MSNBC – Your help wanted: The hair boom story

MSNBC – Your help wanted: The hair boom story

“Hair finally starts arriving after clogging up the postal system. Amanda Bacon’s first Boom B Q in Alabama.” Photo: Matter of Trust This story needs your help, please. Yesterday, we reported that the Deepwater Horizon Response team isn’t using those hair mats or...
MSNBC – Hair booms piling up around the Gulf, unused and ready

MSNBC – Hair booms piling up around the Gulf, unused and ready

Making hair booms in Mobile. Photo courtesy of Amanda Bacon Thanks, everyone, who helped with finding out more about those hair booms or mats folks are donating clippings for to help protect the Gulf Coast. BP says its responders aren’t using the hair booms because...
Hair clippings to help with oil clean-up

Hair clippings to help with oil clean-up

VIRGINIA BEACH — ‘It’s all our water,’ says Dave Dunlap as he sits in a salon chair. ‘We’ve got to take care of it, and if this helps, that’s the best way to do it.’ With his hair clippings falling to the ground at Sport...
Southwest Georgians help oil spill crises in Gulf

Southwest Georgians help oil spill crises in Gulf

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:41:53 GMT — Oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico but if you’d like to help it doesn’t take much. Hot Headz Salon in Leesburg is challenging hair salons across Southwest Georgia to collect as much hair as they can to help out...
Local salons collecting hair to help gulf oil clean-up

Local salons collecting hair to help gulf oil clean-up

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) – As crews try to fix an oil pipe gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the tri-state is getting involved in the cleanup efforts. Stylists at Shannon Aleksandr’s are sweeping up– and saving– every little bit of hair they trim...