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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ouidad has brought Curls for a Cure to Facebook!  For every new Ouidad Facebook Fan, Ouidad will donate $1 per fan to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation through Curls for a Cure. (up to $10,000 for 10,000 fans)

Click  here to “Like” and support!

Not only can you “Like” Ouidad on Facebook to support this month, but you can contribute all year round on Ouidad.com! Ouidad matches every Curls For A Cure donation, dollar for dollar! Give $5.00 and we’ll make it $10.00. Your $50.00 donation becomes $100.00. No amount is too small or too generous and we’ll match them all.

Click to Donate on Ouidad.com

Learn more about Ouidad’s Story, Curls for a Cure and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation from Ouidad’s husband and Co-Founder Peter Wise:

About The Breast Cancer Research Foundation:

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s mission is to achieve a cure for breast cancer in our lifetime by providing critical funding for innovative clinical and translational research at leading medical centers worldwide, and increasing public awareness about good breast health.

2009 Curls for A Cure contribution to Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Pictured: Robbie Franklin Finke (Director of Marketing BCRF), Myra Biblowit (President BCRF),

Ouidad, Peter Wise (co-founder, Ouidad), and Hillary Solomon (President & CEO, Ouidad)

Breast cancer isn’t diagnosed only in October, and so we accept donations 24/7/365 at Ouidad – Curls for a Cure®.  Thanks to the generosity of customers like you, we’re having our best fundraising year ever and we’ve collected almost $40,000.00 in donations. With Ouidad’s promised dollar-for-dollar match, we’ll be able to donate almost $80,000.00 this year.

BUT… I said almost… We’re not there yet. Please take a moment to join us in funding the fight to find the cure. When you give, we’ll match your donation. There’s no purchase necessary and our combined donation is given to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® where over 90 cents of every dollar donated finds its’ way directly into the hands of a research doctor.

There has been so much progress in research. Only lack of money stands in the way of finding a cure. Your generous donation can help us change the future of breast cancer.

When you donate online at Ouidad.com, you can dedicate your donation. What a great holiday gift.

Wishing you and yours health in the New Year,

Ouidad and Peter

Image via: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

This just in: Ouidad the Queen of Curls and husband and business partner Peter Wise, have been declared New Yorkers of the Week!

NY1, New York City’s 24 Hour Newschannel featured Ouidad and Peter as New Yorkers of the Week, for helping turn curls into a hope for a cure for cancer.

After Ouidad lost her mother to breast cancer, she and Peter began to contribute to research; then Peter came up with a powerful campaign idea in 2001, and Curls for a Cure was born, with proceeds going to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

In 2002 Ouidad herself was diagnosed with breast cancer.  While she won her own fight with the disease, she and husband Peter didn’t stop there, vowing not “to let recovery be the end of [her] battle.” Since its inception, Curls for a Cure has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for research.

We are so pleased that Ouidad and Peter have been recognized for their efforts, and hope that this notice brings additional attention to this worthy cause! Out of adversity springs strength, hope, and growth.

Learn more as Ouidad shares what she has learned from her battle from in this Ouidad video about the inspiring Curls for a Cure.