00:00I have collected 30,000 strands of hair.
00:03I count every single hair.
00:05That's a good one.
00:07150?
00:08I'd say 150 hairs I'm holding.
00:1130,000 hairs.
00:12My god, oh, you counted them all?
00:14Yeah.
00:15My partner has joked about cutting it when I've slept,
00:19and that makes me nervous.
00:21My morning routine would be to start brushing out my hair,
00:25just so that it's nice and smooth and soft.
00:28I started collecting my hair four years ago,
00:31and I haven't stopped since.
00:32I started collecting my hair during lockdown.
00:36I was scrolling on social media,
00:38and I saw somebody making a wig.
00:41And I thought to myself,
00:42what would happen if I started collecting my hair?
00:44I don't actually spend that long on my actual hair.
00:48I only wash my hair every two weeks.
00:50I do wash this hair as well, sort of every few months.
00:55It's gonna jump up.
00:57So this is a hydrating hair oil.
00:58This one is jasmine-infused.
01:02And then you're just gonna layer it onto the hair.
01:04So it's now taken me over four years
01:06to get to this sort of thickness.
01:08Do people think this is unusual?
01:10Would probably be the most common question I get asked.
01:14Generally, people think it's unusual.
01:18I have not always had long hair.
01:20When I was about 11 years old,
01:22I cut it all off out here and hated it.
01:26I don't actually know how long my hair is,
01:29so we can measure it now together.
01:32This is probably the longest I'd say it's ever been.
01:34Right, we're gonna have to pluck her hair.
01:37How much we go for?
01:38Oh, yeah.
01:39Let's put it up on the zero.
01:43Rub it down.
01:45Oh, it's still going.
01:46We are 33 and a half inches.
01:49That's quite long.
01:5133 and a half inches.
01:53I didn't actually really tell anyone
01:55what I was doing,
01:56and then when I started collecting
01:59and sticking up hair around my family,
02:00they would say, what are you doing?
02:01That's silly, blah, blah, blah.
02:04Once I started getting that one million views
02:06and things like that,
02:08they started to become a bit more impressed.
02:10So right now I am pulling off the hair
02:13that I have accumulated on my hairbrush.
02:16I would say this is probably a day's worth of hair,
02:18and then I put it in this bag.
02:20So at the moment, a lot of hair.
02:23I would say that I am addicted to collecting my hair.
02:25I do try to get every single hair.
02:28I mean, I don't go round on my hands and knees
02:31scraping at the carpet,
02:33but I do try to stick up as many as I can.
02:35She does like to be part of this process.
02:37In this bowl is hair that I have already separated,
02:41because not every single hair in this bundle
02:44is going to be viable,
02:46and I will literally just pick out the hairs
02:50and put them into the bowl.
02:52It's a really slow process, to be honest.
02:55I do spend a lot of money on hair care products and tools.
02:59It does reflect the quality of your hair.
03:02I do get quite a lot of discard hairs.
03:04Death lusts are good hair.
03:05I find it really calming to just sit there
03:08and separate the hairs and stick them up.
03:11This is going to be a really good hair
03:13because it's a slow, long pull.
03:17I like to run the hairs through my fingers.
03:20That's the bit that I find most satisfying.
03:23Originally, the goal started out as 10,000 hairs,
03:28and then I hit that, and then I hit 20,000,
03:30and I've just hit 30,000 hairs.
03:34That's another good one.
03:35I'd like to get enough so that I could do a wig.
03:40My understanding is that's 100,000 hairs,
03:43so I have a long way to go.
03:45There's another good one.
03:46My week is focused around this.
03:49So it's in my routine now.
03:51I have the personality that is slightly OCD.
03:55I like to do things in a certain way, a certain routine,
03:58and so putting this into my routine,
04:00it just became a habit for me.
04:04It's just layers and layers of double-sided tape.
04:06So it's going to stick to the collected hair,
04:09and then on the other side, I can then stick hairs onto it.
04:12Me and my partner, we've been together almost eight years,
04:14so four years in, I started doing this.
04:18He's not that bothered by it, but he does support me.
04:21He didn't think I was too crazy and run for the hills,
04:23basically.
04:24When I started the journey, I thought,
04:26why not document how many hairs I've collected?
04:31So I started writing it all down in this book.
04:33Day one, 22 hairs.
04:36All the way, counting all the days I've stuck up hair
04:40and how many hairs, and that was the last time
04:43I stuck up hairs to make 30,250 collected hairs.
04:48I would be heartbroken if I lost it.
04:50My partner has joked about cutting it while I've slept,
04:54and that makes me nervous.
04:55If I go on holiday, I just keep it glued to me.
04:58When I have it on me, I won't drink alcohol
05:00because I don't want to get drunk
05:02and then do something stupid.
05:04I should get it insured.
05:08On TikTok, I have around 450,000 followers.
05:10That's my main platform.
05:12So I started four years ago.
05:15I do average at about a million views.
05:18My most viral video is over 50 million views.
05:23If you'd told me on day one
05:25that this was going to make me money,
05:27I probably would have laughed at you.
05:29Should we do it together?
05:31Should we do it together?
05:32Now, I am just editing the content that I've just filmed.
05:37So this is my first ever video.
05:39Generally, the main comments that I will get
05:41about my content are things like,
05:43I cannot believe it's been four years.
