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I have collected 30,000 strands of hair
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I count every single hair. That's a good one. 150? I'd say 150 hairs I'm holding
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30,000 hairs. My God, oh, you counted them all? Yeah. My partner has joked about cutting it while I've slept
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and that makes me nervous. My morning routine would be to start brushing out my hair
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just so that it's nice and smooth and soft. I started collecting my hair four years ago and I haven't stopped since
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I started collecting my hair during lockdown. I was scrolling on social media and I saw somebody making a wig
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And I thought to myself, what would happen if I started collecting my hair
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I don't actually spend that long on my actual hair. I only wash my hair every two weeks
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I do wash this hair as well, sort of every few months
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It's going to jump up. So this is a hydrating hair oil, this one is jasmine infused and then you're just going
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to layer it onto the hair. So it's now taken me over four years to get to this sort of thickness
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Do people think this is unusual would probably be the most common question I get asked
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Generally people think it's unusual. I have not always had long hair
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When I was, well, 11 years old, I cut it all off
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about here, and hated it. I don't actually know how long my hair is
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so we can measure it now, together. This is probably the longest I'd say it's ever been
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Right, we're gonna have to pluck a hair. Which one should we go for
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Oh yeah. Just put it up on the zero. Rub it down
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Oh, it's still going. We are 33 and a half inches. That's quite long. 33 and a half inches
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I didn't actually really tell anyone what I was doing. And then when I started collecting and sticking up hair around my family
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they would say, what are you doing? That's silly. Blah, blah, blah. Once I started getting that one million views and things like that
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they started to become a bit more impressed. So right now I am pulling off the hair that I have accumulated on my hairbrush
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I would say this is probably a day's worth of hair. and then I put it in this bag
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So at the moment, I've got a lot of hair. I would say that I am addicted to collecting my hair
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I do try to get every single hair. I mean, I don't go round on my hands and knees
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scraping at the carpet, but I do try to thick up as many as I can
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She does like to be part of this process In this bowl is hair that I have already separated because not every single hair in this bundle is going to be viable and I will literally just pick out the hairs
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and put them into the bowl. It's a really slow process to be honest. I do spend a lot of money
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on hair care products and tools. It does reflect the quality of your hair. I do get quite a lot of
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discard hairs. Deathless are good hair. I find it really calming to just sit there and separate the
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hairs and stick them up. This is going to be a really good hair because it's a slow, long pull
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I like to run the hairs like through my fingers. That's the bit that I find most satisfying
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Originally the goal started out as 10,000 hairs and then I hit that and then I hit 20,000 and I've
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just hit 30,000 hairs. That's another good one. I'd like to get enough so that I could do a wig
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My understanding is that's 100,000 hairs, so I have a long way to go. There's another good one
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My wig is focused around this. So it's in my routine now. I have the personality that is
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slightly OCD. I like to do things in a certain way, a certain routine, and so putting this into
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my routine, it just became a habit for me. It's just layers and layers of double-sided tape. It's
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going to stick to the collected hair and then on the other side I can then stick hairs onto it
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Me and my partner, we've been together almost eight years, so four years in I started doing this
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He's not that bothered by it, but he does support me. He didn't think I was too crazy and ran for
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the hills basically. When I started the journey I thought why not document how many hairs I've
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collected. So I started writing it all down in this book. Day one, 22 hairs all the way
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counting all the days I've stuck up hair and how many hairs and that was the last time I stuck up
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hairs to make 30,250 collected hairs. I would be heartbroken if I lost it. My partner has
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joked about cutting it while I've slept. And that makes me nervous. If I go on holiday
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I just keep it glued to me. When I have it on me, I won't drink alcohol because I don't want to get
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drunk and then do something stupid. I should get it insured. On TikTok, I have around 450,000 followers. That's my main platform. So I started four years ago
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I do average at about a million views My most viral video is over 50 million views If you told me on day one that this was going to make me money I probably would have laughed at you Shall we do it together
