Inspired by Oprah

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So, who doesn't get inspired by Oprah? I do not normally watch her show, but I do have a season pass to it on my TiVo. So, every once in a while, I will see what the topic of the show is and watch for a few minutes, only to later delete it. But, sometimes I get really into it and end up watching the whole entire show. And every time I do that, I end up crying, actually more like bawling. I know, I am seriously pathetic. But, do not even act like you have never cried watching an episode of this woman...

Anyway, on Monday's show, it was the Great American Haircut. Oprah had five celebrity hairstylists cut and style one hundred people's hair in forty-eight hours. Here are just some of the amazing makeovers that were featured on the show:

This is Eric, who hadn't shaved or cut his hair in three years.
This is Daphne. She is an English teacher, who lost two hundred pounds five years ago and has managed to keep it off since. I love her hair color in the after picture. I also love the sweet tat on her upper chest.

This is Rolanda. Don't you think her hair makeover made her look about twenty years younger? Crazy what a little hair color can do for your age.

This is Carol, who hasn't cut her hair since 1974. She was way overdue for a little chop-chop. They said they could take twenty years off her look with cutting her hair, not to mention more than twenty inches. What a HUGE change. Holy moly! And her hair is still fairly long.

Hillary Swank was on right at the beginning because she had been growing her hair out for six months, knowing that she wanted to cut it to donate to charity. She gave the following stats about women cancer patients:

** one in three women will be diagnosed with a form of cancer in her lifetime, meaning seven hundred thousand women will face diagnosis in just one year

** number one fear of sixty percent of these women is hair loss

** eight percent won't do chemo because of this fear of hair loss

After hearing these statistics, Hillary Swank thought to herself (and I thought the same exact thing),

"Here's my hair. Cut it off. Save your life."

So, she put her hair in two pigtails and had Oprah cut off eight inches of her hair. She came back at the end to show her new hairdo.

That is where I became totally and completely inspired to grow my hair out and then cut it off to donate to charity.

My niece, Addison, did the same thing here:

http://hansens2001.blogspot.com/2007/06/happy-birthday-addibug.html

Isn't is amazing and wonderful that a twenty-one year old can be inspired by Oprah Winfrey and her five year old niece?! So, I am officially growing my hair out so that hopefully in one year, it will be long enough to donate to a special charity for some woman I do not even know to have a special wig made during her difficult time, battling cancer and chemotherapy. What can Oprah inspire you to do?