Students donating hair and stylists from Alexandre de Paris at Westfields participate in the first Share Your Hair event in 2015. Photo Contributed
Allie Bush, an 11th grader at Westfield High School, working with other Class of 2017 officers, will be holding a hair-cutting opportunity at school so that classmates and teachers can donate hair for Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths Program. On Monday, April 11, the “Share Your Hair” event will be held in support of women who have lost their hair because of cancer treatments. The donated ponytails will be given to Pantene’s Beautiful Length’s program which will in turn make wigs for women fighting cancer.
This is the second year that “Share Your Hair” will be held at Westfield to support women fighting cancer. Last year, 17 people donated their hair at the event including students and a FCPS employee. Additionally, two students who were unable to attend, cut their hair earlier dropped off their ponytail donations at the event. The required hair donation length is 8-10 inches, but many of the students and an employee of Westfield High School donated more.
Alexandre from Alexandre de Paris Spa in Fair Lakes, and other stylists from the salon, will be at Westfield High School on Monday to take part in the Share Your Hair event. They will help determine the correct length of the hair donation, make the initial cut, and then will cut and style those students who need to have the complete style done at the school.