Two years ago I cut twenty-four inches off my hair, donating it to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program where it would be used to make free wigs for cancer patients. I actually have a hard time believing it's been two years. It was such a unique and special day that the memory is still bright and fresh in my mind. Raising over $1300 for the Canadian Cancer Society because of … [Read more...]
Take the Pantene Beautiful Lengths #8or8 Challenge for National Donate Your Hair Day
If you've been following my blog for any amount of time you are probably aware of how much I adore the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, that's the amazing program where Pantene has partnered with the Canadian Cancer Society to take donations of cut hair and turn those ponytails into real hair wigs for women battling cancer, which are … [Read more...]
Saturday Nov.22nd is National Donate Your Hair Day, Kids Can Do It Too
Tomorrow, Saturday Nov.22nd, is National Donate Your Hair Day. If you've been thinking about cutting your hair to donate now would be the perfect time. When you donate your 8-inch or longer ponytail through the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program Pantene pays to have the hair turned into high quality real hair wigs, which are then made available for free to cancer patients in … [Read more...]
Join Me and Donate Your Hair Too
The idea to make a "big cut" and donate my hair first crept into my head back in 2012. I was in Toronto taking part in a day long event to launch the then brand new PGmom program. I was in the hallway looking at tables lined with Procter & Gamble products, talking with P&G reps from the different lines, asking questions, learning interesting stuff. I started chatting … [Read more...]
I chopped over a foot off of my hair…
Last week my mom came over and gave me my yearly trim. The entire time she was cutting my hair Rainbow was in the kitchen doorway yelling, "Don't cut too much Mimi! Leave me enough for hair hugs! hair hugs!!" My knee length hair, pre-hair cut. And my waist length hair, post hair cut. Notice how now the baby can't grab it when I'm standing up? Yeah. Much … [Read more...]