Ouidad: The Curl Experts

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.

While October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a great way to generate support for breast cancer research, we’ve also mentioned at Ouidad that searching for a cure is a year-round job. That’s why our Curls for a Cure program matches donations even after you take your last bite of Halloween candy – and does 365 days a year! In keeping with that idea, we wanted to tell you about this year’s Breast Cancer Research Foundation’s Symposium and Luncheon.

Thanks to bcrfcure.org for the Image

The event took place on October 28 at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria, and was a great success with the over 1,200 guests raising nearly $1.9 million for research. Elizabeth Hurley was also awarded the 2009 Humanitarian Award for her work as a global ambassador of breast cancer awareness.

Thanks to celebrity-gossip.net for the Image

There were over 150 breast cancer researchers in attendance who receive funding from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and with every $250,000 raised another researcher is sponsored to join the fight. That’s a great statistic and one you can take some credit for too: anyone who donates money to Ouidad’s Curls for a Cure helps fund this research.

Ouidad, who attended the event, says, “the symposium was buzzing with positive energy, and why shouldn’t it? More women than ever before are getting checked and doing self-examinations; there is promising research linking nutrition and breast cancer prevention, and every day there are new possibilities. People realize more and more that breast cancer is not a death sentence and that they don’t have to lose hope!   Thanks to all the people, clients at the salon and customers on ouidad.com, who contributed to Curls for a Cure – the event was recognition for all the people that have helped to raise money for the cause.”

Want to get involved? Donate to Curls for a Cure anytime, and help put more researchers to work!