05:45That hair is healthier than mine.
05:47I get that a lot.
05:48I feel so emotional over hair.
05:51It feels really nice that I have fans, I guess.
05:57So I'm really grateful, actually.
05:58I don't get that much negative comments.
06:01One I saw recently was just,
06:03it just said disgusting, that's it.
06:05But I don't respond to these.
06:06You could donate all that hair
06:07once you've collected enough.
06:09Sadly, I can't.
06:10Because my hair is dyed
06:13and is therefore not virgin hair.
06:16So that's why you can't donate it,
06:18because they only allow virgin hair.
06:19I'm glad I could share it with so many people
06:22and I have become a lot more confident in myself.
06:27So now I'm headed off to get my hair done at a salon.
06:33Hi, good afternoon.
06:34How can I help you?
06:35I've got an appointment at three.
06:36Are you Olivia?
06:37Yes.
06:38Hi, I'm Sue.
06:39What can we do in your hair for lipstick?
06:39Perfect.
06:40And this is the hair I've collected.
06:44Wow, you've made it look amazing.
06:4730,000 hairs.
06:49Oh, you counted them all?
06:50Yeah.
06:51My God, you're amazing.
06:53I've never seen that ever and that looks amazing.
06:57I collect the pieces.
06:59Pieces of hair that have naturally come out on the brush.
07:03Yeah, it's just unusual,
07:05but lots of people have different little foibles.
07:09So if that makes you feel good, then that's fine.
07:16Do you think you might use that ever
07:18in your hair at some point?
07:20We might make a wig one day.
07:21Yeah.
07:22So anything that collects in the brush today,
07:24you'd like to take out or I can take it out for you
07:28and give it to you.
07:29Yep.
07:29Okay.
07:30Look at that lovely hair for you.
07:32I'd say that's a decent amount of hair.
07:34Probably a couple hundred.
07:36See?
07:37Yeah, loads.
07:38I'm really shedding at the moment.
07:40So I was actually the first one that started doing it
07:43and I get people that tag me in other people's videos
07:46saying this girl is the original one
07:48that started doing it, which is quite cool.
07:52Our very own Rapunzel.
07:54And I'll give you your brushes so that you can
07:57get the hair out.
07:58Okay.
08:00I reckon there's about a thousand hairs here, easily.
08:05Thank you so much.
08:06You're welcome.
08:07It's been a pleasure to meet you.
08:08You too, Sue.
08:10Bye.
08:11Bye bye.
08:12We are off to see my friend Kim,
08:14who has seen my hair, but she hasn't seen it recently
08:17since it got to 30,000 hairs.
08:19Hi.
08:20Hi, how are you?
08:21Good, how are you?
08:22I'm good.
08:24When I first saw it, I thought it was a bit different.
08:26I haven't ever seen it.
08:27When I first saw it, I thought it was a bit different.
08:29I haven't ever seen anyone collecting their hair before.
08:31I don't think she's harming anyone,
08:33so what's the problem if anyone has anything to say?
08:36There's comments I see where people go,
08:38oh, imagine going in someone's house and seeing that.
08:40I stayed around Olivia's house when I saw it on the wall
08:42and I now slept in the same room with her.
08:45How was the hairdressers today?
08:46It was really nice.
08:47And I got to collect a load of hair.
08:49They like cleaned the brushes for me.
08:51Did they?
08:51Yeah.
08:52I love that.
08:53Yeah, so then they brushed out my hair
08:54and they were like, here you go at the end.
08:55And I just picked all the hair off and put it in a bag.
08:57You've got a bunch to count now, don't you?
08:58I do, loads.
08:59Do you want to see it since it's 30,000 hairs?
09:02Yeah, sure.
09:03All right, here it is.
09:05Ta-da.
09:07Cool.
09:07Feel that thickness?
09:09I can't believe how, yeah, it's gone so much.
09:13It's a good achievement, I guess.
09:15It's easier to have it all together
09:18than it is to have it messed up in a bag.
09:20And it feels so soft.
09:21Do you think I'm a bit weird doing this?
09:23Probably, everyone's a bit weird though.
09:25I love it.
09:26When do you think that this will come to an end
09:28or you'll get bored of doing it?
09:30I would really love to do 100,000 hairs,
09:33which is obviously crazy.
09:34Because that's how many hairs, supposedly,
09:36everyone has on their head, is like 100,000 hairs.
09:39That is cool.
09:39So I think it would be quite cool
09:40to have a whole head of hair.
09:42How long do you think 100,000 hairs will take?
09:44If it's taken me four years to do 30,000 hairs,
09:50then I guess, statistically, eight more years?
09:53Eight, nine years?
09:54I could do a master's degree with that.
09:57Hair collecting has changed my life for the better.
09:59What I love most about hair collecting
10:01is the people that I've got to meet along the way
10:03and the people that support me.
10:05I might get to a point where life gets too busy.
10:08I hope that isn't the case.
10:09I aim to work towards 100,000 hairs.
10:12So I have a long way to go.
10:14I don't know what the end of the story would be
10:16once I got to 100,000 hairs.
10:18I could collect my daughter's hair.
10:20I could make a wig.
10:21I could sell it.
10:23I don't think I'd sell it.
10:24But I could.
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