hair purely⁶ from UK.

Graham estimates he’ll spend £100,000 on hair this year. £120 of that will go to Annette， but it will be sold for considerably⁷ more after it’s been made into a wig or hair extensions.

The clients love to be able to come in, look at all this unprocessed hair and actually select the pony⁸ tails and they give us some time to obviously make them up into extensions. This will probably cost from about a £1,000 to about £1,300.

Annette’s certainly pleased with the extra cash and her new complimentary⁹ hair do. But if she wants to repeat the process，it may take up to five years until her hair grows back.

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