Hair

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Davis Applied Technology Center cosmetology student Amanda Deru (left) gives a free haircut to Hunter Heslop at Crestview Elementary School in Layton on Wednesday.

For students, by students: Cosmetologists give free haircuts

LAYTON -- Reading, writing and arithmetic, followed by a haircut.

It may seem unusual, but some lucky students at Crestview Elementary School got to pause from their studies Wednesday to take advantage of the free haircuts offered by students in the cosmetology program at Davis Applied Technology College in Kaysville.

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Cambrie Choi (left) and Katelyn Warlaumont hold up their hair after getting it cut off in Syracuse on Wednesday. The two decided to grow their hair long earlier in the year and cut it off to donate

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

SYRACUSE -- Locks of Love receives more hair donations this time of year than any other, an official says.

C'mon, folks, do your patriotic duty and protect my hair

You tell yourself you aren't going to do it.

You say you're better than that, you're stronger -- that no matter what, you simply refuse to sink to their level.

And then it happens. Somewhere between the good intentions and the naive promises, you end up going all negative with your campaigning.

I'm afraid we've reached that point with the current race we've got brewing here in the Top o' Utah.

My beard and I are being attacked by kith and kin with razors

This fundraising beard challenge thing is officially ugly. Not the beard. It's gorgeous. But on the fundraising front, I'm seeing stab in the back, rip my heart out and stomp on it betrayal.

The perps? My own wife and kids.

The world may end before hair battle is finished

Remember Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who made headlines after calculating that the world was going to end on May 21 of this year?

Well, he's at it again. And this time, he really means it.

Apparently, Mr. Camping is undeterred by the fact that seemingly nothing out of the ordinary happened on that particular spring day when all heaven was supposed to break loose. (Well, a Utah horse was euthanized that fateful Saturday -- the first fatality in the state linked to the Equine Herpes Virus -- but that hardly seems apocalyptic.) Nevertheless, Camping continues to insist that a spiritual Rapture did occur on May 21, and that the final game-over event -- wherein the world is utterly destroyed -- is still right on schedule for Oct. 21, 2011.

United Way fundraiser targets hippie hair, ratty beard

It makes a darn catchy slogan: "The United Way: Thanks to you, I might actually have to get a haircut."

From left to right, Elizabeth Hughes, Dennis Jones, Edna Maggard, Robert Gardner, Sara Drake, Lt. T.J. Anderson, Dave Gallegos, Mike Counsellor sport their shaved heads in support of Maggard, 54.

Hill co-workers go bald to support woman's cancer fight

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- With the help of a few bald co-workers, Edna Maggard says she will fight to survive cancer until the bitter end.

Maggard, 54, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer on March 27 this year.

The Roy resident, who works in the Missions Support Branch of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base, suffered through the winter with a bad chest cold before doctors finally discovered a mass on her right lung.

Photo illustration by K'Lila Bingham/Bonneville High School/lilaphotography.k@gmail.com

Hair there and everywhere

There's just something about hair. We write stories about it, sing songs about it, covet it or lament the lack of it.

Hair has magical powers in Disney's cartoon film "Tangled." It signifies the ultimate sacrifice for love in "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. We study it in English with F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." We cut it for fundraisers and tie little bangles into it at girls' camp. We even say things like "get out of my hair" and "let your hair down."

(Nick Short/Standard-Examiner) Fallisha Kenney looks into the mirror as Brenda Wilson cuts her hair during a fundraiser Monday at The Cut Hut in Ogden.

Hair salon helps a fellow stylist deal with tragedy

OGDEN -- You know you'll need one.

Why not help others the next time you get a haircut?

That's the message a new salon wants to send as the beauticians there get the word out about a fundraiser they're pursuing through the end of the month.

Here's the skinny on some new straighteners

Not ready to commit to the high-end salon straighteners? Here are some new products to try at home.

Keratin Perfect smoothing treatments are said to change the way hair "looks, feels and behaves." Products include pre-treatment clarifying shampoo and post-treatment products that will maintain the look; from $24 to $235 (for a deluxe kit) at select Sephora stores and sephora.com.

Straight, from Living Proof, has no oils or silicones, which means there's none of the buildup that can make hair limp and lifeless.

Today's Easter message brought to you by Suave shampoo

What's with the hair?

If I hear those four words just one more time, I swear I'm going to lose it.

South Ogden salon offers police free haircuts

SOUTH OGDEN — Calling all police officers.

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