Best In Youth Media: Pink Hair For Hope
Posted by anastasia on 10-17-2008Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board feature is from Caroline Marques and is about an organization she feels gets it right in their efforts to raise teen girls' awareness of breast cancer and raise money for breast cancer research. Remember you can contact our board directly via email at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com.
Best In Youth Media: Pink Hair For Hope
Pink Hair for Hope is an organization that encourages going to a salon and adding pink streaks to your hair as a way to show your support for the fight against breast cancer. You pay for your streaks with a donation. More and more teenage girls and their mothers are discovering this unique way to be fashionable and support a cause at the same time.
Many teen girls want to be involved in this issue, but aren’t sure how to proceed. With 2.3 million women in the US who have a history of breast cancer including teen girls’ mothers, grandmothers, older sisters or aunts, it’s a personal cause. The reason PHFH is so popular is that girls think it’s pretty cool and fun, and their parents, who might not be so enthusiastic at first, soon discover that their daughters are dying their hair pink for a reason. It's also a fun activity mothers and daughters can do together. Unlike short skirts and tight tops, PHFH is a trend we wish more girls would follow.
About Caroline Marques (aka "Caro")
Caroline is a high school student in Geneva, Switzerland. While Caroline lists sports, music and travelling as her hobbies, she also very much enjoys writing and reading. After being a teen adviser for NickMag, she thought Ypulse would be the perfect opportunity for a new start. While trying to keep up with the trends (or setting some of her own), dance classes, working on long papers and trying to master three new languages, she rarely has time to write the novel she wishes she could finish, though she is certain one day she will. Writing is never far from her thoughts.
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October 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
They should be doing this on college campuses if they're not already.