A few weeks ago I found out my amaz­ing hair styl­ist and friend had been dia­gnosed with Leuk­emia.  Dan Nguyen, one of the founders of Vancouver’s LURE Salon, is cur­rently under­go­ing chemo­ther­apy at Van­couver Gen­eral Hos­pital. Know­ing Dan you never would of thought that such a fit and healthy guy could be dia­gnosed with such a hor­rible dis­ease. I am happy to report that Dan is doing well and fight­ing this with everything he has. I  miss our chats about busi­ness and can’t wait for him to come back to LURE.

Once admit­ted to VGH, Dan exper­i­enced the import­ance of blood dona­tion as he received many blood and plate­let trans­fu­sions.  In sup­port of Dan, LURE Salon will be host­ing “Cut For the Cure” On Valentine’s Day, Feb­ru­ary 14th, 2011.  With “Cut For the Cure,” LURE hopes to raise aware­ness of the import­ance of donat­ing blood, espe­cially within the Asian community. 

All of LURE’s styl­ists will be per­form­ing com­pli­ment­ary hair­cuts with a min­imum $30 dona­tion.  All dona­tions will be given to the Leuk­emia & Lymph­oma Soci­ety at VGH, and Cana­dian Blood Ser­vices will be on site host­ing a blood drive. There will also be a silent auc­tion which we have donated a Gran­ted sweater and a $50 gift cer­ti­fic­ate for the boutique plus many other fab­ulous dona­tions from local businesses.

Please come out and and sup­port this import­ant cause!  You’ll walk away feel­ing great, and not just because you’ve had a fant­astic hair cut!