press

Salon Contributes to Gulf Clean-Up Effort – June 2010

Santa Barbara’s Salon Patine, located on upper State Street, has taken an inventive, practical approach to cleaning the Gulf of Mexico of the oil that now permeates it. In collaboration with Pureology Serious Color Care, which is also making a conscious effort to help...

read more

Long Beach Report – June 2010

(June 4, 2010) -- USAToday.com online now has a story on the actions of BP and its federal bureaucratic partners spurning volunteered animal fur and human hair that could soak up oil from the BP-drilled, federally-authorized deep water well in the Gulf coast. The...

read more

Hair today, saving the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow – June 2010

Grant Wittevrongel recently travelled all the way from his home in Transcona to Portage Avenue just to get his hair cut at Lyla’s Family Affair hair salon. Wittevrongel’s hair will soon be traveling even further than he did — all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, in...

read more

Spill project hair-oic – June 2010

Your hair has the power to help to stop the nastiest oil spill in U.S. history from spreading. That fact gave two Barrie residents the hair-brained idea to help mop up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Chris Kitchen and Cheryl Lago are collecting human and animal...

read more

Springs woman shaves head to help Gulf cleanup – June 2010

Linda McLean knows she can’t go down to Louisiana to personally help save the Gulf. She can’t help save the dying dolphins she’s seen on CNN. She can’t help clean the oil off the birds, although she wishes she could. After suffering three strokes, she is disabled,...

read more

Hair today, saving the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow – June 2010

Grant Wittevrongel recently travelled all the way from his home in Transcona to Portage Avenue just to get his hair cut at Lyla’s Family Affair hair salon. Wittevrongel’s hair will soon be traveling even further than he did — all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, in...

read more

Bayview Corner salon donates hair for oil spill – May 2010

Water and oil don’t mix. But oil and hair do. Brittney DeMartini, owner of La Salon Bella at Bayview Corner, has joined a growing army of clippers across the country who are sending out boxes of shorn locks to help clean up the massive oil spill off America’s southern...

read more