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Mark Garrison
Mark has always surrounded himself with the industry's best -- Yosh, Jean Louis David, and Frédéric Fekkai. Cultivating and continuing education are essential to Mark's philosophy as a salon owner. He has created, maintains, and manages an in-house education program. Working closely with his team on a daily basis, he encourages his staff to develop and refine their talents in order to achieve their professional best.
Beyond New York beauty circles, Mark Garrison's name is synonymous throughout the country with beauty expertise and celebrity cachet. Every month, top beauty and fashion publications, including VOGUE, IN STYLE, HAPER'S BAZAAR, seek out his advice and feature his innovative styles.
Locks for Love
Locks of Love is a not-for-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of 18 with medical hair loss. These custom-fitted hair prosthetics are provided free of charge or on a sliding scale to children whose families meet the Locks of Love Board of Directors guidelines.
Donors provide the hair, volunteers staff the office, and the manufacturer hand-assembles each piece, which requires approximately four months.
The organization, which began in 1997, has helped over 1000 children since its first year of operation. Thousands of bundles of donated hair arrive from around the country as a result of national publicity Locks of Love received in newspapers, magazines and television programs. The donations continue to pour in. Most donors mail a note and a photo with their bundle of hair. Children comprise over 80 percent of the donors, making this a charity where children have the opportunity to help other children.
Locks of Love provides its recipients with a custom, vacuum-fitted hairpiece made entirely from donated human hair. The vacuum fit is designed for children who have experienced a total loss of scalp hair and does not require the use of tape or glue. Most of the applicants suffer from an auto-immune condition called alopecia areata, for which there is no known cause or cure. Others have suffered severe burns, or endured radiation treatment to the brain stem, in addition to many other dermatological conditions that result in permanent hair loss.
Learn more at www.locksoflove.org
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