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Shall we do it together? Now I am just editing the content that I've just filmed. So this is my
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first ever video. Generally the main comments that I will get on my content are things like
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I cannot believe it's been four years. That hair is healthier than mine
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I get that a lot. I feel so emotional over hair. It feels really nice that I have fans, I guess
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So I'm really grateful, actually. I don't get that much negative comments
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One I saw recently, it just said disgusting. That's it. But I don't respond to these
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You can donate all that hair once you've collected enough. Sadly, I can't
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Because my hair is dyed and is therefore not virgin hair, so that's why you can't donate it because they only allow virgin hair
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I'm glad I could share it with so many people and I have become a lot more confident in myself
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So now I'm headed off to get my hair done at a salon. Hi, good afternoon. How can I help you
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I've got an appointment at three. Are you Olivia? Yes. Hi, I'm Sue. I'm going to be doing your hair for you. Perfect
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And this is the hair that I've collected. Wow, you've made it look amazing
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30,000 hairs. Oh, you counted them all? Yeah. My God, you're amazing
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I've never seen that ever, and that looks amazing. I collect the pieces
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Pieces of hair that have naturally come out on the brush. Yeah, it's just unusual, but lots of people have different little foibles
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so if that makes you feel good then that's fine. Do you think you might use that ever in your hair at some point
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We might make a wig one day. Yeah. So anything that collects in the brush today you'd like to take out
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or I can take it out for you and give it to you. Yeah. Look at that lovely hair for you
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I'd say that's a decent amount of hair, probably a couple hundred
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See? Yeah, loads. I'm really shedding at the moment. So I was actually the first one that started doing it
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and I get people that tag me in other people's videos saying this girl is the original one that started doing it
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which is quite cool. Our very own Rapunzel. And I give you your brushes so that you can get the hair out Okay I reckon there about a thousand hairs here easily Thank you so much
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You're welcome. It's been a pleasure to meet you. You too, Sue. Thank you. Thank you
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Bye. Bye-bye. We are off to see my friend Kim, who has seen my hair, but she hasn't seen it recently
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since it got to 30,000 hairs. Hi. Hi. How are you? Hi
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How are you? I'm good. Hi. When I first saw it, I thought it was a bit different
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I haven't ever seen anyone collecting their hair before. I don't think she's harming anyone
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so what's the problem if anyone has anything to say? There's comments I see where people go
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oh, imagine going in someone's house and seeing that. I stayed round Olivia's house when I saw it on the wall
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And I now slept in the same room with her. How was the hairdressers today
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It was really nice. And I got to collect a load of hair. They, like, cleaned the brushes for me
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Did they? Yeah. I love that. Yeah, so then they brushed out my hair and they were like, here you go at the end
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and I just picked all the hair off and put it in a bag. You've got a bunch to count now, don't you
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I do, loads. Do you want to see it since it's 30,000 hairs? Yeah, sure
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All right, here it is. Ta-da. Cool. Feel that thickness. I can't believe how... Yeah
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It's gone so much. It's a good achievement, I guess. Thank you
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It's easier to have it all together than it is to have it messed up in a bag
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And it feels so soft. Do you think I'm a bit weird doing this? Probably, everyone's a bit weird though. I love it
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When do you think that this will come to an end or you'll get bored of doing it
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I would really love to do 100,000 hairs, which is obviously crazy
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Because that's how many hairs supposedly everyone has on their head, it's like 100,000 hairs
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So I think it would be quite cool to have a whole head of hair. How long do you think 100,000 hairs will take
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If it's taken me four years to do 30,000 hairs, then I guess statistically eight more years, eight, nine years
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You could do a master's degree with that. Hair collecting has changed my life for the better
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What I love most about hair collecting is the people that I've got to meet along the way
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and the people that support me. I might get to a point where life gets too busy
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I hope that isn't the case. I aim to work towards 100,000 hairs
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So I have a long way to go. I don't know what the end of this story would be once I got to 100,000 hairs
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I could collect my daughter's hair. I could make a wig. I could sell it
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I don't think I'd sell it, but I could. Thank you