6/18/2023 0 Comments Byu video shorts selmie![]() Over the duration of the event, 238 hair donations were collected and turned into the Y-Serve Office. Donations were at least eight inches, which means than more than 160 feet of hair was donated this semester. 238 donations were made and turned into the Y-Serve Office during this semester’s event according to program director Elisabeth Cupp. She plans to regularly donate her hair in the future. ![]() Before leaving on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Christensen decided that in addition to giving her time and service, she also wanted to give her hair.Ĭhristensen spent the duration of her mission growing out her hair and donated 12 inches when she returned home. ![]() This semester’s Share Your Hair event was not the first time Christensen has donated her hair. “It’s a nice way to share something that I’ve been blessed with.” “My hair does mean a lot to me, but donating is a simple way I can serve,” family life senior Jane Christensen said. While it was a rough couple of days for Fry as she first adjusted to her new hairdo, she is now enjoying her short hair. As she looked at the pictures of people sharing their hair and kids with wigs, she felt like someone else would enjoy her hair so much more than she did. Kenna Fry, a freshman studying English, went from having waist-length hair to a pixie cut, which she called a “dramatic transformation.”īefore going to the hair salon, Fry looked at the Share Your Hair and Children with Hair Loss Instagram accounts. Rose said her hair stylist really got into the haircut and made it a fun experience.įor others, the experience was more nerve-racking. She donated about 1.5 feet of hair, going from waist-length to shoulder-length hair. “When I saw the event, I thought, dang, this is the perfect excuse to finally cut my hair.”įor Rose, the experience was exciting. She had been wanting a major hair transformation before leaving for college but hadn’t found the time. Lauren Rose, a freshman studying elementary education, was one of those people. They have a “why not” attitude, “which is honestly all you really need sometimes.” She said people usually donate their hair because it’s long enough and they were planning on cutting it anyway. “So you can cut it and just get rid of it, or you can cut it and donate it to someone who needs it.”Ĭlaire Fisher, a hair stylist at Studio 1030, agreed. “It doesn’t take that much effort, and most of the time you are just going to cut it anyway,” she said. Share Your Hair program director Elisabeth Cupp said it surprised her to see so many different people wanting to do a small thing by donating their hair. These kits are designed to assist children in a small way during their healing process. For the wig recipients, hair loss is just the beginning of the side effects they deal with. Since 2000, Children with Hair Loss has donated more than 5,000 hair replacement and care kits to children across the United States. Children and young adults receive wigs at no cost to themselves. The organization makes wigs for children and young adults who have lost hair because of cancer treatments, alopecia, trichotillomania, burns and any other causes. Hair donations like Dixon’s go to a nonprofit organization based in Missouri called Children with Hair Loss. While the casual onlooker might not have considered her hair to be significantly long, she could still donate the minimum eight inches for this semester’s event. (Melissa Collado)ĭixon had donated her hair one other time and has been growing it out since in the hopes of donating it once again. Her hair donation will be placed in a plastic bag, then sent with other hair donations to the organization Children with Hair Loss. BYU student Hannah Dixon holds up her hair that has been carefully separated into sections, rubber banded and cut. “I’m not super attached to my hair, so I’m happy to let someone else use it and really appreciate it,” sociology senior Hannah Dixon said. Students who volunteered to donate their hair were eligible for a free haircut from the stylists at Studio 1030 in the Wilkinson Student Center. While the event runs for only a couple of weeks, students are still encouraged to take in hair donations to the Y-Serve Office anytime during the year. Students must donate at least eight inches of hair. Share Your Hair is a semi-annual event, taking place once every fall and winter semester. (Melissa Collado)īYU students have the opportunity to donate their hair through Y-Serve’s “Share Your Hair” event and find it is an easy way to serve others. Y-Serve hosts the event every winter and fall semester and partners with Studio 1030 to give free haircuts to students who donate their hair. A hairdresser cuts eight inches of hair off BYU student Hannah Dixon on the last day of the Share Your Hair event.
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