'These little youngsters deserve the world'; 'Nice Lower 2024' donates to kids with medical hair loss

SAN DIEGO — The “Nice Lower 2024” returns to San Diego, after the primary occasion was held in 2019. And after 5 lengthy years of regrowing their hair, hundreds of individuals went again out to the Broadway Pier to cut all of it off once more for an excellent trigger.

The Longhairs Group hosted Saturday’s occasion.

“I imply it sort of tugs in your heartstrings a bit of bit,” stated Banon Ellison, who flew in with family and friends from Texas. Ellison is a part of a gaggle of males who’re slicing their hair collectively.

The “Nice Lower 2024” is a world-record charity hair donating occasion for kids with medical hair loss, equivalent to most cancers, auto-immune circumstances, burn accidents, and so on.

“You bought all this lovely hair, how a lot of it will go?” FOX 5 requested Beth Tosti who flew in from Denver.

“I’m going to attempt to do 8 to 9 inches,” Tosti defined.

“I by no means knew I had curls, I’ve by no means had my hair this lengthy. I’m going to return to my quantity three buzz reduce on the perimeters,” stated Scott Stanton, who flew in from Texas and was a part of the boys’s group with Ellison.

“I’m doing most of it, however I’m afraid to see my scalp so I’m going to go away a bit of bit,” Ellison stated.

1000’s of individuals with lots of of causes to do an enormous chop confirmed up.

Tosti got here to commemorate her 10-year anniversary of being breast most cancers free. Tosti stated she had misplaced all her hair throughout chemo.

“The best way you are feeling about your self is big. Understanding which you can donate one thing to them and have them really feel higher about themselves within the course of, which means a lot within the technique of what the journey is that they’re going by means of it doesn’t matter what it’s from,” stated Tosti.

The group of males with Ellison and Stanton got here from Texas and Florida. They’re donating after they began a problem amongst themselves.  

“Two and a half years in the past at a party, we bought drunk. We would’ve been consuming and somebody stated, let’s develop our hair and donate it,” stated James Anthony Kuchenbrod, who flew in from Florida and was a part of the group with Ellison and Stanton.

“And this journey of ours bought us right here, and look the place we’re, take a look at all these folks… it’s phenomenal. This will get to a stage of goosebumps, you’re simply an power,” Kuchenbrod stated.

Whereas some individuals are donating as a result of their spouses are too. Husband and spouse duo Amanda and Ryan Noyse flew in from Dallas to participate within the Nice Lower.

“We’ve bought matching haircuts now, ‘oh wow, and it’s gone,’”  stated the Noyse’s.

“We’re right here at this time, doing it once more, on the Broadway Pier. Is there something extra San Diego?” stated Lindsay Barto.

Barto is the co-founder and president of the Longhairs Group, which created the Nice Lower occasion. The group began as a digital advertising firm that spawned into advocating for hair fairness.

“Service. It actually comes right down to being of service,” Barto stated.

Now they’re partnering with the Michigan-based nonprofit Youngsters With Hair Loss, which supplies free wigs to kids with medical hair loss.

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The Longhairs Group donates 1% of their income, plus all of the hair from The Nice Lower occasion, to Youngsters With Hair Loss.

The 2024 occasion hopes to interrupt the group’s “Nice Lower 2019” Guinness World Report of 339 kilos of hair donated in 24 hours.

“I’m overwhelmed with gratitude, that’s all I really feel proper now. I can’t consider all these folks from all around the nation have spent their cash, their time, their power,” Barto stated.

“I’ve already cried at this time tears of pleasure. I’m so over the moon to see all these folks, meet all these folks,” stated Mackenzie Corbin, a Youngsters With Hair Loss ambassador and longtime wig recipient. Corbin is from Ohio.

Corbin stated, “I’ve alopecia universalis, which is full physique. I’ve no hair anyplace. I bought recognized on the age of two and a half.”

Corbin has been gifted a brand new wig yearly since, freed from price.

“And I’ve by no means felt as assured as I’m,” Corbin stated.

“You appear assured with out it,” FOX 5’s Alani Letang stated.

“Oh sure, 100%, and that’s why as a result of I’ve my wigs as one thing the place ‘do I need hair at this time,’” Corbin answered.

“I like being bald. I wouldn’t commerce it for the world, I don’t shave my legs, simply put eyebrows on and go,” Corbin added.

To the greater than 600 youngsters nationwide that Youngsters With Hair Loss items wigs to every yr, “It’s vital to like your self to be able to love others. These little youngsters deserve the world, it doesn’t matter what age they’re. I used to be their age as soon as with alopecia, I understand how exhausting it’s,” Corbin stated.