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Boise State Honors College hosts seventh annual Locks of Love Cut-Off Saturday
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The Honors College hosted the seventh annual Boise Locks of Love Cut-Off Saturday at The Beehive Salon located at 15th Street and River Street.
Honors College Community Service Vice President Tabatha Carroll helped adults and children with their donations from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Locks of Love Cut-Off event has become a tradition for the Honors College.
Locks of Love is a public, non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to children who suffer from medical hair loss. The mission is to return a sense of self-confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss.
Children receive hair prostheses free of charge or on a sliding scale, based on financial need.
Every year the organization has found a different salon that is willing to donate some time for free haircuts. Events had been previously held at Metamorphosis and Great Clips.
“This year I wanted to pick a place where I could get more college students to come,” Carroll said.
The location turned out to be a great pick. There was a total of 12 donations this year, several from BSU students. Donators
had to cut a minimum of 10 inches. The record of the day was 14 inches.
This was the first Locks of Love event Beehive has hosted, but if students want to donate, the haircut is complimentary. Beehive offers the complete cut, wash and style service.
“It’s such a great cause,” Beehive stylist Moriah Buff said. “We definitely have gotten some longtime clients doing this, and we even have clients that grow their hair out specifically to donate to Locks of Love.”
Boise State Communication student Tammie Schuit donated hair seven years ago and said that it was the children that made her want to do it again.
“How could I not get my hair cut knowing what I know and also knowing that my hair will be able to grow back,” Schuit said.
Beehive has had its share of donating to the cancer cause; stylist Amber Musial shaved her head this past March for the St. Baldrick Foundation’s cancer research fundraiser.
In just 20 days Musial raised $1,800. Clients, family members and friends sponsored her.
“After watching my best friend’s mom going through it [cancer], I couldn’t think of a child having to go through that,” Musial said.
Friends and family were shocked at first but proud that she did something many women would not do for a great cause.
Musial, like many of the Locks of Love donators that day, had the attitude that hair was just hair and it would grow back.
The Honors College is involved in many kinds of community service projects.
Carroll has organized service projects with Habitat for Humanity and the Rescue Mission. The next major project is with the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.
“Service is a big part of our organization and it’s always good when people are excited to help out,” Carroll said.
Anybody interested in donations should call Beehive Salon at 345-HIVE to schedule an appointment.
SONIA TREVIZO
News Writer
