Marquette University Athletics
Make the Kindest Cut of All
2/4/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 4, 2009
MILWAUKEE - Help change the lives of female cancer patients and support the Marquette women's basketball team's "Pink Zone" initiative by donating your hair. For the second straight year, MU has teamed with VICI Capilli Salon in Brookfield, Wis., and the Beautiful Lengths Campaign to help women who have lost their hair while fighting cancer.
We are looking for 10 volunteers to make the kindest cut of all and shed eight inches or more of their hair during halftime of the Golden Eagles' game against West Virginia on Sunday, Feb. 15.
Stylists from VICI will be on hand to make "the cut," and all participants will receive a free hair cut and style at the VICI salon in Brookfield.
For more information or to be a participant at halftime, please contact Kim Mueller at 414-288-4851 or by email at kimberly.mueller@marquette.edu.
Hair Donation Requirements
* Donated hair must be a minimum of 8 inches long (measure hair from just above the elastic band of the ponytail to the ends).
* Wavy/curly hair texture is fine--you may straighten hair to measure.
* Hair should be freshly washed and completely dry, without any styling products.
* Hair may be colored with vegetable dyes, rinses and semi-permanent dyes.
* It cannot be bleached, permanently colored or chemically treated.
* Hair may not be more than 5 percent gray.
About the Beautiful Lengths Campaign
A woman's healthy hair is an incredible instrument of self-expression, defining her self-image in a way that almost no other physical attribute can. So what does hair loss mean to a woman?
Hair loss can strike an especially crippling blow to women fighting cancer. In fact, a recent study revealed that nearly 60 percent of women consider hair loss the most dreaded side effect they face when undergoing chemotherapy. Eight percent of these women are at risk of avoiding potentially life-saving treatment. Real-hair wigs can cost as much as $1200 and are often only partially covered by health insurance.
Donating your hair is a heartfelt and life-changing act of women's cancer and breast cancer support.
