Tumbling Hair Cut for a Cause
A Swampscott tumbling academy and a Marblehead hair salon teamed up to benefit people who have lost their hair due to medical conditions.
As a kid Jen Burke got a bad haircut. She grew petrified of getting another one and kept her brown hair long. On Sunday, Jan. 6, the owner of Burke's Tumbling Academy overcame that fear. She bounded in to Ooh La La hair salon in Marblehead with almost waist-length hair and bounded out with hair at her shoulders. She led a contingent of four brunettes to the cutting chairs. Each had 8- to 12-inches taken off the bottom. Jen, 7-year-old Emma Locke, her mom, Maureen, and Swampscott High senior Alyse Lavoie donated their hair to the Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths programs. Both programs use donated hair to make wigs. Locks of Love provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children who have lost their hair — longterm — due…
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