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Kelly and Rachel Hayes with their cut ponytails. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
A MOTHER and daughter team cut a combined total of 27 inches off their hair for the Rapunzel Foundation’s Ponytail campaign.
On Tuesday morning, mother Rachel and daughter Kelly Hayes, under the watchful eye of grandmother, Bernie, cut their hair at the Style Council salon on Ashe Street.
Kelly, who is only five, has given up 13 inches of her own hair for girls less fortunate with alopecia.
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“Both our hair had got very long, so rather than just cutting it we decided to something good with it,” said Rachel Hayes.
Through the Rapunzel Foundation’s Ponytail campaign, where people commit to growing their hair 14 inches or longer with the view to their hair being sent to help make much needed wigs to improve the lives of those living with the hair loss.
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Kelly Hayes holds out her ponytail, with the hairdresser who cut it Joanne Lynch. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
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“Kelly didn’t really want to cut her hair at the start, but when we told her it would be going to kids she got all excited, so we just let it grow another bit until it was long enough to give to the charity,” said Rachel.
In a nice connection, it was at the Style Council’s former premises in The Square, that Rachel had her first haircut back in 1996. The ponytail cut from that visit is still preserved by Bernie who brought it along for the charity haircut.
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The three generations post haircut, Rachel, Kelly and Bernie Hayes. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
The point when Rachel’s 14 inch long pony tail was cut. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
Rachel Hayes’s hair just before it was about to get cut back. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
Kelly Hayes moments before her pony was cut. Photo by Gavin O’Connor.
