UC Students Lose Their Hair To Help Women Fighting Cancer

At least 24people are expected to take part in getting a dramatic, simultaneous haircut, as the UC student organization, UC Beautiful Lengths Campaign, seeks hair donations to build hope for women fighting cancer. The simultaneous haircut – part of the UC/Pantene Beautiful Lengths Hair Cutting Event, will take place at

1:45 p.m., Sunday, March 10, in rooms 400 A,B and C of Tangeman University Center (TUC) at the University of Cincinnati.

Check-in begins at 1 p.m.

(Video clip is from the 2012 event at UC)

Registration is still underway for participation in the hair-cutting campaign – a partnership between Pantene and the American Cancer Society – to create real-hair wigs for women who have lost their hair from cancer treatments. Irini Sfyris, president of the UC Beautiful Lengths Campaign and a second-year biomedical engineering major from Wyoming, Ohio, says it takes around six ponytails to create one wig. Sfyris says six stylists from Mitchell’s Salon and Day Spa are also volunteering at the event through 4 p.m., to shape the hair of donors after their big cut.

Donors will also receive free samples of Pantene products as well as a t-shirt

Hair must be a minimum of eight inches long and free of permanent color, bleach or other chemical treatments. Hair may be colored with vegetable dyes, rinses or semi-permanent dyes. Hair also must be no more than 5 percent gray.

To register, click on:

http://ucbeautifullengths.eventbrite.com/#

Also, check out the UC Beautiful Lengths Campaign on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ucbeautifullengths

Pantene reports it has donated 24,000 free real-hair wigs to the American Cancer Society’s wig banks, which distribute wigs to cancer patients across the country.