Losing their locks for love
Katherine Svoboda, 20, watches as her hair is cut off by Sarah Davis, left, and Elizabeth Hartley of the Vidal Sassoon Academy for a “Locks of Love” event at the UCLA campus. More than 240 UCLA students, staff, alumni and friends got their hair cut. The hair will be donated to the nonprofit, which creates wigs for children who have lost their hair because of illness. The cuts were provided by student stylists from the Vidal Sassoon Academy in Santa Monica, and the event was hosted by the Alumni Scholars Club, a student group that is part of the UCLA Alumni Assn. Svoboda is a senior at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley, and her father is a UCLA alumnus. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Svoboda reacts as 26 inches of her hair is cut off. It had been 11 years since her last haircut. She said, “I’ve planned on cutting my hair for Locks of Love for five years now. It doesn’t seem fair to have my hair when someone else can use it.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
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UCLA fourth-year student Tony Stein gets his hair cut by Coco Maloy. Tony went to the Locks of Love event with his girlfriend and was talked into giving his hair, which hadn’t been cut in more than a year. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Diana De Palma cuts UCLA alumna Shelley Yee’s hair. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
A member of the Vidal Sassoon Academy measures locks of hair cut at Thursday’s event. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Siena Dimalanta, 4, holds her hair as she gets her first haircut ever from Kelly Mescall. According to her mother, Vilma Andico, Siena “saw children on TV who lost their hair and was touched,” saying, “Let’s use my hair to make a wig so they can have hair.” (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)